# windows8 If you're afraid of, or just annoyed by, the concept of Windows 8's Metro (well formerly Metro, but whatever) UI style, there's a handy way around it. RetroUI is a program that will take users directly to the Classic desktop after login , and even lock Metro away completely. More*»...
hi i am facing a strange issue. Whenever I have multiple windows opened like windows explorer, IE, notepad, mozilla etc. I get a problem in switching between windows. Whenever i am browsing something on mozilla and then suddenly wants to switch to windows explorer or lets say do something on...
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If you want Windows 8 to open up to Classic Desktop instead on the Metro UI then you could follow this article
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Hello and thank you for any help that anyone can give me.
anyways, the problem is that when i go to microsoft word or powerpoint or excel, i press the "open" button and nothing happens. absolutely nothing as in no window will pop up that has the c: drive similar to when you run windows...
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Wifes Dell with XP blew up mother board and corrupted boot files. Placed drive as slave in my machine. Drive works fine, can access all needed stuff, can't boot it. I can access Favorites, Address book files from Outlook express, photos. I copied all the important things also to a seperate...
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I'm experiencing something of an extraordinary problem (at least from what I'm used to).
I have two primary accounts on my computer. When i make changes to my account --account A-- (the wallpaper, for example) the same thing occurs on the other account --account B--. There's also things like...
I have had this issue with two computer in the past.
I had an HP Pavilion TX1000 for a while and had the issue on the Vista OS.
Now I have an IBM Thinkpad T43 with Windows 7 32-bit installed and it has been fantastic up until just today.
I've looked through a lot of documentation on this...
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Transform Ubuntu to Windows 7
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Most Open Source/Linux lovers will never migrate to Windows 7. But Surely the look and feel is attractive for everyone. So why not transform your Ubuntu 8 or Ubuntu 9.x to Windows 7!
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I can't believe I'm the only one with this issue!
So I was listening to music, volume was way turned up. Then I turned the music off.
The a while later I'm surfing away and some site has an super obnoxious ad with a hidden pop-under window with this incredibly loud voice BLASTING me with...
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Issue with Windows 7 32/64 bit and Windows 2008 R2 environments
Hi Friends,
I am facing issue when I am trying of open OSK.EXE (On-Screen Keyboard) through ShellExecute() in both Windows 7 32/64 bit and Windows 2008 R2 environments. OSK is not getting popped up after executing the command.
My...
Ok, I've created a new theme for my Windows 7 desktop.
I made everything green and black, like the old Unix systems, just for the fun of it.
Well, it affected my internet browsers.
That is, Firefox and Google Chrome.
The background to every page in FF is black with green text. I...
I have" AERO" disabled in order for older apps not to switch windows color, turns out windows 7 is not running same colors as vista did.
If any program freezes, i cant close it. I click CLose button and nothing happened.
Even moving mouse over X X is not hovered (dont see the effect)
So i click...
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Hello, I hope you are doing well.
When I open a program that has been pinned to the taskbar, the icon for that program disappears immediately. I understand that this is a feature of Windows 7, but my girlfriend finds it rather annoying. Is there any way to stop this behavior? By the way, I am...
Hello, I have a problem with the new taskbar in Windows 7. I have installed Windows and then I installed a lot of programs, so I can't recognize if something else than system does it, but let's say I have quite known and legal programs installed, so they should not to do this problem...
Thanks to Rafael Rivera for this info.
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Over a month ago, we were briefed about a...
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Ok, So I have installed windows 7 beta on my machine, LOve it.
Works great.
So the problem (probably given away in title)
I have lost my second taskbar!
Really NO BS! I started 7 after install it setup dual display immediatly and I had two taskbars, The second wasnt aero but I didnt...