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I've been running W8.1 - 64 bit on an Asus m3a78 motherboard for about 10 years with no problems. AMD processor. Up until now, my ISP provided me with "up to" 100 Mb - no problems there. I now have an "up to" 500 Mb fiber service. The wired speed tests all read around 80-90 Mb up and down, day...

I see lots of posts about how long various tasks take. In my case the daily Windows Maintenance seems to take up to 10 minutes to be done. Disk activity is maxed, CPU activity is High and it seems like no other computer functions will work until the maintenance is done. This behavior...

I have a shortcut to a control panel item that sits on the desktop. The target of this shortcut is a registry key that looks like {BA126ADB.......}. Is the key considered to be a "file" by W8.1? Can I substitute a hard link to this registry key by using MKLINK? thanks!

The latest 8.1 64-bit update - KB2919355 - is a cumulative update for 64 bit systems. It is nearly 1 Gb of data. After installing this update I began to notice that certain 32-bit programs would not start, producing error messages like this: "The program is not completely installed, or it...

Strange behavior on my Win 8.1 desktop with a shortcut to Control Panel\Network Connections\Ethernet Network. After a system startup, (as administrator) the shortcut can "Disable" the network connection by right clicking the shortcut and selecting "Disable". Later, when the shortcut is right...

Dear Friends, I think I'm fighting a network permissions problem, but I'm stuck. I have reliable connections to my DSL modem and to the internet. I would like to enable/disable my network interface, in this case the ethernet connection to my DSL modem, (not the DSL modem connection to the...