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Hello, I've had a nice setup for myself and my family using Win 10 and Onedrive for cloud based files that served either as a backup or ability to share between people. With recently installing Win11 on a couple of computers (first my wife's Surface, and now my personal laptop) everything moved...

I am setting up Group Policies (GPO) in my Active Directory environment on Windows Server 2022 to apply specific settings to users and computers in my domain. What are some key tips for ensuring an efficient GPO implementation and avoiding common issues? Additionally, what tools or procedures do...

Hey guys, I have a strange behavior on my system: I manually select date format to be dd.mm.yy and after every reboot, or even randomly while using the computer it resets itself to dd/mm/yy. This is driving me crazy. I even tried to edit the registry key manually but it's not helping it...

The windows 11 open/save file dialogue groups by time. As in Today, Yesterday, Last week. I want it to never ever ever do that. Note: I'm not talking about the view in folders in explorer, I said the open/save dialogue. As in File->Open. I know how to do it in explorer folders, how do I do...

Hello, I have a question regarding the Windows 10 Mail client. We have a Windows 10 PC and are using the built in Mail client and have configured it for 3 different email accounts (3 different Gmail accounts). The problem is that when we send email from the W10 Mail Client, the 'From'...

I Installed my win11 and enabled onedrive when windows was greeting me and now my desktop, documents and pictures is part of onedrive! how did this happen? I want my onedrive folder independent of all other folders how do I fix this?

Recently I used the known tweak to enable the full context menu in Windows 11 on my work laptop, and it worked as advertised, no problems at all. I understand that this tweak will only change the context menu for the currently logged in user (ME), hence modifying HKCU.... Reg.exe add...

My wife uses an old Windows 8 computer, mostly for browsing, and came to me the other day complaining that she was having issues. Internet Explorer would start and display her normal Favorites Bar contents, but then apparently was being re-directed and displaying a ton of favorites she did not...

Hi, I am new to Windows Server OS, but not to Windows. I have a program that I need to change the DPI settings on. I know on Windows 10, I would do the following; Right click on icon > Properties > Compatibility > Change high DPI settings > Override high DPI scaling behavious > Tick the box >...

Hello, Is it possible to setup idle timeout for all except one user ? Thank you

I know Microsoft Edge lets you reopen the 20 most recently closed tabs and windows, but does it store/retain info about stuff that was closed further back?

Since I had to register and it deleted my posts, like seriously? You guys can't code that in so it remembers what you were doing? Every single other forum in the friggin world can, but Microsoft, which is supposed to be the top minds, nope, they can't handle it. Work on that guys. Anyway, to...

Hi, So I used to be able to saved a file I downloaded from the net to a destination of my choice on the computer in Linux Ubuntu however after updating the system the browser no longer lets me do this. I even tried downloading from the original deb packages but that doesn't let me save anywhere...

Hi when I click a folder visual studio starts - instead of exploring that folder. So I can not explore folders on my computer. The same happens when I click "documments" or "pictures" in windows start - visual studio starts instead of windows explorer. How to fix it?

I have a Windows 10 S laptop purchased this year. Today I checked the Windows Defender settings - Firewall and Anti-Virus is turned on but Web Protection shows "No Providers". There does not seem to be a provision to select or add any service provision to “defend” the Web. I am thinking that as...

Does anyone know why my Ease of Access "Make text bigger" font size selection doesn't stick on my laptop? Whenever I have my USBC hub plugged in with the external HDMI monitor the machine always starts up with a small font even know I already and previously selected 133% font size. It even...

Today we are excited to announce improved font rendering in the latest Canary builds of Microsoft Edge on Windows. We have improved the contrast enhancement and gamma correction to match the quality and clarity of other native Windows applications. Font rendering will also now respect user...

I am using Thunderbird email client how do I keep alerts up for the duration time up and not have the pop up disappear after a certain amount of time ?

Hello everyone. I am attaching a picture of the sad popup. Ever since the last update 20h2, every single time I restart my computer, I will get this extremely annoying popup from Windows Security. I know my firewall is off, I manually disabled it. I have disabled ALL apps notifications, I...

Users cannot (at least in v2004) allow Quality=Security Updates but disable Feature updates (=to next major release). Is this correct?