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I have a problem with setting icons for desktop shortcuts where the icon is on a mapped drive. View the full article
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The Windows 8 Mail app is unable to download any attachments from our Exchange (2003 SP2) server. It is a frontend/backend configuration and everything works okay (including OWA and OMA), but whenever I try to download an attachment I get the following error: "One or more files couldn't be downloaded. Try again" View the full article
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When I try to remove usb external HDD, I am often prompted that device is busy. How could I detect process which access to usb external HDD ? View the full article
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Why in the world would you discontinue Windows Live Mesh? The ability to synchronize any folder or file located anyplace on the PC is of great value to many of us. Skydrive seems to require us to move files to be synched to the skydrive folder......just as useless as drop box. Please reconsider, or else modify Skydrive to accommodate View the full article
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it took 10 hours but still not finish. screen just show me: keep your Pc plugged in until this is done. Installing update 2 of2. what happening? View the full article
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i started restart my computer for this update last night, is already been 10 hours, but the update still didnt finish.screen tell me:keep your pc plugged in until this is done. installing update2 of 2... is my computer have some problem? im sure internet is working fine. View the full article
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I am trying to switch from using a Local Account to a Microsoft Account on my recent reinstalled Windows 8 laptop. However, when I use the option 'Switch to a Microsoft account' and then enter my work email address I get the error: "This email address is associated with a primary Microsoft account. Please use that ID." I'm guessing that has happened because previously I'd associated my Domain Account with a Microsoft Account this Domain Account has the Exchange mailbox with my work email address. The computer on which I'd done this failed and was unrecoverable, so I'm unable to check any settings. I've used the link https://account.live.com/Manag…
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I have successfully set up this virtual machine and have 2 questions. 1 - I hate that you have to press CTRL-ALT-LEFT ARROW to free the cursor from the Virtual Machine's window. My wife has limited ability with her hands and I wondered if a function key could be used to replace that ? 2 - I can't figure a way on re-boot to start the virtual machine and CONNECT to it. On reboot I would like the Windows XP machine started, the window for the XP machine opened, and a program inside the XP machine to be started. Is this possible ? Thanks for any help. View the full article
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The certificate you selected is not valid for signing because it is either expired or has another is
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While we tried to Pick an existing certificate file from the file system through Choose Certificate in package manifest, we get "The certificate you selected is not valid for signing because it is either expired or has another issue error". The certificate which we attached is the one we got from the Symantec for implementing enterprise apps. View the full article
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Hi, I've recently migrated my data (8,5Tb) from Windows Home Server v1 (Drive Extender) to Windows 8 Pro (Storage Spaces parity mode). The pool is made by 11x2Tb HDs and the Storage Space is 20Tb thin provisoned to ensure me a 8192 cluster size for further expasion. What I've noticed is that I have by now 2,5Gb of Non-Paged-Pool memory locked of my 16 Gb Ram installed! Using poolmon.exe I found that the non paged pool is allocated to a proces with TAG "SpBu" that it seems to be related to StorageSpaces driver?! It seems also that the more files I add to the SSpace the more non paged pool grows btw, if I free space from the SSpace the non paged pool dec…
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hi when i right click on start menu to run command prompt,its not running!!! also,cmd not running in metro when click cmd run as administrator? when i right click my computer,not running “manage”. how solving it? tnx View the full article
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I'm having trouble getting my wifes laptop to display the proper "pictures" using the metro "pictures" application. Let me explain our setup. I have a desktop (my machine) with a dedicated media drive that holds all of our documents, pictures, videos, and music. On my machine I simply included those directories under the various "property" dialogs as additional "library locations". So on my machine when I pull up the pictures application it shows them just fine. Next, I shared those same media directories with everyone on the network so she could easily see them using explorer. Once she was given acces…
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I have 2 installs of Windows 8, one Pro, one Enterprise. I am having an issue setting the screensaver to display my photos. I get a message stating: There are no pictures in c:usersmy user namepictures. I have a bunch in there, and the photo app sees all my pictures too. If I chose a single sub folder under my pictures, the screensaver will work, but it will not work when the pictures(my pictures) folder is selected. Anybody experience this issue or found any kind of workaround? Randy Oster View the full article
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I recently downloaded the Window Pro update to my Windows 7 laptop. I was not aware that Windows 8 would lock down my account. I am the only user of this computer so I never created a separate user account. Now when I attempt to open IE or many other applications, such as the 'Store', I get the 'Application Can't Open---Store can't be opened using 'built-in administrator account try logging on with a different account'. Well that would be fine except all my last two years of work are not available to any other account. Windows 8 turned my user account into a restricted admin. Is there a way to change this set of restrictions? Can I enable this account to have acces…
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I have had a few problems while setting up with Windows 8 mainly with the wireless keyboard and mouse not working at all but some of this appears to be working at the moment ! My main issue now is that I have no keyboard or mouse during boot up which means I cannot access my bios at all or enter safe mode or other options. Once I get to the home screen/desktop the mouse and keyboard work again, I have tried a wired mouse and keyboard but it still does not work until I get to the start/desktop. Any idea why this is and how can I get to my bios or choose safe mode etc if I have no control ??? Also during boot, I am seeing a screen with a choice of windows 8 or Windows 7 X…
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This may be a bit of an obscure one, but hopefully someone else is running WSUS on their server and has the same issue.... I've upgraded to Windows 8 Pro and am having an issue with using a live user ID as my login. However, this is a slightly different issue from the normal one: I have WSUS installed on my WHS2011 (2008 R2) server and I finally managed to get the RSAT tools to install on my windows 8 client (I only have a couple of real clients, but use quite a few VMs as I am studying for Microsoft Certs, and I like to keep my VMs up to date!). However, the WSUS remote admin console won't connect from the Windows 8 Client to the WSUS on the server. I have save…
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Hi guys, How do I locate the actual file from the link in the start screen? For example, I just installed the netflix app. The big netflix logo now appears in the start screen and allows me to use netflix. However, I want to see whether the executed netflix program exe is digitally signed. To this end, I have to locate where the file is located and if there are multiple netflix files in my drive, WHICH of those files is pointed to by the link on the start screen. How do I find out? Thanks. View the full article
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I am trying to install MSXML 4.0 sp3 in Windows 8. It starts then stops with " An error occured during installation of assembly component {74974f83-779E-3983-A06B-D6B9ABF34537} HRESULT: 0x80073712 " Hunting on the MS web site I found there was a msxml4-KB2721691-enu for 64 bit versions. However this (even running as administrator) gave the same error I have spent days hunting for answer on the web so obviously it is not a common problem but has certainly cropped up a few times but with no answers Do I reinstall windows 8? Is there something to look for that might be missing? Is there a setting I have to make. While I am not computer traine…
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Does the Window Explorer of Windows 8 contain a field showing date and time of a last music file played? I know that I-Tunes has that, and I could not see that in Windows 7. Oliver View the full article
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when try to install the application from a windows 8 store. its saying your purchase could not be co
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Hi, I am using windows 8 and trying to access the store of it. when i open the store its showing all the applications. but when i try to install any of this then it gives a error saying that "YOUR PURCHASE COULD NOT BE COMPLETED.( SOMETHING HAPPENED AND YOUR PURCHASE CANT BE COMPLETED). The above issue happend when i try to access it through my proxy. the proxy we use is a BLUECOAT 900 series one and its OS version is 6.2. but when i directly gives the internet access to the same pc or if i use a IP natting for this pc then the app store works fine. i have tried swiching from local account to microsoft account and from microsoft account to local account nothi…
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The elements in boot sector of Windows 8 differ from another version of Windows 8? I found the information of Windows 2000 boot sector from this link: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc976796.aspx But not found for Windows 8 . Can anyone tell me please? View the full article
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Hi, I bought a new laptop came with Windows 8 couple days ago, and it is driving me nuts. When I tried to restart or shut down the laptop, it had a chance that "Configuring Windows Features" would show up and waste me a lot of time. I have reset the whole system 2 times and it didn't help. Then I figured it out I should checked Event Viewer and see what happened. I found out that every time the"Configuring Windows Features" showed up, there would be a error called "The server {752073A1-23F2-4396-85F0-8FDB879ED0ED} did not register with DCOM within the required timeout." And I found a solution for W7: http://soci…
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I suppose that in part, because I really want the start button to be back on Windows 8 that I am posing this question, but I see a feature here that would be nice and would satisfy me such that I would no longer care about a Start button. I've always liked the taskbar more than the start button but it is missing my favorite feature that was in the Start Menu. And maybe it isn't and that's what this question is about? How do I add an icon to the taskbar that will pull up a drop down of all the Microsoft Office tools (as opposed to putting each one on the taskbar)? R, J View the full article
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Hi, Have been trying to get an answer to this issue for a couple of months now with no success......hope somebody can point me in the right direction!! The text of my previous (unanswered) post is here at http:// social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w8itprogenerl/thread/889d81b9-86bf-4c84-ad5f-21d852512636/#889d81b9-86bf-4c84-ad5f-21d852512636 this outlines the situation as I understand it! As far as I can tell, the issue has only arisen because of the non standard profile. In earlier versions of Windows paths could easily be reassigned through registry to restore any missing links arising from their default paths. In Windows 8 the addition of the modern UI App…
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Hi My PC (which is only 5 days old) has had some issues since I first booted it up. It likes to either lock up or completely shut down and restart on its own. It does this at random times, never when I am actively making inputs (like say during a game) but it shut down when I was watching a 6 minute YouTube video. My drivers for my GTX 680 are up to date (310.70), and my Gigabyte X79-UP4 board has its Audio, Chipset, LAN, and USB drivers updated. I have install every update on Windows 8 to date. I also ran tests on my HDD and RAM and those tests showed nothing bad. I don't know what to do to fix this except try to downgrade to Windows 7. If anyone can help me, I…
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