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It's annoying enough that so many software makers are going to the flat plain look of Windows 8. That is an icon that used to look like a ball now just looks like a dot. Everything seems to be going that direction. The worst is the local radar map they use on the TV Weather channel. The state...

I just bought a new slim laptop Lenovo Ideapad S210 loaded with win 8 from Newegg. After installing win 8.1 from windows store I found major problems. Most of the icons don't open up. Even when I download new apps most of them work first and then don't work. One of them downloaded but I...

Hi, The images on my shortcuts are not displayed by taking the entire surface of my icon, while the image. ICO associated is big enough! Link Removed The display in Windows Explorer is set to "Large Icons". Why ?

My girlfriend was trying to delete multiple folders and somehow the folder icon got changed to 3 blue rectangles. Not only that but now you can't see the properties, delete, or even move the folders. Anytime you try to move them it just creates a shortcut. I've never seen this before. Anyone...

Hi Because I have a lot of stuff it's kind of a pain that Windows 8 start screen adds 2 new columns when I add 2 items to a block of programs. I end up with all these categories that have 2 or 3 icons off to the side when one new column would do it in a much more compact format. Some...

Hey guys, first time poster here. I scanned through the forum and couldn't find this specific question. Is it possible to make the windows 7 (or 8) taskbar 100% transparent. ie. no color whatsoever so the taskbar icons would just look like they're just sitting on the wallpaper? I find it hard...

Hi guys, Playing with fire, having had some joy in forcing Windows customisations. Succesfully removed most unwanted UI elements, including homegroup and burning. I've seen how to customize the command bar / folder band, using the reg and a resource hacker. I'm looking at Folder 32 of the...

Hello guys all of my desktop icons are the same and they lead to my system files

I have a strange problem in Windows 8.1 Pro w/Media Center x64. The Music folder show's all generic icons for each folder in it. The Pictures folder show 7/8 of the folder's with the generic looking icon and the other 1/8 normally. The Videos folder shows them all correctl

hi at windows 7 ultimate from Control panel - Notification area icons how can i remove icons which are already has removed entrly from the windows and the hard drive such as utorrent for example i have already uninstalled it and removed from regedit and there are still program icons showed there...

Hi I've tried unsuccessfully to find this topic on your forums, so I'm very sorry if this is a repeat of any previous post. I have also scoured the internet for a satisfactory response, but like many technical matters advice is diverse and sometimes contradictory. In order to approach this as...

The following is how the desktop short looks like. I seem to recall I saw a different one some time ago. Does everyone have the same shortcut?

I had issues with fuzzy text in certain applications and fuzzy icons in notification area immediately after updating to 8.1. I found this was due to 8.1's new "improved" DPI Scaling options and affects many people. I can't help but think that millions of users will possibly be affected by this...

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Hi I'm setting up a laptop for a friends mother, she's 88 years old. I have installed Classic Shell, and am working from the desktop. My problem is that when I open up Google Chrome there are no minimise, restore, or close icons in the upper right corner as there are on my own computer. That...

I hope some of you are gamers, and I know it looks ugly when you install the game and see that there is no compatible tile for that game only small icon. Well, I tried to do as much as I can to make these tiles for you to use. Check out my gaming tiles on deviantart and I hope you'll like them...

When I click on a desktop icon the window opens either on the left side or the right side of the screen. When I click on another icon the window for that program appears but is on top of the first window. I know I can move the windows afterwards but how do I get the windows to automatically open...

All my icons gone. Ive tried going into my users file in my computer and the icons are there but not on my desktop. Any ideas?