software bugs

Not sure if this is a Windows problem, but I find that when I right click a Word attachment and get the options to open, save as, detach, delete, if I click 'open' it offers me to save it. I'm sure this habit is quite recent and I wonder whether I told it to do the same thing to all future...

I was working with Visual Studio, learning to work with .asp and .html, when I noticed that it was giving me weird font errors. I was reading a .txt file and out putting it to a text box. It would change some characters to a diamond ? looking thing. At first I thought it was something strange in...

What a mess. Took some time but I got a bunch of it cleaned up. The major problem is that the clock isn't showing in the taskbar. There's a blank space where it should be. If I mouse over the space, it will show time/date. If I click, the calendar will come up. I've done internet searches. Fun...

Hi, I installed my word 2000 many years ago, when I upgraded to win8 it worked OK but with w8.1 is still working except when I finish writing & go to save or close it a small windows appears saying ms word is not working properly as per attached scan. Then allows me to close down word. Anybody...

Hi I've complained about Cortana not playing my music, and not knowing where I live no matter how many times I tell her. But this is a new one, the one thing that she would always do was tell me a joke. Now whenever I ask her to tell me a joke she just opens a web page about jokes, there is...

I have a notebook that I have been saving as a PDF file. Something in Office seems to have changed, because now the program crashes at about the 80% mark of the save process. No relevant error message is provided, and none of the Try This processes resolve the problem. MS Office OneNote 2016 on...

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...

In Outlook 2013, I can delete items from the Deleted Items. Clicking on another folder then coming back on the Deleted Items, the mail I deleted is for some strange reason back again. How can I deleted items from the Deleted Items and have them remain deleted. I'm talking about individual emails.

A volume control pop-up box keeps appearing top left of my Acer laptop screen where it overlays everything. Nothing I have tried will disable it. Worse still it then sticks the speaker volume slider on 100%. I have uninstalled any likely associated bloat apps. It disappears if I restart, but...

I recently upgraded to Windows 10 on my Dell Inspiron E1505 laptop from Windows 7. After updating, I'm unable to check on updates. I get: There were some problems installing updates, but we'll try again later. If you keep seeing this and want to search the web or contact support for...

I have a hovering text on my screen that is coming from another window ( another opened Chrome window ) Why does it happen, and how can i get rid of it without rebooting ?

After inserting a hot swap drive, Windows Anti-Virus turns itself off. What causes this?

When I have file explorer open it refreshes every five seconds or so. If I'm scrolling through pictures, it's constantly jumping back to the top of the file....it's infuriating!!! I can't even rename files or create file names unless I am lightning quick. I am at a loss as to what to do...and...

Hi A friend just called my and said that when he boots his computer, he gets this message every time. "Critical Error, Can't load Cortana and Start Menu? It then tells him that he needs to log out to fix the problem. When he says OK it logs him out and then reloads, from that point on it...

ok I loaded windows 10 and all was working fine then I received an update and every time I want to play a game or surf the internet the computer locks up and the only way to recover is to hit the reset button. this got so bad that I fully removed windows 10 and reinstalled windows 8 to get rid...

Hi Before I updated to the final version of Cortana I could get her to play my music by saying, "Hey Cortana, Play my music.". Now she responds saying Sure thing playing your music. Then she says, "Something's not right, try again in a little bit". I've removed all my playlists, cleaned...

A bug in the Windows 10 Store is keeping some users from getting automatic app updates. read more Continue reading...

When I log on as the second user on my windows 10 laptop nothing works. I cannot click the start menu. I cannot right click anywhere. The first user works fine. The second is an administrator also as standard users cannot log on at all. Any ideas?

I don't really know what could be causing this problem, and it's kind of specific so I don't know what to search for on the internet. Something on my computer is opening web pages in my default browser (chrome) very often, with the frequency ranging from opening once every hour, to opening it 10...

I am logged in as Bill (an admin user). I tried to create a new txt doc in an install folder far down under Program Files (x86). My only rt clk option is new folder. I opened another txt file in that folder with Ultraedit (my default editor) and saved it as NOTES.txt in that folder. Now I can...