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An offer from Microsoft Windows popped up a few weeks ago and I downloaded it on the expectation of it being an improvement but instead it has made life more difficult and I’d like to reverse the action. The download changed the background of many items so that the contrast was lessened, and...

Hi, A friend (who has installed win10 onto his win xp PC and is using classic shell but struggling with the new experience of 10) was following my simple steps to download a screenshare exe file and see if it showed malware as I am seeing in Virustotal.com, Firstly he set the download file...

Hey guys! So I finally set up my first dual monitor and was looking for ways to extend the taskbar to the secondary monitor. My understanding is that the feature isn't supported on Windows 7, but that there are programs I can install to make it happen. I'm looking for recommended (preferably...

Hi I want to print a list of the pc programs but can't find a way in. Please advise. Thank you

Background: A messed up attempt at restoring my Windows 10 Pro state to 3 days earlier using a Macrium Reflect backup corrupted my PC boot record and I was unable to fix it using bootrec and diskpart. So, now I want to reinstall it without losing my programs from an ISO image that I produced...

ok today i was trying to get the fingerprint scanner to work and it messed up my pc so i had to do a complete restore. i one time i had a bunch of security programs installed and i'm thinking they made the pc sluggish. so a few weeks ago i took everything off and installed norton antivirus from...

Good morning guys. Please, I need your help. After the last automatic update of windows 10, days ago, it simply changed the name of the folder "users" to "usuarios" (Portuguese language) and created a new user folder inside it, which was previously called MY NAME and now renamed MY NAME.000. Now...

I have a very old Compaq laptop - 2011 - I am not going to use it online - just using for creative stuff - I would like to speed it up a bit - I have a jpeg snipped image which shows some stuff I think I can remove but not sure. Can you tell me if any of these can be removed? Thanks. I am...

I am separating a windows 10 computer into two users. Want to know if there is a way to change programs from all users to a single user after software has been installed. I have had no luck with google searches. Thanks Rick

Looking for a way to save/capture downloaded installation files from online set up programs such as .exe,.msi excetera rather than install them or at the very least to save the installation files for future use rather than having to go back online to download them again from their setup files...

Hello, I am running Windows 7 Professional, 3.00 gigahertz Intel Core i5-7400, Board: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. PRIME B250-PLUS Rev X.0x, UEFI: American Megatrends Inc. 0608 03/24/2017. I have downloaded an ISO of windows 10 from Microsoft. My queston is do I get the option of an upgrade or is it a...

Some one has tampered my comp settings. All Progs are running slow. Which settings should I check?

HI how is the best fix when a questioner does not want to recharge win10 is afraid of losing downloaded programs. thank you

I can only find info on how to recover data from windows.old. This does not help. I need to restore old programs from an old windows 10 install to a new windows 10 install. I realize I could download them again but would rather know how to do it with windows.old. I think it might be usefull just...

In windows 10, I am you able to open any programs and if I can can open a dialog box, it won’t close. Nothing seems to be working. It all started with highlight, cut and paste functions not working. Thought it might be touchpad (although it wasn’t working by keyboard method either) so tried to...

Only main app I've installed is Fortnite and got an error that I've used 400GB of storage space on my Dell XPS 15 laptop with 0 bytes remaining. The file size of Fortnite was about Link Removed Temp Mail 10 Minute Mail 30GB but even after uninstalling the amount of storage space went down to...

I have two independent software programs that allow me to email out information within them using my SMTP settings from my personal email. One of these programs worked fine on previous versions of Windows (the second program was installed after I switched to Win 10) but since switching to Win...

I have Picasa and Adobe Photoshop 9 running on my win7 - I am thinking of purchasing a laptop with w10. Does anyone know of a list of programs that would be compatible with 10 so that I can check these 2 programs out. Picasa was wiped out a long time ago but I managed to find it and install it...

Hi Windows always had a start folder, that you could just place a link to a program in, and when you booted it would start the program when Windows started. I just noticed (obviously I haven't use this function for a long time) that there isn't a start folder anymore. Is there a way to create...

Every time I install a program, A folder was created inside the Documents folder automatically. How do I stop this and move to different directory?