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Is there any way to do this safely? I tried the recommended method but it did not remove it. Thanks.

I always feel like it's a good idea to continue to learn even if it's such a minor thing as taking a fast screen shot. The benefit of this method is it allows you to screen capture just what you need to and automatically adds it to the clipboard for pasting. Simply press the key combo [Windows...

If I have a folder pointing to a network share that does not exist and I try to open that folder windows will 'freeze' that folder for about 30 seconds while windows tries to find it before telling me it can't.... Same thing happens if I know its not a valid shortcut and try to right click on it...

I have pictures scattered in my hard drive. How can I gather all pictures into one area and then save all images to my external drive? Or if I cannot gather into one area, then save all pics with one click from my mouse to an external drive. thanks

HELLO, I think is possible to resolve my question. I don´t want to use the ONEDRIVE FOLDER because I waste double space in hard disk. How i can do this only using the space in the ONEDRIVE Cloud? I have, because I bought OFFICE 365, 1 TB of space in ONEDRIVE Cloud. If I have files near this...

Did you know with the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update, you can now easily reset your pin or password, right from your device’s lock screen? Here’s how to get started: On your PC’s lock screen, click I forgot my password and sign in with your MSA account. From there, you’ll be asked to prove...

Hello, When in any File Explorer window i click in an empty place of the screen, i get some options. One of them is "NEW". when i put the cursor on it i have two options. "Folder" and "Shortcut". As you can see in the file that i upload i have also a lot of entries that i do not use. How can i...

I just now noticed it says under Hard Disk OS(C:) 169GB free of 684 GB. I have no clue how much free space I have left, is 168 GB not very much space? Also is there any way to free up. I did delete all my Downloaded videos, I know they were taking alot of space, that is when it said 169GB...

some time ago I used a reg hach for sticky keys to replace my admin password. does any one recall something like that. my pc was stolen and I lost the 411 and would like to regain it

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Even from the days of XP, I never found a way to keep either notepad or wordpad on top of other pages. Clicking anywhere on the screen with notepad open immediately minimizes it. Is there any way to keep notepad locked on top of other windows?Thanks in advance for your assisstance.

Hello to all. I realize the title is inappropriate to describe the topic. I'd be trying to figure out if possible with Windows (if this is where I should start to analyze the issue ..) have a "pop-up" with 3-4 favorite social networks web link always visible (at my request , otherwise not) at...

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I have downloaded some movies to a thumb drive the last couple months and notice my hard drive space is decreasing quickly even though the download is going to an exterior flash drive. Is there a temporary memory place somewhere on my hard drive storing this data? I want to delete it if so.

Is it possible to rename only part of a filename when multiple files are selected in Windows Explorer? I sometimes have hundreds of files to rename and I have to do them individually.

Hi I really don't see a section on the forum where members can have a little fun. Kind a let your hair down and brag, or what ever. Members can reply back on a topic or add there own I guess the water cooler is the best section for that. I'm going to post here. Threads seem to get more...

Hi The safe mode is one of the best trouble shooters Windows has. Here's the way to get this windows feature back on W10. I have to have my safe mode! Hope this helps someone. Please move if needed. This will work when you can't boot into windows and get to safe mode. Give it a look. You might...

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...

It's difficult to explain but I will try to. When I split the screen as shown in this photo: the game on the left doesn't center, and it really bugs me, anyone know how to fix it without ruining the quality?

While Microsoft Edge takes the top Internet browser role in Windows 10, there may be cases where Internet Explorer is still useful. read more Continue reading...