Windows Articles

• Chkdsk Fail (Obsolete) If chkdsk gives you a ‘cannot open volume for direct access’ error on Windows XP, try running msconfig and selecting a Diagnostic startup.
• Downgrading a Microsoft Surface Device to Windows 10 You can reinstall Windows on a Surface tablet or laptop using a hardware-specific recovery image and a USB drive. Microsoft will want you to log in and provide the serial number of the device you want to reinstall.
• Find the missing Windows 8.1 update on a Dell (Obsolete) If the 8.1 update is missing from the Windows Store, you need to uninstall a minor update and then reinstall it manually.
• Google Drive insists “A newer version is already installed” (Solved) Drive wouldn’t reinstall because the uninstall had failed. What finally worked was copying the program files from another computer and re-running the uninstaller.
• How to Get Rid of Windows Live Messenger (Obsolete) Start to uninstall Windows Live Essentials, then choose which pieces you want to get rid of. And WLM will go away.
• Invisible Taskbar Icons on Windows - But Only Microsoft Store Apps (Solved) Clearing caches, fixing corrupted files, just unpinning and repinning might work - or you might just need to uninstall Google Drive.
• KB5034441 Won’t Install The Windows 10 installer didn’t set aside enough space to install this fix, but a generic error covers up the actual reason.
• Keep Your System Updated! Most drive-by computer infections use old vulnerabilities for which patches are already available.
• KeePass Password Managers KeePassXC, its browser extension, and KeePass2Android are a nice, clean set of apps to manage your passwords on your OWN desktop and mobile devices, auto-fill websites and apps, and sync over your own server or cloud provider.
• Minecraft Bedrock Beta vs. the Microsoft Store There’s got to be a better way to do this. Actually, I know there’s a better way to do this, because Minecraft already does it in Java Edition.
• Move Your iTunes Library from Mac to Windows In theory it’s easy, but you have to deal with a different folder structure, illegal characters, and then wiping and resyncing your iPod.
• Remove GPS Tags After Taking a Photo Google Photos won’t remove GPS data from an image, but you can easily remove just the location data using a desktop or laptop.
• Removing a Hybrid MBR from a GUID-Partitioned Disk Today I learned about hybrid MBR/GUID partition tables, where the GPT on a disk is duplicated in an MBR table for (outdated) compatibility purposes. These days it can break compatibility with Windows if you have a partition MBR doesn’t support, like a multi-terabyte filesystem.
• Unhide the Windows 10 ESU Offer Windows Update is a bit flaky about making the offer to enroll a Windows 10 system in an extra year of security updates. If it’s not showing the offer, this can make it re-check whether your system qualifies: cmd /c ClipESUConsumer.exe -evaluateEligibility
• Wacom Registration error: “Profile ID Missing” (Solved) Uninstall and reinstall the drivers, or manually reload the registration page in your browser instead of following the link.
• WGA False Positive Experience The time Windows mistakenly told me I was running a pirated copy…because Norton Internet Security had blocked its validation attempt.
• Windows 11 “PROCESSOR START TIMEOUT” BSOD on Parallels I got this error trying to relaunch my VM after updating Parallels Tools. The solution was simple: turn it off and back on again.
• Windows Losing Drives After Sleep (Solved) It turned out the motherboard had two SATA controllers, one of which worked properly and one which didn’t. I just moved the cables over.
• Windows on MacBook Boot Camp Stops Connecting to External Displays Go into Device Manager and tell it to show hidden devices. There could be a broken display config interfering with the driver for the real adapter.

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