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Hey guys, I was wondering if any of you could help me with this. The search section of my charms bar won't open. When I open the charms bar and click on the search icon, it highlights the icon for a second and then closes the charms bar and does nothing. I am running windows 8.1 core OEM single...

I had read the numerous post regarding this problem and have tried all of the recommended steps to resolve it. I am starting a new thread with my farbar scan tool results in hope that someone will be able to assist me in resolving this issue. Here are the specs of the machine i am dealing with...

hello! i am trying to disable numlock on my login screen (Windows 8.1), so i went to regedit and the initialkeyboardindicators key was at two, and doing a google search told me i need to change it to 0, i tried changing it to 0 and then restarted my pc and numlock was still on, so i went back to...

I have Windows 8.0 and I do not want to upgrade to 8.1, but I keep getting this message coming up (sorry its upside down !). Can amyone help me get rid of this message please.

In the last three months every third or fourth time I restart Windows 8.1 the font is three points smaller and I have to change it and, of course, restart. Easy enough to do but a bit of a waste of time. Help please.

Hello Everyone,My First Post. I was wondering how much hard drive space does windows 8.1 really need,Is 100 GB okay or what please help.

I have 3 email accounts on my Windows 8.1 machine as setup in the mail app. One of them, my gmail account, is old and no longer used. In fact, I can't log in to it. Going to the right, and 'settings', then 'accounts' lists the email accounts I have. Clicking on one of the 'good' accounts...

currently running windows 8.1, I built my own computer so I know all internal parts work together so that's not an issue but when ever I am playing a game, I listen to music or watch a tv show as well to not get bored on my computer. sometimes the bsod occurs and sometimes I don't get it for...

Hi I'm totally a newbie greatly in need of advice and steering in the right direction. I just bought a brand new never been used desktop pc pre installed with 64 bit Windows 8.1 and I'm straight up getting a mmloaddrive.exe error Window pop up at start up. what is going on? Should I return...

I know that there is a download available of IE11 that can be used in windows 8 ONLY, and there is also one available for the 8.1 system too, But I know you can upgrade your web browser inside windows 8 from version 10 to version 11 WITHOUT THE NEED TO UPGRADE TO 8.1.....But I'm having problems...

Good day, all I'm new here, and this is my 1st post. What brings me here, is that the Start menu's Help and Support is not functioning. The same can be said, when I attempt to use the toolbar's Help/View Help. The F1 key is useless, as well. I can't figure out what happened to the...

Hi I have installed a brand new Gigabyte GA-870A-USB3L motherboard for my dad and it has been working for the last few weeks until today, he tells me that a Bad CheckSum error appeared on the BIOS when he rebooted his computer. I have completely powered down the computer and powered it back up...

Hello everyone, A terrible case come over to me :( I have restarted my windows 8 pc and when i came back i saw that the windows password screen has strange shapes that i have never see before. I entered my password but it doesn't working. Something strange characters similar to other shapes...

Hi all: I have the strangest problem. If I double click a .txt file, it opens a Command Prompt window rather than the .txt file! If I use right click, open with, choose default program, the check box for "Always use the selected program to open this kind of file" is grayed out. If I select...

Dear Forum, Windows 8 has blocked me again!! I like to organise my desktop with shortcuts to folders that I cleaned up using stardock fences. I have desktop shortcuts that I now cannot move. I have installed fences 2.13, try to move to fences and nothing moves. Can anyone help? Hope you are...

I am using a desktop with below mentioned config. Processor : Intel® core ™ i3-3220 CPU @3.30GHZ RAM : 8 GB (2x4GB) HDD : 1TB Nvidia Geforce 210 - 512MB D-Link DWA-525 Wireless N150 Desktop Adaptor OS :Windows 7 Prof SP1 x64 bit Problem report : Problem signature: Problem Event Name...

I had used windows blinds to put a theme on my computer. it was a safe program and I never heard anything about it. when I uninstalled it, it removed my current theme and the default one. Now, the images of programs have no icons and I can't open anything. Only spotify is working, and I tried...

Hey, how's it going? I started using Windows 8 for the first time today and actually like it quite a bit. I think with some tweaks, I will like it more than Windows 7 and previous versions of the OS. However, I have spent approximately an hour trying to figure out one thing. I would like to...

(I have Windows 7 Home Premium on a desktop pc) I have been into ... Power Options Change Plan Settings Change Advanced Power Settings and when I expand Sleep there is no Hybrid Sleep option. I have been investigating which is best from Sleep, Hibernate etc and think Hybrid Sleep might be the...

Is there available a clasic style of start menu on windows 7?please help someone...