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  1. Sharing your local app data

    In the first installment of this blog series we looked at the various options at your disposal to store your app’s local data. In this post we will be looking at how that local data can be shared, both between apps and users. When an app is installed, the system creates a per-user app data...
  2. Windows 10 Have You Used Any Of The W 10 Recovery options?

    Hi! I'm curious if any one here has used any of the W10 recovery options. W10 has several ways to recover from mistakes. W10 has the old stand by Restore to a earlier time, but it has other ways to recover. I would like to hear what experiences members have had with the other recovery options. I...
  3. Q. Where does Minecraft Windows 10 edition save the game worlds?

    The Windows edition saves to a different place than the regular edition. Find out where -- it could come in handy. read more Continue reading...
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    Windows 7 chkdsk results

    Hello, I am not a techie at all and wanted to see if someone could look at the results of my chkdsk and let me know if there are problems? I had some bad clusters and something called read failures. I'd really appreciate any help or light someone could shed on this. I have read up on this in...
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    Windows 10 Does Microsoft spy on what you do on your computer?

    Does Microsoft spy on what you do on your computer? like they secretly record everything in a file that is hidden and it uploads to microsoft servers at night?
  6. Last Week on Channel 9: July 20th - July 26th, 2015

    So many great posts, so many new authors, so much great news! Here are just 23 of the shows, episodes and post from last week. But of course the big news was the release of Visual Studio 2015. If you missed the launch event, you can catch it all on demand here, Link Removed Link Removed This...
  7. Windows 8 AdwCleaner

    Would you help, please? every time I run AdwCleaner, v9.com is always being found. this is very persistent.. I even run Mbam, Windows Defender, MSERT.. only AdwCleaner find this. I always clean it as suggested by AdwCleaner... Below is the detail...
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    Windows 7 Question on Windows 7 Backup Options, please

    Hi, I'm new here. My Backup efforts have been spasmodic and I want to improve, as follows: 1. Occasionally, do a full "Mirror Image Backup" of my whole system on external hard drive. This seems to be a standard, simple thing via Windows Help. 2. Do a separate "selected" backup on external...
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    Windows 8 (Solved) Edit List of PCs to "Copy" During Setup

    When a new PC is started for the first time, or when a PC is "recovered" back to factory conditions and started for the first time, a list of PCs that can be used to copy settings, apps and personal stuff is shown. A week ago I bought a new PC. The list of PCs had several that I have not owned...
  10. TA14-317A: Apple iOS "Masque Attack" Technique

    Original release date: November 13, 2014 Systems Affected iOS devices running iOS 7.1.1, 7.1.2, 8.0, 8.1, and 8.1.1 beta. Overview A technique labeled “Masque Attack” allows an attacker to substitute malware for a legitimate iOS app under a limited set of circumstances. Description...
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    Windows 7 Why do I have so many processes running?

    My Task Manager reports 84 processes running, though only a small number are shown in the processes pane. see attached snip. Why do I have so many, is it affecting performance and should I terminate them? They just come up again when I restart. I remember having just a few in the past. I'm...
  12. Windows 7 Moving domain user to a new PC - Easy Transfer fail

    I am trying to move a user in a domain to a new PC. Both PC's are Windows 7 Pro. I tried Easy Transfer and the transfer was successful. However when I log on, I do not have the users desktop icons, background, or shortcuts. I am a bit confused because on the old PC the users profile shows as...
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    Windows 7 How do I save my IE links on the favorites bar so i can upload them after a factory restore?

    I must do a factory restore and i want all of my bookmarks on my internet explorer bar to be saved on a flash drive but i cant find the right folder. i go into the owner folder click on favorites and click on favorites bar but it doesnt list all of the favorites that are actually on my internet...
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    Windows 7 Fixing corrupted user profile

    Hi, I'm trying to fix my user profile by following the steps in the following page: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/fix-corrupted-user-profile#1TC=windows-7 When I get to point 7: Select all of the files and folders in this folder, except the following files: Ntuser.dat...
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    Windows 8 Windows 8 Keeps deleting files and icons

    The mother in law has a windows 8 laptop and at the moment it keeps deleting files (ie: my documents, my pictures) and the start menu icons like it is refreshing the profile When I complete a restore it goes back to normals okay, then a couple of days later we are back to square one Any...
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    Windows 7 Windows 7 - Launch Bat after installation (SetupComplete?)

    Hello guys! I'm wondering about a script I made after the installation of my Windows 7 x64 ISO is done. The script (bat) contains this: How should I implant this script after the Win7 installation is done. Tried with SetupComplete (see spolier): Problem is, I cant use GPO either...
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    Windows 7 Windows keeps corrupting WU stores

    I'm not sure if somebody else had this problem before, but for me this keeps happening every couple of weeks. It happened for the third time recently. Out of the blue on shutdown Windows says that it's installing updates with the typical counter of percent complete going up. This is weird for a...
  18. Relocation of the Users directory and the ProgramData directory to a drive other than the...

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  19. Windows 7 Backup and restore programs with user data

    In Android there are apps to backups all apps with data and restore them, is there something similar in Windows? to backup certain programs with user data associated with it? I don't mean full partition backup. For example: backup "WinRAR" with all the settings and registry keys and restore it...
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    Windows 7 Default "Save To" and Libraries on Users Network Drive

    We are in the process of rolling out Windows 7 Pro machines, into a brand new network. All users have an S: drive and are supposed to be saving all their data there for server based backup. How do I make Win 7 save to S: by default, move the Libraries to S: and therefore protect the users...