Recent content by JonF

It's connected by USB. Whether or not it is connected makes no difference. Brother doesn't supply a driver because it is included in Windows 8.x. I cannot uninstall it or install it because Devices and Printers never fills in the window. I have been using this as my main printer for around...

So would I. The printer does not appear in Device Manager or in Programs and Features and Devices and Printers does not load. Sorry I didn't include that.

Windows 8.1 Pro x64. A day or do ago my ancient Brother MFC-7420 printer disappeared from Device Manager. It still appears in the list of printers to which to print in an application but printing to it produces nothing. When I open Devices and Printers, the green bar takes a long time and...

This one's got me totally buffaloed. I'm the IT Manager for a small consulting firm. Everyone travels, everyone has a laptop joined to the domain. Mostly Dell, but two of them are HP Envy M4s. One of those (originally Windows 8 Pro, now 8.1 Pro) has the weirdest printer issues. We have two...

I just took delivery of a Dell XPS13 with touchscreen and Windows 8.1 Pro. This is the third such computer we have bought, so I know my problem isn't endemic to the XPS13. Right out of the box it makes a particularly annoying click whenever a key is pressed on the physical keyboard. I can't...

No 3rd party AV, just Windows Defender. Clean install of 8, upgrade to 8.1.

I know that UAC is never completely off in 8/8.1. But the system is not working as designed. I have a VirtualBox Windows 8 VM with UAC "off". If I open IE in it, download an installer, and click "Run", the program runs and installs. In my real system if I open IE, download an installer, and...

In Win8 Pro x64 (and now with 8.1) shortly after installing Windows I couldn't run any installer from a web browser or by just double-clicking the file. I have to right-click and "Run as administrator" The error messages vary but they all are variations on a theme of unable to access something...

Thanks ... I fond the answer on another forum as a PwerShell script (must be run elevated): #The following is equal to the Security Policy "User Account Control: Behavior of the elevation prompt for administrators in Admin Approval Mode" = "Elevate without prompting" Set-ItemProperty -Path...

I've been running Windows 8 x64 on an HP ENVY H8-1445 desktop for a couple of months. I have Start8 (Start button plus boot to desktop) and ModernMix (run modern apps in windows) installed to make it bearable. UAC is set at the minimum level (I build live CDs with WinBuilder and it needs to have...