control panel

  1. No "Power buttons and lid" option in Control Panel\Power options

    I'm running Win 11 on a Galaxy Book 3 Pro 360, and my system is up to date. I recently lost the ability to have my notebook power up when I open the lid. So, I went to the Power Options setting in Control Panel setting for advanced power setting and looked at both Samsung Mode and Balanced Mode...
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    Forgotten Password Wizard Not Opening

    Sometimes the Forgotten Password Wizard will not open from the link in Control Panel/User Accounts/Create a Password Reset Disk or through Windows Search. Sometimes it will open in the background and is visible using Win+Tab. But you cannot bring it to the desktop. If this happens, close it with...
  3. XAMPP Installation Issues: Apache and MySQL Shutdowns Due to Port Conflicts

    5:25:12 PM [main] Initializing Control Panel 5:25:12 PM [main] Windows Version: Enterprise 64-bit 5:25:12 PM [main] XAMPP Version: 8.0.28 5:25:12 PM [main] Control Panel Version: 3.3.0 [ Compiled: Apr 6th 2021 ] 5:25:12 PM [main] Running with Administrator rights -...
  4. Windows 11 Help, I messed up again.

    I can never leave well enough alone, I always want to know what clicking on this or that does. This time I'm talking about the panel that comes up when you click on the Connection Icon on the right side of the taskbar. This time I clicked on a Checkbox next to my internet connection. I think it...
  5. Windows 7 Is there a way to lock just the settings?

    Hello, y'all! So happy to be here! I'll just get down straight to it. So, we have a laptop at church that everyone uses for presentation purposes and such, I supervise it every once in a while. For whatever reason, everytime I check on it, I find that someone tampered with the resolution...
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    Windows 10 What the hell? Sounds usually slowed down to 10-20% of normal!

    For most of the last several days, my computer's sound output (using nVidia GeForce GTX 750) has been slowed down by 80 or 90%! How can that possibly happen? Usually a reboot doesn't fix the problem. Even when I run the audio troubleshooter, the sound frequencies remain absurdly low. At one...
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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?
  11. 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 Missing Labels After Windows 20H2 Update: Should I Revert?

    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...
  17. 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...
  18. 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...