I have a Windows 7 box acting as a server for some IP cams about 100 miles away. Every so often, one of the cams gets goofy and has to be re-booted by having...

Saw that there were fifty update pending, 2 critical. "What the heck, let's just apply all 50....". Now my Microsoft Wireless Multimedia Keyboard 1.1 has...

When I'm typing into forum posts via IE 11 it seems as if there is some sort of predictive/corrective stuff happening as I type and it's a problem. It acts as...

A few days ago, I noticed something called "SyncCenter" running on my new Win 7 box. I think I get the idea: cache network files locally for use when...

On my instance of Windows 7, Control Panel | All Control Panel Items | Power Options throws a dumbed-down dialog that does not let me do what I want to do (set...

I definitely had Windows Update | Settings | Important Updates = Download updates but let me choose whether to install them But today I went to reboot in the...

I seem to have hit a certain flavor of this twice in the past 3 days and it smells like a bug in 7 to me. I have "MyDocuments" relocated to a share on a NAS...

About a year ago, I started a thread on hard drives in sub-freezing temps and it became clear that's a no-no if/when the drive has to start cold. But what...

One of my apps ("Screen-Scraper") is throwing a "Write Access Error" dialog which says that it does not have access to "C:\Program files\screen-scraper Basic...

I've got a disk drive that's basically hosed - as in "...378 bad sectors on the disk surface. The contents of these sectors wee moved to the spare area." and...

Is there a way to split up the Task Bar and System Tray so that one appears on one monitor and the other appears on the other monitor? -- Pete Cresswell

When I select all files in a directory and then hit Delete, I always get "File In Use Action can't be completed because...." This is expected because at...

I *always* specify the "Don't do anything without asking..." option... but Windows keeps on burning me. Today it was a power outage. Power went out, UPS...

Two monitors, recurrent situation: - I have IE maximized on the left monitor. - I open up another IE window: "C:\Program Files\Internet...

Windows 7 Professional SP1 Swapped out a 3-TB drive from my NAS box and want to format it to NTFS for use on my PC. Did what seemed like the obvious: -...

Mozilla Firefox. - Drag-dropping a shortcut from Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox to the desktop, no problem: the shortcut winds up with the FF icon -...

I had disabled Windows Update service and Background Intelligent Transfer Service, but still wound up with this scary "Get Windows 10" icon on the system's...

One of the dozen drives in a backup server I am trying to configure has suddenly begun to grow it's "Off-Line Uncorrectable Sector Count" and a few other...

Several days ago, I got "BOOTMGR IS MISSING". Restored from a known good image, and all was well for a couple days. Than it happened again. This time I...

My #2 daughter's PC has an Athlon LE-1620 processor running at 2.4 Ghz which seems to spend an inordinate amount of time at 100% CPU. 32-bit Vista. I'm...