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in microsoft mail there are two separate folders 1/ people 2/ contacts. when sending emails it's the people list that's available with only a limited number of email addresses on it. i need to be able to use the other list, but unable to do so. is it possible to alter both of the lists or...

I always customize my folder's uniquely with different views like the size of the icon, group by, sort by name, etc. And they ALWAYS reset to (Details) view and the way how i sort and group them, they all get cleared also, i have to redo everything. It happens to random folders at random...

Hello, How can i change the location of One Drive Default Folder from C: to another Drive? In Properties of One Drive I can´t see the "Location" option that I see in other Folders like "Documents" and so on. Thanks and best regards Curious

Everything was wider and bigger on the screen. I thought the resolution somehow changed but I changed that back to what I thought was the original 1366 x 738 and everything is not wide any more but everything is still large. The setting for "Change the size of text, apps..." is at 100% but...

I have activated the History backup facility in Settings, but all get is a folder FileHistory and various sub-folders, all empty. It is a facility I would like to use to cover new files etc. made since my last regular image backup - is there any other way of setting it up properly. If I cannot...

Is it possible to change the default view of the Windows 10 Recycle Bin when it opens? I figure there’s settings in the Registry somewhere. I would like the default to be view by details, sorted by date, descending.

I'm running Win7 Pro 64-bit. Icons on my taskbar to the left of the notification area no longer show up. (The icons in the notification area are displayed.) I recreated iconcache.db and replaced iconcache.db with a backup made before the problem began but neither fixed the problem. All the...

Assume I have a bootable USB flash drive with Win10 and additiional other tools on it.. Booting it works fine. Now immediately after booting from this USB flash drive I want to AUTOMATICALLY patch/enter some customized keys resp. values into the Registry. As an example think of switching to...

After having disabled the option "protect my system folders) I had a look on my folders and found 4 (!) different RECYCLE BINs on my second, non-system partition D: Have a look at the attached snapshot of my WinExplorer view and the corresponding listing with "dir /a". Why are there so many...

I.E. v11 in Win7 Pro keeps downloading to the desktop, even though I have set the default download location to \Downloads\. How can I make it behave correctly ?

Hi I'm trying to take screen shots in The Secret World using the Windows 10 Game Bar. When I use it I get the tone and a popup appears saying The Secret World, Screen Shot Saved. The problem is that I don't know where they are being saved and like most of the apps for Windows 10 it doesn't...

when i start firefox, it always opens with 2 tabs at the top, one being yahoo, and the other is google. surely it should start with only one tab and i have made google my start page. hopefully someone will know why this is happening. many thanks maka

The Windows platform targets all kinds of devices: desktops, laptops, tablets, phones, HoloLens, IoT and Xbox. As a developer you want your users to have a great user experience with your app across the entire breadth of devices it is available on. Each of these devices has unique capabilities...

There is a very deeply buried setting that allows you to turn the default vibration setting off for the navigation keys on Windows 10 Mobile devices. read more Continue reading...

When I double click in WinExplorer on an *.mp4 video file a popup appears asking me if I want to play the video with a certain program (here with well known VLC video player). As you can see in the attached snapshot I checked the checkbox to ALWAYS use VLC for opening the video. BUT: When I...

Currently when I delete a file in WinExplorer then no confirmation appears. How can I tell Win8 to show a confirmation prompt? Peter

Hello, When i use feature Backup of Windows 10, i see in Option "Back Up These Folders" some libraries as default. I know that i can add or remove libraries or i can exclude Folders. But, happens that, when i leave the backup and days ago i come to do another backup, it appears again with the...

Hi guys, I am in dire need of some help/advice. My parents are on vacation and I thought I would finally upgrade my mother's PC. This PC was still running on Windows XP along with several old programs. Normally I would do a clean install, however she wanted to keep everything *sigh* So first...

this machine just has 1 user - me. in user settings, i'm listed as administrator of course. yet i'm still always bombarded with "administrator privilege" prompts, and currently............ i'm trying to untick "fast startup" under power settings. it's greyed out, as if i don't have...

For a very specific reason, I want to set very long passwords in one windows account. Currently I have a 65 letter password set in windows. I want to increase it to possibly 500 letter or more. However, it seems I cant set the password to any longer than 65 letters. Is there a way I can change...