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I had icons on my bookmarks bar in Chrome. For example the icon for Facebook was the little blue box with an F in it, the Twitter icon had the little bird, Gmail and Yahoo mail had the mail icons. I recently had to uninstall Chrome and successfully imported my websites into IE 11. Now, none of...

Hello. I have problems with windows10 update, or rather not updating to this. I uninstalled this update KB3035583 and even though "WINDOWS UPDATE" still wants to restart my computer for this update, update reschedule tool still works, and I can't search for other updates untill I restart and...

Since Sunday I have been trying to update AVG but when I do, it tells me its failed to update as there is another installation in progress. I have restarted several times but still get the same issue. I have tried ctrl, alt and delete but can't see any thing that looks abnormal either. If I...

Apparently, I have yet another problem with Windows 10. I noticed today on my laptop that that when I right click on an application from the start menu there are options such as Pin to Start, Pin to Taskbar, Uninstall, Run as Administrator and Open File Location. However, when I right click on...

Fred Langa On Wednesdays, we'll be featuring an abridged Q&A from Fred Langa's LANGALIST, a feature available exclusively to paid subscribers of the Windows Secrets newsletter. Today's Q&A: How do I uninstall Windows 10 and go back to the infinitely preferable Windows 7? read more Continue...

I'm running Windows 7 home. I'm getting tired of the Microsoft.Net Framework updates that take forever to download and install. Do I need Microsoft.Net Framework? What for? Can I uninstall it? Thanks

I have the sabrent 1612 usb product (DisplayLInk) which allows me to use a extra monitor via USB. Worked fine until windows 10. Now the monitor gives me a no signal . What's more, I have trouble un-installing the program . I have the windows 10 driver.....When I tried to update the software I...

If you're having trouble updating specific Windows 10 apps, an uninstall and reinstall should fix it. read more Continue reading...

I'm running a non-touch laptop and have no use for MetroUI apps whatsoever. How would one go about globally uninstalling ALL of the Metro apps in Windows 10 so that they're gone forever?

For some time now run a dual boot pc for some time now with Win 7 and Win 10 tech preview. I have upgraded to Win 10. So now what I want to do is uninstall the tech preview and the boot menu. I could just format the tech preview drive but would that leave my boot up clean with just the Win 10...

Hi, I installed Windows 10 on two computers - the first, a Lenovo Thinkpad Helix, upgrade worked fine. However, the second machine, a Lenovo thinkcentre, upgraded OK, but no internet access, just the dreaded yellow warning on the Ethernet icon. Tried troubleshooting, deleting the interface...

Hi. For some unknown reason "Skype for Business" or so it says it is, has installed itself on my computer. The first thing I did was just try to close the window. This software will not allow that...it just starts up again. I tried uninstalling Skype, and deleting all mention of Skype for...

I have been running the preview as a virtual machine on my daily driver (Win 8.1). Should I delete the virtual machine and uninstall Hyper-V Manager before the upgrade? My fear is I will orphan or not be able to find the space allocated to the virtual machine and loose valuable drive space...

A friend's computer appears to have Filemaker on it (much to our surprise) but it doesn't show in the list of programs in the start menu or in 'Uninstall programs. Why is this and how can I get it to do so? I have found the exe file and put an icon on the desktop.

Hello, I'm having a strange issue with 2 icons on my Task Bar. They have a weird message when you hold the cursor over them and don't seem to do anything if you click on them. I got them from uninstalling 2 games.

With the latest release of Windows 10 SDK Preview Build 10166, we are excited to introduce the Windows 10 Application Deployment (WinAppDeployCmd.exe) tool. The Windows 10 Application Deployment (WinAppDeployCmd) is a command line utility that can be utilized to deploy a Universal Windows app...

Build 10162 of Windows 10 has produced its own issues for some, primarily around hardware drivers. read more Continue reading...

I have a Dell Venue 8 pro running desperately low on memory. I ran SequoiaView on it to see what was taking up so much space and it says hiberfil.sys is taking up 1.2 GB. I'm wondering if it's OK to uninstall it? I don't even have Hibernate on my tablet but I've read online that hiberfil.sys is...

Unable to use Skype can't send calls out won't get to ring a landline number, tried to delete programme file so I could start a new one, but shows error 2503 and it stops me from deleting the Skype programme. Any suggestions?

I noticed this a few weeks ago. When I start Photoshop, the computer loads for a few moments but the program itself would not load. I decided to uninstall then reinstall Photoshop. When I tried to install it again, everything seemed to work fine until the computer asks me if I would like to let...