Recent content by AirForce2117

I should have stated that I knew it was a scam after he spoke a few words. I asked him what is Microsoft ID was and he gave me a few letters and numbers. I told him that was the wrong format. He asked what the corrected format was. I didn't answer his question. I wanted to see how far he would go.

They never stop. I just got one from GADS1 404-891-5588. The person on the phone said he worked for Microsoft (but he could not give me a valid Microsoft ID number)that my computer was sending important errors to the Microsoft Windows Server. I decided to see how far he would go. He had me (I'm...

I did a repair of VS2012 and that fixed the problem.

I’m running VS2012 on a Windows8 64-bit computer. I posted this on the Microsoft Windows8 forum, but received no replies. After running the VS2012 update (I started it from within VS and then closed VS) I went to the Start Screen and the icon in the VS2012 tile is now a white square. I unpinned...

Many pictures in several folders of the Photo App appear as gray rectangles. How do see all of them?

I'm running Windows7 Ultimate 64-bit. I went in to the control panel/System Protection to turn on Protection on the drive that contain my documents so I could use the "Restore Previous versions". When I attempted to do so I got an error stating "Could not apply settings for the following reason...

First I did this: 1. In the Control Panel, select System. 2. Select System Protection. 3. In the Protection Settings section, select the D drive. 4. Click on the Configure button. 5. Enable Only restore previous version of files. 6. Set Max Usage to 50%. 7. Click on the OK button. 8. Click on...

How many items do you have in the root of Programs? I've got 85. Placing them in the A folder was the only work arround that I could get to work.

This works! 1. Click on the Start Menu. 2. Right Click on “All Programsâ€Â￾. 3. Select “Open All usersâ€Â￾ 4. Open the Programs Folder. 5. Create a new folder named “Aâ€Â￾. 6. Drag all the other folders into the A folder. 7. Close Windows...

Compumech, I tried your solution, but only about 1/3 of my icons showed up, so here's what I did and it worked. 1. I created a new folder (D:\temp\StartMenu). 2. Right clicked on the All Programs on the Start button. 3. Selected Open All Users. 4. Moved all folders in the Program folder to the...