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I have two instances of Microsoft 365 in the Apps - Installed apps windowpane. One has a suffix of - en-us and the other has a suffix of - es-es. Can I remove one of them?

Hi. I'm a retired computer/electronics engineer with 45 years of experience supporting Windows, Unix, Oracle, and networks of hand-held computers. I write straight C/C++, mostly using the WinAPI, but also MFC. I dabble with Visual Studio writing Windows programs, and I would like to share them...

Hi Everybody, re: Windows 11 (version 23H2 build 22631.3296) All of my folder views show each item with a Refresh or Recycle symbol. What does that symbol mean? If it's unimportant, can I eliminate it altogether?

Hi, I would like to rename a usb stick. If I click on 'This PC' in explorer I can see the stick and if I try to rename it I partially succeed, the name changes but even though I type it in lower case and it shows up on the screen in lower case when I apply it I always get the name in upper case...

Do I have to do an upgrade from Windows 10 to 11 in order to do a clean install of 11 with the MCT?

Hello. My dad gave me his laptop just to check an issue. His Laptop when first given to me check was constantly running high CPU when checking task manager with it running 100% and I couldn't identify what was making it do this. So a quick restart (off and back on) the laptop was doing the same...

Hi I have discovered a problem in my last servicepack update: It should have been somthing like this: Version: 20H2 Date: October/November 2020 Build ? But I have: Version: 20H2 Date: 29.05.2020 <-------- ? Build: 19042.662 And I can´t see - the new stuff showed in Microsoft update coming up...

Occasionally Win 10 downloads silently in background some security updates (on my v1903 system) and prepares them for installation on next reboot. When I click on START Button (for shutdown or restart action) I can see an additional entry "Update and restart" with a red dot in the lower left...

Hi everybody, I have HP Omen desktop that does not come with DVD burner. So I have to buy external one for my DVD s with pics on it. Nothing big. Not sure which one to but but found this one : VersionTECH. External CD DVD Drive, USB 3.0 Type C Ultra-Slim Superdrive Optical Burner Writer Player...

A friend of mine sent me the following : I would imagine that MS has at least a months worth of backups , if not more . Can someone enlighten me on this ? Thanks .

Bookspace disk space I noticed that I have unallocated disk space on the system disk. Quite a lot, in relation to the size of the disc in question, and so I like to use it. Does Windows have any tool / option to add it to C drive? The disk space reserved for programs and applications would...

Can I uninstall (permanently) from my Win10 system: - "Mail and Calendar" (I want to use Thunderbird email client instead) - "Store" and "Wallet" (I never want to install Apps+Programs from MS Store) - "Microsoft.Office.Desktop" (I want to use LibreOffice resp. an older version of MS Office...

Hi, I have just installed FCIV on System32, but when searched it is not found: I can see it from "cygwin": $ ls -l 'C:\Windows\System32\fciv.exe' -rwxr-xr-x 1 jlfdiaz Domain Users 84784 may 13 2004 'C:\Windows\System32\fciv.exe' But not from Command: C:\Users\jlfdiaz>dir...

Well I use an Acer AMD laptop and recently I started getting this error: amd_ags_x64.dll is missing error. I did a research and found that we can download dll file and replace it with the corrupted one. I was thinking to download the file from Link Removed and was looking for your suggestions ...

Hello, I would know if it is possible decide if a service can start automatically as the last. Thanks Federico

Not sure if I am posting in the correct forum but, here goes ... Does Microsoft have an area or, a page to get more Screensavers than the five standard ones that come with the OS? If it makes a difference, I am using Win10 Pro.

I have a Lenovo laptop running fully up=to-date Windows 10 Pro and within the last month the laptop has stopped writing to SDCard informing me that they are write protected. This happens with standard size sdcards amd micro sdcards. I have checjed, many times. that the write-protect switch on...

Hello, all. I recently purchased a Canon printer, which has wireless capabilities. However, I can't find any button in the notification area of my PC that says Bluetooth. I know one is supposed to be there, but don't remember if it ever was. Any ideas? Thanks in advance. Toshiba satellite...

Since doing the Jan rollup in Windows 7 I am getting 2 Schannel errors 40 and 70 on startup. Everything seems to be working OK. Is this just some timeout issue or something important? Thanks Joe

I need 8GB free device space so I did a little analysis and I can't do that; my windows folder (pc/Acer/windows) is taking up 24.8 GB out of 28GB how can I solve this? Is this even normal? Can I even solve this? I would really appreciate your help.:chuncky: