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If you are at the desktop, Win 8 will boot back to the desktop on a restart or power down. If you drag the mouse pointer to the bottom right corner, that pop-out bar shows. You can select Power, and then you can select Power-Down or Restart. When the O/S reboots, it will show the Start-page for a couple of seconds, and then it will go back to the desktop. I love it, since I am at the desktop about 95% of the time. I think this works well on a laptop where it's being powered down for transportation and turned back on, which I do twice a day between work and home. I think logging off and then powering down on Win 8 is not needed, like on the previous versions of the W…
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As the title says, my IE 10 keeps crashing, even at start. The app works fine. I've learnt from another discussion how to get the .dmp file for the crashes and I've uploaded a few of them to my SkyDrive but somehow I can't post links on here. Does anyone know how to fix this? Your help would be greatly appreciated. View the full article
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Recently we had posted a WMV file into a file share on our network for users to view. We found an issue with Windows 8 workstations that were viewing the video that if they navigated forwards or backwards in the video the audio portion would play properly, however the screen image would not change from the last image viewed for sometimes up to to a minute later. Is this a known issue with the new media player in Windows 8? If they chose to open the video in the "old" style media player it advanced and rewound as expected. View the full article
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Our company now has multiple Windows 8 laptops. I went in to manage offline files, but the link does not do anything. Nothing opens when you click it. Anyone know what I might be doing wrong? I open Sync Center. I click Manage offline files. Nothing happens. Signature on file at Main office View the full article
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I have been trying to pin websites to the start menu via IE 10 Metro. However, even after I choose to create one, the tiles are not showing up within the apps, or upon the start screen. A windows easy transfer has taken place between an old computer and the one I am trying to create the tiles upon and I'm curious if that might be causing an error for some reason, or if the tiles are malfunctioning in some manner. View the full article
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Hi all, I have run into a highly annoying issue. Windows 8 hangs on shutdown, restart, or sign off. This just started occurring. If I shutdown from the login screen it works, but once in the system, it fails. I can restart from a command line, but I need to be able to shutdown normally. No new programs have been installed. Regards, Kelly Personal Blog: http://thebitsthatbyte.com View the full article
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I had a malware issue on my desktop which I managed to clean up. Unfortunately I had to reset the windows 8 firewall to default. What this has meant though is that the store and my other windows 8 apps are no longer present in the windows 8 firewall list. So, I cannot get the store to work. I have compared it to my windows 8 laptop and I note that the store entry is present but it seems to be system entered. I've run sfc /scannow, etc. but have had no joy with anything and I seriously don't want to reset the PC to get this working. How do I add back the store credentials into the firewall so I can get the store app to work? Loading up fiddler2 does allow some apps thr…
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I figured that many people are struggling with how to use windows 8, I will post a good lesson. Bill Gates says a 8 year old can teach windows 8. http://www.gcflearnfree.org/windows8 View the full article
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How do I get Chess Titans for Win 8? View the full article
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Understanding pools If you want to take advantage of Storage Spaces, you must first create at least one pool of disks to house your virtual drive. We show you how to do this (and how to set up your first storage space) in this walkthrough. The number of disks you use in your pool is up to you. Officially a pool can support an unlimited number of drives, so the upper limit is governed only your hardware Microsoft says the technology has been successfully tested with "hundreds of drives". Equally, it’s possible to create a pool containing only a single disk. This might seem pointless, but it allows you to create a storage space that can be e…
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When my HP Z220 wakes up from sleep (which is fast an reliable), Outlook 2013 will not receive or send any mail or open any link that I click on and IE is also blocking and refuses to load any web pages at all. At the same time, I can use FireFox and browse just fine with it. Also: when the machine wakes up (no sure if this also happens when I boot it) and I mistype my password, the machine will block for minutes, only showing the spinning dots, no way to interrupt this. (I am using a Windows Account to log in.) View the full article
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Hello, I have(had) 2 2TB SATA HDDs as 2-way mirror in Storage spaces. This is my story: 1. I ran diskpart.exe to format some hdd. 2. Selected wrong disk. 3. Cleaned disk. 4. Started to format it. 5. Noticed it was wrong disk. 6. Cancelled format in disk management. 7. Removed storage from storage space. (thought this was general mirror, so I could restore data with acronis disk recovery.) 8. Tried Acronis disk recovery, found out, it can not seach for partitions on GPT-formatted drives. 9. Converted 2-nd drive to MBR. 10. Tried Acronis again, it found nothing. 11. Tried WinHex, It found some partitions, but it was useless. 12. Tried to find files with signa…
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Win8 Pro x64. Our GP specifies that monitors are to turn off after 15 minutes. To rule out the GP I removed myself from that policy and am now running a local power policy that states the monitor should turn off after 1 minute. The only thing that happens is the session locks after 15 minutes. I also cannot find out where that lock out timer is. I enabled (via reg) "Console lock display off timeout" and set that to 1 yet my machine still only locks after 15 minutes and the monitors never turn off. I should also note that all other machines on the domain work fine and their monitors turn off. My computer setup also worked fine with Win7 x86. …
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I kept getting a bunch of messages that Windows 8 had problems booting today. driver_corrupted_expool then shutdown and reboot, come up next bad_pool_header, etc. I went to advanced boot options and selected the "Refresh" option. It asked me to put my disk in and click next. So I did but I couldn't select "NEXT". There was no "NEXT" option after inserting my disk. Just cancel! Is Microsoft that stupid? How are you supposed to refresh your installation without losing data and programs if it doesn't recognize that you inserted a disk? So far this OS sucks IMO! View the full article
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Hello, I've upgraded Windows 7 to 8 Pro. For some time I have a problem with right-click menu of taskbar. It does show up but after i navigate to it, it disappears. Could you, please, help me resolving the problem? Best regards, Filip View the full article
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Regarding the question, on Windows 7 if I uncheck "Display delete confirmation dialog" I could delete a file without confirmation whether it's on local or network share but in Windows 8 this only affects the data on local drive only and if I try to delete anything from network the confirmation dialog appears even though "Display delete confirmation dialog"is unmarked. Are there any ways to alter this behavior? View the full article
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I am using windows 8 pro on a Lenovo twist. After I updated the pc, (online updates) I logged in only to discover that some of my icons are missing from the desktop. I then realised that my apps like word 2013 thinks that it is the first time I am running it. Please can anyone assist. I also have a domain a account that I use, but the profile I am talking about is the live.com account. I have in the past link the two together. houzaz View the full article
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Hya folks this error cropped up the other day it hasnt since but what is it? im assuming its the internet explorer line2432 char1 error handle is invalid code 0 urlres://ieframe.dll/preview js. as i said it hasnt come up again and everything seems to be working well for a change.would like to know though. View the full article
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Some of you may find this of interest... Sounds pretty funky, really http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=35460 Cheers, Drew [url=" Drew MS Partner / MS Beta Tester / Pres. Computer Issues Pres. Computer Issues www.drewsci.com View the full article
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Hi, I am using Windows 8 64 bit Enterprise Edition and receiving the below error. Screensaver is not loading unable to load screensaver extended data Please let me know how to solve the issue Regards, Boopathi S View the full article
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Hello. I'm running windows 8 which has Directx 11 on it. While trying to run the new benchmark for final fantasy 14 I get the system error XINPUT1_3.dll is missing. How can I fix this? View the full article
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Sorry my video is poor quality, my cam is very huge and I did not take the time to set it up the way it should. I do believe I will demonstrate how well windows 8 recovery DVD creation works, and using that upon bootup using a saved image backup stored on a 1tb usb drive. I'm doing this to provide confidence that users feel confident that windows 8 restore will work for them if a system failure happens in windows 8. I am giving them reliable data to rely on, that this method to restore their system to its operational state with all programs and files intact. Sry for my speech, I was a boxer for years and have some speech problems http://youtu.be/J5SC6as…
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Is there a way to display past toast notifications that you might have missed? If you have more than about two on the screen, that option to view all past Toast notifications comes in handy. View the full article
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When I click on the maps tile, the program opens but it just flickers and then displays a white screen. I can choose my location and the text shows up, but only after the screen flickers and stops, but still no images. I tried both views and neither work. Zooming in or out does not work either. How do I fix this? View the full article
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I keep getting these error when trying to install updates on Windows 8 Pro View the full article
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