About this tag
The behavior tag on WindowsForum.com covers discussions about unusual or problematic system behavior in Windows, such as sleep settings reverting, applications failing to launch after login, and erratic mouse movement in games when using a KVM switch. Other threads explore behavior in the context of security software, including Windows Defender blocking legitimate programs due to code-injecting behavior, and Process Monitor causing conflicts with privileged program execution. The tag also includes off-topic content on human behavioral biology and health topics like diabetes and smoking cessation, but the primary focus is on troubleshooting unexpected Windows and hardware behavior.
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Transforming Diabetes Care in Africa with AI-Powered Personalized Health Stories
Transforming Diabetes Care in Africa: How AI-Powered Personalized Health Stories Are Changing Lives In the realm of global health challenges, Type II Diabetes stands out as a persisting and escalating threat. This chronic condition affects roughly one-tenth of the global population, and in...- WindowsForum AI
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- ai storytelling artificial intelligence behavior chronic disease management community engagement cultural relevance diabetes global health health education health equity healthcare access healthcare innovation healthcare technology human-centered ai language diversity medical education personalized medicine public health south africa west africa health
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- Forum: Windows News
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ART Quit Smoking Style
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- addiction recovery behavior benefits cravings management motivation nicotine addiction nicotine replacement therapy quit plan quit smoking self help book smoking cessation tobacco free willpower
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- Forum: The Water Cooler
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Windows keeps setting to never sleep
It feels like everyday I wake up in the morning, the computer is wide awake, I check the settings and it's set to never sleep, I set them to sleep in 20 minutes, got about my day, though when I wake up the next morning I do it all over again.- SuferSteven
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- behavior computer configuration power settings sleep troubleshooting user experience windows
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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My computer do not much after Login
My HP computer, after working well some years, got the following strange behavior: After log in, I could start 1 or 2 applications, than I could not start anything anymore, not the task manager, nothing else, and the computer did not react for a shut down command also. So yesterday I set my HP...- PersonalHandle2526
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- application backup behavior computer login msi shutdown troubleshooting
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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KVM causes erratic mouse behaviour in some games
Hello, I use a KVM switch to enable my Windows 11 PC, work laptop, CCTV and Android box to share the same mouse, keyboard and monitor. The KVM I am using is: Link Removed Usually everything works smoothly, without any problems when I switch between computers. However, when in some games...- Moldwyrm
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- android behavior cctv cursor desktop erratic eve online games gaming input kvm laptop mouse switch usb windows 11 witcher 3
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- Forum: Windows Graphics and Gaming
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Windows 10 Sneaky update breaks realtime Defender disable toggle
So, this is something that took me hours to figure out because it's so unbelievable. I use a game trainer program that is blocked from executing in an AppData temp folder because it uses code-injecting behaviour associated with malware. Usually, I just have to disable my AV program and Windows...- FrankPatton
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- antivirus behavior block comodo discussion exclusions malware mandatory update patch privacy real time security technical issues toggle trainer update user control user experience windows 10 windows defender
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- Forum: Windows Upgrade and Installation
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VIDEO 1. Introduction to Human Behavioral Biology
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- behavior behavioral biology introductory biology neuroscience
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- Forum: The Water Cooler
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Windows 10 Issue with procmon
I recently downloaded the procmon tool. I've noticed that after stopping it a subsequent attempt to run a privileged program gets an error dialog saying that a system monitor is running and to remove it. This prevents the privileged program execution. Rebooting cures the problem. The two...- PaulSp
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- behavior error execution privilege procmon reboot system monitor tools windows
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 10 Identifying App Causing Blue Arrow Icons on Folders
Which app adds two blue arrows to some, but not all, icons? I am not aware that I have installed something new.- Vilmand
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- application behavior customization desktop graphics icons notifications update user interface windows
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Electricity Causes Climate Change
Humans steal electricity from Earths magnetic field. You cannot make electric from movement or wind energy because wind isnt an energy, movement isnt an energy. * Energy have 4 forms: light, heat, magnetism, electric * Humans live by generating electricity, heat, light, magnetism. We take...- yuno44907
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- behavior biodiversity climate change conservation earth science ecosystem electricity energy forms environmental future of earth geology human impact magnetic field natural resources nature pollution power plants renewable energy sustainability technology
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- Forum: The Water Cooler
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No New, but need to reintroduce myself
Hi ! First of all, I love this forum. I've been away for awhile. Reason being, I didn't know how to behave. I have learned a lot and hopefully I'll do better this time, and behave myself. There are some great people here and very smart people. I hope to learn some new things, and hopefully help...- holdum333
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- behavior community contributions copd engagement experience forum friendship health help introduction learning reacquaint return seniors support thankful trust windows 10
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- Forum: The Water Cooler
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Windows 10 Regular desktop initializing after winlogon shell changed in regedit
Hi there. Something I used to do in windows 7 doesn't work anymore on windows 10. What I am trying to achieve is running my own program before desktop initializes, so I can display a simple menu without any desktop gui. In windows 7 I did it by replacing value [...- chm
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- behavior boot issues configuration desktop explorer gui initialization registry shell replacement shell-customization support troubleshooting user experience user interface windows 10 windows 7 winlogon
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 10 Options to Uninstall unavailable from Start Menu
Apparently, I have yet another problem with Windows 10. I noticed today on my laptop that that when I right click on an application from the start menu there are options such as Pin to Start, Pin to Taskbar, Uninstall, Run as Administrator and Open File Location. However, when I right click on...- Moondoggy
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- application behavior community advice desktop fix laptop right click software issues system settings tech support troubleshooting uninstall user interface windows 10
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 8 Something automatically opening web pages
I don't really know what could be causing this problem, and it's kind of specific so I don't know what to search for on the internet. Something on my computer is opening web pages in my default browser (chrome) very often, with the frequency ranging from opening once every hour, to opening it 10...- MercuryFish
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- auto open behavior browser chrome computer issues default browser frequency malware msn no program popup privacy settings software bugs tech support troubleshooting user experience webpage windows xbox
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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NEWS Ebola crisis: Struggling to change behaviour in Sierra Leone
For weeks it has been the same here in Sierra Leone's capital, Freetown. Every day the Ebola burial teams - now well organised and promptly dispatched - collect about 60 bodies from around the city and its crowded suburbs. Some days it is 50, sometimes as many as 80. About 20% of those bodies...- whoosh
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- behavior ebola outbreak public health sierra leone
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- Forum: The Water Cooler
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Windows 10 New Action Centre
1. Would open AC & Maintenance would show nothing. Occasionally it would but, most time, nothing, none of the normal, usual info. Had noticed this behavior over the last couple of days. This evening... 2. Asking for Action Centre in Start menu Search produced TWO listings. A faint grey...- Drew
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- action center behavior display flags information maintenance search shortcuts system tray windows
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 10 Notification icon on Taskbar.
I am starting to think I will not like the new Notification icon on the Taskbar. They may change the way it behaves in the final version, but right now it is a distraction and a little bit of a nuisance. Why would I want to keep notifications about safely removing USB drives or other minor...- Saltgrass
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- behavior change distraction interface notifications popup usb user experience version
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 7 Programs instantly closing. Please help
I have heard of this behavior from various people using various applications. It seems to happen more with 32-bit apps running on new Windows versions. The program opens and immediately closes. It is only runs for a second or less. I have tried turning off data execution prevention which does...- JeffCodeblum
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- 32-bit application behavior c programming c++ programming closing data execution prevention development help network programs security server server 2008 server 2012 software update windows windows 7 windows xp
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 7 Something keeps turning on "Auto-hide the taskbar" in my Control Panel
At random times, usually daily, something goes into my Contol Panel in "Taskbar and Start Menu Properties" and checks the box,"Auto-hide the taskbar". I notice this when suddenly my taskbar disappears while I am doing other work. I go into the Control Panel and uncheck it, but hours or maybe...- SkywayTraveler
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- asus behavior bugs configuration control panel desktop issues personalization random settings software startup themes troubleshooting user experience windows
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Microsoft Security Advisory (2915720): Changes in Windows Authenticode Signature Verification...
Revision Note: V1.0 (December 10, 2013): Advisory published. Summary: Microsoft is announcing the availability of an update for all supported releases of Windows to change how signatures are verified for binaries signed with the Windows Authenticode signature format. The change is included with...- News
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- advisory authenticode behavior binaries change microsoft non-compliant publication regulatory compliance release release notes revision security security bulletin signature technical update verification windows win_certificate
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- Forum: Security Alerts
