software limitations

Microsoft’s recent move to restrict its C/C++ extension for Visual Studio Code (VS Code) exclusively to its first-party products has stirred significant concern and debate throughout the developer community. As of version 1.24.5 released on April 3, 2025, the extension now refuses to work on...

Hi. I wanted to change default mail program to Thunderbird. I went to settings > default programs and then when I clicked Mail app the only option I got was to choose from some web browsers and... "SEARCH IN MICROSOFT STORE". There was no option to choose an app from my disc. What worse the same...

Hi, I'm sorry if the title is confusing... I have windows 10 64-bit. I log in using my Microsoft account (not local account) and have a child account also setup so my son can log in and use the PC. However, there are some software that I would not like my son to have access to or know I am...

On my Laptop I upgraded to Windows 8 - back in 2011. Prior to the upgrade when travelling overseas I was able to download onto CD discs my original music. Because I wanted to save space - I would only take with me a bunch of printed covers and then purchase blank CD'S and cases wherever I was...

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Hi All: One of my Clients is claiming that an older version of Adobe Reader (v9 or v10) was able to Edit pdf documents. I was wondering if this was true? Last month she experienced problems with her Reader when she tried to upgrade to v11; and we had to make a paid support call to Adobe...

I don't understand this at all. Why did they take away this VERY important function? You can no longer drag and drop pictures to and from dropbox to a folder on your computer! This is so aggravating that I feel like throwing my computer in the trash. I cannot use skydrive. It won't link to it...

Every time my computer is using high CPU (30%+ constantly), after about 5 minutes or so (the more CPU being used, the faster it does this) the fan on my computer will start going really fast and if I don't close the program that is using the CPU then my computer will go to sleep by itself. I...

Just picked up my new laptop.. has win 8 installed (had no choice of op system) ... why is it like a tablet design? I have a tablet already.. I just want a basic computer for my photoshop/office programs * There is no start button unless you download a start button program from another resource...

I'm new to WP8 and really want to get firmly behind it. Not a tech guy - just an average power user of smart phones. As professional always on the go - one of the most critical tools we need is the ability to open Word files, see docs as they are supposed to look (like when you open them on a...

Hi there, we've got Windows 7 Professional and we have set up a standard account for the kids. I don't know how to limit the software they can use in their account. For example we have skype but we don't want them to have that in their account (which they do at the moment). How can we change...

I am trying to modify the attributes of a file (in this case the album title for a group of MP3 files in 1 folder). All I want to do is change one character. W7 (home premium 32bit) blanks out the whole box, and I have to type the all of the text again. Very annoying! XP it lets you...

Hi, Can someone suggest me an application to prompt a password to execute or to run(use) a programme on PC not only installed applications but also for installing applications, the same should prompt password while uninstalling a program from the control panel. The application should collect...

Hey people. I've been using windows speech recognition software since it was included in Windows Vista and now windows 7. To be completely honest I didn't really think that a free voice recognition system was gonna be that good because I've used many in the past and they weren't very accurate...

I was surprised that inspite of having an advanced version of the Windows Media Player, the playback speed increment feature of the previous versions has not been included in the same spirit. Sure you can depress Ctrl+Shift+G but that increases the play speed to a meagre 1.4X. The previous...