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Microsoft has begun pushing three lightweight Microsoft 365 “companion” apps — People, File Search, and Calendar — directly into the Windows 11 taskbar for eligible Microsoft 365 business customers, delivering one‑click access to contacts, documents and meetings without opening full clients and...

Microsoft has quietly begun embedding three new Microsoft 365 “companion” apps into the Windows 11 taskbar — Calendar, File Search, and People — small, focused helpers designed to pull calendar events, corporate files, and contact details one click away from the desktop and reduce time lost to...

Microsoft’s evolving suite of Copilot applications continues to stir both excitement and debate among Windows enthusiasts. In the latest twist, a pre-release build of the Copilot app—version 1.25014.121.0—is configured to automatically launch when Windows starts. While this may streamline...

Can someone explain to me how I can deactivate or delete one of my Autostart users as an Admin? My problem is that every time I start Win11, I am told that the pwd for my auto-username login is incorrect. I can get into the system with a different Admin UserId and Pwd. However, I cannot...

A friendly hello to anybody, I wrote an app to inform me about appointments. The app is invisible if it starts and showes a window if an appointment is active. If I start the app manualy I'm asked if I want to start the app of unknowen source. If I try to start it with Autostart, Registry run...

On my Windows 10 desktop server I have been running auto startup (no password needed). Suddenly today startup is asking for a password on startup. It is showing two identical userid, one of which uses the normal password and the other is a new one. Investigation said to use netplwiz to...

Hi, I need to change the system time using a Qt application. I have a specific function in Qt Creator that handles this task. However, changing the time requires administrative privileges for the application. The issue is that this application is running on a Single Board Computer (SBC) and...

My desktop windows 10 after shutdown is restarting by itself. Why all of a sudden is doing that? I remember last thing I installed on desktop was windows update patch only this month. Is there a way to check for known issue? Is there step by step tutorial to prevent this restarting automatically?

Hi, I have a strange problem in Windows 10, I installed a partition manager called Minitool Wizard Partitino Manager, however upon startup of the Desktop it loads to check for updates automatically, I can't seem to turn it off. I opened up services.msc and its not listed there. I found a...

I have Windows 10 Home because they didn't feel like my Ultimate Vista license which got me to 8 was good enough one more time lol. Anywho, I run a dual boot system and have some server and camera stuff that run on this machine so windows auto update regularly explodes my system and causes a...

Hello everybody, it's quite a while that every time I start Windows there comes the question "How do you want to open that file" and I don't know what this file is... It's called like me "Julian" and there is no program I can open it with. So please some one tell me how to get rid of this file...

Hello, on my Dell Vostro 3700 with W7 64 I ran the MS autoruns tool to get rid of some autostart programs. I must also have unchecked the box for the service which launches the login box (yes, lesson learned...) Upon booting I now see the Windows screen, but can't login anymore - the login box...

I'm looking for a way or program for Windows XP and Windows 7 that will autostart a program on windows startup and run it minimized. I tried making a shortcut to the Startup folder and program starts in open window again. Specifically i tried Skype and i need the way or program for Skype because...

Is there any program/setup in windows 7, so it will restart like server 2003 and 2008? I mean if the power went down, and when the power gets back, the computer will start again.

Hello everyone, I have 2 external harddrives, but windows 7 only works with one of them. Windows XP, Vista and Linux(doesn't matter which distribution) detect and can use both. When I connect the "defect" harddrive with the pc, autostart starts, but it loads for a long time. When I go to...

I am trying to autostart a program with admin privileges using the task scheduler trick outlined here: Make Vista launch UAC restricted programs at startup with Task Scheduler | Microsoft Windows | TechRepublic.com But, I'm running into a problem. The program is Everything Search Engine. When...

The title quite says it. I once opened the narrator out of curiousity and now it starts with every boot. I checked the autostarts and its not in there. So... how do I kill it? Its pretty annoying to hear the lady commenting the windows startup everytime, as its one of the first things being...