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OK thanks, will check that out. Still curious about what deleting a volume does in terms of ensuring data is truly wiped out or not.

I had a brand new 2TB WD drive (bought 6 months back as a spare), which I put to use yesterday to replace a 1TB data drive. All went well, but just when I was all done, I broke the data connector when I was securing it to the case!!! I contacted WD to see if was covered by warranty, but its...

Thanks. I am reading through some of the tutorials to try to clean up the Apps page - not so simple. Apps page is a pain sometime as you dont know when to veer left vs right, given there are two alphabetic groupings ; I end up having to search and type in the name the app - quite ironic for...

On a typical Apps screen, when sorted by Name there are TWO groupings -a grouping the far left, grouped alphabetically, ( ie a grouping for each of A, B, C etc), -a grouping on the right side, by program name, displayed alphabetically. And clicking on any letter or any program group, (or...

OK figured it out.....finally It was two issues: 1) Something is off with my charms bar.... but when I did a Windows C with the Gmail account I was able see the proper setting for email accounts, and thus able to delete Gmail Account 2) the Outlook email account was listed, even though Mail...

Clearly there is something off. I too do not understand why I am having issues here. When I go to the charm bars and select Setting and Accounts, I see the login accounts to my computer ; I do not not see any email accounts. How do I get to the "Mail" settings? The one that allows me to add...

Question - On page 2 of the start menu, where I launch the mail icon . I can right click and uninstall . Suppose i do that. From where would I re-install the Mail app? UPDATE Found a thread that confined you need to search for the app in the Windows store to reinstall it. I searched and it did...

Ya, I tried to remove the account using those intructions, but no joy ... it says "Swipe in from the right edge of the screen, and then tap Settings." ... I get nothing when I do that in Mail. And I cannot find any other way to get to Mail Settings. Like a click or a right click or a menu...

Some of those links actually look familiar, I guess I was down this road before. If I go to Mail, where I only see the add more accounts screen, I tried to add the outlolok account form there, but it said it was already added/..same issue as before...so as a test I added one of my gmail...

Using the default mail app for Windows is precisely what I am trying to do. But, I am in a Microsoft madness circle. When I go to Accounts, it already displays the outlook address ( ie its already added) And if I try go add other email account, and explicitly add that outlook address, it of...

I rarely use my name@outlook.com email account for email, but once in a while I need to as Microsoft sends and email there. I can get to it no problem via a web browser, going to hotmail.com or outlook.com Other than a shortcut, is there no way to open email from Windows 8 desktop, like is...

Some questions about Windows 8 People (contacts) and Calendar: 1) For Start/People, the contacts appear to be seamlessly synced with Outlook.com, which is fine, but is there a direct way to link it to my Outlook 2010 desktop contacts? Currently I configred Win 8 People to access my Gmail...

Doesn't sound like an unblock-us issue. First thing I would do is try to isolate the issue a bit by removing unblock-us from the equation as a test. With the unlock-us DNS settings removed, the one router, and the multiple pcs: -do you have any issues accessing all pcs using TeamViewer? -can...

Exactly correct and the lesson learned if attempting to rensitall with 8.1 media - gotta really make sure you know your embedded OEM 8.0 key! I thought I did , but now amd glad I ran three different tools (on the first install) so I had at least two keys to choose from. Belarc is my new friend ...

Not quite in my case. I used the key that I had on paper record ; the one Showkey and Speecy reported a few week back when I was up and running after installed with the Dell USB key for which I did not even enter a key to activate. At that time I also an Belarc so I had that on paper as well...

UPDATE 1: Well, I landed up in Windows 8 hell again. Decided to go for fresh Win 8 install, Managed to install Win 8.1 no problem with the retail 8.1 PRO DVD and generic CORE 8.1 ...but it will NOT LET ME ACTIVATE WITH THE DELL OEM KEY. I even tried the registry hacks and slmgr command line...

Yes, many work fine, but some do not.

Ya, RT was just a speculation by them which I didn't believe anyway. So looks like a fresh reinstall is the next step. Deep breath.

On my last PC (the one with the above resolved issues), I now have a new problem. CONTEXT - Dell desktop, fresh install to new SSD, using Dell OEM USB 8.0 followed by 8.1 upgrade via the store. ISSUE - all "appeared" to work perfectly, and I have been everything running nicely for a while...

Thank you again. Although I have long lost any remaining patience, I do find it insane that this one setting has its own tutorial, and registry hacks, and this many steps, and is buried deep in the OS . How would a normal user even think to know to search for "mouse" or go to Ease of Access (...