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I had been ignoring Power Query for years, treating Excel like a calculator with a few handy formulas—until a messy, cross‑vendor CSV pile forced me to learn the tool everyone always brags about. What started as a tedious weekend of copy‑pasting and find‑and‑replace turned into a few well‑chosen...

PONG Gets a Retro Makeover – Introducing Retro PONG! We’re excited to announce that the classic WindowsForum PONG game has been officially upgraded to Retro PONG! 🎮 This single-player version brings smoother gameplay, a refreshed retro design, and the same timeless mechanics you know and love...

Hi Everybody, re: Windows 11 (version 23H2 build 22631.3296) All of my folder views show each item with a Refresh or Recycle symbol. What does that symbol mean? If it's unimportant, can I eliminate it altogether?

About 50% of the time when I book up W10, almost all desktop icons are just white ... and PC shows as busy. No matter how long I leave it does not recover. If I use Ctl_Alt_Del and log off, then log back on it does build properly. I have also carried out right-click Refresh on a correctly...

In former times in Windows 7 users can press F5 to refresh the current state of Windows Explorer. When I try to do the same now in Windows 10 File Explorer then from the right side a pane appears instead. How can I change the meaning of F5? I would like to keep the F5-refresh association. Tobias

I wish to know how to fix this issue (magnet links) ? I've installed bittorrent, but not showing on d.a.s page, after refreshing Firefox.

So I always pair my laptop with my phone; use my mobile hotspot for the Internet. Lately, I have been experiencing some issues while reconnecting. Say, for instance, I switch on my mobile hotspot, use the internet, then switch off my hotspot, take a break, and then again switch on and try to...

Looking for a new laptop for general use? Or updating your gaming system? Either way, Acer has new and refreshed options coming your way. Acer Swift 5 The new Swift 5 notebook is an ultraportable device with ultra-narrow bezels that allow for 90% screen-to-body ratio and next gen Intel Core...

my w10 after 10years, whatever I done to it is very slow, mouse slow to respond etc. Is not what it used to be, alert. I tried to repair it with my old Media Creation tool USB stick I used before but it seems this is corrupted or out of date, it gives Error: 0x800700050x90018 Does w10 have its...

My father has Windows 8.1 and today he calls me for the has "changed". Turns out, somehow the Refresh feature was executed. Now some settings and files are missing, and all the apps were unistalled (including TeamViewer, so you can imagine the joy of fixing this over a phone...) There is a...

Hi, This morning when I booted my computer I got a message, "Your computer did not boot correctly, starting repair". It then went to a window that said "Repairing" after a minute or so it rebooted and started the whole thing over again. After messing with it for a while I decided to just...

After a refresh of Windows I cleaned the system files. Do I need to delete the Windows.old folder too?

I bout a used laptop and am doing a refresh on it to wipe the files, seemed as though the refresh went smoothly. I gets to the point I'm doing the first set up stuff, cortona comes on and asking you to set up the time and your user name. It keeps freezing when trying to finish the set up...

Hi folks, We use a bespoke piece of helpdesk software; unsure what's it written in but in it's own window (when active) the F9 key refreshes the list of tickets in the queue. Could someone please point me in the right direction to perhaps a piece of code or process or little application that...

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I've been having a problem with my windows 7 laptop recently. Sometimes when I either create a new folder or copy & paste some photos they don't show up until I press the f5 button then they become visable. This doesn't happen all the time though it can be quite random. I've googled this problem...

Hello all. Recently I'm having this problem with thumbnails using windows explorer, whenever I open a folder configured to use large or medium icons, all I see are blank squares instead of the thumbnails or icons. It seems like a refresh problem because just by going to the view tab and...

Hi! I'm curious if any one here has used any of the W10 recovery options. W10 has several ways to recover from mistakes. W10 has the old stand by Restore to a earlier time, but it has other ways to recover. I would like to hear what experiences members have had with the other recovery options. I...

I have three computers with XP, Vista and Win7 in home network. I cant access always Vista and Win7 from XP by name, only by IP address. I suspect it's some NetBIOS refresh issue. Can someone help me?

When I start the next video I have to hit refresh to get it started quickly, otherwise it just plain will never load. This happens no matter what browser I use. I am using a 2.4 ghz Sony with a Quad processor. Never seen this problem before so, not sure where to even look. Any possible...