Recent content by VicVicVic

Hi, I am not sure where to post this, even after checking around the entire forum for a good five minutes. Today, I received an email from this site, with the subject of "Windows 10 is upon us! Free public release is imminent!!!" The email starts with "Dear B14CKH4WK," and later on states...

Hey, how's it going? I started using Windows 8 for the first time today and actually like it quite a bit. I think with some tweaks, I will like it more than Windows 7 and previous versions of the OS. However, I have spent approximately an hour trying to figure out one thing. I would like to...

Thanks for the Windows Live thing. I remember reading about it months ago, but had completely forgotten about it. So I installed Photo Gallery and think that it's a pretty nifty program, especially as a free one from Microsoft. Unfortunately, I ran into a problem. After setting the Default...

Thanks for all the help, Rak. Here's a question I should have asked earlier (I thought I did, but I apparently did not): What is Photo Gallery and how do I set it as my default program? I cannot find anything called Photo Gallery, it seems.

I did try that, but experienced the same results. My UAC is set to the lowest possible setting: Never Notify. I got sick of all these pop-up messages; for the most part, I know what I am doing on the computer and am not really worried about doing something wrong that will mess up the system...

I had no idea that it was an issue related to Default Programs - thank you very much for bringing that to my attention. I just tried this, but received mixed results. As per your recommendation, I tried setting Paint as the default program for all image files (previously, only three types of...

Hello, I hope you are doing well. When I open some types of files, such as image files (e.g. jpeg, gif), they appear in the taskbar and blinks there, telling me that it is open. However, I would like all files that I open to take focus and show up right away, instead of having me click on the...

Hello, I hope you are well. I think that the Power Button in the Start Menu, where users can choose for it to Lock, Sleep, Hibernate, and Shutdown their computers, is very useful. I'd like to somehow tweak it even further, but am not sure if this is even remotely possible. Is there any way I...

Actually, once I turn off Windows Defender (not only disable it through Services), then Windows doesn't scan for Defender updates anymore =)

Thanks again, reghakr. I'd rather not touch the registry for something small this like (though I've tweaked the registry for other purposes). I was able to disable Defender by searching for "defender" in the Start Menu, starting up the program, then going to Tools and Administration Options to...

Yeah, my thought was to get rid of Windows Defender as well. There's no way to actually uninstall it, right? I already have NOD32, so I think that's good enough. Thanks.

Hello, I hope you are doing well. Whenever I check my Windows Task Manager's Processes tab, it looks like svchost.exe and MsMpEng.exe are hogging my system's resources. On average, each of those programs are using approximately 50k to 60k of memory. I know that they are both Windows-related...

tblount, I am not bashing you or anything, but I'm confused - how is posting your personal experience relevant to this thread? Thanks.

Ah, that's it! There's an option in the Settings section of Windows Update that allows me to uncheck that box. I have seen that option before but ignored it after reading twice because I didn't catch the difference between Microsoft Updates and Windows Update. What's strange is that after I...

Thanks for the prompt reply, Osiris. By "As for office, this would also mean that you enabled Microsoft Update," what do you mean? Is there a difference between Windows Update and Microsoft Update? If I can somehow disable Microsoft Update, will it no longer scan for updates to Microsoft...