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I am a traditionalist and so run permanently in "desktop" mode because I don't like the look and feel of the new Windows 8. Ever since I installed Windows 8.1 a blank green Microsoft "Store" window pops up from time to time on my desktop. When I click on it, the green is replaced by a normal...

Win 7 Home Premium 64-bit SP1, IE10 Windows Update is set on Manual. I hid the Bing Desktop v1.3 last time it appeared. Today, it pops up in Windows Updates again. I googled and apparently a lot of people are having the same issue. I cannot find a resolution from the net. Anyone has an idea?

When ever I try to install mech commander gold there's a pop up said: Unsupported 16-Bit Application. The program or feature "/??/C:/Users/Nuttawet/Desktop/MCG/setup/setup.exe" cannot start or run due to incompatibity with 64-bit versions of Windows. Please contact the software vendor to ask if...

Hi This it weird! I can't open my Comcast Home Page in IE? When I try I get a message saying that... "A problem with Comcast web page forced Internet Explorer to refresh in compatibility view". If I persist Internet Explorer crashes. I'm not seeing this with any other web page. I can open...

Hi, I have a trouble with my Office Word 2010. I can not look up new words in Word 2010. In the past, I often Ctrl+Right Click to get new words' meaning at once, but when I installed the Window 7 (64bit) because my RAM was upgraded to 4GB, I can not do as I used to. When I Ctrl+Right click, it...

For some reason, at random, a little information box will pop up, saying I/O Error 32, and all I can do is press 'OK'. But if I don't, it pops up with the box multiple times and doesn't stop. Could anyone tell me what could possibly be causing this? It's starting to get annoying. Thank you!

A webpage in the Internet describes a way to get rid of this unnecessary and disturbing pop-up whenever you connect an external drive. It is to disable the service Shell Hardware Detection. I did, but the pop-up still comes occasionally. Is there a more effective way?

I am running windows 7 pro 64 bit desktop....I continuously get a popup message titled "Drive Map Alert": The drive map server cannot run because you are running another application that has exclusive use of port 80. To continue, you must locate the application using port 80 and close or stop...

Ever since I recovered from the virus/trojan attack in December, my PC hasn't been the same. I keep getting a pop-up from malware-bytes and spy-bot about a smitfraud c.generic and svchost.exe problems. Needless to say, there is something happening that I can not put my finger on and realize...

How do you configure windows so it does not constantly delete your passwords which you enter. It gets rather madning when you log into a site you use constantly and even though the "save" button is clicked you end up putting in the information the next time you boot up the computer. Also is...

Now, I have TWO applications that, when I try running them, I get a pop-up that announces that "XYZ has stopped working" and that "Windows is checking for a solution for the problem." The thing is, Windows never seems to find a solution. One application is APC PowerChute, the interface with an...

Fixes an issue in which some pop-up windows of a TS RemoteApp application might be hidden in Windows 7 or in Windows Server 2008 R2. This issue does not occur if you do not run the application as a TS RemoteApp application. More...

Every time I want to do certain things a pop up appears that ask me for authentication How do I disable this feature it is more irritating than the Windows UAC

I have what appears to be a spyware/malware issue that I just cant solve on my W7 64-bit machine. Got a pop-up message from out of nowhere the other day that my HD was going bad...immediately I thought virus. Turned my computer off, did a systemt restore > 1 week ago, and now everything appears...

For the life of me, I can't find how to disable that little rectangle with arrows on either end that keeps popping up to help me! Can't even figure out what to call it except Satan. I don't know if it is associated with that critter, but I can move my mouse and find all my text shrinks or...

when turning on my computer i get a pop up box with an error message in it. the message states microsoft.net framework version 2.0 is required to continue. this software is available for free download at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/ i have downloaded it 3 times but i am still getting this...

Want to get rid of Preview windows When I hover the mouse pointer over a program on the task bar, a small pop-up window opens that has the name of the program and an X (which allows me to close the program, though right-clicking is how I prefer to do it). I find these pop-up windows very...

Normally, whenever I get an instant message, the program in the taskbar flashes orange. In Windows 7, I noticed a problem after I had gone through and changed several things from the defaults. Link Removed due to 404 Error Namely, only the tab within the small pop-up menu when you hover over...

Dose our government use Vista? That would explain a lot. I can see why they thought there were WMD's in Iraq from a misunderstood pop up during an Age of Empires network game.

I have installed Windows 7 on a brand new notebook (Sager np 8662). So far everything is working great with one exception. Whenever I click on the red x or the explorer icon -> close to exit from IE8 I get a warning pop up that tells me: Internet explorer has stopped working Windows is...