Recent content by JoeH

I stumbled onto the right-click settings that let me turn off the text and the captions to get it back normally. I swear that option was not there an hour ago or I kept missing it. Oh well, it's back like I want it. Still am upset that m$ decided to screw it up with an update.

Win8x1 update as of 12/16/13 broke Quicklaunch bar The update this weekend made my quick launch bar dissappear. It had been working perfectly for many months. After following the instructions to put it back, it shows icons with text --- NOT the same. I can't see how to switch that back to show...

I uninstalled fences 2.12 and the problem persists so it is definitely something that's been done by Windows 8.1.

When I create a form with borderstyle of dialog it cannot be moved by it's title bar like other windows. This only happens in Win 8.1 not xp, vista, or 7. If I set the property to toolwindow it can be moved. Has there been a change in the function of this property in windows 8.1? Note: when I...

Wow! I removed fences and the problem was solved. I never suspected fences as the cause because I saw this error reported (without mention of fences) regarding the preview release of 8.1. So stardoc found a way to eliminate the free version.

As I mentioned earlier, I have an earlier free version of fences installed on this machine and found a work-around to this stuck-icon issue. 1. right click a rectangle around the icon 2. Choose "Create a fence with these icons" 3. Name it anything. 4. Move the fence folder where you want the...

I just read that this "bug" was in the Windows 8.1 preview a couple of weeks ago. What the hell Microsoft? You were just too busy to fix this? This is not an insignificant deal -- especially for those who actually USE THEIR COMPUTERS FOR WORK!

I just upgraded to 8.1. I have a couple of icons on my desktop on Win 8.1 x 64 and I can't move them. What's the deal with that. I'm using an older version of fences and all of the icons in the fence folders can be moved with no problem. But the two I had outside of any fences are stuck. the...

Network problems were result of Virtual Machine setting The frustration with the network turns out it was just vmware workstation which set the network to a setting that did not allow discovery of the other machines. As soon as I changed it to the same as my other virtual machines, Win 8...

Re taskbar & quickstart bar Thanks, Peter. I hadn't realized only executables can be shortcuts. That's a bit dumbed down from all previous versions of windows but I can make that work knowing that--one minor irritation eliminated. Major ones left. I've used every version of windows since 3.0...

Cannot pin shortcut to batch file to task bar. Is there a reason Microsoft decided that no one should be allowed to do that? I have important tasks I use daily that are run from batch files.