desktop management

I lost my windows opening maximized. Now it only opens minimaized and I have to enlarge it. What did I change to cause this? I read post from a few years back and still can get the window to open maximized. Thanks

Hi everyone. This is my first post in this site. I hope I'm in the right place to post this thread. I installed Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit in one of my PCs. That PC doesn't have an external graphics card (i.e no ATI or NVIDIA). Everything's OK. I get nice graphics, transparent title bars, aero...

hi im using windows 7 i would like to know if it is possible to change the behavior of show desktop button in the lower right from its default winkey+d and change its behavior to be similar to winkey+m i always use the show desktop button however im using a rocketdock and pressing the show...

I keep my Windows Explorer re-sized so that it takes up the right half of my screen and from top to bottom, to make things easier to drag and drop stuff from my desktop or thumb drives. However, every time I open windows explorer, it's still on the right side of the screen, but I have to stretch...

Don't know if anyone else has seen this but at some point today a brand new and unwanted Home Group icon magically appeared on my otherwise clean and pristine Windows 8 Desktop. If you get one and like me, don't want one...

I have to warn you... I'm severely technologically impaired, so I know next to nothing about computers. I keep getting a pop-up that says "Window desktop manager has topped working," sometimes it says "and was closed." Files that help describe the problem...

Mr. Zhang couldn't wait to experience the brand new Windows 7, but suddenly found that the "Show Desktop" button that previously located on the Quick Launch in the lower left corner had disappeared. Has the new Windows cancelled this function? Mr. Zhang... More...

Well i have been searching about & tried different things such as dexpot n desktops.exe from ms but they dont do what i need. Basically im looking for something that will run when windows runs & i can set the number of desktops i want but each desktop i can have different icons, shortcuts &...

Hi everyone.. I know that when I customize a folder icon, a desktop.ini file will be created inside that folder, but if I assign a picture of that folder in (folder pictures panel) where are these data saved? Because when I put this folder in another PC the picture is missing, and goes to...

I only learnt about this a couple of weeks ago! If you want to make the Aero Peek button at the far right of your Taskbar into a plain and simple Show Desktop button: Simply right-click the Aero Peek button and un-check the "Peek at desktop" option. Et Voila!! That's it!

Hi! I have 3 computers, 2 desktops and 1 laptop. Laptop is my personal PC, desktops are from other fammily memebres. Maybe I will add one more PC. I would like to control desktops, deploy software and Win7 updates, control user rights etc.. How can I do that and what do I need? Windows...

***PLEASE read everything that i say carefully to avoid misunderstandings....thanks ok so i have an ASUS M4A79T deluxe and i ran 3 sticks of patriot viper ram (3x2GB). this ram is rated at 1600 and 1.65v i recently added a 4gb stick of Corsair XMS ram to my setup and now i hav 10gb of ram...

"MMC cannot open the file c:\windows\system32\secpol.msc This may be because the file does not exist, is not an MMC console, or was created by a later version of MMC.This may also be because you do not have sufficient privileges to access the file" is the error I receive when trying to...

I own an older Hp G50 laptop that came with vista but i put win7 32 bit on it. I installed all of the usual stuff that I would put on including steam, office and Photoshop. For a long time now, I have been having seemingly random blue screens only when I tried to shut down the computer. I tried...

I have a script (basic batch file) that launces 30 different kd windows and I want to have them tile on the desktop (or stack in win 7 terms) once they have all launched. Is there a command to do this or some kind of script? Those 30 windows will be the only ones open on the desktop.

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I just upgraded and when dragging my different media folders to where I want them to be, it suddenly will move them somewhere else and change the name. I'm dragging a folder called music to my desktop and suddenly it copies everything in to my music in some librarys directory, and I don't want...

Bill Detwiler shows you how you a quick and easy way to disable the Windows 7 Snap feature, which is either loved or hated. Link Removed

Hello, fine Windows 7 sages. Been a while since I was here, and I hope you're all doing well. My issue comes from negligence on my part. I tried to use the Remove Blur tool, to make things behind the transparent windows appear clear, and I have the retail version of Windows. I used it on the...

I have a monitor and a TV. My Monitor is my main display while my TV is my "attached' display. Ive had Win7 for a few days and have a few issues: Issue 1# Items are sometimes moved to my TV display. Other times ill open them up and they will start out in my TV display (and this is a big...