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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? More...

Does anyone know how to add a gmail account to the live tiles when your selection like gmail is not there? More...

Just reimaged to Windows 8.1 the other day and now I can't see any of my mapped network drives when I go to File/Open from some programs. When I go to Open I only see my local drives but no network drives. This is not happening in all programs but is happening in some. Most recently I'm trying to use the Windows 7 USB creation tool thing and can only see my local drive but it's happened in a few other programs as well. Anyone know what might cause this? I can browse to the drives just fine and some programs can list them normally. Very strange. More...

Can anyone tell me how to set an image (.gif) transparent background in Windows 8 Paint (ver. 6.2)? Been scratching head for a couple of hours now but can't for the life of me see how to set a transparent colour. I'm sure that the XP version of pint allowed this. Thanks, More...

To activate God Mode in Windows 8, follow the steps below: 1. Go to the Desktop 2. Right-click and select New Folder. 3. Right-click on the New Folder and select Rename. 4. Change the name of the folder [just copy & paste the following string]: GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C} 5. Open the folder and you will find every utility Windows 8 has under the sun. Note: With God Mode, you can easily access all the Administrative options and make any desired adjustments. Enjoy! Carey Frisch More...

Is it possible to download ssmypics.scr for my Windows 7 computer? I don't have the XP computer any more and want to show file names in photo screensaver More...

microsoft solitaire onwin 10 wont open More...

i want to know about my window 8 key which is inbuilt in bios More...

I am using GP user preferences to create shortcuts on my users' desktops. On all my Vista/Win7 machines they are fine and the icons are what I set them to be. on all my Win8 machines the icon is just a blank white square. If I right-click and view the icon, the correct image appears. But when the user is looking at the desktop the image is blank. I have upgraded a couple machines, scratch built one, and purchased an OEM version on a new laptop. All are the same: blank shortcut icons. Surely I'm not the only person testing Win8 in a domain environment, right? More...

I use below to set logoff time to 10: net accounts /forcelogoff:10 C:\>net accounts Force user logoff how long after time expires?: 10 Minimum password age (days): 1 Maximum password age (days): 45 Minimum password length: 8 Length of password history maintained: 4 Lockout threshold: 6 Lockout duration (minutes): 30 Lockout observation window (minutes): 30 Computer role: PRIMARY The command completed successfully. But it returns to never after a while: C:\>net accounts Force user logoff how long after time expires?: Never Minimum password age (days): 1 Maximum password age (days): 45 Minimum password length: 8 Length of password history maintained: 4 Lockout threshold: 6 Lockout duration (minutes): 30 Lockout observation window (minutes): 30 Computer role: PRIMARY The command completed successfully. Please assist.... More...

I bought my laptop with windows 7. then I bought windows 8 pro : order number WDO2226150 THEN I WAS OFFERED WINDOWS 10 FOR FREE AND I INSTALLED WINDOWS 10 !! 3 days ago I tried to update and the microsoft asked me to do some things which by mistake I ignored ,and suddenly my computer was in recovery mode!! After I tried some solutions nothing happened and I was forced to do a reset of my computer , which brought me back to windows 7 !!! Is it possible to go back to windows 10 ? I even cannot download many things not even photos from a usb thanks More...

I want to force enable all sensors on every domain computers in the domain, there is only a group policy to force disable the sensors not enable them, so how do you do that ? I wrote a small piece of software that will send us the location of every devices every 30 secs so we can see in realtime every device on a maps. More...

hello sir, I have window 8.1.. oprating system and my Environmenal User Variable path was deleted by mistake ... send me dafault path of user Variable.. help please..... Fast More...

Hi all, I wanted to set my sound default playback device to laptop's speakers using GPO. Is this possible? We have users had their default playback device to their Dell monitors instead for some reason We want to create a GPO to always set the default playback to the laptop's speakers Thanks More...

Hi there, Storage pool with two storage spaces created using Windows 8 Release Preview and then ported into Windows 8 RTM. I'm now trying to delete one of the storages spaces and getting this access is denied error message. Any suggestions would be much appreciated. More...

I want to remove Onedrive off my pc because it has made me have to start most of my games right from the start and I hate having to have to sign in everywere i go please help. Randy More...

After installing Powershell DSC Resource. C drive Default Icon Get change. unable find why it is changing the icon. Amar Vaidya More...

Hi, For an unknown reason (my guess is an update was automatically applied and automatically restarted), my computer rebooted overnight and in the morning was stuck in a failed boot loop. When trying to boot I get the message: "Preparing to configure windows" "Do not turn off your computer" Then after a few seconds the computer reboots and does the same thing. Safe mode yields the same result. Using the F8 option to restore last known good configuration doesn't change anything. I can boot into the recovery console. I have tried running SFC /SCANNOW in a command prompt in the recovery console and get the message: "There is a system repair pending which requires reboot to complete. Restart Windows and run sfc again." Restarting of course doesn't change anything. So it seems something happened to an unfinished update and is still pending. I think if I can remove this pending update I might be able to boot normally, or at least run SFC and hopefully then boot normally. Does anyone know what I should try to remove this pending update that appears to be preventing a successful boot? Thanks! More...

Hello. In any window if the view is set to Details there are columns in it of course. Almost all the time they are not as wide to see all the content in each of it. "Size all columns to fit" option is very handful in this situation, BUT it's too annoying to do it in each folder. Is there a way to set this option by default? When I open any window with Details view, or change a view in already opened windowed to Details view - all columns will be automatically set to fit their content. More...

Hello, when trying access a shopping service through a password secured site, I receive a message that I need to temporarily disable "Adblock". I am using Internet Explorer, all updates are current, and my "pop-up blocker" is turned off. How do I temporarily turn off Adblock or Adblock Plus? More...

I have read about this issue on many Vista and 7 forums. No one has since answered why the O/S suddenly won't open zip files. Simply: A user received a zip attachment in outlook with two .csv files in it. Whether she tried to open or save them from the e-mail message or open them or extract them from the saved zip file, error code "0x80004005: unknown error" gets thrown. I was able to open the same files on a Windows XP machine without any issue, so the files are not corrupted. The Windows 7 O/S is giving no other signs of an issue. I am looking for a solution other than "go get another company's product to do what 7 should natively do." More...

No matter what I type into the search box in the start menu, windows 7 search always returns "No items match your search." This happens even with things that I know for certain exist. (e.g. cmd) FWIW I once uninstalled windows search because I didn't think I would use it, but then I realized that this removes ALL search functions and not just the realtime search (which didn't happen in windows XP.) When I reinstalled it, this started happening. No matter what I try (e.g. uninstalling and reinstalling again) this still happens. More...

Hello, I would like to know is there any way to search for file content in scanned .pdf and .jpg file in Windows 7 Professional. Or is there any special software available to achieve the task. Thanks, Feroz More...

Hi everybody. I got a blue-screen error in Windows 7 32-bit. I checked my RAM by HirenBoot disc but there's no issue found. Here is the report I found: -------------------------------------------------------------- Microsoft ® Windows Debugger Version 6.11.0001.404 X86 Copyright © Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Loading Dump File [C:\Windows\Minidump\122409-14866-01.dmp] Mini Kernel Dump File: Only registers and stack trace are available Symbol search path is: SRV*c:\websymbols*http://msdl.microsoft.com/download/symbols Executable search path is: Windows 7 Kernel Version 7600 MP (2 procs) Free x86 compatible Product: WinNt, suite: TerminalServer SingleUserTS Built by: 7600.16385.x86fre.win7_rtm.090713-1255 Machine Name: Kernel base = 0x8281b000 PsLoadedModuleList = 0x82963810 Debug session time: Thu Dec 24 21:59:10.672 2009 (GMT+7) System Uptime: 0 days 1:09:35.248 Loading Kernel Symbols .................................................. ............. .................................................. .............. .................... Loading User Symbols Loading unloaded module list .......... 1: kd> !analyze -v ************************************************** ***************************** * * * Bugcheck Analysis * * * ************************************************** ***************************** PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA (50) Invalid system memory was referenced. This cannot be protected by try-except, it must be protected by a Probe. Typically the address is just plain bad or it is pointing at freed memory. Arguments: Arg1: ffb885dc, memory referenced. Arg2: 00000000, value 0 = read operation, 1 = write operation. Arg3: 9670b768, If non-zero, the instruction address which referenced the bad memory address. Arg4: 00000000, (reserved) Debugging Details: ------------------ Unable to load image \SystemRoot\System32\cdd.dll, Win32 error 0n2 *** WARNING: Unable to verify timestamp for cdd.dll *** ERROR: Module load completed but symbols could not be loaded for cdd.dll *** WARNING: Unable to verify timestamp for klif.sys *** ERROR: Module load completed but symbols could not be loaded for klif.sys Could not read faulting driver name READ_ADDRESS: GetPointerFromAddress: unable to read from 82983718 Unable to read MiSystemVaType memory at 82963160 ffb885dc FAULTING_IP: cdd+b768 9670b768 3b81cc050000 cmp eax,dword ptr [ecx+5CCh] MM_INTERNAL_CODE: 0 CUSTOMER_CRASH_COUNT: 1 DEFAULT_BUCKET_ID: VISTA_DRIVER_FAULT BUGCHECK_STR: 0x50 PROCESS_NAME: TS3EP01.exe CURRENT_IRQL: 0 TRAP_FRAME: 93082a98 -- (.trap 0xffffffff93082a98) ErrCode = 00000000 eax=8592f1d0 ebx=8d89d07e ecx=ffb88010 edx=00000001 esi=fdb3d018 edi=00000000 eip=9670b768 esp=93082b0c ebp=93082b38 iopl=0 nv up ei pl zr na pe nc cs=0008 ss=0010 ds=0023 es=0023 fs=0030 gs=0000 efl=00210246 cdd+0xb768: 9670b768 3b81cc050000 cmp eax,dword ptr [ecx+5CCh] ds:0023:ffb885dc=???????? Resetting default scope LAST_CONTROL_TRANSFER: from 828615f8 to 828a08e3 STACK_TEXT: 93082a80 828615f8 00000000 ffb885dc 00000000 nt!MmAccessFault+0x106 93082a80 9670b768 00000000 ffb885dc 00000000 nt!KiTrap0E+0xdc WARNING: Stack unwind information not available. Following frames may be wrong. 93082b38 96701753 fdb3d018 93082bd8 9653d304 cdd+0xb768 93082b44 9653d304 fdb3d018 00000002 93082bfc cdd+0x1753 93082bd8 9653e718 00000001 00000000 7105179f win32k!SURFACE::bDeleteSurface+0x235 93082bec 96540c0f 00000001 00000001 fe1b6db0 win32k!SURFREF::bDeleteSurface+0x14 93082c00 965403af 00000be8 00000001 00000be8 win32k!vCleanupSurfaces+0x43 93082c20 9653c052 ff53b818 00000000 00000000 win32k!NtGdiCloseProcess+0xc5 93082c40 9653e937 ff53b818 00000000 8637ac18 win32k!GdiProcessCallout+0x151 93082c5c 82a63b0c 860566c8 00000000 b4bddeed win32k!W32pProcessCallout+0x5d 93082cd8 82a7cd37 00000000 ffffffff 0012fe8c nt!PspExitThread+0x46d 93082d00 8d83000d ffffffff 00000000 0012fe8c nt!NtTerminateProcess+0x1fa 93082d24 8285e42a ffffffff 00000000 0012fe98 klif+0x2000d 93082d24 773664f4 ffffffff 00000000 0012fe98 nt!KiFastCallEntry+0x12a 0012fe98 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 0x773664f4 STACK_COMMAND: kb FOLLOWUP_IP: cdd+b768 9670b768 3b81cc050000 cmp eax,dword ptr [ecx+5CCh] SYMBOL_STACK_INDEX: 2 SYMBOL_NAME: cdd+b768 FOLLOWUP_NAME: MachineOwner MODULE_NAME: cdd IMAGE_NAME: cdd.dll DEBUG_FLR_IMAGE_TIMESTAMP: 0 FAILURE_BUCKET_ID: 0x50_cdd+b768 BUCKET_ID: 0x50_cdd+b768 Followup: MachineOwner -------------------------------------------------------------- Please help me. Thank you so much! More...

Hi, Recently this error popped up, "The procedure entry point SsoCredentials could not be located in the dynamic link library DialogManager64.dll." This appears at Windows logon, either when I boot my machine or lock my computer. What's this and how do I go about fixing it? More...