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    Windows 11 I just wanna say a heartfelt "Thank you!" to all for revealing W11's "gotchas". Not gonna upgrade for now.

    Really, I do! I only just upgraded to Windows 21H2 (from (21H1) less than two weeks ago. Over the years, Microsoft's OS iterations have been becoming progressively worse. I know many people complained about W8.1; I have no idea why. I continue to use the professional version on my original...
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    Windows 11 win 11 SM bus controller and PCI device say no driver

    At device and printers in control panel it reports the win 11 SM bus controller and PCI device say no driver. I went to device manager but it could not update driver. I did not install the Asus utility which has drivers with bad things like Norton when installing Win 11.
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    Windows 10 My boot startup menu has straight-up disappeared; I can't change my startup programs.

    All the options just kind of disappeared. Various methods I've tried and failed include: shell:startup ctrl+alt+del startup menu Windows Settings>Apps>Startup /ProgramData/ path to the startup folder (created one to see if it'd populate, it didn't) /AppData/ path to the startup...
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    Windows 10 Need help Uninstalling Farmville

    I have gone to the Control Panel and selected Farmville and selected Uninstall, but no matter how many times I try, it will not initiate the unistall. How can I get this off of my computer?
  5. tybinary

    Windows 10 Opening the "About System" window keeps crashing

    How can I fix this problem? Every time I open the "About your PC" a.k.a "System Properties" window, it just crashes. the window with the gear shows up and then the window just closes, doesn't load the About System info. 5 ways I tried opening it and it just keeps crashing.... 1.) This PC >...
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    [SOLVED] Application to list apps most often used?

    Hello, To make a bit less painful to migrate from my aging 32-bit Windows 7 workstation to the latest and greatest, I need to find what apps I most often use, before gathering and installing the latest version of each and importing data files and settings. The "Last Used On" column in W7's...
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    NEC Videowall x 4 Monitors - Windows Server 2012 R2

    I have been tasked to find out why our NEC Videowall (4 x NEC MultiSync X464UNV 46" Large Format Displays), driven by a PC running Windows Server 2012 R2 continues to switch off, needing a user to log back in to restart the displays ... This happens regularly, but not at consistent time...
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    Windows 10 update win20H2

    I have just updated and find no labels on items such as Control Panel amongst other things - should I revert to previous version?
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    Windows 10 Missing Power Plans

    Windows 10 21H1 19043.1151- Recently I happened to go to Control Panel, Power Options, and noticed I have no power plans listed. Its been some time since I have looked at this setting but I used to have a number of default power plans listed here. I did a google search and a number of fixes came...
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    Install Application on Remote Desktop Server ... option not available

    I recently created a Windows 2019 Server instance on AWS and wanted to install a few applications for remote access for some users. The "Install Application on Remote Desktop Server" was not available in Control Panel > Programs. I tried to change to "Install" mode by typing ... "change user...
  11. Krypto

    Windows 10 Account is admin but not full admin?

    I am really stumped on this one. I have a Windows 10 PC with 3 user accounts all of which are admins. One of the admin accounts is the user 500 the one windows makes during install. Everywhere in the operating system command prompt, settings, Computer Management, netplwiz and so forth the user...
  12. XetalEngine

    Windows 10 How to remove this annoying WINDOWS SECURITY popup?

    Hello everyone. I am attaching a picture of the sad popup. Ever since the last update 20h2, every single time I restart my computer, I will get this extremely annoying popup from Windows Security. I know my firewall is off, I manually disabled it. I have disabled ALL apps notifications, I...
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    Windows 10 Turn off windows crash reports

    I wanted to turn off crash reports, however, it doesn't seem like a feature in control panel for me. On the following URL you get instruction of going to maintenance section of control panel, however when I go to mine there is no option for off, it is just on. Any help thanks in advance. How to...
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    Service uninstall from server 2012 r2

    I had to install a service after uninstalling the previous version. This requires to first uninstall the current service. By mistake i ran: sc del "service_name" command in cmd instead of uninstalling from control panel. Now I can't repair or remove it . It throws error "the installer was...
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    Windows 10 how to disable popup mic image on desktop

    Using WIN 10 on Lenovo ideapad 100 laptop have nagging, intermittent mic image with diagonal line from upper right to lower left. Sometimes it is not present for several minutes, and at other times it comes and goes on a 3-5 second interval. Interesting side note is that when it is visible...
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    Windows 10 Win10 PC programs and Features pane lost all programs just shows Msoft OneDrive !

    Hi, A friend (who has installed win10 onto his win xp PC and is using classic shell but struggling with the new experience of 10) was following my simple steps to download a screenshare exe file and see if it showed malware as I am seeing in Virustotal.com, Firstly he set the download file...
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    Windows 10 When holding the backspace key, deletion is delayed then deletes strings of words...

    My brand new laptop with Windows 10, now erases entire strings of words after a second delay, instead of one character at a time, when I 'hold down' the backspace key. What is happening? Windows up to now used to let me hold down the backspace key to erase one character at a time. Do I have to...
  18. Skynotempty

    Windows 10 Windows 10 File Explorer Gone HELP!

    In task manager, I tried to run new task explorer.exe Nothing Ran sfc /scannow Nothing Entered a batch file to terminate and run explorer.exe Nothing File explorer options through control panel are viewable/customizable but no matter what is done...
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    Windows 10 Pc being dumb with flicks tab not found

    When I go to control pannel -> Pen and Touch. It has the flicks option there... but if i click on it, it only shows the "Pen Options" tab ??? www.myloweslife.com
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    Windows 10 Pc being dumb with flicks tab not found

    When I go to control pannel -> Pen and Touch. It has the flicks option there... but if i click on it, it only shows the "Pen Options" tab ???
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