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General Computer Support / Re: More difficulty viewing pages

« on: October 05, 2018, 12:29:01 am »

I hope that the attached is what your after.

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General Computer Support / More difficulty viewing pages

« on: October 03, 2018, 06:44:51 pm »

I don't know it its another strange that Windows 10 has introduced or not many page are more difficult to see details.  By that I mean that If I go to pages like Explorer  There are no longer vertical column lines displayed.  Even If I go to the top there are no column dividers displayed but you can find them if you go to the trouble of having to slowly drag the cursor across the line until to see an indicator.

I have also encountered several pages where you are expected to enter a password but no location of where to type is displayed, you have to waste time moving cursor to find location.  Turning your settings so that more visibility dosn't help either since this appears to just invert.

Is this a new thing in Windows or have I missed some setting?

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General Computer Support / A better cut/paste Utility

« on: August 10, 2018, 10:53:48 pm »

I'm looking for a cut/paste utility that is more sophisticated that the regular one.  If you paste files into another folder you unusually get a warning that a file with the same name is already there or else it adds suffix to file name & calls it 2 etc.

I would like to see that the cut proceeds and pastes if the criteria I nominate is met, like,name,extension,running time etc & I may wish set several of those type options.

This utility may well already exist but I thought I should ask the experts.

 

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General Computer Support / Re: Windows 10 update goes strange

« on: December 31, 2017, 02:17:36 am »

I am not looking to reinstall programs. I have the opesite situation I have programs installed and working that I got rid of 6 months ago and I can't see why this happened.

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General Computer Support / Windows 10 update goes strange

« on: December 30, 2017, 09:41:45 pm »

I did the big Windows 10 update a couple of weeks back after putting it of for as long as I thought I could.

As expected it think turned out strange.  It told be it was downloaded & ready to install.  I thought that I should create a restore point before I did but first I looked at already created restore points & found that it listed only one dated about 2 weeks earlier.  I should have had at least 4 or 5 to choose from going back many months.

I created another one & went ahead with the update.  It appeared to go OK except for the fact I kept finding several programs that I had deleted  from my machine up to 6 months earlier.

Every day I see strange things like tying to open a freeware program that I have used for at least a dozen years and asked to register it.

The first thing that I do everyday is run both Antivirus & Malware programs .The only thing ever found was a couple of PUK's which were quarantined & deleted. ( I can't understand why the Malware programs don't tell you where they came from).

Is anyone else having this  sort of things happen & will running your Tweaks help?

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General Computer Support / Re: How do you overwrite incorrect time date data inside Windows?

« on: December 25, 2016, 01:27:49 am »

Thanks that came in really handy

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General Computer Support / How do you overwrite incorrect time date data inside Windows?

« on: December 24, 2016, 09:01:12 pm »

I was wondering if anyone on this forum knows of any tools that allows you to correct some of Windows data that gets stored incorrectly.  As you know if you have a file in Windows Explorer it has several columns displayed usually these are file name & file type etc.  There is often a down arrow that sometimes displays that allows you to choose other column heading that could be pertinent to that particular type of data.  Is there any tool that allows to to overwrite the incorrect data that Windows displays?

Case in point I took lots of pictures on a holiday with various cameras all of which had the time clock set to the same time & date, so that when I finished my holiday I could put all data into one folder & have them sorted in the same time time date no what camera was used. 

As it turned out my Large Camcorder which could take both video & stills, would not connect to my PC in the ordinary way.  But I was eventually able to be data off of camera by plugging a WD passport drive directly into the camcorder. 

Windows in its infinite wisdom decided to ignore all of the time date data on each file & instead used the time date that the camcorder was connected to the PC.  I can actually view within the camcorder the real time & date its calendar when it was recorded.  How do I get to correct the nonsense time date that now appears on the PC.

Thanks in advance

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General Computer Support / Re: Windows 10 almost opens then stops.

« on: November 08, 2016, 07:28:47 pm »

Eventually I got Windows to at open up a little by pressing the F5 key at boot up but it wanted a Microsoft I'd account I'd & a password..I can't recall ever creating one as it's just more information to give away.

I did however find information about Windows instillation,which was installed in a shop. 

I haven't proceeded because there might be a better option.  My c drive is an ssd & it had been cloned about 2 months ago but most people with an ssd I have never tested  it. If this would be a good way to go is it just a case of swapping the drive after taking out original ssd?

If I were to use it what will I lose? Personal data, newly installed programs  and the huge anniversary update?

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General Computer Support / Windows 10 almost opens then stops.

« on: November 07, 2016, 05:09:45 pm »

I had an unusual thing happen to my PC yesterday.  I 'm using Windows 10 64 bit with all of its updates installed.  I had updated some drivers & all appeared good.  I installed a new version of some software.  Both antivirus & malware scans are done every day & before any new install. Then I logged off.

When the machine started up I got to see the 4 blue panels for Windows, then the screen went blank for a few seconds before seeing my picture that normally displays.  Then the screen just went black.  I have rebooted a few times & still I can't get into Windows proper.

I had been using the latest version of Classic shell & had made a couple of alterations before logging off.  Is this likely to be the cause of my problem?  Since I can't get into the machine at all I can't ever get to run your  Tweaking program.  If I could is it likely to likely to fix my problem?

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General Computer Support / Re: Turn off Windows 10 pop up's?

« on: September 11, 2016, 06:30:21 pm »

It does assign a drive letter.  I have several USB flash drives as well as a cady that can have a SSD or regular HDD's.   As long as only 1 is plugged in it always assigns it the first available letter which is 'E'.  My 'C' drive is an SSD & contains only programs.  My data file, music, photos video is on a 2TB HDD called 'D'.  I also had a DVD burner as well as a Blu-ray burner which I assigned 'Y' & 'Z' just to get them away from the the more frequently used areas.

I should add that the portable flash drives are always called 'E'  & then I can give it a name like 32GB  or the name of the brand.  This is just so I can easily see whats plugged in.  This means that the 32GB drive will be called 'E' one time but if I was to have a second one plugged in it might be called 'F' but still called 32GB.

Maybe this causes Windows 10 64 bit to be confused.

The getting of meaningful names on the PC also applies to other devises as well.  For instance If I click on networking I see names for HDD's, printers, monitor etc that are often difficult to relate to what you though they would be called.  Is it possible to rename these devises as well?

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General Computer Support / Turn off Windows 10 pop up's?

« on: September 10, 2016, 08:58:25 pm »

Is there any way to turn off Windows 10 pop up which says its searching for a solution to a problem?  There is no point in this since it can never find anything, just wastes time.

This is sort of like when I plug a USB in & it says that it has a problem & should be scanned to fixed to fix errors.  If you do the scan it always comes back with no problems.

Thanks in advance

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General Computer Support / Compare 2 files that aren't the same?

« on: September 10, 2016, 08:44:33 pm »

I'm looking for a utility that will compare 2 files not to see if they are the same but the opposite. I wish to compare 2 files & then be able to select the files that aren't in both locations. I then want to copy the files that aren't duplicates to another location.  Since I know that your program is great for finding things you might also know how to help sort my problem.

Do you know any program that can do this?

Thanks in advance

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General Computer Support / Files not deleting

« on: September 09, 2016, 08:48:26 pm »

I unusually store files that I download until I'm finished with them on the desktop.  But what I find is that I could have maybe 5 thumbnail there that I can select & press delete.  These icons usually disappear but many can still appear.  If I select then again & retry delete It will tell me that they can't be found.  If I reboot the PC they will then disappear.  Is there a fix for this?

Thanks in advance

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General Computer Support / Icons/files don't delete properly

« on: August 18, 2016, 11:44:07 pm »

I usually save new files onto the desktop before moving them or deleting them when they are no longer required.

But what I'm finding it that I can right click on say a jpeg image & select delete but the thumbnail still appears on the desktop.  If I click on it again Windows 10 tells me that I can't find the file to delete.  I have all of Microsoft updates  installed on Pro 64 bit version.

If I reboot the machine I will find that the thumbnail are finally gone.  I also have Classic Shell installed.  Could this be an incorrect setting?

Is this something that I can fix?

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General Computer Support / Windows 10 can't see drive properly

« on: February 14, 2016, 04:26:16 pm »

I have a Western Digital 2TB USB3 passport Elite portable hard drive that appears to have problems with Windows 10. If I plug it into a USB port while viewing Explorer (This PC) I hear the sound & several seconds later the drive letter pops up & on left hand side of screen where it calls it Local Drive (H) but neither the Total Size of Free Space have anything displayed at all. If I click on the drive to open it, Windows stops responding & just hangs until I unplug drive.

Under Device manager the Drive is call WD My Passport 0830USB. If I click on the drive the window it says that the drive is working properly. I have scanned for a better driver but it says I already have it. If I scan for hardware changes nothing happens that I can see. I can click each tab under properties but I can't see any clue as to what the problem is.  When I tried to tun off PC nothing happens until I unplug USB.

Where do I look next? I have never had so many of these type problem until I upgraded to Windows 10?

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General Computer Support / Wrong dates in Explorer (MY PC)

« on: February 09, 2016, 06:07:41 pm »

I got a new phone so I connected the old one to see if there were any old files worth keeping.  I found a series of audio files that were made a few years back.  Once copied to my PC I found that Explorer (My PC) displayed 'date created' as today & the actual date is displayed as 'date modified'. This is crazy as it's a reversal of reality.  Is this just another Windows 10 bug & is there a way to prevent this happening in the future?  I have had the same nonsense e in the past with pictures.

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General Computer Support / Re: Restoring vertical dividers & drop down tabs in Explorer or This PC

« on: January 26, 2016, 08:38:49 pm »

I did & all that comes up is a box showing that I'm using Classic Shell & this then gives me a couple of options about Vista which I thought was well a truly berried by now.  Maybe the shell is the problem & not a solution.

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General Computer Support / Re: Restoring vertical dividers & drop down tabs in Explorer or This PC

« on: January 26, 2016, 07:55:08 pm »

As you can see from screen snip I now have the other layout but without the vertical dividers or dropdown selection tabs.

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General Computer Support / Restoring vertical dividers & drop down tabs in Explorer or This PC

« on: January 25, 2016, 07:13:52 pm »

I don't know if there has been changes to the way Explorer,(This PC), displays data but I'm noticing that the vertical dividers that I used to see are no gone as are the drop down tabs.  I'm talking about the dividers that separate in view mode, file name,file size, date created etc.  You just have to slowly waste time moving the mouse back & forth trying to find out where they are. 

Is there a way to make these lines & drop down tabs appear again?

It would also be nice if "Windows 10' could could remember the view I have set repeatedly for folders.

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General Computer Support / Re: PC wont open now with Windows 10

« on: January 17, 2016, 03:55:28 am »

I think that part of the problems that I experienced came from the fact that I think Windows 10 go itself into a knot when it came to identifying which USB was plugged in.  I have tried plugging in a few passport drives that both myself & a friend had & observed the following.  I could plug in a drive & it would say that it was 'g' drive.  I could then go & try another drive of both the same & different capacity & it too was called 'g' drive.

I have held off doing what I had done before I tried updating to Windows 10.  I wanted to get some logic with both the drive letters & names.  I have both  a CD R/W drive a s well as a separate Blue-ray R/W drive. Because these 2 don't get plugged in I wanted them well away from other drive letters so I called the 'Y' & 'Z' drive.  The a plug in SD card reader was called 's' drive.  A 500gb red passport that was called 'R' drive etc.

Is there any safe way to do this?

Maybe some of these names was picked up by Windows & created a conflict with other drives it wanted to assign the same letter to.  Is this possible & if so how does one fix this?  I have yet to read of any solution as to why there are many other people saying that their WD 2TB Passport Elite drives won't open in Windows as they can get a message, that might take 5 minute for Windows 10 to cough up,that some parameter is wrong?

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General Computer Support / Re: PC wont open now with Windows 10

« on: January 15, 2016, 05:34:10 pm »

I have just done a restore point & downloaded EaseUs software to make a 'clone of my 'c' drive.  I have been given an external USB3 caddy that take both sata & ssd drives vertically & will try using this.  I'm told that I can partition the target HDD & put the clone in one partition & a backup onto the other, although I wonder if both on the same HDD may be a step too far. 

If this is OK then this would be ideal as I have a second old drive that I could do this as well.

If this is OK I could create a clone & a backup onto alternative HDD's & hopefully keep everything up to date that way. I could even add all of the programs that I have had to download several times so that if things go wrong again I won't have so many to re download.

What system protection are you suggesting that I turn on Windows Defender?

As for all of the Windows update I has told my the shop that did the reinstall that the latest updates were huge & took forever to download.  I do know some people who say that they had no problems so maybe some dodged a bullet.  I have just read that the update reminders will soon be coming at you from everywhere.

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General Computer Support / Re: PC wont open now with Windows 10

« on: January 14, 2016, 11:08:39 pm »

The PC has been back to the PC shop for a second time and appears to be behaving better than before.  I'm reinstalling all software for a third time.  At least this time all of the downloads have been kept on a separate drive along with their key numbers which have also been uploaded to Dropbox.

Thanks for all of the suggestons

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General Computer Support / Re: PC wont open now with Windows 10

« on: January 09, 2016, 02:36:35 am »

The clean install was done in a PC shop.  The first few days were ok so I made a clone. Then things started to go wrong and a reset install was recommended and this is what I tried but things still went downhill.

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General Computer Support / Re: PC wont open now with Windows 10

« on: January 09, 2016, 02:19:27 am »

I never created a Microsoft account.  Why would anyone want one for a company which seldom ever gets anything right?

I never created the USB  bootup disk because I didn't expect to need one since I had clean install & already was trying to to get a reset update to work. A friend put the file onto my stick but first attempt to get it to work didn't work but I will try again later.

I  do have a clone of my 'c' drive but am loath to use it because to do so once again would mean than all of the extra work I have done since clean install is as worthless as the reset reinstall.

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General Computer Support / PC wont open now with Windows 10

« on: January 08, 2016, 09:11:39 pm »

My PC had had done some sort of update & when it rebooted I had message in middle of screen that the RPC server was down and in botton right it said I had no Internet connection.   I am typing this on a tablet since my modom is woking.

The screen displayed my photo and name and asked for a password.  What sort of password I do not know so I tried the one for ISP & Google etc but none worked.  If I do nothing at all machine eventually reboots and I go around in that circle again.

I cant get into safe mode so I cant do a system restore.  Under the password box it suggests resettin using a USB stick but when I try it says that this isnt suitable.

How do I get into PC?