Recent content by Howard Walker

You are not the only one Mike. It would seem that as my old email address, which was the base one for my Microsoft account, is now defunct, and I added a new one to my profile, two computers and my phone are using the old email as an account and the other (my main one) is using the new account...

Well that's nice to know and thanks for telling me! Bet 99% of the world does not know that very important fact. Seems to be the typical approach these days. If you bought it you could do what you liked with it, but if you rent it then you may as well forget about using it how you like. Get a...

Only one problem - if you don't know your account name or password then you cannot log in on this page. Luckily I had previously managed to log in to an account that I did not know existed, made a guess at the password and was able to reset my phone, email and telephone numbers.Just got to go...

I have three computers on a network. I also have a common account for Skype that worked on them all until Microsoft bought out Skype. Last Monday while logging in to Skype with my usual frequently used and long held username and password, Skype refused to continue until I had entered my...

MIke - It is totally new to most people world wide. The only reasons that MS produces new operating systems is to create new business, or just because they can. I set my windows 8.1 up to look like windows 7,and never ever look at the apps that clutter the home page. Windows XP did everything...

I hated windows 8, but 8.1 when properly set up (and it takes a while to work out how to do it) works just like my windows 7, complete with a slightly different start menu. I have been using it alongside windows 7 on my other machine and notice little difference. Both machines are normal monitor...

Buy a Mouse! H

There is a snag with the shift F8 method that make people think that it does not work. Windows 8 authors were so sure that it would not be needed so it only looks for an F8 at start up for about 5 microseconds. If you have a fast computer like mine, its long past the looking session by the...

I hated it to begin with, but once you are used to it its nearly as good as XP and a thousand times better than Windows 8.

What are the symptoms? I have not noticed anything like this with my windows 8.1

I hate web sites that don;t tell you anything about what they are selling and then try to install their stuff on your machine. That is what happens when you click on the incredimail link. Seems to work like a virus. May be OK but it should give you a proper intro before trying to take over your...

David, The print icon idea is great. Makes it so much easier to have a shortcut on the page. As to mail, I am still deciding whether to buy Office or just Outlook on a disk as opposed to Outlook.com. I don't like any of the web mail things, as I have always kept my mail on my machine, with...

Thanks for all your suggestions. It turned out that the printer needed a driver installing on the windows 8 machine, even though it was showing up on the network. As soon as I installed that, win8 found the printer and everything came together. Sorry for the delay in answering, but the win 8...

Neither does it appear if I use a right click.

The menu that is shown above does not have the print option when I use it on windows 8.1. Its fine on windows 7.