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Hi I've had this problem several times before, and never figured out how to correct it. When I installed the Anniversary Update it started working again, the way it's supposed to. Now when I ask Cortana to play my music, she says, "Sorry I can't seem to find any music locally or in your...

Hello, again. I was wondering if it's advisable to run SFC /scannow on a regular basis, or only if your PC is experiencing issues, sort of similar to running an AV program regularly. What say you? Thanks...Ed

Something is suddenly changing my files to Read Only. It seems to be affecting Office 2016 files. What's causing this and how do I stop it?

Even from the days of XP, I never found a way to keep either notepad or wordpad on top of other pages. Clicking anywhere on the screen with notepad open immediately minimizes it. Is there any way to keep notepad locked on top of other windows?Thanks in advance for your assisstance.

I see a RAID 5 option in the disk manager in my Windows 10 pro 64bit os but it's greyed out , but I also see if could do a Parity RAID in storage space which it will allow me to do. So I'm curious why RAID 5 is greyed out and is there an advantage to getting RAID 5 to work vs Parity, which I...

Hi, I have 2 copies of Windows 10, 1 Home, 1 Pro. I have Home installed on one machine and the other is not yet installed. I want to upgrade the Home to Pro and use the Home on another machine. Can I use my pro license key to upgrade the Home (so that I don't have to reinstall everything)...

Hi. In Windows 10, the file search available on the toolbar only searches for text strings in the order you write it in the box i.e. if you write 'garrett higgins', it will NOT find any files in which those words appear in a different order or, indeed, separately. Can i change the settings to...

Who here uses Google contacts? Can someone tell me what do the color coded circles mean for each letter sections?

I run Windows 7 with an Nvidia GTX 780 Ti graphics card. Every time (and I do mean everytime), I shut my computer down, I get the windows update message ' installing 1 of 1 files But it doesn't install anything, but then when I turn my computer on again (everytime), my NVIDIA graphics card fails...

Windows 10 will not download and install because of error 0x80070070. Does anyone know how to fix error and accomplish the download. I would like to take advantage of the free down load which expires July 29

I have tried to create a virtual CD drive using the Microsoft VCdControlTool. I copied the VCdRom.sys file to System32\drivers as specified, but when I run VCdControlTool, and click on Driver Control, I get the message "Cannot Open SCM:Access is denied. If I run it as Administrator, it shows the...

Just took my Windows 10 Laptop out of the house for the first time. I am so used to 7 and hovering the connection in the notification tray for IP address and connection speed I was surprised not to find this. And then more surprised not to be able to find some utility to regain this...

Hi! So my windows OS WAS deleted from my toshiba netbook. Now all I have is some Linux os which sucks because it is not iTunes compatible and I use an iphone. I have no idea how to get Windows back. I heard Windows 7 has a netbook edition that is free! Is that true? Can anyone burn that into...

Hi I know this has been raised in the past but my system just started getting the: "CRITICAL ERROR - Start menu has stopped working .........." I know a lot of previous posts on this go back to last year and further but this has just started on my Win 10 system this month (March 2016). I've...

Hello, I have a pc I had rarely used with Windows 8, which I just updated to 8.1 When I checked for updates, I have 175 updates that I needed to download and install. Couple questions... 1) do I need to dl and install all updates? (Some are updates that have the year 2012 on it). Can I pick and...

Hi The map app, is showing the wrong street address for my home location, but I can't find anyplace to edit the information and correct it. It was correct at one time but it has changed to what Cortana thinks it my address instead of the other way around. Anyone know how to change it? Mike

The shortcut is not opening. A message appears that "The item 'xxxxx.exe' that this shortcut refers to has been changed or moved, so this shortcut will no longer work properly." Kindly provide a fix to this issue. Sent from my SM-G530H using WindowsForum mobile app

After attempting to upgrade from win7 to win10 and it failed I now cannot get update to work. Whenever I open or reboot my laptop I then get a message that I need to restart to finish installing updates but :-) of course it says the same the next time. This has the effect of not allowing...

Hello ! After installation of Windows 10 1511. When I try to run an ISO image, I receive this message : setup.exe has stopped working and close the program. Also I was receiving the error : Microsoft Setup Bootstrapper has stopped working. How can I fix these problems ? Thanks you in advance!

Anyone know why, in Win10 Network & Internet, I can't turn off Airplane Mode? When I try, it just pops right back on.