Recent feedback from Windows 11 users has been less than favorable, especially concerning a specific update known as KB5041585. Originally intended to enhance security and address some pressing issues, this update has ironically led to a slew of new problems, frustrating many users in the...
Microsoft is gearing up to deploy a significant update to Windows 11, known as the 24H2 update, which has raised concerns among users about its potential impact on solid-state drive (SSD) performance. The primary feature that has drawn attention is the activation of BitLocker, Microsoft’s device...
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Microsoft recently took strides to enhance the Windows updates API within the Microsoft Graph to provide users with quicker, more frequent, and programmatic access to data, influenced by user feedback. This development involves the introduction of two new data categories: known issues and...
Three months ago, I took on the role of leading Windows and Devices. What excited me about this was the opportunity to bring together our incredible teams to work on a product that a billion people all over the world rely on every day to work, learn, create and have fun. Since taking on the...
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Stardock Just saw that Stardock is having a 50% off everything sale. I remember using a couple pieces of their software back in the Windows XP days. So thought I'd just pass this along to my fellow Windows geeks!
I don't know if this is true but seems like there is a lot less customization...
Last week we paused the rollout of the Windows 10 October 2018 Update (version 1809) for all users as we investigated isolated reports of users missing files after updating. Given the serious nature of any data loss, we took the added precaution of pulling all 1809 media across all channels...
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Hi everyone, my pc recently got infected with what I think is a virus and all folders in my drives including drive C(windows installed) have been HIDDEN. When I click on any of my drives the folder is empty. The only way I can access my files/folders is keying in the folder directory in the...
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Hi everyone
Im new here.
My question is I have a windows server 2008 running. With filezila for ftp. And advances folder share for file sharing on my network.
Is the any sort of bare bone windows system that will do the job. Keep it simple. Server 2008 is old now but does the job. I done use...
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A new open-sourced tool is now available for the Windows Application Driver (WinAppDriver) community: the WinAppDriver UI Recorder tool. This tool will enable users to easily create automated UI tests.
For those of you not familiar with WinAppDriver, it is a UI automation service for Windows 10...
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When I try to install Windows 10 fall creator update, I get this error message:
2017-10-20 22:16:30, Error MOUPG CInstallUI::GetDefaultLanguage(1785): Result = 0x80070002[gle=0x00000002]
I tried through update assistant, media creation tool and windows update and all failed.
I...
As we previously announced, the first phase of the rollout targets newer devices. Based on testing work done with our OEM hardware and ISV app partners, we believe these devices will have the best possible update experience and help us decide when it’s time to begin the next phase of the...
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Hello, I had a lovely session with a Windows support representative but I can't find a way to express how grateful I am for their help. I was able to press 5 stars to answer two questions about their performance but there was nowhere for me to write out my feedback to explain why I rated them so...
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Hi. I know how to disable creation of thumbs.db, and now know how to delete them locally (using Disk Cleanup), but some were created on external drives before I had disabled creation of them, and it seems Disk Cleanup isn't able to access these drives. Any advice on deleting all thumbs.db files...
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I found a thread on this subject from sometimes back but there was no good solution so I want to ask this again. I upgraded my computer with a much faster but much smaller SSD drive. There is way to move c:\Users\user_name to another drives but that's not a good way todo because you have to do...
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Hi
I was just reading about Windows 10 upgrade policy and it seems to indicate that users of Windows Vista (already screwed once, LOL) will not have the free upgrade offer even though the previous and post versions of Windows are eligible.
If that's true it seems like a very strange option...
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If you want a complete and unified modern UI for the next Windows pls. join to give the right feedback for Windows 10 in order to become the modern OS we wanted.
Our main scope would be to assure that Microsoft understands we want to get an unified and complete modern looking UI, more...
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Hi Guys,
I have heard good things about this forum so I thought I would join. Unfortunately I have been having a few issues over the last day or so. Basically evertime I open a folder in my internal back-up drivers it seems to intermittently boot me out and closes the window so I end back...