dialogs

In windows 10, I am you able to open any programs and if I can can open a dialog box, it won’t close. Nothing seems to be working. It all started with highlight, cut and paste functions not working. Thought it might be touchpad (although it wasn’t working by keyboard method either) so tried to...

Running Win 7 Home Premium 32Bit SP1 This is two problems in fact, but I assume them to be related. 1. In the Save-As dialog (i.e. saving a website in Firefox or a document in Adobe Reader or other programs), there is no details pane displayed. See screenshot below. Link Removed The drop-down...

Microsoft takes a new approach to copying and moving files in Windows 8, the next version of its PC operating system — aiming to clean up, clarify and consolidate the jumble of dialog boxes that Windows users have long suffered. Link Removed

If early leaked screenshots are to be believed (and the feature survives without being canned for some reason or another) Microsoft is to bake into Windows 8 a file verification tool based on the... Source: Yahoo! News

If I copy-paste some folders and files, there are just sooo many confirmation-dialogs for overwriting files and folders. This makes me nuts as I have to do loads of this each day. In the glorious days of XP there was just the simple: "do you want to overwrite this?" [yes] [no] So with only...

Folks, I have the following 2 problems and I appreciate your help in resolving these issues: 1. MMC - I opened the MMC to look at the event viewer & other logs and when I tried closing the MMC, I get this weird message something like "You must close all dialogs....", but I don't see any...

Hi all, I'm running into three issues which I'm guessing are related -- 1) Windows 7 seems to protect certain folder trees differently than others. In particular, the Program Files tree. If I try to copy a file to a folder in that tree or rename a file in one of the folders, I get a dialog...

Question, how do I stop advisory messages from poping up under other windows so they can't be seen. I thought possibly some of the advisory dialog boxes were poping up under other windows because of the way the software was written. But since I now see Windows 7 boxes that pop-under, I am...

Am I alone in hating the way Windows 7 handles windows focus? I guess in a way it's good that a dialogue doesn't pop up in the middle of typing or clicking, resulting in an unintended answer to the dialogue, but too often I find myself missing new windows. Say for example a website has a...