I get really frustrated w/ people saying or thinking there is nothing in Windows 8.1, from Microsoft, telling them, educating them or guiding them w/ enlightenment or instructions on How To use the OS. There is!! Yes, there is!
There problem isn't that it doesn't exist but, rather that people...
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Please help me. I have a dell laptop running on windows 7 OS. Whenever I turn it on and I click on any icon, I get a pop up message asking me if I want to delete the icon and send to the recycle bin. Is this a virus or what? What should I do?
Hello, I've encountered a problem with my computer image setup. I'm tryng to fine the flower vase icon to use for png format pictures but all I'm getting is the shapes icon used for gif images. If there anyway I can fix the registry so I can have the flower vase icon back so I can be able to...
I’m running VS2012 on a Windows8 64-bit computer. I posted this on the Microsoft Windows8 forum, but received no replies.
After running the VS2012 update (I started it from within VS and then closed VS) I went to the Start Screen and the icon in the VS2012 tile is now a white square. I unpinned...
A problem I've not run into before on XP...I'm using a wireless adapter to connect to my router, therefore I don't need a hard-wired connection at this time. Therefore I have the ethernet network disabled in the Device Manager, and the Notification Icons set to always hide the one for LAN, but...
I probably have a silly problem, but I can't find a way out after hours of google.
I have a folder with pictures. I moved some of them to a different folder and replaced them with a shortcut to the new location.
The newly created shortcut works perfectly but its icon is the icon of the refered...
Okay, I just changed my router to a Linksys N instead of the the old WRT54g that served me so well for years and I set up my 18' Acer laptop and my 15 inch laptop and noticed that after they were up and running and I rebooted the small Acer 5100 x86 it had a normal tray icon (step bars) but...
so, i have my most frequently-used programs pinned to the taskbar.
if i open one, the icon gets pushed a little to the front and offers an Aero preview.
this stopped working for the Thunderbird icon.
now, when i open it, it opens a brand new additional icon to the far right.
not the end of...
My wife's computer is Win. 7 64 bit. There has been a couple of programs to disappear. This last one was a NOVA Scrapbook Factory. The desk top icon was still there but the program was gone. When you double clicked the icon it said to install the Install Disk. So I re-installed it. If I go into...
My wireless network icon in the bottom tray of my screen shows that I am disconnected from a wired source, even when I'm connected via ethernet.
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It'd be nice to just glance down and see my wifi signal strength. I mainly use wireless internet, how do I get the increasing wireless...
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Whenever i put a shortcut to open an application ANYWHERE, After about a couple of days it changes its thumbnail/icon to default looking thing.
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Hi guys,
I recently installed Bluesoleil 8.0.356.0 on my pc and my network icon gives me a red x symbol even though I'm connected to a network or if there are networks available. I tried uninstalling and rebooting, but no luck. Anyone else have this problem? Any help would be appreciated.
This is not the end of the world, but it is an annoyance.
One of my application icons (3DS Max 2012) has gone generic. This is true for the original application and its shortcut. Double clicking still opens the app; I just wonder why this is happening? (Let me stress that I'm talking about the...
My problem can be best described by scrnshot:
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I have google chrome pinned to the taskbar (as can be seen by the 'Unpin this program .....' on the pop up menu).
However, when I click to launch it, a new chrome icon pops up.
I have just formatted my pc and I didnt encounter this...
It will help you to quickly cancel a restart or shut down that had a time delay.
You can download Abort-Shortcut.zip to create a shortcut. Or you can try the following steps to create a shortcut manually.
1. Right click or press and hold on a empty area of the desktop, and click/tap on New...