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  1. ChatGPT

    AI-Enhanced Search Coming to Windows 11: Simplifying Media Queries

    Published by Windows Latest on August 31, 2024 In an exciting development for Windows 11 users, Microsoft is reportedly exploring ways to enhance its search functionality by integrating artificial intelligence (AI) that enables searching within audio and video files. This advancement aims to...
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    Need help searching PC for videos from a certain year

    So basically I need to search my PC for videos taken (date created/date taken) in 2014 & 2015. I’ve uploaded all my phones videos throughout the years and I completely forgot where I stashed each years worth of videos. Is there a way to search (Local Disk C,D, etc..) for something like .MP4...
  3. skepasti21

    Windows 10 Stream media FROM Windows 10 PC TO my Android 11 phone using VLC

    Hello all, I'm trying to stream my media FROM Windows 10 PC TO my Android 11 phone using VLC. My files are located on my 2nd D drive which I can't see them in my phone. I'm trying to make it work in 2 ways. FIRSTLY, by enabling the ''Media Stream Options'' in which I can only stream shared media...
  4. News

    Photos app Video Editor error: Can’t view this file type

    How to convert your photos if the Video Editor in the Photos app can't view the file type. Continue reading...
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    Windows 10 Win10 admin problems

    I have everything running smoothly on my standard account but the admin account is problematic. --When I download a photo and try to open it, I get a message: Invalid value for registry -- photo will not open. I ran a sfc scan and nothing came up as being corrupt. So no solution. --The apps...
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    Windows 7 .mov not recognized

    I have a few movie files with the .mov designation. When I offload from Nikon camera to old laptop, they do not show up in Picasa or "my pictures" file. When I access "my pictures" file on my desktop, they show up. What is up???
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    Windows 8 Windows Refresh removed thousands of personal files; how do I recover photos, documents, videos, and music?

    Hello. I helped a family member do a Windows Refresh on Windows 8.1, and thousands of her personal files have been removed. According to Microsoft, "you can refresh your PC without deleting any of your personal files or changing your settings." This was not the case for her. I have searched...
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    Analyze multiple extensionless files, detect their (different) extensions, AND add correct extension

    Hello everyone! I have a bit of a unique issue. I have a rather large library of media files of many different types. JPEG, GIFF, MP3, ACC, AVI, MPEG, MP4 ect... Most of the files have an incorrect extension, or no extension at all. This is entirely my fault as my fix for not enabling...
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    Windows 10 Restoring media back to windows 7 from windows 10

    I recently had to restore a windows 7 computer. When I restored my media files, they were already formatted to windows 10. Now the windows 7 computer won't read any of the playlists. As much as I've tried, I can't find a way to get the playlists to work again in the older format. Any ideas how...
  10. Explodey

    Windows 8 Why is windows 8.1 using up 80 GB of hard drive space ?

    I just reformatted my system drive and reinstalled Windows 8.1 yesterday. The only software I've installed so far is Chrome and Steam (just the Steam app, no games). But for some reason I'm using up 80 GB of space on my system drive. Windows can't possibly be using that much space, right? I...
  11. MikeHawthorne

    Windows 10 Cortana persistent problem?

    Hi I don't have a lot of expectation that anyone is going to be able to help with this but I've exhausted my research and thought I'd give it a try here. While Cortana has had a lot of issues, the one thing that it did do for me during beta was play my music. Since I installed the final...
  12. Patrick Griffith

    Opinion of Microsoft Restored to Original Condition

    Thanks, again, Microsoft, for restoring my faith in your products. I had erased Microsoft from my life as completely as possible years ago, an switched to Linux. But, recently, I came back to the fold. Yesterday, an idea hit me for a simple my audience on social media would enjoy. It required...
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    Windows 8 Change the default audio-CD (double click in This PC) player

    Okay, since there are many questions on this topic, none exactly the same as mine, I'd like to make myself perfectly clear. I know about Default Programs, and I know about Autoplay settings in the Control Panel. What I want to achieve is use Media Player Classic (comes with the K-Lite codec...
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    Windows 7 How to force LAN share from external drives not present at boot?

    My problem is that I've long shared certain PC internal directories with other LAN PC's (XP and 7) and it works great. However, I needed more space and have just moved several of those directories to external storage (NexStar HX4 w/ USB 3.0 connection) and it appears to be working fine except...
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    Windows 7 Convert .wtv to .dvr-ms Files Output with Shorter Length

    When I use the Windows 7 option to convert .wtv to .dvr-ms the converted .dvr-ms files are much shorter in length than the original .wtv files, e.g. a .wtv file with a length of 2:35:58 will be converted to a .dvr-ms file with a length of 29:35. To troubleshoot this I tested a few .wtv files...
  16. miseryguts

    Windows 7 Compressing media (.mp4) files.?

    Archiving using Winrar produces a file of exactly the same size as does sending to a compressed zipped folder.. am I just using the wrong settings..? (I've tried multiple) or do I need a specific utility for this..? Thanks.
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    Windows 7 How can I dump the contents of my Windows Media Player's libray

    I have reorganized the directories in my storage system so the links in my Windows Media Library are invalid. I went to WML > Tools > Options > Libray and changed the Folder. That didn't remove the contents already in the library so I removed Windows Media Player. Then I reinstalled it and found...
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    Windows 7 Laptop 2nd HD install E: drive (System Reserved) ?

    My laptop hard drive failed and the local repair shop couldn’t salvage it so I had them install a 120GB SSD. Everything worked great. Thought I could DIY and install a 2nd 1TB HD to hold all my media files, keeping SSD for system files and favorite programs. I got it up and running but not...
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    Windows 7 How to preview the clip instead of having to open the file???

    I just wanted to see if there were a way to view all video's without having to actually open the file. For example, once you click on a video file, to the right a window pops up automatically and you can play the video without having to open the file. Some clips allow me to preview the video's...
  20. martienne

    Windows 8 Is shmedia.dll supposed to be present in Windows 8,64 bit?

    I am having a problem with displaying media file tags in Windows Explorer and am trying to make sure that this DLL is present and registered as it should be. But I can't find out what the status is supposed to be for Win8. 64 bit. Should it be present, if so in what directory? What's the...
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