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  1. Windows 11 Criticisms: User Experience Challenges & Opportunities for Improvement

    Windows 11, despite being positioned as Microsoft's vision for the future of personal computing, has been met with both praise and frustration from its millions of daily users. For those who spend their working lives toggling between Windows and macOS—or who simply have decades of muscle memory...
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    Windows 7 Download and open files without prompt

    I've set Firefox to open various file types (txt, png, pdf) with their default application; the "Do this automatically for files like this" option is checked. For some reason, FF keeps asking whether to save or open the file. In IE8, the "Always ask before opening this type of file" check-box...
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    Windows 7 Configuring File Associations in Windows 7 After Installing iTunes and QuickTime

    I have Win7 64bit and it works very well. However, I installed ITunes recently and now Quicktime thinks it is the default application for my picture viewing. In WinXP I could set the file associations for each application. I have searched the forums, and looked all thru Win7 and can't seem to...
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    Windows 7 How to bring back items with menu strips to start menu?

    Hi Everyone. I've changed some registry key to make Windows 7 to use WMP12 x64 as the default media player. Still the default media player remained WMP12 32bit, so I've changed those keys back. After all this "Windows Media Player" item with it's ">" strip menus (like "Windows Media Center"...