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  1. Windows 10 Spartan, what are these icons?

    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...
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    Windows 7 Users Unable to Double-Click icons on destkop

    We have in place Microsoft System Center 2012 which houses our imaging server. We have one 'gold' standard image that we use for all of our devices. When migrating to Windows 7 32-bit, we discovered that the computer when first booting up after imaging that users have issues with double...
  3. Windows 10 Windows 10 Technical Preview Build 10036

    I have found that there are some leaked screenshots of the next build of Windows 10. i have also found a video on YouTube about it. I have heard there will be a new interface with the installer. Some icons and UI elements were updated to. The icon next to "All Apps" in the is now three lines...
  4. Windows 7 Any way to force a folder view for certain folders?

    Hi all. I know how I can force all folders to a specific view, but I wonder if there is a way to force a specific network folder to always display in a certain view for all Win users accessing the said folder? The folder in question is on a file server, accessible via mapped drive, contains a...
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    Windows XP Very unusual problem.

    Hello everyone, I'm having a very strange problem (atleast it looks like one for me): when I bootup my computer, only the wallpaper shows. No taskbar, no icons. But the strangest part of this is that when I open up the Task Manager, I can clearly see that there's explorer.exe proccess. If I...
  6. Windows 7 Can I change the default icons that appear on the taskBar when the executable runs?

    Hi everybody I'm after changing the icons that appear on my taskBAR so that I can more easily choose which running program to focus. For example, Adobe Reader defaults to a red icon when I open a "PDF" file and I would like to change that to my own personal choice. Anyone have an idea how to...
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    Windows 7 "Y" folders lined next to "I" folders out of the blue

    I have a suspicion that it may have been caused by a folder that first letters were "Yi", but i renamed it and refreshed - nothing. It's just odd. Any ideas?
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    Windows 8 Please me my knight and shinning computer guy

    You could possible save me hours, beyond hours of searching and getting malware/viruses I'm looking for full laptop windows 8 skins. That comes with backgrounds, cursors, custom buttons, ect. Like a totally knew interface. I'm more of a fan of abstract and 3D images. Where would I go and what...
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    Windows Vista My desktop icons have dissapeared

    My cousin brought me his Acer Aspire running Vista for me to clean up. I have done this, but he has no icons on his desktop. He does have a desktop background picture. Furthermore, I attempted to add 2 new icons and they don't appear as well. there a setting somewhere to fix this? Thank you
  10. Windows 10 Windows 10 build 9879 is here

    New build 9879 is released today. This is also going to be released in iso form although the actual date of release is as of yet unknown. More info on the iso can be found in the last post in this thread: http://windowsforum.com/threads/windows-10-tech-preview.197543/ This build contains quite...
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    Windows 7 Start up far to slow hep please

    on startup the wallpaper appears with all program icons , then it take a white before all icons grey out then more time to have them reappear, then grey once more before they come back and one can start using the programs
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    Windows 7 start menu and icons

    Ran into a issue i cant figure out. for about a month now at random times when i try to click on a icon on my desktop or the start menu nothing happens. Only way around this is if i push Ctrl Alt del then click cancel then i can click a program to run. for example when it acts up and i like to...
  13. Windows 7 Desktop icons suddenly 3x as wide

    Hi, I just logged onto my computer and all my icons are about 3x as wide as they should be: Link Removed Never seen this before and a Google search showed up with nothing. Anyone have any ideas? Things I've tried: Rebooting Changing to a single monitor setup (I use three) All combinations...
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    Windows 7 windows explorer thumbnail bug? HELP!

    So for the past couple days I have been having problem with windows 7 and explorer, Images are icons and not thumbnails. I have the folder options checked to NOT show icons just thumbnails. Now I have NO thumbnail cache.db files, I deleted them with glary utilities since disk cleanup does not...
  15. Windows 7 Icons Disappearing from Desktop

    Only certain icons are disappearing. I put them back on and they go away again. Anyone know why that would be? thanks
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    Windows 8 display problem with windows 8.1

    I have a problem with laptop (Toshiba Tecra A10) with display of icons in the gmail login and the menu page (please see uploaded files) Skype is also affected and possibly other parts of the windows also: Some icons are only in black and white : some havent got the logo in the icon and other...
  17. Windows 8 New to Win8

    Hello My wife has recently purchased a new laptop running Windows 8. She is very conventional approach in her use of PC and prefers the traditional desktop environment rather than the "app" focused navigation. When the mouse pointer moves to the corner of the screen a three / four icons...
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    Windows 7 Temporary Blank Icons at Sartup

    Sorry if this has been covered elsewhere. I tried searching for it but only found posts unrelated to my situation. I have a fairly dated installation. I am running Windows 7 Ultimate 64 Bit with Service Pack 1. What the system has started doing is booting at a normal speed. It gets to what...
  19. Windows 7 Icons keep changing size

    I set up 2 folders on my desktop. one is for games and one is for utilities on my computer. They are shortcuts to programs on my machine. For some reason they keep changing size from a medium view to a large view. I tried doing several things including rebooting the system but nothing seems to...
  20. Windows 7 Right click menu drop behind windows 7

    My laptop has recently started giving me a problem. When I right click on an icon or on the taskbar at the bottom of my screen. The menu drops behind the taskbar. Making it impossible to select the properties. I have attached 2 screenshots of my problem. Im running Windows 7. If someone could...