device management

Where do I begin... This recently started happening, I don't know when but I think it was yesterday or the day before, prior to this I've never even seen Windows go into "Resuming Windows", it would just wake up from it's sleeps. But now it seems that every single time I put it to sleep it...

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when I try to open a folder on a phone connected to pc. the folder on phone show up, but when I click on any folder, windows file explorer when close, the screen flash for 1 second then come back. I tried both windows phone, and android phone, also different user accounts, all doing the same...

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I have two PCs connected via Ethernet. The "Home" PC runs Win 8.1 and the "Work" PC runs Win 8. I had a DeskJet printer that's trash now. Before it failed, I tried using the Home PC as a kind of "print server" for the Work PC (since the old DeskJet had no Ethernet connection -- just USB)...

My laptop Sony Vaio y series was not passing the Sony logo screen so I thought of reinstalling Windows but that was not happening from a bootable usb nor a disk. So I removed the hd and completely formatted it and also made it a bootable hd with windows 8 but my laptop does not go to bios...

Hi there, I just installed a new Windows 8.1 on my laptop on a fresh HDD. I used the same log in as my desktop PC. It imported most of my settings from my desktop over to the laptop INCLUDING my wallpaper. I want different wallpapers. Is there a way to turn this feature off, or will I have to...

After only 35 yrs in the general purpose OS business, MS cannot devise a reliable "wake from sleep" scheduler. The task scheduler can shut down, or sleep, but not awake with any hope of reliability. The BIOS can set a base "power management" start-up, but it is insensitive to refinements in...

I have 8.1 and I keep getting a pop-up notification for an Audio System Event saying that a device has been plugged in, then unplugged, over and over, when nothing is plugged into the audio jack. Does this sound like a hardware issue or a driver issue? I have looked through a few forums but...

Microsoft have released Update 1 for Windows 8.1: Improvements This update includes the following new features and improvements: Enables a more familiar mouse and keyboard functionality for modern apps and controls. Improves the web application compatibility of the Internet Explorer 8...

Hi, I have replaced an IDE HDD with a cloned SDD on an XP SP3 (Asus motherboard) PC. The PC boots up off SDD ok after the error message "IDE HDD master not found press F1" and pressing F1. I'm trying to get rid of this error message. The Bios setup thinks the IDE is still in the PC even thought...

Toshiba laptop, windows 7 home premium. Recently audio stopped working in the sense that i was getting no sound, but the volume control showed "normal" messed around rebooted it came back, lasted a few days then went out. This time the volume icon was X'd out, couldn't get it to work so i...

Hello fellow users, Not sure if this is the right place to post this, but my laptop's USB ports are faulty to the devices I connect. This happened mid-February, when I couldn't connect my wireless desktop receiver for my wireless keyboard and mouse, and it also happened with my external HDD...

i have a 8 gig flash drive ..ive used it before but now it wont even let me format it..it says write protection..

Hello, Please help with this question. I have a PC with Windows 7. I have 4 hard drives, 2 DVD units and 4 hard disk of other computers that mount as driver letter on boot. So in total I have 10 drive letters occupied. I had a few different pendrives that take other unit letters when connected...

As the proliferation of devices continues to capture the imagination of consumers, and has ignited what is referred to as bring your own device (BYOD) revolution, many IT departments across the globe are now facing increased security considerations. While organizations encourage BYOD for cost...

Our organization has recently received a number of Tablet devices (over 100) which we require a standardized image to be deployed to them all, the obvious thing to this was to create a standard image using sysprep however when i run sysprep I get the message 'Sysprep was not able to validate...

HP Pavilion Elite m9040n Desktop, only computer in house. Was using HP All -in -One 309G printer for a few years and everything worked great. One day I noticed that the printer icon wasn't showing up in Device and Printers folder. Well went into the other forum for HP and Windows 7 and several...

I have used computer for 9 years. My first computer is a DIY desktop computer, the second one is ThinkPad T43, and the current is HP Pavilion g4. I didn't care the outdated drivers on first several years. With the accumulation of computer knowledge , I learned that old driver are related with...

Asus UL80JT often cannot reconnect to wireless after system hibernate/sleep. Does not even show available networks. Sometime, can use Function F2 to turn on wireless and this causes the wireless to turn on. Other times turning on wireless and even disabling/enabling device doesn't help. The...