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By accident I have screwed up a pair of user system folders. In moving their locations from the system drive to a second drive, I carelessly managed to point the system 'Videos' folder location and the system 'Music' folder location at the same folder. The two system folders are now totally...

Hi I came to my attention today that some people seem to have much smaller Windows 10 installs then I do. I don't have any software in my C:\ drive other then a few really small things like CCleaner etc. I have W10 installed on a 100 Gb partition. It uses 63 Gb of that. Only 10 of those are...

A number of days ago audio on my laptop suddenly vanished. When I click the sound icon, which is accompanied by the red 'mute', a troubleshooter opens and fails to fix the problem. I've scoured the internet regarding fixes (the run services solution will not work - an error comes up proclaiming...

I have just bought a new computer with Windows 8.1 and I am confused and underwhelmed by 8.1. My main gripe is the totally uncontrollable start Screen. OK I can sort apps into groups and name the groups so that's a start. After getting apps into different groups I now set about sorting them...

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Hi Well I've been putting it off because I was going to clean install Windows 10 build 10041 on a different drive as a clean install, but Windows suddenly announced that it was rebooting to install "Windows". The only options were do it now or do it later so I said "Go" and after about 45...

Okay, since there are many questions on this topic, none exactly the same as mine, I'd like to make myself perfectly clear. I know about Default Programs, and I know about Autoplay settings in the Control Panel. What I want to achieve is use Media Player Classic (comes with the K-Lite codec...

64-bit Win 7 Home Premium, workgroup pc (not domain). What are the problems/ramifications of changing a Computer Name? For example, how does windows handle existing shares? Thanks --David

I've recently upgraded the hardware on one of my desktops (Motherboard, CPU & Ram) which required me to re install Windows Ultimate 7 (64 bit). The new install went flawless. All required drivers are installed, nothing in System settings indicates I have an issue with any device, etc. However...

Hello! Well last night i've removed by accident my desktop.ini and some other files that were next to it and just forgot about them. So today i've try to turn my laptop on, everything seems to be fine but until i log in into my windows account after that, the screen just goes black and can't...

Hi Windows updated my sound drivers again, I saw that is was doing it but couldn't stop it. And once more my sound quit working. I need to get Windows to run the drivers that work for my card. I seems that, if you have drivers that work it should let you chose to use them. Anyone have any...

So I would really, dearly, sincerely like to know if there isn't an easier, more intuitive way to access special characters than the ludicrously arcane alt+0xxx combinations Microsoft invites you to accept (did they have robot users in mind when they decided that was a good design decision?)...

The Aero Flip 2D does not work anymore although the Flip 3D does . When I press Alt+Tab I only see the classic list of active tasks: And I cannot use the directional keys to select a task. Facts about the problem: Ø Only one user account is affected. Ø The Desktop Composition is...

I just ran into a issue I never have before. Why is the registry different when using remote registry compared to when you use regedit locally?

For some of my computer's functions to work properly, I need to use the official drivers given by Asus. However, every time I uninstall the drivers Microsoft packs with the OS, it will re-install itself every time I try to start Asus' driver installation. I need help uninstalling the ones from...

I am using windows 7 service pack 1 32-bit OS and it has many software’s such as NI LabView, TINA, Code composer studio, etc., during the normal usage the memory usage of the system is around 70% if I open a browser it reaches up to 95% and most of the system memory is getting occupied by the...

Hi, I'am using Windows 8.1 with all latest updates. I'm facing problem with Windows update since installation of a fresh copy of windows. I always keep Windows update to automatic windows update installation mode. But if I reboot my laptop or shutdown it, then the update turns to "Never check...

My colleges' computers reset themselves every night, so we are allowed to install programs and change files & settings at will, because the changes revert on shutdown. I'm trying to create a batch file I can run to copy all the files I use & install the programs I use, I haven't gotten to the...

After only 35 yrs in the general purpose OS business, MS cannot devise a reliable "wake from sleep" scheduler. The task scheduler can shut down, or sleep, but not awake with any hope of reliability. The BIOS can set a base "power management" start-up, but it is insensitive to refinements in...

I have a Nvidia GeForce 210 graphics card, and firstly, I installed only its driver, and I noticed I had no 'sleep' option. The 'hibernate' option was present instead... Than I installed the on-board card's driver and the 'hibernate' button switched to 'sleep'. And now I have both drivers...