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Hello, Just updated to 8.1. Still undecided. Specifically I somehow managed to get the admin apps shown on the was M$ account, now my local account start page. I can not figure out how to get rid of them. I hope someone with more experience can guide me. Also can not figure out how to put...

Hello, I have been using W8 on my secondary computer. It does not get that much use. So I really haven't kept up with developments or features of the 8.1 upgrade. I had set up W8 by removing all cloud application (ALL) and replacing them with computer based programs. Somehow I perceived that...

Hello, I am having problems with system imaging my Windows 8 machine to an external hardrive via a usb (??) cable. First, as mentioned in another thread is the exceptionally long time. The external drive is a WD 1TB BTW. I have two older hardrives on the computer. Just installed the second...

Hello, I have used Paragon Free version for Windows 8 once before. Don't recall anything special... I am using the USB to my WD External drive. It took over 6 hours, and I don't know how much longer, as I went to sleep, to backup 26GB. Is this normal? The drive is used on other computers with...

Hello to all, I have found using the pre-release W8 on my old system to run pretty fast and well. My issue is that I do not wish to use any cloud apps at all and want to delete them and replace them with the regular .exe programs. I have uninstalled all the apps that I've found on the start...

Purchased and installed W8 Pro. I followed the instructions to redownload an ISO image and the size of the file is just over 2 MB. I recalled reading somewhere in the instructions or threads that the ISO should be 4 MB or larger and that my download is in error. Did I misread this or do I really...

Hello to all, For various reasons I have not purchased a smartphone until now and only to run Windows. I am currently running W 7.5 on a Samsung Flash. As this is my first smartphone I don't know the concept well and have some questions. It appears as if I am stuck with IE. I am unable to...

Hello to all, Tonight I experienced the symptom of the machine had gone into screen shutdown. It had been sitting that way for several hours. I moved the mouse, got the log in screen, saying I was still logged in and enter the password. All came up fine. I then went to do the charm bar...

Hello to all, I have my machine on balanced power mode. It shuts down the monitor at 15 minutes. Well I don't know how long it was off, possibly for a hour and when I moved the mouse, the screen stayed off. The monitor was without signal. I tried hitting various key and nothing would make it...

Hello to all, I installed an upgrade of SuperAntispyware as the user account with Admin privilege. It is checked to not start with windows. It does not start with the Admin account. CCleaner which I often us to kill startups will not allow me access without admin privilege, which when chosen...

Hello to all, I have just noted while trying to bring W8 up to speed, that Windows Photo Viewer can not display .NEF or .CR2 RAW image files. I have associated all the image file extensions with the Windows Photo Viewer and do not use the App Version. I don't recall but tried to begin the...

Hello, Wondering if anyone is using Windows 7 File Recovery from the Control Panel in Windows 8. Would like to confer on it's strength and performance. Thanks for any response! Glenn

Hello to all, Quick question. Very often when I run CCleaner registry scan it marks the msdaora.dll file for removal. I always allow it with no backup but it seems to keep coming back. Minor research seems to be that it is a authentic .dll, but why is CCleaner prompting it's removal. Is it...

Hello to all, Have been running W8 and have backed up system images on my 2nd hardrive (D:). I have used Macrium of which I am more familiar and also the OS's Windows 7 File Recovery. Both have instructed me to create boot rescue disks. I am looking at the D: drive and I see the Folder...

Hello to all, Well have been running fairly stable for a week now. Pretty cool for me! I do have a recurring issue which I don't believe had been covered. Have been using Windows Defrag. The issue is that if I run it from a pinup on the start page/ as administrator, I get a cmd window a flash...

Hello, tried a automatic repair that popped up after I was playing in services.msc. I found that it did not seem to leave the system in a condition I liked so I opted to use Macrium to do a system image restore from a system image I made last night. Ran sfc and it looked okay. Decided to...

Hello, Running W8 and when I installed NIS it disabled Windows Firewall and Windows Defender. I checked this in Action Center. Well today I had to do a macrium restore image and besides other issues, regarding running Windows Defender with real protection off, I found that Windows Firewall was...

Hello, Put together a system and after running down issues and setting W8 the way I like it, I neglectfully forgot to test the mini-card to USB device. It does not work. I was trying to copy something over on a compact flash memory disk I have. I did some basic troubleshooting on my level...

Hello, Again this is the first time using apps. No phones, no pads. I understand that apps are just programs - per se! But some of the apps require internet connections and stuff and some are just the renaming of an already on the computer program. I wish to use the photo viewer and it...

Hello to all, You members, you know who you are are great. Finally figured out how to give out reputation points and in trying to give them to the people who have helped me, I ran into the to many in 24 hour period warning. I'll catch up! Currently I have some strange problems, could use...