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In recent years it seems like nearly every browser under the sun has become a clone of google chrome in some form or fashion. From Opera,to Maxthon, to Edge to even Firefox looking more like chrome then it does its own browser. Its attack of the chrome clones and its gotten very stale and...

I got accustomed to the "Group by" and "Sort by" features from Quick Access pretty quickly after upgrading to Windows 10. Recently, however, both group and sort features have greyed out and have zero effect no matter the folder view I'm in (details, content, etc.) Has this happened to anyone else?

Hello, Where can i find the favorites bar of Microsoft Edge? The favorites bar of IE 11 i know where they reside. Thanks Curious

Microsoft Edge does have some basic tools that can be used to organize and manage your collection of favorites in the new browser. This video provides a brief walk through of those abilities. read more Continue reading...

Win 7 home, IE 11, Outlook 2007, after opening 3 new e-mail addresses I keep getting the "Enter Network Password" box popping up every couple of minutes and I don´t know how to remove this problem. I´ve heard that this a known bug but how to fix the problem was not forthcoming. Also, after a...

I installed Windows 10 (upgrading a Windows 7 Toshiba Laptop) several weeks ago and everything seemed to be working fine. A few days ago I started to see that when I went to close down the laptop "Task Host stopping background tasks" If I cancelled the shutdown (thinking something was still...

When we first started designing Microsoft Edge, we asked ourselves how people are using the web differently today than they did a decade ago. For one, there’s just so much more content online than ever before. Our research told us that people need tools to capture and organize all the content...

How to use the MS EDGE browzer Had to ditch IE 11 of win10 as the "Script Error" drove me crazy, & cannot get rid of it. Trying to use EDGE browser, not user friendly. I imported my favourites from IE but the folders I had in there will not open in Edge. How to make Edge open in my GMail...

I had icons on my bookmarks bar in Chrome. For example the icon for Facebook was the little blue box with an F in it, the Twitter icon had the little bird, Gmail and Yahoo mail had the mail icons. I recently had to uninstall Chrome and successfully imported my websites into IE 11. Now, none of...

I upgraded to windows 10 and I lost all my favorite entries. How can I import them???

Microsoft Edge makes it extremely easy to edit, rename, and delete browser favorites. read more Continue reading...

If importing favorites into Microsoft Edge fails, you may have to perform the operation manually. read more Continue reading...

Why does Microsoft always make their Apps a little harder to use and a little less useful? At least it always seems that way to me. I was just setting up edge to give it a try, and it's always just a little harder to do things than in Chrome. Like adding your links to the Favorites Bar, in...

Hi everyone, We have a new build for PCs releasing today to Windows Insiders in the Fast ring – Build 10158. This build is full of improvements to stability and quality as well as some additional UI polish. It also has some great new features included for Microsoft Edge as well. Here is what’s...

Hello everyone, New member here. I bought a new computer at Fry's, when I make a new folder on the C drive I get the blue-circle-of-death and Windows Explorer locks up. Is this a know bug in 8.1? I went to the MS website and downloaded all the updates for Windows, then rebooted the machine...

Hi guys, I wondered if anyone knew a way to have the Favorites tree in Windows Explorer expand by default when opening a new window? This used to be the case but one day for some reason it changed and now it is collapsed by default and it's really annoying! Expanding the Computer or Libraries...

I am trying to use the UI version of IE rather than the desktop version. I can't seem to find any of the menus that show up in the desktop version. Organize Favorites is one in particular. Is there a way to organize Favorites in the UI version or do I have to use the Desktop version for that...

Hi Spartan is pretty spartan, especially since whenever I point at the icons in the upper right they disappear. I'm talking about the Star, Folder with Star, Pad, Smiley Face and the 3 Dots. Link Removed Link Removed Once they are gone they don't come back unless I close Spartan and open...

I would like to sync my Favorites on all of my Win 8.1 PCs. I see a method using Sky Drive. And I saw another way using something called Xmark. Does anyone have any thoughts on which one I should pursue? Thanks, Jim

I am experimenting with IE and have a question. Can Favorites/Bookmarks be arranged other than alphabetical? Thanks, Jim Edit: OK, I am getting better at IE. Slow but steady progress. Jim