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After inserting a Blu-ray data disc (BD-R), an unknown background process accesses the disc even when I am doing nothing. It even happens when deactivating the real-time protection feature of Windows Defender. Existing tools such as the task manager and the third-party tool "Process Hacker"...

The latest feature update to Windows 10, version 21H2, KB4023057, installed on ‎25/07/2022 and took five and a half hours. It messed up my computer in many ways so I reverted to the pre latest feature update (under Settings/Recovery). This feature update is poised to install once more, and...

Hi all. This is my first post here so apologies in advance if it in the wrong thread. I am by no means an it expert hence me asking for help on this. I want to create a new folder everyday to keep a record of curtain work things relating to this particular day. So within a current folder I...

Recently I connected external monitor (acer 144hz) to my laptop (ASUS TUF GAMING F15) through HDMI cable. The first 3 minutes it worked perfectly, but soon after a lot of strange things began to happen: -I couldn't open file explorer or any other app -It seem like the screen froze, but i could...

Recently I connected external monitor (acer 144hz) to my laptop (ASUS TUF GAMING F15) through HDMI cable. The first 3 minutes it worked perfectly, but soon after a lot of strange things began to happen: -I couldn't open file explorer or any other app -It seem like the screen froze, but i could...

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 upgraded my HDD to SSD, installed Windows on SSD, everything works fine, I have used HDD as an external storage, worked fine, then I have used HDD caddy, replaced DVD drive with HDD caddy, Windows is starting fine as SSD primary, but when I open windows explorer it doesn't open up, I...

I am sure at one time I could see the picture in both the navigation pane and the preview pane of windows explorer. Now all I get with jpgs, pngs etc is an icon with a pair of blue mountains on a blue background with a moon in the sky? Is there any way of getting the pictures back?

How do I get the ip address of a NETBIOS name using WSD from the command line (not power shell). This is Windows Explorer (not IE) doing what I want, but I want to do it from the command line also

Hello Windows Insiders, today we are releasing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22000.184 to the Beta Channel and commercial PCs in the Release Preview Channel. Fixes [General] Fixed an issue where the new learn more info in OOBE about Windows Hello wasn’t translated for non-English languages...

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I don't know what did this but if I am in a program that ask me to select a folder for a video to be saved to or imported from it has changed the name of a directory path even in windows explorer it shows an incorrect complicated path that looks like something to do with zune. I have created a...

Hi all, I followed one of the tutorial to center the taskbar icon using "Links" shortcut in the taskbar and I noticed my tray icon bar is glitching. Sometimes it does not show the entire tray icon, sometimes it disappears altogether (when this happens I have to toggle "Use small icons" in the...

Hello! Windows Explorer crashes on my desktop every time I wake the PC from sleep. It starts up again after 2-3 seconds, but some of my taskbar icons disappear (like FX Sound Enhancer, AMD Adrenaline etc.). I am not sure if this started happening after an update or not, but as far as I can...

Can't get the datemodified: trick to work in my windows explorer. It doesn't show the promised calendar, parameters such as "thisweek" give nothing. Is WIndows 10 a bunch of crap? Never had this and a hundred other problems with 7 but it seems we're forced to use this OS or migrate to Linux...

After some re-configurations/installations files for some file extensions do not show the file icons of their corresponding programs any more in Windows Explorer. E.g. *.html file icons show not the Firefox thumbnails. How can I "refresh" the icon look again? Peter

In the past I mount a remote shared folder as drive W: in my local Windows Explorer with a command similar to: net use w: \\192.168.0.21\myshare /persistent:no This works successfully on a IPv4 connection. At first: Which remote port does the "net share" command (implicitely) connect to on...

Bookspace disk space I noticed that I have unallocated disk space on the system disk. Quite a lot, in relation to the size of the disc in question, and so I like to use it. Does Windows have any tool / option to add it to C drive? The disk space reserved for programs and applications would...

Hi, Just bought on line a small 2T external HD & as is not shown I cannot Format it. Tried various programs like eases-us etc hoping they have something to make it show in w.explorer with no success. It specifies formatting in Fat32. My 1T PC HD is in NTFS & so is my other 1T External one...

Dear Users, my notebook`s Drive C: is decreasing withing minutes! I deleted a lot of things, and i had forexample 2 GB space! then it becomes 135Mb and when i Refresh the Windows Explorer! it is decreasing withing seconds! what can be the problem?!