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I see Microsoft has still not fixed the icon issue that has plagued Windows since Win95. I spent a good 20 minute arranging all my icons per my old Win7 machine. Changed the wallpaper and BAM!!!! Complete and utter mess! Does anyone know of a save/restore utility that actually works with Win8(x64)? I tried all the ones I could find with Google that say they work for Win7 but none of them work. Most of them do nothing at all. The one that tried to work would put all the icons back wrong. I'd appreciate any help! Thanks, Justin View the full article
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Why does Microsoft hate its customers so much that it would force this junk OS known as Windows 8 or Windows Server 2012 on them?? This is the worst I've ever had to deal with in my 30 years of working with desktop/laptop/server machines loaded with Windows. There are millions of computers in the world that are not tablets or smart phones. I'm not going to give you details. Figure it out, Microsoft. This OS looks and acts like its made for little kids. It sucks so bad. View the full article
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Ok, just got the new OS, and honestly not really digging it much. Not user friendly in my opinion and too confusing. I downloaded a program from my college school site and cannot find where it went so I can execute it. I am so used to Windows 7 and the easy to find downloads folder and just clicking on the program from there. In addition is apps the new word for downloads? It is totally throwing me off. I am on a PC not a mobile phone or tablet, so when I think of the word app I think of something designed for those devices. View the full article
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Hi, On Win7 I have set keyboard shortcuts to switch languages as I had 3 languages defined. The definition of the keyboard shortcuts could be done from the system's language setting window. How can I set such keyboard shortcuts on Win8? Thanks, View the full article
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Hi My laptop has been recently freezing and on reboot it shows that bad_pool_caller is the issue or sometimes it says dpc_watchdog_violation is the issue. Any help appreciated Thanks View the full article
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I have this link sent to me by ms but cannot open it: https://support.microsoft.com/fms/brandedsurvey.aspx?surveycontextid=9fd3c5f0-d5ab-4d5d-9839-b0bbada0517f View the full article
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taskbar utilization only has freezed(It display 99%) and not changing the process when computer uses.It just display "utilization paused" Computer is working properly.. Why is that?(using win 8 pro) Thank you KAvindu View the full article
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Hi, I need a urgent help regarding this below situation. As per my understanding when even OS initiated Shutdown or Reboot, it must process through _TTS, _PTS, _GTS like ACPI control method, which helps BIOS also to do some stuffs in order to handle some condition. But in Win8 I become wondered when I saw OS initiated Shutdown or Reboot process but didn't call _TTS method that I have written in my ACPI code to handle some condition before OS inform its native drivers about Sleep state. But I saw _PTS method gets call. Can you please let me know does it is expected behavior in Win8 shutdown or reboot or its my mistake in understanding the flow. If I'm right I woul…
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I uninstalled the Mal App from my Windows 8 Desktop and now cannot get it back View the full article
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Ok, I'm probably not the first person to ask about this. Why on earth, can I not see any of my connected network printers under 'Devices and Printers' of Windows 8? The devices are without question, 100% connected and registered with the OS, as evidenced from their presence within the 'Print Queues' section of Device Manager, and various software packages, when accessing the 'Print' dialog. I can't even find any evidence of the printers within Print Management! What is going on? View the full article
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I like Win8.... The Metro Apps are similar to other OSs, with Apps being the primary focus. The only thing, is that if MS is going to radically change the interface for Windows, the new metro apps should at least work correctly. The metro weather app is spastic. Originally- when I purchased this PC in December 2012, I was able to list 2-3 cities. Then for some reason, the metro weather app defaulted to the first listed, with a lot of different interesting info for it. But the 'other cities' option was lost, to view weather for the other cities I listed. Then two weeks later, the 'other cities' option was displayed again.... I listed other cities, and the metro wea…
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Greetings, Iam running Windows 8 Professional on my laptop. I have noticed that live tiles not updating at all (Such as weather, mail, etc etc) They are suppose to right at least on regular intervals. For example I login into my account and computer is connected to internet but it shows weather temperature from yesterday or when was the last time I opened weather app. As soon as I open weather all it updates and stays like that until next time I open it. Same with Mail and other tiles. It is really annoying because I like the idea of metro but its no use if it doesn't update. Does any one knows how to fix it? I looked at other topics but couldnt find anything. Vi…
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How to change the start menu language from hindi to English in apps name? View the full article
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Hi, Is the license to the Windows8 Enterprise Edition not enough? Is it required to purchase additional services(Software Assurance) to activate networking in a domain? http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/enterprise/products-and-technologies/windows-8/enterprise-edition.aspx Regards. Please remember to mark the replies as answers if they help and unmark them if they provide no help , or you may vote-up a helpful post View the full article
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We're having an issue on multiple Windows 8 Pro machines in our office where after an extended period of time users will lose their desktop wallpapers and their desktops will go blank/black with the icons still shown. When you hover over the icons, the desktop wallpaper will start to reappear behind the icons you have hovered across - and when you right click on the desktop and hit refresh, the wallpaper will come back. This issue is occurring on a mixture of systems with both NVIDIA Graphic Cards and ATI Graphic Cards - both running the latest driver versions. (All users have Local Profiles on their workstations - we do not use Roaming Profiles) View the full art…
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Hi every one, I got a strange behivior from my windows 8 instalation it seams that it is being missrendered , and everytime i reboot that stays a picture might help it seams that aa is on but at the same time the rest is compleatly un readeable it has append after a batch update i did today but with some tool from my nvidia drivers i see that it is my cg that does that , so where is the path for the setting so i can disable the nvidia and have the intel hd instead ? (i already know how to but i do not know where the setting app is ...) thank's for you help View the full article
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Windows 8 spell checker not working, I’ve tried several techniques to get it to work. None worked. I would like to get this feature working again. I tried several ways, my auto features are on in Blue desktop. I’ve done a integrity check, all is ok, still not working, tried an IE reset, disabled all none ms startups, one thing did work was creating a new account that hardly constitutes as a fix. Is there going to be a update to solve this, I have tried many things including going into the msspellcheck file and run it but still no luck. Anyone have a solution View the full article
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I entered the wrong email address and I have since set up another one but the old one continues to be the one used for signin and then of course the password doesn't work with it and I can't connect to anything because it is an invalid email address. I have looked at other entries describing this but none of the suggestions work. When I try to Switch to Microsoft Account all I get is my account with the wrong email address. There must be a way to fix this. View the full article
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I tried to find the answer to my question, but all solutions seemed irrelevant to my problem. Just got a Gateway notebook with Windows 8. For example : I use a lot of forums. When I click on messages, or pages I just commented on, I have to refresh. EVERYTIME. When it pops up, it was exactly the way I left it. All I have to do is refresh, it is not a tiresome burdon, but a major annoyance. Any help would be appreciated! View the full article
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Hello. I tried three times upgrading from Win 7 Ultimate to Win 8 Pro Upgrade, using the license CD. The program completes the upgrade but states "windows could not configure one or more system components". The Windows 8 Upgrade Advisor informed that the PC was ready, with minor applicaton (program versions) compbatibility issues. I disconnected all external devices and the situation continued. Please advise. Thanks! View the full article
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Failed to schedule Software Protection service for re-start at 2113-01-12T17:08:03Z. Error Code: 0x8
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I have a media center computer that is connected to a Samsung LED TV. Windows 8 shows it as a generic monitor. Are there video drivers for large screen TVs? Thanks View the full article
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Bij het opstarten krijg ik het windows venster en na het intikken van de code krijg ik alleen een zwart scherm en je zo denken dat de computer actief is maar er gebeurd niets , na een aantal keren opstarten heeft hij de fout aan '' Critical process Died ''. Wat kan hier worden aangedaan Met vriendelijke groeten raphael lanneau View the full article
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I have a problem with the bitlocker for windows 8,When i was encrypting drive D: My laptop shut down.Now when i try to unlock bitlocker my password isn't correct. When I try to click ,,Unlock Drive" it says:,,Error code:0x8007007a" Please help View the full article
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[Defect] Library Content and Symbolic Links are Displayed Differently by Modern and Desktop Applicat
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Hello, I've noticed that Desktop and Modern apps differently handle contents of Libraries. Symptoms When you add a folder to a Windows library this added folder is displayed differently in Desktop and Modern apps. If you expand or open the library in a Desktop application such as Windows Explorer, you will see added folder and all the subfolders within that added subfolder. When opening the same library from a Modern app, such as Mail, you will see only the subfolders but not the added Library: Pictures Folder you add to the library: X:| |-Pictures-| |-Pic…
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