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I really like Win 8.1 and its many improvements over Win 7 although I do not use the Start screen. My tablet has no problem and is working exactly as designed; I am not trying to fix anything that is broken. What I want is to remove the Ease Of Access button, icon, menu, whatever it's called...

Hello again, No matter which undelete programme I try, not one of them will ever find a deleted file. I copy a file to a directory on C: or D:, delete it and then empty the Recycle Bin. Whatever application I care to use, the file, which is very unlikely to have been overwritten, can not...

Hi I'm going to take these issues on one at a time as I come to them. The first is that I found that none of my programs open from the all apps list unless I right click on them and select "Open as Administrator"? I only have one account on my computer, it's my Microsoft account and it's set...

Hi all, Using Windows 7 Home Premium. I mapped a drive for OneDrive, now I am trying to change the icon in Windows Explorer. I saved the OneDrive.ico file from Temporary Internet Files. I right-clicked on the folder icon and selected Properties I clicked on the Customize Tab I clicked on the...

How do I keep my disk usage down at a low percentage. I'm constantly at 99% which it making my laptop very slow :(

Hi, Three weeks ago I started my PC as normal and got a black screen after I logged in. A program update box suddenly appeared so clearly nothing wrong with the graphics or screen, just Windows not working. After a lot of messing around (yeah, thanks for hiding 'safe mode', Microsoft) and...

Hey, Link Removed I'm using many files in many projects and I need to access from another folders. The links aren't a solution and libraries are link. The aim is to have total synchronization of all files in all virtual folders and have the file write only once. The visualization can't be in...

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...