At first glance, using a local Windows account might seem like a throwback to simpler times—fewer cloud prompts, no need to hand over your email to Microsoft, and a sense of autonomy in a world full of relentless data collection. However, this familiar and seemingly private path now carries...
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Launching an application from the taskbar results in a second icon (with a border) appearing next to the pinned icon I launched from, instead of combining with it. The strange thing is, that this happens on 2 of the 3 accounts on my PC, and I cannot figure how to change it to see only one icon...
After a HDD failure, carried out a clean install ..
Now however I have ended up with some 'odd' account naming.
I have the following view:
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My account (administrator) instead of being .. 'Rick' is now 'Rick.Rick-Home-PC'
I know that home-pc was name I gave to computer...
Hello, and sorry to have a first post asking for help. I did a forced shutdown when my PC seemed to be incredibly slow then hanging while logging off. On restarting, I got 'disk read error' repeatedly, after the BIOS boot screen but before any of Windows.
I used my Windows install CD to run...
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