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  1. Windows 8 desktop icons

    Dear Forum, Windows 8 has blocked me again!! I like to organise my desktop with shortcuts to folders that I cleaned up using stardock fences. I have desktop shortcuts that I now cannot move. I have installed fences 2.13, try to move to fences and nothing moves. Can anyone help? Hope you are...
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    Windows 7 Windows Blinds Removed Theme; Can't Open Programs

    I had used windows blinds to put a theme on my computer. it was a safe program and I never heard anything about it. when I uninstalled it, it removed my current theme and the default one. Now, the images of programs have no icons and I can't open anything. Only spotify is working, and I tried...
  3. Windows 7 Windows 7/PC problem | Please help

    Hey, I am using windows 7, and I have never had this problem before. I can't click on different places, such as my desktop icons, task bar, open folders, open programs. It's like sometimes I can and sometimes I cant. It's really annoying. I have no idea what is causing this problem, or how it...
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    Windows 8 Windows 8.1 desktop icons all have an "x" on them!

    Hi, Another new one for me. One user logs in and all desktop icons have a pinkish "X" on them in the lower left and none of the icon work, AKA, you get an error message when you click on them: "the operation on (path to file) was started with and invalid parameter" Nice Windows 8.1. Something...
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    Windows 8 How to make softweres icons size bigger in windows?

    hi. I've just bought a MacBook pro with retina display and install windows on it for some softwares, but the icons size in softwares such as Revit and Photoshop are so small, please help me how can to fix it? thanks Windows 8
  6. Windows 7 I need my icon images back on my main screen.

    Hello out there, LostInCyberspace calling for help! I ran a cleaner, System Mechanic to be precise, and lost all my icon images. I know, sill of me, I was warned that it would be a problem replacing the Registry Keys that held the images, since that portion of System Mechanic deleted said...
  7. Windows 8 How to create and name Categories on the Windows 8/8.1 Start screen

    Organising your Start Screen This short tutorial is designed to show the beginner or someone new to the Windows 8 family GUI how to effectively organise their Start screen. The new look. When the Start screen is first opened it will generally look like this: Most initial Start screens look...
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    Windows 8 windows program file association settings not working correctly

    I recently found many application would not save to correct type. Some software icons would come out to a blank or white block, but those software actually there. For example, realrecorder is running, it would come out a white block on taskbar on bottom. I tried use 'access and program default'...
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    Windows 7 Windows : "This application has stopped working"

    Hi, When I boot up my computer, it starts just fine, through the welcome screen and all. Just when I enter my home screen and my applications begin to start, my laptop activity hangs. I can move the cursor around, and any icon I click gets highlighted, but when double click on anything, the...
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    Windows 7 windows 7 home 64 bit won't fully loaf.

    Hi. After shutdown and a long disuse (a month or so) the 7 will do this: It will go all the way to the theme background, but will hang there. No icons, nothing, just background photo. 1. Will boot to safe mode. 2. Several times (discovered accidentally) I was able to put it to sleep (or is it...
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    Windows 8 Icons Disappearing

    Every few hours I have an extremely annoying bug... The icons on the taskbar at the bottom of my screen become distorted. They'll generate copies of themselves, overlap other icons, and the start menu button disappears. Whenever I try to click an icon, it opens the icon to its left, as if the...
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    Windows 8 VERY Strange Glitches and Problems

    Hi, I have an HP Pavilion laptop with Windows 8. A couple days ago, I experienced very strange things happening to my laptop, and I fear I will have to buy a new one if I don't figure out how to fix it. I got this laptop used from Best Buy about 7 months ago. When I got it, it was full of...
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    Windows 7 images and icons not displaying properly

    I lately upgraded from windows xp to windows 7 ultimate. But i seem to face some issues regarding the display of icons and pictures. The icons appear to be loo large /weird even though i've tried fidgeting with all the settings but they don't seem to be "normal" no matter what size or screen...
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    Windows 7 Windows 7 Background Too Big For Monitor

    I have adjusted the resolution to the highest possible rate. The icons are off to the size and the sidebar is barely visible. Even the experts have no idea how to fix this, so I place this problem before you, how and the heck do i get everything to fit on the screen? And no its not the...
  15. Windows 8 Lost permissions, tiles are missing & can't reset

    Since receiving my laptop back from it being repaired (Fan wasn't spinning then the laptop wouldn't turn on after trying to fix it myself) it turns on and the fan spins just fine although I am having numerous software problems. First, I can't open my photos, music or documents folder (videos...
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    Windows 8 Windows 8 Keeps deleting files and icons

    The mother in law has a windows 8 laptop and at the moment it keeps deleting files (ie: my documents, my pictures) and the start menu icons like it is refreshing the profile When I complete a restore it goes back to normals okay, then a couple of days later we are back to square one Any...
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    Windows 7 Local webcam as wallpaper?

    I haven't found a way to do this except with VLC Media Player and that way isn't what I'm looking for... I'm looking for a way to get live uninterrupted stream from my cam to my computers background. The VLC way is fine, but I need to start it everytime, it loses my desktop icons and I use it...
  18. Windows 7 Application tray is unusable when applications have more than 1 window

    My application tray broke after a recent windows update. I may be using the wrong name. I am referring to the application icons that appear by default at the bottom of the screen. Now when I have more than 1 window open for an app and I click in the application icon, the open windows blink on...
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    Windows 8 Software for installing icons in Windows 8

    Is there any other Icon installer, except the one from Stardock? Thank you.
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    Windows 7 Win Explorer file-sort uses icon as part of file name. How do I avoid this?

    I am using WIN 7 Ultimate and have a folder (FOLDER-A) containing about 160 .HTM documents and their corresponding FILES folders from documents I have downloaded from the internet. I am trying to sort these by name within the containing folder (FOLDER-A) so that each .HTM document appears next...