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    Windows 11 Concerns About Sticky Keys: Useless Feature and Frustrations with Windows Updates

    Since I had to register and it deleted my posts, like seriously? You guys can't code that in so it remembers what you were doing? Every single other forum in the friggin world can, but Microsoft, which is supposed to be the top minds, nope, they can't handle it. Work on that guys. Anyway, to...
  2. Windows 11 Update on Windows 11, and a question!

    Hi again, Well, I'm really liking Windows 11, I like how if you have two windows open, and you click on the one not showing it minimizes the one on top and expands the other, instead of putting the smaller one on top of the larger one maybe Windows 10 would do that two, but it wasn't on my...
  3. Windows 10 Issues with October 15, 2019 Windows Update

    Last week my mother installed an update (KB4519978) on her Windows 10 machine. Since then, she has been experiencing some performance issues and is having trouble signing into her laptop. When she opens her laptop and wakes it from sleep mode, one of two things frequently happens: it will...
  4. AA19-290A: Microsoft Ending Support for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2

    Original release date: October 17, 2019 Summary On January 14, 2020, Microsoft will end extended support for their Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 operating systems.[1] After this date, these products will no longer receive free technical support, or software and security updates...
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    Windows 10 Windows 10 - 2 problems on fresh system

    My pc: 8700K stock 2x8GB DDR4 GSKILL 3000mhz ( XMP Corsair 750 i Asus Z370 Pro Gaming. I have 2 disks. SSD Crucial 525 GB MX 300 and Toshiba 500GB. I have an question about system Windows 10. I installed from Pendrive USB Windows 10 from here: Link Removed On a fresh formatted ssd i...
  6. Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 16362 for PC (Skip Ahead)

    Hello Windows Insiders! Today we are releasing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 16362 for PC to Windows Insiders in the Fast ring who have opted in to Skip Ahead only. Insiders who joined Skip Ahead will continue to receive builds from the RS_PRERELEASE branch which has transitioned to RS4...
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    Windows 10 window defender - threats found

    For the last two weeks, every time I boot up Windows 10 Windows Defender find threats! I clear them out and more pop up the next time I reboot. This is something other than the threats. Maybe its buggy software in Windows 10. It's annoying more than anything else. Here's the threat...
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    Windows 10 Is there any way to recover my files?

    I have been working on 3 wordpad files and I just leave the files open and save whenever I add new data to them. This morning I got on my laptop and clicked wordpad and all 3 files are completely blank and they are now just titled "Document" instead of the save name they had. I went to find the...
  9. Windows 10 Contana can't find my music, Again!

    Hi I've had this problem several times before, and never figured out how to correct it. When I installed the Anniversary Update it started working again, the way it's supposed to. Now when I ask Cortana to play my music, she says, "Sorry I can't seem to find any music locally or in your...
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    Windows 8 Keeps closing down apps

    My Windows phone (Nokia Lumia 630) is only eight months old but ever since I first got it it has randomly closed down apps I'm using. It comes up with Resuming... And deletes everything I was doing in that app. For some apps it freezes and completely restarts my phone. Any ideas on what I could do?
  11. Windows 10 Cortana need work to compete with Seri!

    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...
  12. Windows 10 Cortana persistent problem?

    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...
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    Windows 10 Unable to perform or search for updates

    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...
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    Windows 10 Windows Anti-Virus turns itself off

    After inserting a hot swap drive, Windows Anti-Virus turns itself off. What causes this?
  15. Windows 10 File Explorer constantly refreshing

    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...
  16. Windows 10 Critical Error, can't load Cortana and Start Menu?

    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...
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    Windows 10 system locks up

    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...
  18. Windows 10 Anyone been able to get Cortana to play music?

    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...
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    Windows 8 Something automatically opening web pages

    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...
  20. Windows 10 Spartan, what are these icons?

    Hi Spartan is pretty spartan, especially since whenever I point at the icons in the upper right they disappear. I'm talking about the Star, Folder with Star, Pad, Smiley Face and the 3 Dots. Link Removed Link Removed Once they are gone they don't come back unless I close Spartan and open...