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(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...

I'm not sure if this is even the right forum or the right part of the Windows Forum, but here goes; please guide me to the right places, if you know of a better one. A little background, so you know what I'm trying to accomplish...if it, indeed, is even possible to do: (This is not going to be...

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...

Hello I have a Microsoft Surface it is one of the older models. I am having trouble figuring out how to move bookmarks and shortcuts in Firefox browser. On a standard PC desktop I just take the mouse click and hold on the bookmark I want to move and drag it to the new location. On the...

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...

NET: 1)I have an older Thinkpad T500 which came with Windows 7 and I later upgraded to Windows 10. 2)I had given it to my sister; she no longer uses it, and I am planning on: A) Doing a Reset and reloading Windows 10 B) Possibly change the hard Drive and reload Windows 10, etc, via USB Tool...

Hi all. This is my first post here so apologies in advance if it in the wrong thread. I am by no means an it expert hence me asking for help on this. I want to create a new folder everyday to keep a record of curtain work things relating to this particular day. So within a current folder I...

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...

Product Model: ASUS Vivobook 15 – K515EA BIOS/FW Version/Build Number: X513EAN.201 Windows 11 Pro Insider Preview Build 22533 Custom – Did fresh Windows 11 install from ISO Installed ASUS System Control Interface Driver v3.0.22.0 and ATK tools 1.0.0061 Unable to see on screen display icon...

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?

I did it. I was in a hurry and accidentally formatted a 200Gb Micro SD card in my external slot of my Android phone. It had every type of file you can imagine on it. Videos, Pics, PDFs, Word Documents, Rar, Zip & 7z files... and more. About 110Gb of data. There are so many reviews that are...

Older generation users, for whom i offer help locally, have asked this question.. Most are a little old to be dabbling in the Insider program, but, nevertheless! On the joining page, this comment can be seen. "Please add our email windowsinsiderprogram@e-mail.microsoft.com to your address book...

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...

I have been using this API function a lot on older versions of windows to collect per connection tcp statistics. Its behaviour seems to have changed of late. Previously disabling and re-enabling statistics would reset the counters for the statistics. This does not happen any more. Can anyone...

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...