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I've got my desktop background set to change to a random image I selected. However, when the computer sleeps and I log back in, the desktop background is changed to black. If I right click on the background and choose 'next desktop background' it brings up the next image. I've gone into Ease...

Anyone know of an app or a way to achieve the following: - Have lockscreen, start screen, desktop wallpaper, and account wallpaper all change once a day to a random image - Random image is pulled from two sources: (a) a folder on my computer and (b) an online source where I can select...

That's a decent suggestion. Kind of funny though running a program called "Windows 7 File Recovery". Problem is: a) No compression settings (I believe it does compress you just can't control by how much) and most importantly b) can't password protect the backup But like I said, security was...

Read up on the HUGE change to how Windows 8 handles backups. Largely, as far as O/S backups, it's already covering you automatically without having to fuss with it. It's debatable whether you need to do system partition images anymore but seems like not need. Won't got into the details. A lot...

Well, went back into Autorun utility from Sys Internals (great utility but can obviously get yourself into trouble with it). Turned on anything that looked possibly network related. Rebooted, and seems fine now.

Windows 8 pro machine. Ethernet. Machine was connecting to home network computers fine. I was troubleshooting an issue disabling a lot of services and drivers. I thought I restored everything, made sure all essential services are on according to Black Viper's website. Other computers on...

10 hours of wasted time later starting and stopping, enabling and disabling services, drivers, etc. It was the Power Management! Power Plan was set to Power Saver mode! Why it takes about 3 minutes after boot for it to effect the browsing is beyond me. Sure threw me a curve ball and I've...

10 hours of wasted time later starting and stopping, enabling and disabling services, drivers, etc. It was the Power Management! Power Plan was set to Power Saver mode! Why it takes about 3 minutes after boot for it to effect the browsing is beyond me. Sure threw me a curve ball and I've...

Chrome in desktop. As I pointed out, I would expect most people won't notice the slowness as it isn't a night and day difference. Load those Page Load Speed plug-ins I posted links to in the original post and did your own comparison. Of course you'd have to have a Window 7 machines but per...

A couple of weeks ago I installed Windows 8 (fresh install from scratch, not an update) on my computer. I do a lot of web browsing and over the last couple of weeks I've been using Windows 8, I could swear the web browsing wasn't as fast at it used to be on Windows 7. I then noticed I was...