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    White Text in Dark Titlebar Themes

    Hello all, I am using a theme that has white text in a dark titlebar. A lot of the ones I tried did not work fully because (I'm guessing) they haven't been updated for Windows 8.1, and some that said 8.1, were probably not updated for 8.1 Update 1. One key problem not instantly noticeable is...
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    Chrome - Touchpad causes random zooming and scroll jumping

    Hi all, I have a Lenovo Yoga 2 Pro laptop, running Windows 8.1 and I use Chrome, currently on Beta and Canary builds. Because the 3800x1800 resolution is mostly problematic in Windows, I have it set to 1920x1080. In Chrome, I use the touchpad to two-finger scroll up and and webpages. This...
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    Asus RT-N66U Printer Server / Dymo LabelWriter

    Hi all, I was attempting to share a Dymo LabelWriter 450 Twin Turbo on my network with my Asus RT-N66U router. I plugged it in and the router sees it. In Windows 8.1, I've followed the instructions here, and I just get an error right after attempting to print. Any ideas?
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    Intel Wireless 7260 AC - Won't Reconnect After Sleep

    Hi all, I have a Lenovo Yoga 2 Pro running Windows 8.1 x64 which I have switched the wifi card in to an Intel 7260 (the AC version). The WiFi does a lot of weird things and I have Intel driver 17.1.0.19 installed, with Windows managing networks. 1) Windows doesn't seem to remember SSID...
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    Fastest USB 2.0 Flash Drives?

    What is the deal with USB3 drives? I believe it works with UEFI enabled boot on a USB3 controller.. but on a USB 2 system, non-UEFI boot, I havn't gotten a Windows 7 or 8 installer to work.
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    Fastest USB 2.0 Flash Drives?

    Hi all, I like to keep a whole bunch of USB Flash Drives around for bootable Windows media, recovery, etc. I have a bunch of Patriot Xporter XTs and these were really fast and cheap drives. I can't seem to find them as cheap as I used to because they are discontinued. What are you guys using...
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    SSDs Losing MFT?

    OK, so on two different Windows 8 machines, that are clean installed probably every 3-4 months or so, I had both SSDs lose their MFT in the same week. I saw they lose their MFT but that's a guess. Both systems just randomly stopped booting one day. One of them worked fine. I powered it off...
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    Kinnect Sensor

    Hi all, I am wondering if anyone has played with the Kinnect Sensor for Windows. I am curious if there is anything out there to make basic Xbox-like gestures work with plain Windows 8, if this is native to the driver package, or if you really have to use the SDK and program everything...
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    White Titlebar Text

    Hi all, I have the uxtheme patch on Windows 8.1 working fine, and the modified Windows Default theme that has the title bar text white instead of black. This works in almost all problems. Almost. A few of them seem to be stubborn and don't have the text white. Why is this? I don't know how UI...
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    Looking for Background App/Process Manager Presets

    Valid point, but I have noticed things like Adobe Creative Cloud trying to sync or do updates while I'm trying to mix audio. Or I use CrashPlan for data backup and that is constantly doing things (even though I do NOT use the realtime backup). Dropbox is another hog. Some of these will make my...
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    Looking for Background App/Process Manager Presets

    Hi all, I am wondering such a tool exists that I can use to create "presets" to automatically shutdown (or start) a pre-defined set of background processes or apps. I do a lot of different things... AutoCAD, video editing, audio editing, control system programming, etc. When I doing some of...
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    Preparing a new HDD for use

    I've never heard of an ODD file, but that is just me. If Windows is an installer download it should be an ISO. It could be "recovery" files from the PC OEM but I know nothing about those. If you have an ISO, Microsoft provides a tool to make that into a bootable USB.
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    RCA HDTV not playing sound when VGA cable is plugged....

    Well, if you don't have sound plugged in from the laptop to the TV, you should hear the sound coming out of the laptop speakers first. Also make sure you're plugged into the headphone jack and not the mic/line in jack. If you can't hear audio from laptop speakers, try headphones. If that...
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    Preparing a new HDD for use

    If the old HDD or its filesystem is corrupt, I would not image (clone) them to replace. You will just be cloning the problem. I would suggest replacing the HDD and then clean installing Windows and all software from scratch. Then restore the important settings/files from the old drive...
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    how to add windows update in windows 8.1 installer disc?

    I use Acronis True Image. Love that program. Been using it for years. I do miss the days of EASY slipstreaming with XP. The image based installers since Vista make things a little more complicated.
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    Solved Help with Backup

    My vote is to look into Acronis True Image Home. Awesome program. You could image the whole drive and then when you get your PC back, restore only necessary files. It also has some sort of "try and decide" and something of a "snapshot" feature where you could restore things and if it breaks, you...
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    What Media Player Do You Use?

    I used to use Winamp for this and it is excellent, lightweight, and customizable. VLC doesn't have Media Library functions but I wish it did. I know there are some side projects to implement this but I haven't tried any. Windows Media Center is also decent but a power user would probably go to...
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    What are your favorite/must tweaks?

    I'd love to be able to disable IE but I use it more than often to troubleshoot things. I do hide all traces of it though. Sometimes if I need to log into a different Google or Dropbox account and don't want to fiddle with the settings in Chrome, I'll use that. Clover looks cool! Never came...
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    What are your favorite/must tweaks?

    BTW- I am dual booting Windows 7 and Windows 8 on separate SSDs. I end up using the Windows 7 bootloader because Windows 8's seems to partially boot Win8, then require a reboot to boot into 7. Not sure if there's a way around this. It's not as pretty but it gets the job done.
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    CPU 100% when idling. Goes down when task manager is open

    I thought I remembered this being a bug with a previous release of Logitech SetPoint.
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