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I had switched my account from the MS Account to a local account some time ago and then when I wanted to download an app from the windows store I needed to log in with my MS account. Well, needless to say, after that my computer required me to log into my MS account all the time. I am getting...

Never mind - I just did some more searching and found out that it is not available in the home / basic edition of windows 8.1. I guess I will have to use the registry option to change the settings. They tell you not to mess with the registry, but don't make things available to those who...

I just tried using the 3rd option to typing secpol.msc and press Enter. But I keep getting a message that it can't be found. To trying checking the spelling and try again. I am running windows 8.1 with the 64bit operating system. Is that option not available on my computer?

I was at a total loss as to why is suddenly was not working as well. In fact I kept trying to think of what I might have installed between the last time I remember using it and when I realized it wasn't working and besides uninstalling Office 2003 and installing MS Office 2016 I could not come...

I tried running the disable .reg file and then running the enable .reg file and the darn charms bar will not appear unless I use the windows and c key to get them to appear. I then tried right clicking on the EdgeUI, pointed to new and selected DWORD Value and named it DisableCharmsHint. I...

I have gone to the taskbar, right clicked and selected properties and made sure that there was a check mark in both the When I point to the upper right corner, show the charms bar as well as there is a check mark in the next one that states that when I point to the left upper corner to switch...

Sorry for the delay, been really busy and simply have not had a chance to be online much. Anyway, I went to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ImmersiveShell and the only thing listed there is (default) REG_SZ value not set (there is no folder for...

system restore and software shadow copy and volume shadow I have my computer set up with system protection turned on, but it does not create system restore points. I was able to create one manually yesterday and this morning but for some reason it is not creating them for me. or at least I...

That is what I was afraid of. I am not sure exactly when it occurred but I am thinking it was somewhere around the same time that I installed MS Office 2016 earlier this week. (or when MS did the updates) I just hate the thought of having to reinstall office 2016 again. Considering the...

I have my settings set as this information states to show the charms bar when is swipe from the upper right corner but all of a sudden my charms bar will not work unless I click the windows key +c. I have a desktop pc and use a mouse, but if I moved the mouse to the upper right corner the...

I guess I should mention that when I followed the steps to change the location of the temp files to fix the error message the section for where the folder was originally located was blank when I opened up the Internet Options and followed those steps

I installed MS Office 2016 on my windows 8.1 computer yesterday and after the complete install I kept getting and error message when I would try to open a word document stating "Word could not create the work file. Check the Temp environment variable." After some searching I found this...

I was following the steps above and for Option 1 step 2 there is no tiles shown there? I attached a screen shot of what I see after clicking the settings option

I am not sure that this is the right place to ask this (and I do apologize if I am in the wrong place) I have been running windows 8.1 for about 7 months now and after the whole initial setup and actually using a MS account for setting up the user and computer I realized that I had set it up to...

Thank Goodness that worked. I make a complete and new backup every month and I have a few that are always available. So I just thought I would give that a shot first and worst case scenario none of the backups resolved the issue and I would end up having to do the refresh. I knew making those...

I had some things to take care of for my parents, but when I came back I tried using the image backup from about 2 weeks ago with Acronis true image first and then ran the sfc /scannow command at the elevated prompt and everything came back clean. Since I have not installed any new software to...

after reading that entire page I did realize that. thanks. I think I am going to try using my complete pc backup from 2 weeks ago first and see if that will bring the computer back to a healthy stage and if that does not work then I will have to do a refresh A lot of good getting the disk...

was just looking at the link for refreshing the pc and noticed something about creating a custom recovery image to use to refresh the pc. would that allow me to refresh the pc without loosing anything...

I had problems shortly after getting this darn computer about 6 months ago and after doing a system restore I only had a black screen and had to do a refresh and had to install all my software again and even though there isn't that much on here, it was a royal pain in the butt. I really hate to...

I did install that download but the administrative templates still is not appearing when I go to edit group policy. I watched where it was installed to and the installation put it in C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Group Policy\Windows8.1-Update\ I did open the folders that are showing when I...