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Hello! I would really appreciate your help with a seemingly simple problem. It looks like my DVD Player is set to fire up every time I put a CD into my CD drive. And since I rip audio CDs a lot, it's extremely annoying. The problem is: I can't turn it off. I went to settings - bluetooth and...

Hi everyone, I hope you're all doing well. I'm reaching out to this community because I've been encountering a perplexing issue with my Lenovo Link Removed, and I'm hoping someone here might have some insight or suggestions. Problem Description: Recently, I've been experiencing some unexpected...

(Newcomer to this forum) Basically, trying to ‘save to a target folder’ or ‘open from a target folder’ goes to the Desktop folder instead of the target folder. Examples: Enter a file name in desktop search bar. List of possible files, desired file is in a target folder within another folder...

Hello, I need shortly to reinstall Windows 11 in my Laptop. Everything is official. How I can do this without problems? I know that I have to create a PEN bootable with Windows 11. My problem is what questions the system ask that is easy to me respond and do the Job untis the end. Thanks for...

Hi - im new to windows 11. I need to attach files alot to emails. In previous windows this was easy, file attach - then the list was alphabetical. In windows 11 the list is sorted by some sort of date grouping today, yesterday, earlier in the week, etc... It makes finding a named file almost...

I am using windows 10 Home, and have scored a large screen good quality dumb TV, I are using the original Computer monitor as the Base monitor, and have 2 connections to the TV monitor, (RGB) and (HDMI). These are run for the computer By the correct Outputs. PROBLEM I wont to use the RGB as the...

I am attempting to install TurboTax2021 on my Dell XPS8900 SSD drive. I first tried to install from the CD and then from the downloaded software which TurboTax suggested I download, and both times I get a message saying "The installer has encountered an unexpected error installing this package...

Hello everyone, I enrolled myself for the dev-program of Windows 11. After a lot of updates, my laptop has the Buils 22478.rs_prerelease.211008-1414 version of Windows 11. I want to have the normal version of windows 11 and I don't want to get al these dev builds. How can I lose this version...

when i right click on an album in groove music theres no option to edit the album, any way to edit?

See screen snip below. Can anyone tell me if this is a phishing email or a legitimate email from Microsoft? Thanks.

Hi everyone, I am 70 years old girl :) and have bunch of photos downloaded on my PC Win 10 and all of the sudden some of them throughout my albums are not opening at all. They are all jpg. files. Some of them are opening when I go through the albums I made on my PC but some of them have X on...

Hi Thanks for calling in. I thought I'd be clever and 'have a go' at installing Android on my Windows Machine 'not a good idea' as half way through the installation it threw its legs up and decided it was not going to install. Now when I boot into Windows 10 I get GRUB and have to EXIT twice...

Hello, I'd like to do a Windows 10 reinstall ( a complete OS reinstall) on my current PC, as it's old and getting very slow. Would anyone know can I reuse my Windows key, which I originally bought on Ebay the first time I installed it about 4 years ago? According to my system page it's a...

Hi All, I am new to the forum and very old, so please be gentle. I have windows 10 home installed (not yet with the May download) and Firefox. The problem I am having is that if i am on an open tab that happens to be almost full screen but not maximised my pointer goes off the bottom of the...

My laptop with win 10 OS has a problem. When I stat my computer, it boots the login screen and then shutdowns without any problem. On search, I found that function key F8 will open the troubleshooting options to help me restore the settings but pressing F8 on start screen does not open anything...

I was using bitlocker for my personal data.I also was changing my bitlocker password every week. I did not save my key because childerns at home used key to open bitlocker password. Now i forgot my password as well as i have no recovery key. I tried to recover key through CMD prompt. I found...

Getting to grips with Windows 10. Found High contrast display - very good: now I can see clearly which window is current. Unfortunately it has made the text under the shortcuts on the desktop literally illegible. Can't find out how to fix it. Any help would be welcome.

I had to Reset my new PC, Win 10 1909, because of problems. Before reset, I had "eM Client" loaded and it worked great. After Reset, I reloaded "eM Client" and made it my default APP, but it won't work. I then selected "Win 10 Mail", made it my default, and windows said "you are all set". BUT...

HI I have a dell windows 10 laptop and have Microsoft word 2002 on it. I want to automatically add a full stop after hitting the space bar. Ive looked in the typing section of windows and ticked all concerned including insert a capital letter when needed. Now i know it can be done as the...

Hi all. Although I am a long time Windows user my knowledge is more on applications than Windows itself. Hence I have a question that while might well be simple if someone can help I would be very appreciative. My grandson (12) was recently given an HP all-in-one system that is at most a few...