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My Win8.1 screensaver has a problem. After the screensaver activates, I move the mouse and there is a blue screen for about 5-7 seconds. Then the normal windows screen displays. This can happen no matter what was previously displayed, desktop without any programs running, Thunderbird, MS Word...

A friend is running Windows 8.1. Her external USB hard drive used to be assigned the letter "E". She says that for an unknown reason, that USB hard drive is now assigned the letter "J" but she would like to have it back to the letter "E". I opened Disk Management and tried to change the drive...

I see the write-up on how to make a password reset disk on a USB flash memory stick. But is there a way to make a password reset disk on a CD? WHAT I DID: 1. Inserted a blank CD in the optical drive. 2. Opened control panel and clicked "User Accounts". But in the left panel there is no option...

I used netplwiz to uncheck "Users must enter a user name and password to use this computer" a while ago. So I can boot my Win 8.0 laptop fine. But I forgot the password. Is there a way to see what the password is?

I'm setting up a new Windows 8 PC. In my Win7 PC, I have an icon on the taskbar that holds all open folders. I'll call it the "Open Folders" icon. I don't remember how that icon got on Win7's taskbar. How can I create a similar icon on Win8's taskbar. EXPLANATION: In Win7, say I open the C...

I installed Win8 Pro on a Dell Studio 1537 laptop that used to run Vista. Win 8 Pro was installed in Dec 2012 and has all Microsoft Win8 updates installed. When I try to burn files on a blank DVD disc using Win8's Explorer, I get a message that says: "Insert a disc Please insert a writable...

Windows Defender (Security Essentials) seems to get low ratings in antivirus reviews. Any recommendations for a different free antivirus? Thanks, Skyzoomer

I see responses in different threads that didn't use quotes from the person being responded to. Is there a "Threaded" mode to see the posts in a tree to determine who was being responded to? Thanks, Skyzoomer

I'm a new Windows 8 user and am running the Classic Shell since I don't like the Metro interface. When I opened a .pdf file, it opened via Win8's pdf reader. Aside from being bad (being nice), when I close Win8's pdf reader I'm back in the Metro interface which I hate. So I installed Adobe...