app management

I am using a trial version of Star8, and I received an email introducing Modern Mix. I would like to share with you. One of the features that interests me most is "multi-tasking". Win 8.1 by default runs an app in full screen. Modern Mix fixes that and now one can run multiple apps, just like...

Thirty-fifth in a series. *Microsoft has released the preview of the upcoming Windows 8.1. With it came many changes to the operating system, application management and the store. Some, like the ability to use smaller or larger tile sizes or the option to uninstall multiple apps at once, have...

Hi how can i change the icon + name of the program from where located all the installed programs at windows 7 64 bit at the control panel. I got some apps i need to change their icons & the names to something else Thanks

How to close Apps in Windows 8? "There are 3 ways you can close metro apps in the new Windows 8: 1. If you have a touch screen tablet or laptop, touch your finger on the top of the screen and drag it all the way to the bottom. It will minimize and move the app from your way. 2. If you...

Remember that you can watch any of the videos in 720p HD! My mum loves Windows XP and pretty much doesn't want to use anything else. Windows 8 has been released and obviously she will need to update her operating system eventually. Before she updated to Windows 8 however I let her try it out...

Living with Microsoft Windows 7 for the next several years - Ubuntu Forums I recently purchased a brand new System76 Lemur Ultra: [SOLVED] March 2012 System76 Lemur Ultra laptop - Ubuntu Forums I plan to take my Educational Testing Service's Graduate Record Examination by September 30th...

I was going to go find these when another Forum Member beat me to it, LOL. Thanks for that!! Anyway, being the big, handy help that they are, I feel they should be a Sticky, though, not just sure in what section of our W8 Forum. Nor can I find or recall where his entry was or in what thread...

I have a learning center app - computer has about 10 logins each login is for a different class one is for MS Office one for Open Office one is for beginner etc. All programs are installed for all users, but some users do not have direct access to all programs. the MS Office and Open Office...

I find it folly to install my applications on the C drive, especially the larger applications. Doing so makes the C drive so large that it is cumbersome to make the image backups that I think are necessary to insure an easy recovery from any problem causing a failure to boot. In WinXP, there is...

Fixes an issue in which you cannot access allowed applications on a client computer that is running Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2. This issue affects computers in a network environment, after you apply AppLocker rules by using Group Policy. More...

Hi, as stated in the subject, I wonder how to prevent windows from stealing focus from whatever your working on whenever some other running app, howvever unimportant, calls for attention? This focus-stealing drives me up a wall, and it's not helpful at all for keeping ones train-of-thought...

Hi I have installed SharePoint 2010 on my Windows 7 laptop, and it works fine. But all the services that are installed will always start and use a lot of resources, even when I don't use the application. It is possible to only start all the involved services (like SQL Server, IIS etc.)...

sleep mode works fine on my PC but what I want is more control over when sleep mode operates. If I could configure sleep mode to only operate when a certain program isn't running-- in other words sleep mode turns off when a certain program runs... Has anyone any ideas?

By Nick Peers Many people consider the Mac OS X desktop superior to Windows, which perhaps explains why there are so many utilities for Windows users that try to mimic elements like the Mac OS X Dock in Windows. But Windows 7 introduced some nifty new features of its own that suddenly become...

I'm working with 7 Pro. I've had my start menu setup in such a way since Win95 and I'm trying to accomplish the same thing here in 7. Rather than having multiple folders off to the right side of the start menu I've always listed all of my programs above the divider on the left. Above shutdown...

Koristim W7 x64 ultimate 3,4 meseca. I dalje ne mogu nikako da se prilagodin ne mogucnosti da sam odredim raspored start menija > all programs onako kako bi ja da bude rasporedjeno a ne da se redja po ambecedi. Takodje ne postoji ni mogucnost kreiranje foldera. Sve ovo je moglo na XP. A najvise...

I upgraded Vista Ultimate to Windows 7 Ultimate with no problems - except for an annoying problem that the window size and location is not remembered for an app on the desktop when I restart the program. Even when I simply minimize the program, e.g. IE or Outlook, when I restore the program...

I have just started receiving an error message which I had not previously encountered on boot up. It says, 'There is already an instance of Pidgin running'. Pidgin is my IM program and I have placed it into my Startup folder. I also run WinPatrol which shows that there are two instances of...

Well i posted both here and smartlaunch forums to see if i can get any help. Okay am upgrading my Pc's in my NetCafe and willing to use windows 7 home premuim installed. (october version) After everything was installed correctly with Windows7 i have launched the program SmartLaunch for the...

By Tim Conneally, Betanews The latest version of Canonical's popular Linux distribution Ubuntu (9.10 "Karmic Koala") was officially released today and is now available for download. Among numerous performance improvements (Link Removed native jobs, Intel video driver acceleration switched...