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I have two PC's, one with Windows 7 and the other with Windows 8.1. There is a Homegroup, both PCs are members and can see each other and share files, etc. The Win 8.1 PC has OneDrive up and running, connected to my Windows Live OneDrive account. I'd like to add the Pictures library from the...

So for a few days in a row my PC has been playing music whenever I open IE11. I figured maybe one of those self-starting video ads, or perhaps even a browser hijack or virus.... I had 2 home pages, Bing and MSN, with MSN on top. To make sure it wasn't malicious, I ran complete virus scans using...

I use the Plex Media server application to stream my vids to my Samsung TV and that is working fine in Windows 8.1 RTM...but...I now have an issue with IE 11. Plex uses your browser to manage your media files and wants to use the following URL: http://127.0.0.1:32400/web This worked fine in IE...

I finally bought a nice LED LCD HD flatscreen and I want to copy my DVD collection to my PC for streaming purposes. I want to rip the DVDs losslessly and combine the resulting multiple .vob files into one single file for streaming over my LAN. I'm testing the Slysoft AnyDVD product and their...

This may have been posted about before, but if not.... I stumbled across this on another site. Win 8 has the ability to generate a detailed report about your notebook/laptop's battery. Worth a look... http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/31440-battery-usage-report-generate-windows-8-a.html

Hi All, I'd like to use the "New Tab" page in IE 10 as my home or start page. The one that opens when you click on the "New Tab" tab and shows your frequent sites. Can this be done? If so, how? Thanks in advance!

I usually have a total of 50 to 60 processes running with IE10/iTunes/MetroTwit open, but over the last week or so it's been sitting at more than 100. Yikes! Starting to think I had picked up a virus or something. But after today's two updates (KB2764462 & KB2777294) it's gone back down to...

Hi All, The “Send to: Mail recipient” right-click context menu doesn't work :( I've checked under Control Panel/Default Programs and the Mail app appears to be the default. If I click a "mailto:" link in a web page in either version of IE10 it brings up the Mail app successfully, but if I...

Has anyone had any luck with the Lightscribe disk labeling applications on Windows 8 RTM? I've tried the latest version (1.18.26.7, which won't even install) and an older one (1.18.24.1) which will install but bombs out after starting the labeling process. Thanks in advance!

I've got an exclamation point on the lock screen next to a symbol that looks like the laptop screen brightness icon. Everything seems to be working correctly, but I wonder if anyone has seen this before? Thanks!

Can the taskbar clock and other notification icons (speaker, network, etc.) be re-located from the primary screen taskbar to the secondary screen? My setup has the primary screen on the lefthand monitor and the secondary screen on the righthand monitor and I'd like to move them. Thanks in advance!