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Thanks. I understand it's hard to write an OS that pleases everybody but man - there are a whole bunch of us who have been using computers for 50+ years that simply can't read read the screen anymore. I really hate to have to give this stuff up. I wish MS would make things a little more...

I believe we are talking about the same thing. As best as I can figure out the only way to change the size is to use the custom sizing option which changes the size of everything. The Control Panel\Appearance and Personalization\Display option lets me change the size of certain items like menus...

I am not using any 3rd party software. I am running just Windows. I understand that MS provides an option to increase the size on the toolbar. That works just fine to increase the menu size. However, it does not solve my question. Scenario - When I right-click on the taskbar there is...

I rebuilt my machine from scratch - I installed 8.0, 8.1, then the update. No issues and the problem went away. I just noticed the machine was slower (longer to boot and less responsive). Then I installed other applications and observed that nothing changed in terms of boot time or...

I gave up. I completely deleted my system and started all over from Win 8. Reloaded all updates etc. It finally works. I have no idea what the problem is. I will note that my system runs much slower than it did before the update. I don't know what that is all about. I also use MBAM...

I have updated my Win 8.1 x64 PC with the latest updates - update 1 in particular. IE fails to start. I looked at the event viewer and found the following. I have Avast!, MalwareBytes installed. I am able to access the internet through other programs and retrieve email with Thunderbird. I do...

I merged the reg file for cpl. No change. I checked for control.exe. It is there. However, when I execute it directly I get a message saying file has no program associated with it. What's weird is some of the cpl files execute just fine. Some do not. I can build a shortcut with the...

I have several control panel items that do not open. I get a message indicating that they are looking for an associated program. After some research I figured out how to create a shortcut that opens the control panel item (example:firewall.cpl) by using its canonical name, and its GUID...

No one seems to have a good solution to this problem. I am probably going to have re-install the OS again. I don't understand a) what's causing the problem so I can avoid doing whatever and b) the consequences of doing nothing and just letting the event log build up. All the other tasks in...

Absolutely. They are all running.

I have Windows 8 X64. I am experiencing a problem I need help with. When I open Task Scheduler I receive a message “Task SvcRestartTask: The task XML contains an unexpected node”. When I look in the Event Viewer I see hundreds of messages like the one below. Source...

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I have a non-networked PC that is connected to the internet. Can I disable the services Workstation and Server without any negative effects? Thanks

I upgraded from Win 7 to Win 8. When I open up task scheduler I receive several messages saying "The selected task "taskname" no longer exists". How do I remove these dead tasks? I assume they are left over somehow from Win 7.