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I used to be the Administrator of my Windiws 8.1 Laptop. While trying to bypass Startup password I messed up and now the Administrator is HomeGroupUser$ and I am reduced to a mere Guest. As a Guest I can't revert to becoming the Administrator again. Please help me to regain my earlier status as...

Not to bother because I have solved the problem. The option is on the "Windows 8.1 Settings" Tab.

At How to Disable Aero Glass Transparency in Windows 8 Taskbar? - AskVG it is clained that the latest edition of Classic Shell has an option to make the Taskbar opaque in Windows 8.1. I use Classic Shell and always keep it updated. However the option checked in the image above is missing...

There is a tiny free applet RecImg Manager that does things even better. It can be downloaded from RecImg Manager - Backup & Restore for Windows 8 and Mobile Devices!.

This is the same problem that I had and reported earlier. The problem disappeared on re-installing Windows 8.

Dear Shawn, I suppose that a custom recovery image if on a separate drive, can also be used if the OS crashes and has to be re-installed. Regards, Amarnath

Thanks Wolfgang. I am downloading it. Is it like the Acronis TrueImage Boot Disk. Can you please send the link to its User's Manual, if you have created one. Amarnath

Sorry David, no dice. You are using the standard version while I use the free version. The option that you talking of does not exist in the free version. Now what?

I have UEFI BIOS. I have just backed up my system with the free Macrium Reflect 5.2.6515 and also created a Rescue Disk. On booting with the Rescue Disk in Safe Boot the the Rescue Disk CD is skipped and the Laptop boots to the OS. My question is that if for some reason the C Drive is unable to...

To Ivo my question is that whether those who are not having any problem extract the ClassicExplorer64.dll from the zip file and place it in the Classic Shell folder or not?

I too had upgraded but I had no problem running it on my 64-bit Laptop. Why only few are having the problem?

OK, I now understand. All the programs installed are in the two Program Files Folders. I had thought that the changes made in the configurations are mostly recorded in the Registry files which are in Windows, but maybe I am wrong and they are recorded elsewhere like the Program Data or the...

I am not clear what you mean by program installed or saved to another location. Perhaps by program you mean Recimg Manager. I downloaded Recimg Manager Setup.exe after I had created the .wim Image, thanks to all the help that I got from Adam and yourself, and tested that it was restoring OK. A...

Hi Shawn, In trying to find an answer to why Recimg does not restore the configurations of the installed programs. I found a free program Recimg Manager at Download RecImg Manager - MajorGeeks. I haven't checked if it is included in the list of free programs or not but if it isn't then it...

Thanks a lot Ztruker for the trouble you have taken and saved me from installing 7-zip.

I consulted an Expert on Registry about the problem of configuration tweaks not being restored when the backed up Registry was restored. He replied as follows. "The registry is contained in 4 files. These are SYSTEM, SOFTWARE, SAM & SECURITY. You said that SYSTEM is backed up. If SOFTWARE is...

Thanks Adam. If an exact copy of the Registry is included in the .wim Image then why do the configuration tweaks not restored with the Image. Most of then are just Registry tweaks? I do not have 7-zip which I am aware in free, because I have been using WinRar for ages. WinRar doesn't recognize a...

Hi Adam, You had said that the Pagefile and Hyberfil files are backed, but it appears that the Registry Files are not backed. Had that been done then the configurations carried out on the various Programs would not have disappeared when restoring the .win Image. Supposing I back up the...

Did a test run for the heck of it. Everything went OK and in about 30 minutes yesterday's image got restored. However all the programs came back with default configurations and had to be reconfigured again. Bit of a hassle, but 500% better than starting afresh with the Factory Image. Thanks...

Thanks a lot. All doubts are resolved. But a new question arises now. When the built in Custom Recovery Image (.wim) is so good then why should anyone use some third-party imaging program at all?