windows settings

I am trying to control which thumbnails display on folder icons in my Pictures library. Right now, all of the folder icons show thumbnails of 2 pictures. There seems to be no rhyme or reason as to which 2 pictures are chosen (obviously that is not true, it just seems that way). I assumed that...

Is it possibel to hide (temporarily) drives as well (similar to files&folders) ? If yes: How can I achieve this? Peter

Hi, I am the only user and administrator, this is shown in all settings, yet I apparently cannot do anything that requires administrator’s rights, e.g. - I cannot change the ‘hosts’ file. If I edit directly, cannot save, for not having permission; if I edit elsewhere and try to copy back, the...

I setted the time for my kids to be able to go on at 12:00 everyday but everytime they try to log on it doesnt let them and they have to wait till 3:00 for some reason to than be able to go on.I tried checking everywhere but couldnt find a solution may be someone out there knows a way to fix it...

How can I find out if Hibernation is currently turn on or off WITHOUT changing the on/off state? I prefer a cmdline command.

How do I change the amout of storage reserved for SystemRestorePoints on partition D? Is there a Registry entry for that? As I found out the current number of days my RestorePoints are kept is 90 days. How can I increase these number of days? Is there a Registry entry for that? If I change...

When I right-click on a JPG file then select Properties/Details and hover the cursor over the right half of the Comments row the expanded comments won't display for longer than 5 seconds. I've already tried increasing the Control Panel/Ease of Access Center/Make it easier to focus on...

Hi folks, bit embarrased about this one. After install W7pro to an mSATA drive, I've completely forgot how to remove the login screen when it comes out of hibernation. Im the only user and have already unticked the box reffering to login screen from screensaver, but I'm now suffering...

while downloading a pic, i accidentally maximized the file-destination window. now it's stuck at full-screen every time i go to download something. it won't let me resize it and there's no maximize/half-screen-whatever button on the top right corner. ideas?

When ever I try to open a file, I receive the error I have attached. If I view download, right click the file I am trying to open and open it with reader, than it opens correctly. How can I get the file to open correctly without doing the work around? Link Removed

Hi Folks. I'm hoping I can find a way to modify this behaviour, if only to save my beady cataract filled eyes some work. When I crawl through the Folder-Views of my HDD, any highlighting I can manage will be a pale blue background. I would really like to change this background feature to some...

Hi Today I was getting a little audio distortion in a new game I'm trying out. So I decided to update the drivers for my Creative SB Recon3D PCIe sound card. The problem was probably with the game not the drivers but I figured what the heck I might as well keep things up to date. I downloaded...

How do you setup an external USB dive to automatically open a specific folder when it's plugged in?

I changed the windows theme by unpatching. And the laptop usually pops up the message that bitmap fails to load every time I start up windows. Ever since I let the laptop update on shutdown, window's been running really slowly. It takes a long time for the start menu, folders, and programs to...

I am the only user on my computer and I am registered as a Microsoft user, yet I still have to grant admin access to run certain programs and edit certain files. How can I grant myself access to everything?

A friends HP 17 inch laptop has very small fonts on the browser controls, whether its Chrome or Firefox. The text I'm talking about is the text in tabs and bookmark bar and any other text outside of the webpage area. I've never seen this on any other PC. How can you resize this text? Its hard to...

I have a few different unwanted devices showing up in the devices section of my "Devices and Printers" window within control panel (see attached). I can't remove them. Printers have the option of "remove device," if you right click, but the devices do not have that option. How do I remove...

OK following on from my other thread "Catastrophe" I have a few more questions. I have read many threads on re-creating an account which, in nearly all cases, detailed the following; 1. Create a new account in the normal manner. 2. Login with the new account to create the files. 3. Copy...

for some reason my address bar now goes from the left all the way to the right of the screen, and thus the refesh/stop/search icons are all the way on the right. up until then, the address bar only spanned about half way across. u changed no display settings. any idea what i cold have done...

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