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Default Programs and Device Manager will allow me to 'pin to start screen' by right clicking them. But Mouse and Windows Defender do not. Power Options is just bleeding awkward, in that it will not let me right click and pin to start screen when I am right clickign on the pinned Power Options...

Far microsoft has come from windows 8 to windows 8.1u1. - The integration of OneDrive into File Explorer. - Being able to snap apps to 50/50 instead of just 25 or 75 % of the screen. - ThisPC being a much better default location for File Explorer to open-up to, instead of Libraries, which I...

Got an issue with YT which seems to have cropped-up in the past couple of days. Using both the Flash Player or HTML5 Player, YouTube videos will play fine but then freeze somewhere around between 2-15 second mark. Or the video will freeze and audio keeps playing, firefox hangs (not...

I don't mind if the thumbnails are square or rectangle, I'd just like them all to be the same as each other. Is there a way I can force the size of the video thumbnails to be the same?

windows store apps don't work after a restart and shutdown. surface pro 1. have tried ms fixit file which said display driver might be out of date but couldnt fix it, device manager says display driver is uptodate and offers no way to rollback either. uninstalled the apps but windows store...

1. The modern apps having the titlebar which allows us to press close in the corner messes with the Start Taskbar if you have it set to the top of the screen instead of the bottom. When you mouse up to the top with and try to drag the file down as normal to close it using the old mouse behaviour...

Is it possible to customize what is shown on the Start Button right click menu for Win8.1? I would like to take certain items away from that list, and add others of my choosing.

I'm coming to the end of my rope here. Win8.1 32bit OS. My audio/video editing needs are relatively simple, yet I only seem to find programs which are insultingly simplistic and don't offer the functions I need; needlessly overly complicated, or they do not work just right and are literally...

FUJITSU SIEMENS AMILO LI 1818 (Old Laptop)CPU - Intel Pentium T2080 @ 1.73GHz GFX - Intel Mobile Intel 945 Express Chipset Family RAM - 2GB Dual- Channel DDR2 @ 266MHz (4-4-4-12) MEDION AKOYA P7360 D (MD 8855) A-UK (Old Desktop PC)CPU - AMD Phenom™ II X4 820 Quad-Core processor GFX - ATI...

1. New apps from the Windows Store, and also new x86 software programs are not being pinned once they have installed. I have to manually pin them from the All Apps screen. 2. When I right click a modern app on the Start Screen and press 'Uninstall', the app doesn't actually uninstall. I have to...

Would you make Surface the 'stylish' tablet/laptop brand, and Lumia the 'colorful' branding? Would you make Lumia for phones and laptops only, and have Suface be the hybrid laptop/tablets? Would you create the much rumored 'Surface Phone'? Or how about that old 'Xbox Surface' rumor for XBLA...

I have a .dll which I use to http://www.eightforums.com/customization/24444-show-sort-headings-all-views-win-8-file-explorer.html I recently had to reset my Internet Explorer settings to remove Conduit Search hijacker. This stopped explorer7fixes.dll from working in File Explorer, because it...

* Side note - this is the General Support board. For Windows/Microsoft related discussion, should there be a General Discussion board, or should I have posted this in the Win8 News board?* Someone tell me if they agree or disagree if this is Surface's biggest issue: "People are starting to...

I'm on Win8.1. Is there way when I select a video file for it to show the length of the video in the bottom status bar? I mean the info is avaliable in the properties > details right click menu for the file. Would this involve hacking the previous Win7 bottom details pane back into Win8.1 File...

I can't imagine going back to pre-Windows 7 without the 'winkey+right/left' snapping. It makes managing things so much easier for me. I can't imagine going back to pre Windows 8, with it's new move/copy dialouge box making it so individual files can be paused, and each job is placed neatly in...

I'd kind of like to make F1-F8 into the regular F keys, but keep F9-F12 (Home, End, PgUp, PgDn) as the multimedia keys. Is there a way to do that?

When I use File Explorer on Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 Preview I have the navigation pane set to 'show all folders' and 'automatically expand to folder'. On Win8 I use SkyDrive for Desktop, and I place the SkyDrive folder in 'C:\Users\Karl\'; and the SkyDrive folder appears in the File...

interacting with the tablet before I've put pen to screen? It's very annoying when trying to resize windows etc.

Snipping Tool on WinVista and Win7 opens in a 'ready to snip' state. Currently on Windows 8 on my PC, when I open Snipping Tool I have to manually press 'new snip' before the program enters it's 'ready to snip' state. Can Anyone help? Working with 32bit Windows 8 Pro. Taking the...

Background information Win8Pro upgraded to Win8.1Preview with a 'keep nothing' installation... Accidentally clicked yes to use SkyDrive for automatic file syncing/backup during Windows setup. Hated how SkyDrive for Desktop appeared at the top of the of the File Explorer window navigation pane...