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This has happened on two Venue 10 tablets after the most recent group of "optional" updates. Rebooting after installation causes a Secure Boot error. The fix is to access the bios setup using a keyboard, turn off Secure Boot, reboot and go through the BitLocker recovery routine. The updates are...

That does it! Thanks much.

Is there a way to set the display orientation to always be landscape? My desktop icons get all messed up if I accidentally turn the tablet on end and it re-orients the display. I'm running the new Dell Venue 10.

That works great! Thanks!!

The new Dell Venue 5000 tablet has a physical Win Key on the side of the tablet. I prefer the style where there is a touch sensitive Win logo at the bottom of the tablet. How can I make a desktop shortcut that activates the Win Key? Perhaps a shortcut to a .bat file but I don't know what to put...

Problem Solved! But this is very strange. Some of the features of the "trial" version without SP2 stopped working so once again I tried uninstalling and reinstalling that version and that didn't help. So I tried installing the free version again and same problem. I was looking at all the files...

EW4 without SP2 works fine as does EW3. Removing the whole folder with all the websites makes no difference. Both those versions open fine and one could browse for the moved folder or start a new one. However, having removed the folder will all the web sites EW4 with SP2 still crashes on startup...

Yesterday (March 1) Microsoft Expression Web 4 stopped working. It crashes immediately after the original splash window opens. This happens using the free EW4 version and it happens using the "WebStudio_Trial" only if you apply SP2. When it happened on my Win 8 triple boot partition I went back...

With all the stories about various business being hacked I'm wondering how safe is it to place your personal information on cloud storage systems. I wouldn't worry about G-rated pictures, videos and various documents but what about documents with identity information, resumes, business letters etc?

I believe you are right about the power. If you leave a program running is it reactivated when you power back up?

I have no interest in turning on hibernation which not only uses power but keeps programs running. It is not provided as a user selection by this special version of Windows 8.1 for this tablet and there is no obvious way to re-install windows if something goes wrong. My interest is turning the...

Lots of good information but there is still some confusion regarding my tablet. It does have the Fast Startup mode which may be what the "suspended state" is, however, I don't find a hiberfil.sys file in C: or Windows or Windows/System32. Its interesting that there is no way to power off the...

We're moving in the right direction but I'm still confused. sleep mode appears to be a generic term for several low power modes. My tablet reports the following sleep states are available using the command powercfg -a Standby (Connected) Hibernate Fast Startup It reports the following sleep...

I have a Windows 8.1 tablet (Winbook 10.1 TW100). Its not clear if it actually powers down completely. Using the command line powercfg /batteryreport I see it has only 3 states. Active and when I use ShutDown it is Connected Standby (briefly) then Suspended. It doesn't have any Sleep modes (1...

Thanks for the great responses!

On a Windows 8 tablet such as a Dell Venue 11 how to you type inputs for desktop programs without an attached keyboard? Sorry if this is a really dumb question but I don't know anything about Windows tablets.

Now that you have Start8, what is that you can't do with your computer that you could do with Windows 7?

"wife's" is known as the possessive form of the noun "wife". It means "the computer used by my wife is 5 years old". Perhaps you write political ads with words taken out of context :-)

Have your clients tried Classic Shell and Modern Mix? With those two installed, for all practical purposes, you have a Windows 7 computer with a key that lets you play with some "metro" style programs. I don't hit that key as much as once a week, there's little there that interests me, but it...

I apologize for being a "pirate". I'm a retired, home computer user who maintains a few websites for car clubs and develop some Excel spread sheets for record keeping and personal data analysis. I love MS products but cannot justify updating with every new version that comes along. My present...