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I am sure I have used a facility at some time to allow me to highlight a small part of the screen and make a screen shot of it but I can't remember how to do it? If I put print screen in to the search on the task bar it shows a program called 'print screen' but if I click on it I get a dos box...

I manage an online historic archive for a local historical society. We have many documents, pictures, etc., posted in a Dropbox account, and provide links for all who desire. I'm concerned that one of us (me or one of the volunteers who has access to the account/collection) might someday...

Hey everyone! I have an issue. I used to have a USB drive for Windows 10 by MSi and got destroyed (corrupted). I need your help here. Issue: to create a NEW USB installer of Windows 10 using MSi's 5 ISO files on my D:\ drive and create one installation USB drive Files in question: recovery_dvd...

I have a small utility which uses the MS C++ Redistributable library msvcr100.dll It works successfully on Windows 7. Now I put the program and all accompaning files (including msvcr100.dll) on an USB flash drive. When I plugin that USB flash drive into another computer with Win10 and try to...

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My cousin's computer is a Dell Inspiron i5559 Signature Edition. It came with no software except Windows. The problem is, even though I installed Dell Quickset on it we can't adjust the keyboard backlight timeout. In the Quickset program directory it has BacklitKB.exe. On mine I can use that to...

How to take a screenshot of a selected portion of your screen in windows Don't tell me snipping tool I want something similar to mac (command+control+shift+4) which is very fast to copy and paste a selective portion of a screen

Assume I boot Win10 from an USB flash drive on various computers. The max possible resolution differs from computer to computer. I could always manually fiddle through the menus and set the current max.possible resolution manually. But this is uncomfortable. Is there a utility or cmdline...

I downloaded an ISO file of Office 2016 and have the ISO file in my downloads folder. Windows 7 had an option to burn the ISO file without the need of a third-party solution. Supposedly Windows 10 does also, but when I right-click on the file I don't see the option to burn it to a DVD. A blank...

Is it possible to block temporarily all (outgoing) Internet traffic WITHOUT using the build-in Windows firewall? I guess there is a simple utility which offers a "traffic OFF" button which obviously cuts all traffic until the user re-pushes him. Is there such a tool or another simple way for...

I am trying to go back to win 7 ult from win 10. My computer is a HP 8200 sff (refurb) with: i5 3.2GHZ processor 8G RAM 1 TB HDD The problem is getting rid of the win 10 partitions. Most disk wiping utilities either don't have partition editing capabilities or are not set up for the win 10...

Hi, bit of a long shot, not sure if anyone will be able to help me. I remember a good few years back i would always use the latest SATA or matrix / RST drivers and would always update them regularly, I’m pretty sure i have had newer drivers on my laptop in the past than what i have now, i...

Assume I want to check the partition NTFS integrity of a Win 7 system from a BootCD with WinXP. Is this possible? Or is the WinXP chkdsk utility outdated and NOT usable for Win 7 NTFS systems? Peter

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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...

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Me Again ! New machine with Windows 7 Pro. Wanted to use Task Manager to halt a programme. Task Manager comes up in the Processes page, no header, no tabs, no way out other than closing the thing with the Taskbar context popup. Can I somehow correct this, or should I seek a...