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    Windows 7 Font Installation

    The short version: I've been using FontForge to create my own fonts, successfully until this morning. Suddenly, installing a new font causes the font to appear in the \Windows\Fonts\ folder, but NOT in the control panel ( and not in the dropdown list of my editor). I have rebooted, checked...
  2. Windows 10 Settings Menu: The System tab

    Here's what you can change in the System section of the Settings menu...and what you'll have to go into the Control Panel to do. Continue reading...
  3. Windows 8 Guest Mode Problem

    So, Hi :) Few days ago my friend came and wanted to remove the password to the windows login screen, suddenly the computer became to "GUEST MODE" on the User Accounts in Control Panel, and I can't do anything, Installing Programms , Delete Programms , Or just to enter to simple settings, I tried...
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    Windows 8 Immidiette help please! Audio Driver fail, no restore points, control panel not working!

    I've been having the biggest issues with my computer as of late, and need help fast.. Basically, my audio driver fails to work, and won't play sound. After digging around, I found out it was AVG quarantining files with Realtek drivers. I had AVG, but uninstalled deleting all of the stuff in the...
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    Windows 7 Dual Monitors Cannot Be Recognized at the Same Time

    I have a VAIO laptop running Windows 7 with two monitors connected. One monitor is connected through the VGA port, the other is connected to the HDMI port. Both monitors are identical, and the one that is connected to the HDMI port is connected using an HDMI/VGA adaptor. I've been trying to set...
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    Windows 7 How to delete Temp files

    I have 109,522 files (122,143 folders) in my Temporary Internet files in the C:\users\my name\AppData\Local\Temp folder hugging 5.14 GB and slowing down the performance. When I try to delete those temp files: Message: they are system files and deleting them will interfere with Windows. What are...
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    Windows 7 Comptability error!

    I have Sony Laptop with windows 7 Starter(32bit). THis PC was 3 yrs old and was running very slow. So, i tried to format it and install new windows 7. But the problem is I cannot upgrade. It says to start the PC normally without using boot CD/USB and try installing from windows. I couldnt...
  8. Windows 10 Will Windows 10 Keep Device Stage? I Hope!

    I really hope Windows 10 does not get rid of the standard control panel that I and other Windows system admins are used to, in favor of the Metro one, nor the seamless, and highly accurate Device Stage feature, in favor of the generic icons in the Metro 'Settings' panel. I hope if anything...
  9. Windows 8.1 Two most common hyper-v errors and what do they mean?

    This first one is the name too ip address… I simulated this error by simply turning off my server but it can also be caused if the ip address your computer tries to go to isn't the correct one or isn't recorded anywhere on the system… could also happen if the router doesn't know how to get there...
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    Windows 7 Pin to taskbar "Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Recovery\Advanced Recovery Methods"

    Is there a way to Pin to taskbar "Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Recovery\Advanced Recovery Methods" . Thank you
  11. Windows 8 USB Device not compatible with USB 3.0 whilst in an USB 2.0 port

    Since a couple of days ago, my PS3 controller, which used to work just fine, decided to stop working with my PC. My computer does detect the device; I hear a sound when I plug it in and if I go to devices and printers in the control panel it's there. But if I go to device manager, I can't seem...
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    Windows 7 Font Help - Centry Gothic Disappeared

    > Running Windows 7 Home Premium with Microsoft Office 2010 (Microsoft Word 2010). I've had the Century Gothic font since I first installed Microsoft Office, and haven't had a problem with the program up until now. I haven't done anything recently other than simply update Windows, but I've...
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    VIDEO How to enable Chinese handwriting input in Windows 8.1 Pro Touch Keyboard

    This tutorial teaches you how to enable Chinese handwriting input in Microsoft Windows 8.1 Pro's onscreen Touch Keyboard by download and installing Chinese Language Pack via Control panel language preferences.
  14. Windows 7 Something that I have not been able to find anywhere else - A file now owned by the admin group

    So, pretty much how it goes is that - a couple of programs (specifically, 2 that I have found so far) are not able to run at all on my computer, one being an installer and the other the Windows Backup tool. In Backup and Restore, there are a couple of options such as "Create a system image"...
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    Windows 8 Applications open with HUGE ribbon and menus. . .

    Suddenly every application I open has huge menus, ribbons and title bars. Yes, I've checked my display settings. Yes, I've rebooted. Yes, I've checked my control panel display settings for any changes (I didn't make any and nobody else uses this laptop). No, I haven't installed anything...
  16. Windows 10 Lookie Here - Take Note...

    If you manually installed build 9860 using the > PC Settings / Preview Builds method, after the new build is installed open the Control Panel and run Windows Update. You may find that KB3008956 has not been installed which is part of the new build. You need to manually install this update...
  17. Windows 8 Question about upgrading to Windows 8.1 and losing Media Center?

    Hi As everyone here probably knows I had issues with sound when I updated to Windows 8.1. Recently I've been running Windows 10 Technical Preview and my sound works fine. That is until I added Windows 8.1 Media Center to it. When I did that my sound problems returned just as they were before...
  18. Windows 10 Good for 1, good for all

    Someone in another forum asked if there was a way to have constant, fingertip, access to All Control Panel Items rather than just the Category view. Thought I would share my answer to them w/ y'all out of general interest. I have found a way to have the All Control Panel Items permanently on...
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    Windows 7 Trouble Installing .net framework 3.5

    Hey everyone, Something strange has happened recently. I right clicked on my desktop to create a new folder, and got the following message: This is followed by a message stating that Windows Explorer has stopped working, Windows Explorer restarting, and a seeming return to normalcy. I was...
  20. Windows 8 control panel wont open

    it takes upto 25 mins to get my control panel to open most of the times it just wont budge i have done the complete scan of my pc using Microsoft as well as avg (paid) sfc/scannow has shown some files are corrupted how do i go froward with it . (Note i have limited knowledge of computers)