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I have just installed Win 8.1 and can't find a way to select all files in a folder using only the mouse. I could do it under Win 7 by using Organize. Is there a Win 8 equivalent? I know about Ctrl-A but that is not what I want. Thank you.

Recently I upgraded my wife's Dell All In One from W8 to 8.1 by going to Microsoft Store and selecting the upgrade panel for 8.1. It went smoothly even if slowly. I then tried doing the same thing for my Asus Q200E Laptop. When I went to the store all I saw were apps for ASUS. How can I get...

Last Fall I bought my wife a Dell All In One with Win8 installed. I seldom, if ever use it for I am sticking with 7 for now. She has Live Mail, Firefox installed and that is about it. No apps other than those that came with the machine. Is it worth while upgrading to 8.1 and then 8.1Update...

I have just upgraded to 8.1 from 8 and cannot find Widows Accessories anywhere. I don't really recall it being in 8 either but am not sure. I would like to have System Tools, Paint, Fax and Scan and Word Pad at least available to me from the Desktop. Has Windows Accessories been dropped from...

When I upgraded from 8 to 8.1 my 8 network got change from public to private under 8.1. I need it to be public and I can find no way to do that. Is it possible? I tried setting up another network via Network and Sharing Center but after choosing Set up a New Network the window does nothing...

My Win 8 installation, upon a power on startup or restart, booted to the Start screen without going through the process of logging in. I don't recall how I accomplished that. I just upgraded to 8.1 and it insists on logging into my MS account and requires I enter my account password. How...

Is there a way to make Essentials Mail create a pop up new mail notification? I get a sound when a new email arrives but no pop up. Thank you?

I have just installed Microsoft Essentials 2010's Mail and Messenger functions and would like to import my Outlook 2010 Calendar entries. So far, I've not found a way to do this. Can someone help me out? Thank you.

I want to use Windows Live Essentials on Windows and a confused about which version to download -- 2010 or 2012. Have run across info on 2012 and from what I can determine, WLM in 2012 seems to be just for W7. Will that be OK for Win 8? Thank you.

I have a Brother HL 2270DW printer in one room of my house. Each of my two Win7 machines, all in different rooms, print to this printer wirelessly with no problems. However, my new Dell One 2020 detects the the printer as a wireless printer but reports something like 'Driver Unavailable' in...

I am looking forward to 10/18 and getting the Win 8.1 update from the Store to update my Win 8 machine. I wonder if doing the update will modify the partition that is labeled Window Recovery on my HD. I suspect not. Anybody know?

I have just added another Win 8 machine to stable for my wife. It is 'Modern' all the way -- no Start8 or Classic Shell. I have Mahjong installed on my own older Win8 Desktop and when I installed it on the new machine I must have done something differently than the first for I often get a...

I am running Win8 with Start8 and am trying to find the Win8 equivalent of Win7's Accessories so that I can show it in Start8's All Programs. Will someone point me to it please. I really need/want to get to Notepad, Paint and Wordpad among other things quickly from the desktop. Thank you.

Up until a few days ago the icons for all jpeg, png and Gif files showed the images that were the pictures for each file. Now, for some reason, those icons have the same icon for each. They appear as a landscape of some sort. I have no idea how to correct this. Will someone please help me...

I am confused about the ways to install 8.1. I have retail version of 8.0 installed on my Dell and pretty much set up to my satisfaction using Start8. I would like to eventually upgrade to 8.1 without reinstalling all my programs and retain all my customizations. When and from where can I...

I feel sure some of us will probably want to install W 8.1 when it is officially released. I know I will if it can be treated as a service pack and used to update from W8 to W8.1 and not require a complete reinstall, registration and customization of things such as Office 2010 and Quicken...

A few days ago I went to Outlook.Com and established an email account. Now I want to delete that account and remove all things associated with Outlook.com but still retain my Microsoft Account. It might come in handy for getting Apps and other things from the Microsoft Store. I tried to...

Scanning device is an HP Photosmart All in One HP 2575. i first installed it as an USB device and Windows Fax and Scan recognized it and scanned nicely. I then installed it as a network device and WFS would not recognize it as a scanning device when I unplugged the USB cable. It prints just...

In the next few weeks I plan to migrate from my Win8 HDD to an SSD. I know how to do that so that is not the question. I would like to know if I can keep the old HDD installed and boot to the SSD without confusing things. If I do that will having two Win8 installations offer any problems even...

I've not been using Win 8 for very long and am having trouble finding my way around. Right now I am trying to find Windows Accessories, the folder that contained numerous tools such as calculator, notepad, Wordpad, etc in Win 7. At least that is where I think they were. Can someone point me to...