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Hey everyone. Ever since I installed TweakNow PowerPack 2010, whenever I put a disc in my DVD drive a shortcut to the disc appears on my desktop. It's really annoying. Will I have to remove TweakNow? Is there a way to disable this? Thanks in advance for any help. Yoshirocks

The astronomy app Stellarium has just received a major upgrade (from v 0.10.5 to v 0.10.6). I experienced issue with the program fonts not rendering correctly with my older ATi Radeon Mobility X1400 video card. Some SiS video is affected by this bug also. The issue is related to the default...

A user uses their My Documents on a NAS, so have a mapped drive ie: S: I attempted to change Start - Documents - properties to s:\My documents, but Win 7 reported "unable to add because not indexed" I later found Users\User\My Documents - properties - location to s:\My documents, however...

I was actually downloading a poker room software. When i installed it and clicked the shortcut on desktop to run it, my pc restarts.I tried it with 3 different poker rooms but i am having the same problem. Sometime it is a usual shortcut and sometimes it it looks completely white(icon...

Is it possible to change the icon for an application which doesn't have a desktop, taskbar etc shortcut? E.g. one which is launched from a hotkey.

Hey there, was just wondering if the is any way to create a short cut for adding my email addy into the dif login forums that i have, i don’t want windows to store them for security issues, so basically what i,m asking is when a login is required can i just hit a shortcut and auto fill just my...

My "New Shortcut command is missing. I really thought there was one there before. If there was and it somehow got removed, I would really like to know how to get it back. Look at the screenshot if you don't know what I mean.

Normally I can create shortcuts in START menu to a file on local harddrives without any problem. However when I want to do this with a file on a volume/network drive which is later (after bootup) mounted then this is NOT possible. When I drag a file e.g. from WinExplorer...

In Windows XP I put a shortcut to WindowsExplorer on the desktop resp. the QuickLaunchBar and specified in the properties the following opening command: %SystemRoot%\explorer.exe /n,/e,D:\work When I clicked on this shortcut WinExplorer opened with the pre-selected and auto-expanded...

I'm running Windows 7 Ultimate, 64 bit: Is there a way to change the UAC settings or disable it for a particular shortcut (application) on my computer? I don't want to change all UAC controls for my system because I still want the added security, however, on applications that I know are...

I have two icons on my desktop that don't just seem to be just Icons. Not sure how they got there!! I must have done something! One is Libraries and the other is Homegroup. I don't want a Libraries icon on desktop and I don't want to set up a Homegroup at all. Neither of these offer a 'delete'...

anyone know where the LNKs are for the GAMES entry on the Start Menu????????? I want to add to & modify those, but I can't do it from the drop down or folder view. I can drag a lnk to the desktop from there and modify it but it won't drag back to the folder. I have a Games folder in the start...

Somehow I managed to remove the "Desktop" item on the shortcut pane in Explorer - which also affects Common Dialog boxes. It is incredibly annoying as I use this shortcut all the time. How do I get it back? I've looked all over but no where has answers! Thanks! Link Removed

I would like to change the default keyboard shortcut for opening the Start menu search box from Ctrl+ Esc to something that requires less finger stretching, e.g. Ctrl+Q. How do I do this?

I clicked on "all programs" and accidently removed a program to my desktop. How to I return this program to "all programs"?

Microsoft patching up Windows shortcut vulnerability today Later today, at 10 AM PDT (5 PM UTC), Microsoft is set to release an out of band update that will address the Windows Shell bug that enables malicious code to be executed when a user clicks the displayed icon of a specially crafted...

Hello everyone, I lost the ability to right-click the start button on one of my user accounts (administrator). The other accounts are fine. I searched all over the web for a resolution and couldn't find a clear one. I gave up on that idea. Is there a way to create a shortcut to Windows...

Hi I was missing a shortcut to IE on my VM (xp mode) so I created a shortcut using the wizard on my virtual machine. The name was IEplorer.exe. I renamed it in windows 7 to find it the easy way to internet explorer. But I have the following issue when I type in 'search programs and files' box...

I'm wanting to "pin" an Icon of my USB flash drive to my taskbar in Win7. I click on computer>Kingston(I: ) >create shortcut. When the shortcut appears on my desktop it's an icon of a removable drive (which is what I want), but when I try to "pin" it on my taskbar it changes to an icon of a...

Hi, it used to be I had Winamp installed and the shortcut to it pinned to the taskbar. Then, for various reasons I uninstalled then reinstalled Winamp. Now I cannot, try as I might, pin the shortcut back to the taskbar. I get either a red circle with a diagonal band, like a traffic sign, or...