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Thanks, Techno. I do use Classic Shell and have intentionally kept the Active Corners around for when I occasionally need something over there on the right, such as Settings. Maybe I should turn that around and change the Classic setting when needed (my old IBM keyboard does not a Windows key...

I use the classic desktop in Win 8.1, but occasionally find myself in the tiled screen or Settings. When doing that during the last several days, I'm getting a "Switch between apps" box pop up on the edge of the desktop and can't get rid of it short of a reboot. Clicking on the arrow causes it...

Did in-place repair install and that solved it.

Last week, Windows would not install the latest updates (25). I posted on the MS Answers forum and was getting help from a moderator, but he seems to have disappeared.* He had me post System Information and System Log runs and update some drivers, and that's where things stand. When I run...

But it wasn't the firewall, but my weekly scan. It finally dawned on me when I saw the backup copies of the zipped file and in particular the decoder file being identified as malware. It gave a name for the malware, which wasn't a PUP, so I submitted it as an FP - and just got a reply that it's...

Actually, all I had to do was be patient, wait for a couple of the files to show up in a Comodo CIS weekly scan, apparently false positives. Exclude them and the player is restored.

No card reader. My focus is on Disk Manager, and my goal is not to hide empty drives but to eliminate drives that (apparently) shouldn't be.

One of my two USB-connected printers, a Canon MP640, has long shown in Disk Manager as a Disk - Removable (N:), No Media. Why? Is there a way to remove it from there? It doesn't show in an external program, such as Easeus Partition Manager. Win 8.1 Pro x64. Thanks,

Re the USB card, the developer says "definitely not." and I believe him. Codec packages long installed and updated as part of Zoom Player Pro. Don't see what a clean install would get me, because even if Album Player works I wouldn't know what had been wrong, while if it doesn't, I'd have to...

Now I see... On one hand, you suggested making an image as protection while I troubleshoot, while on the other hand you've suggested a clean install of Windows, for which the image is irrelevant. No wonder I've been confused. Look it, I'm well covered on imaging software - Windows image...

Thanks for all that, but I'm still missing the logic of restoring an image that's going to overwrite whatever I've done with Windows, e.g., clean install, taking it back to where I started. Please explain.

This is a DIY comptuer (through multiple iterations over the yeasr), so I'm not sure what the difference is between "reset" and a clean Windows install. I have plenty of imaging options and experience, but what I don't understand about your repeated mention of Macrium is how one can restore an...

[I've checked the box on this thread for Show your signature, but have yet to see it.] I use a JCAT USB card, a USB cable from it to a Uptone Regen, and from there to a PS Audio Directstream dac, the latter having its own USB driver and speaker driver. JPlay is also running, including JPlay...

I did the following: http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/26095-repair-install-windows-8-a.html Updated none of the above. Turning off the only things updated didn't have any effect. The question is, why does it work on unzip (noninstall) once or twice, then go problematic, i.e., decoder...

Didn't solve it. As I suspected, not Windows but some other conflict.