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MY FIREWALL IS TURNED OFF
he program on my computer (McAfee) is telling me my firewall is turned off. How do I turn it on? You will find that McAfee has its own Firewall. You do not say if that is turned on. And Windows 8 has a built-in firewall. You should not run both firewalls as that would create System problems. Decide ...
2014-12-15, 2083🔥, 0💬

Duplicate music files galore!
Win8.1, Win Media Player 12 Way too many duplicate files in 3 or 4 directories. Is there an easy (sensible?) way to trim them down? You could use a program that can try to identify and remove duplicates, but there's a problem: if the files are different (different types of audio files, different com...
2014-12-10, 2118🔥, 0💬

screen capture win 8 winKey+volumeDown....how to change?
I checked as much as i could throw the web...an yet to come with the solution. I have a panasonic toughpad with an extra kind of gampad connected. Now, the computer recognize the gamepad and i have a spair button which I want to allocate it the screen capture command which now the winKey+volumeDown ...
2014-12-10, 2080🔥, 0💬

Display crashes, EXCEPT when playing games
My display driver crashes randomly when surfing the web. My screen goes blank, but the computer is still running, I know this because I still hear people in video chat and youtube videos. The only way I can keep this from happening is to run a game. If I am playing a game no crash. I can also minimi...
2014-12-08, 2219🔥, 0💬

HOW TO RECOVER WINDOWS 8?
I HAVE A SONY VAIO SVE151E11L THAT CAME WITH WINDOWS 8. MY HUSBAND NEEDED WINDOWS 7 TO ACCESS A WEBSITE THAT WAS NOT SUPPORTING WINDOWS 8 AT THAT MOMENT. SO SOME "GUY" CHANGE IT. NOW I NEED TO RECOVER MY WINDOWS 8. IVE TRIED MANY THINGS. TRIED TO DO RESET FACTORY USING F10 BUT WHEN I HIT ENTER SENDS...
2014-12-08, 2197🔥, 0💬

Windows 8 updates installing PC showdown and now drive is locked. How to unlock drive?
Daughter's PC was installing Windows updates and she shut it down. Now Windows 8 won't start and the drive can repair itself. The drive is locked. How can I unlock it? Are you using Bitlocker to encrypt your Hard Drive? I would suggest you to refer to this reply from phanlon7 replied on October12, 2...
2014-12-04, 2076🔥, 0💬

Changing Colour of Dialogue Box's interior from white in Windows 8
How do I change the default interior color of Dialogue boxes in Windows 8? I do not need to alter the Brightness or re-calibrate the display. I do not wish to change the color of just the borders of Windows. On previously versions (XP etc) I was able to change the default white in-fill to a shade of...
2014-12-04, 1868🔥, 0💬

Upload CD information in Windows Media Player
How can I upload CD information (titles, band, coverimage etc) to the database showing information in MS Mediaplayer. I have uploadet information to Gracenote, but it seems like Mediaplayer does not read from this? You can rip (or copy) tracks from your audio CDs to your computer using Windows Media...
2014-12-02, 2335🔥, 0💬

Unable to uninstall Age of Empires 3.
I started to Install Age of Empires 3 then it froze. So then I cancelled it and tried to re install it, but it just had the options "play" and "uninstall". play won't work and it wont let me uninstall the game. Suggest you to follow the steps given below to remove the game from your computer. a) Pre...
2014-12-02, 2054🔥, 0💬

garrys mod direct x
I just bought a computer I cant play garrys mod I tried looking at more views but it didn't let me I try and try but it still doesn't let me play it You may need to install DirectX Runtime June 2010, which is a optional update that a lot of games need. Even my Lexmark printer requires it... I will i...
2014-11-24, 2441🔥, 0💬

How do I disable one note as the default printer?
When I try to print a WORD document in Windows 8, I can't change the printer from one note to my own printer. How can I change it? Press Windows key + X Click Control Panel Click in View by list box and click Large icons Open Devices and Printers Right click your physical printer and click Set as De...
2014-11-24, 2034🔥, 0💬

APPS wont' install, error 0x80072ee4 comes up everytime it is tried
Finally got the Windows Store to open and tried to install apps under different categories. Each app couldn't install with error 0x80072ee4 given as reason. I have been trying for weeks to get the pc to be trusted by Microsoft without success. I've tried all the usual suggestions given so far on com...
2014-11-19, 2419🔥, 0💬

Unable to open or launch some Desktop icons.
When I try to open a program, i.e. Internet Explorer or Google, nothing happens. I cannot open either one. When you say that you are unable to open any program shortcuts for example Internet Explorer and Google Chrome, do you mean this problem is specific to these browsers only? This issue could be ...
2014-11-19, 2302🔥, 0💬

How to reset Rearm in windows 8
Can you people give me the solution of Rearm. When i type slmgr -rearm in command prompt, it says"Error:0xc004D307 The maximum allowed numbers of re-arm has been exceeded. You must re-install the OS before trying to re-arm again". Please give me the solution for it. My windows 8 Enterprise Evaluatio...
2014-11-17, 2940🔥, 0💬

How can I change the folder icon in windows 8?
How can I change the folder icon in windows 8? Would recommend you to follow the below given steps to change the folder icon. a. Right-click on a folder that you want to change the icon b. Click on properties c. Click on customize tab d. Under folder icons, click on change icon e. Choose an icon tha...
2014-11-17, 1919🔥, 0💬

Intel 82578DC driver conflict after Windows Updates patches
After applying patches KB2769034, KB2761226, KB2737084 and KB2727528 on 15/11/2012, my Intel 82578DC network adapter driver failed on windows start up. I have to re-install the driver every time the computer started. I have installed the latest network adapter driver from Intel website and it does n...
2014-11-14, 2384🔥, 0💬

Windows Media Creation
I just downloaded and created a Windows 8.1 Pro ISO image from the Media Creation Tool and it tells me to copy the product ID I am unable to find this the procedure I used was to download the Tool then download the files to build the ISO and then burn it which did not work for some reason, so I burn...
2014-11-14, 2396🔥, 0💬

Windows 8 WLM contacts backup
I am using Windows 8 with Windows Live Mail and would like to know who to make a backup - to an external disk - of my list of contacts e-mail addresses. Inside the Windows Live Mail program, go into your Contacts section so you are looking at your address book. Then click Export on the toolbar here....
2014-11-12, 2055🔥, 0💬

Unable to transfer photos from phone to computer using USB cable
I went to Radio Shack, showed them my cellphone and asked what USB cable would transfer my photos from cellphone to laptop. What is it that I need to get this done. I bought the USB they said would work but I plugged my phone to laptop and nothing happened even though I was told it would tell me wha...
2014-11-12, 2312🔥, 0💬

If I upgrade WXP to W8, what's my email client?
There was no mention in the final report when I ran the Windows 8 Upgrade Assistant program about the compatibility of the app, Outlook Express. Does Windows 8 give me an email client and if so, can I export all the various stored mails I have now into it? I know of freebie Thunderbird if all else f...
2014-11-10, 1787🔥, 0💬

How to search for special characters in Explorer?
have a collection of 1000+ files in an FTP folder. The problem is that about 50 of them contain & symbols in their file names. I need to find and delete all files containing the '&' symbol. I thought it should be easy enough to search File Explorer for the '&' symbol. However, when doing...
2014-11-10, 6709🔥, 0💬

How to close a PDF file in Windows 8.
How to close a PDF file in Windows 8. Based on the description, it appears that you want to how to close a PDF file in Windows 8. I will be glad to assist you with this. Let’s follow these steps and updates us with the results. a. Right click on the PDF file. b. Drag the mouse to bottom right cor...
2014-11-07, 2107🔥, 0💬

Black screen appears as soon as the logon screen comes up
I'm upgrading all of my home pc to Win 8.1 and I've run into a perplexing issue. Maxent monitor won't display anything once the OS gets to the lock screen. Bios and blue windows loading screen shows up then goes blank when the lock screen comes up, message displayed by TV says "No Signal". I've trie...
2014-11-07, 2129🔥, 0💬

3rd Party Software?
Will upgrade to Win 8.1 affect my 3rd party software installed? I believe a recovery drive can optionally include a system image. But I know for sure that if you create a system image with the linked steps above, you can save it anywhere and use it later (USB, or I even keep my backup in my OneDrive...
2014-11-05, 2142🔥, 0💬

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