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I have a rather old computer which I bought shortly after Vista was introduced. I upgraded to Windows 8 a couple of years ago then took advantage of the free upgrade to Windows 8.1. Unfortunately I later encountered problems and needed to repair the computer. I had a repair disk for Windows 8...

Corey Sanders, Director of Program Management on the Windows Azure IaaS team meets up AGAIN with the man, the myth, the legend - Jeffrey Snover and this time talks about DSC and ARM templates. Don't forget - we're always looking for Suggestions and Questions here in the comments section OR via...

We have a practice wide re-occuring issue in which users .ost files become corrupt. See error: "Unable to open default email folders. The file C:\\microsoft\outlook\outlook.ost is not an offline folder." We are on Outlook 2007 (12.0.6423.1000 SP2 MSO), office 2007. Occurs on different PC's...

Hello, I was wondering if I could get some input on defragmentation software for Windows? I am currently using a paid product called PerfectDisk from Raxco software. I purchased this product years ago when I was still running XP and it was one of the best defragmentation tools available at...

My daughter has four kids, and therefore thousands of photos, whose top-level folder is the source for her screen saver random slide show. It runs all day when the computer is idle and frequently she spots an interesting one and she can stop and look at it -- but she would like to know if it's...

If you want a complete and unified modern UI for the next Windows pls. join to give the right feedback for Windows 10 in order to become the modern OS we wanted. Our main scope would be to assure that Microsoft understands we want to get an unified and complete modern looking UI, more...

i'm Talking about windows 10 shape/looks, changing the shape of windows will give the more advantage to Windows 10, all you SHOULD have to make the shape pretty cute like windows 7, and also change the windows 10 wallpapers and background colors into cute and pretty shape (present shape doesn't...

Hi The window control icons (Minimize, Expand and Close) in the upper right are so fine that if they appear on any kind of a dark background color they are almost invisible, (remember I have 76 year old eyes). Windows should be smart enough to switch the color of the icons to reverse, (white...

Hi friends, We have an application need to convert a file(txt) from the application into a pdf file. We have a batch file scheduled every night that generates this txt file from the application. In the batch file, we will be passing this txt file as input and also provide output file name...

Hi all, Just recently my IE11 browser will not allow me to open multiple pages. When I try the following error splashes up and will not go away no matter how many times I click close or search the web for a solution. Here is the error report: Problem Event Name: BEX Application Name...

Hey world, I just joined this beautiful forum site, and found that there is no introduction section here. I was thinking to drop an intro here, a short intro. I found a lot but no place for introduction. Guys you must have an introduction section here to let new comers be introduced here...

What is the way to add a custom property for folders? This is what I want to do: I have moved all my DVD's to my media pc. I would like to have a custom field for each movie folder where I can add tags like "Young kids" "Older kids" "Family" "Parents" etc so that I can sort the folders by those...

Hi Recently I've become more and more disturbed by how many idiotic responses I get when I search for things. It seems that I used to be able to zero in on what I wanted quickly. Now I seem to get responses that have absolutely nothing to do with what I searched for. I arrive at a page that...

Even if you’re not a Windows Insider, you can still tell us what you’d like to see in Windows. We (Microsoft not, this Forum) now have a Link Removed which is open to anyone who wants to send us ideas and suggestions for Windows. For example – if you think it would be awesome if Windows natively...

Hi As everyone here probably knows I had issues with sound when I updated to Windows 8.1. Recently I've been running Windows 10 Technical Preview and my sound works fine. That is until I added Windows 8.1 Media Center to it. When I did that my sound problems returned just as they were before...

Hey everyone! I need some new games/apps. I like Minecraft, as long with really any app! Can someone please give me some app suggestions, you don't have to explain it, jut tell me the app! Thank you!

I have Googled this problem and found some suggestions but they are all several years old. I tried using Command Prompt to delete the file but it fails. There is one suggestion to use a program called Unlock, but when I download it Chrome blocks is as malicious. Another suggestion is a program...

Hi and thanks for looking! Problem - someone is receiving emails from me despite having asked to unsubscribe and having been unsubscribed. I search for the address in Contacts and the email does not exist. Any suggestions most welcome Cheers Daniel

Just installed 8.1 now I can't get my old Palm Tungsten E2 to work any suggestions?

Hi genius, I use this software " My WIFI Router " as my virtual router. It can turn my laptop to be a wifi hotspot based on the Wireless Lan of the laptop. It runs smoothly and great. But I must keep my laptop running all day. I want to know should I continue to use My WIFI Router or not? Could...