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Hi guys, I made a new system image backup (control panel -> file history -> system image backup) and it works fine. When I restored I noticed I had three other older disk images (by using advanced settings instead of simply restoring the newest), I want to delete some (but not all) of them and...

Hi guys, When I right-click a file in File Exporer and select Open with... the 'How do you want to open this file?' box comes up, if I select 'More options' I'll see a list of apps, I want to remove an item from that list. Basically, I tried opening a file type with an incompatible program and...

Hi guys, I can't delete a folder. When I try to in Explorer I get "Could not find this item. This is no longer located in..." I tried deleting the parent folder and received the same message. I tried rmdir using the command line and it says "The system cannot find the file specified." This...

Hi guys, I have Diablo 2 on Win 8 and I can't get rid of the tile on the Start page. I tried two things: 1) right-click Diablo 2 tile, select Open File Location at bottom, in the Games window right-click Diablo 2 and select Hide from the popup. It doesn't do anything. 2) Go into the registry...

Hi guys, Can I have icons on the Start screen that do not show up on the Apps screen ? Thanks.

Hi guys, Something weird is happening. Some of my movie files (file type doesn't matter) became corrupted; when I play them in VLC they cause errors, they were just fine before and nothing has changed. I noticed in Explorer that these files have no Date Modified field, it's simply blank; I've...

Hi guys, I don't understand something. If my incoming connections is set to "block all connections to apps that are not on the list of allowed apps" why isn't there an entry for Mozilla Firefox on that list, it isn't blocked. Also, I installed a VST plugin (software music synthesizer) and the...

Hi guys, This seems to be a common problem but the solutions are pretty lame and don't do anything. When I run disk cleanup (system files) I get 6.60GB under System queued windows error reporting. Of course disk cleanup just hangs (at least it was still hanging after an hour and a half). I...

Hi guys, In Task Manager-Startup I have several programs (Adobe stuff) that I want out of there, I know I can just disable them but I want them removed. They used to be in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run or...

I am constantly right-clicking updates and selecting hide to no avail, they become greyed out after I hide them only to return when I go back to the update screen. Is that Microsoft's way of telling me they want me to install those updates, like the Flash updates for IE 10, the IE 10 that I...

Hi guys, I want to make a folder (and anything inside of it) difficult to delete. Can I create a new owner for it so that I would have to take the steps to change that in order to delete it ? I'm not looking for anything fool-proof, just something to make it not so easy to accidentally delete...