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I use the classic desktop in Win 8.1, but occasionally find myself in the tiled screen or Settings. When doing that during the last several days, I'm getting a "Switch between apps" box pop up on the edge of the desktop and can't get rid of it short of a reboot. Clicking on the arrow causes it...

Last week, Windows would not install the latest updates (25). I posted on the MS Answers forum and was getting help from a moderator, but he seems to have disappeared.* He had me post System Information and System Log runs and update some drivers, and that's where things stand. When I run...

One of my two USB-connected printers, a Canon MP640, has long shown in Disk Manager as a Disk - Removable (N:), No Media. Why? Is there a way to remove it from there? It doesn't show in an external program, such as Easeus Partition Manager. Win 8.1 Pro x64. Thanks,

I need some technical help and am not sure where to pose this, as it's a problem that the program's developer has never seen before and his suggestions didn't solve. Album Player is a very good sounding small audio player that's been around for a few years: Audio player Album Player 2.105. It...

Setting up new nonsystem 3T HDD as single GPT partition In a Win 8.1 Pro x64 system, I have a system SSD and three HDDs, the latter used for media files and backups. The setup is UEFI and the SSD and 3TB HDD are set as GPT type drives. I'm trying to add a Seagate NAS 3TB HDD, which once set up...

A program that's occasionally been throwing up a "can't-find-a-drive" message at computer startup got me looking around today at USB hookups because the drive in question was a removable one hooked to a Canon inkjet printer. In the process, I noticed that Win 8.1 Disk Management and EaseUs...

"MBR Error 1 - Boot from floppy" after clean 8.1 reinstall I had previously posted about boot problems with a cloned SSD, which are described in the first post at http://www.eightforums.com/installation-setup/66457-cloned-drive-wont-boot.html. Before I get into more, I suspect this is a...

I did a clean resintall of Win 8.1 Pro x64 last week on my desktop PC and one thing I forgot to check before starting had to do with download speeds. Some months ago, after a Charter system uprade, my larger file downloads with IDM jumped from ~3.6 mb/s max to 8.6 mb/s. The downside was that...

Ran an in-place repair install from USB stick on desktop computer to see if I could correct a few small problems. On reboot, after pulling the USB stick per screen instructions, the system hung on the Windows icon (no text). After a minute or two, I got the light blue screen that there was an...

On another thread, I had a problem getting a cloned SSD to boot, but finally did by running Windows 8 Mgr on the original SSD and then recloning. But running sfc /scannow on the cloned drive, it's returning the message that Wondows Resource Protection found corrupt files but was unable to fix...

Win 8.1 Pro x64. I cloned a 128gb SSD to a 256gb SSD one, trying both Samsung's cloning software and Todo Backup Home's, both successfully, but the new drive won't boot. Returns one of three errors; - disk read error - MBR Error 1 - system32\winload.exe error / 0xc000000e A common solution to...

I've got three programs that are much slower to open on first start in a session than they should be and than others experience, and this continued or even started after a December Win 8.1 Pro x64 reinstall on a fast SSD that has TRIM (O&O Defrag). They are as follows: - Vuze opened directly...

Out of the blue, I'm not getting any audio with Opera 12.17 at cdbaby (e.g., John Stowell & Manfred Junker | Here At Last | CD Baby Music Store) or when playing videos with Zoom Player, both of which are mainstays for me. Audio otherwise works fine, as far as I can find - foobar, YouTube, Yahoo...

Before I uninstalled/rebooted/reinstalled Opera 12.17 today, Windows was detecting both 12 and Opera 29b. Since then, here are some screenshots that show neither version is being detected except 12 on the main (upper) CP file association list; i.e., bmp, jpeg, etc., but not http, https., etc...

I use the audio program Linn Kazoo. When I first installed it several weeks ago, its window opened a normal size, but since an uninstall/reinstall for unrelated reasons - now three times - that's no longer been the case. Kazoo's window now always opens wide and off the bottom of the screen...

I need help spotting a problem. In the screenshot of the Start Menu folder there's a MinimServer.lnk, which is supposed to load to the sys tray during computer startup. Prior to doing some unsuccesful system restores and undo's for another problem yesterday, it was opening MinimServer at...

Win 8.1 Pro x64. After years of downloading and installing XYplorer releases and betas w/o problem with Internet Download Manger, the past two days I've been getting an elevation error when trying to install from it (see screenshot). OTOH, I can install directly from the file. I thought of...

Since yesterday, I've had an odd icon or artifact on my desktop, which always starts in the lower right corner, per the screenshot. I can drag it around, i.e., move it to another location, but it has no context menu. I use Classic start menu and boot to the desktop. The object has the same...

Did a clean install of Win 8.1 Pro x64 on a desktop i7-2660K machine a week ago. Since then, there's been a problem that didn't exist before the clean install, namely web page loading is very slow while downloading large files, a few hundred mb to a few gb. Pause the downloads and pages load...

Lots of browser "Not Responding" and more Over the past several days, what started as some "not responding" delays when loading many web pages has really made computer a bear (Win 8.1 Pro x64). Here's what I've seen: - "Not Responding" delays of 10-15 seconds and sometimes a lot more at some...