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Starting this morning whenever I tried to sign in to Hotmail (IE 10 Desktop) the URL would flash between -- I think -- Hotmail.com and live.com and then tell me it encountered a problem and to try to login later. I verified that other sites requiring the same authentication (e.g. SkyDrive) didn't have this issue. (At this time the "Modern" IE 10 seemed to work fine but later on it began displaying the same behavior as the Desktop version). I fired up a new Windows 7 VM, IE 9, went to Hotmail and successfully logged in. Next I disabled all Start-up Addins for IE 10 Desktop but now when I try to login to Hotmail I get a 5050 answer: 50% of the time the application crashes, the other 50% of the time it asks me to logon later. I also tried logging into "live.com" instead of "Hotmail.com" and am getting the flashing URL bar again and the message "Something went wrong and we can't sign you in right now. Please try again later." Finally, I found that by running Desktop IE 10, as Administrator, my login was accepted. I was going to uninstallreinstall IE 10 but could not any such option. For what it is worth, Windows Defender did not find any issues. How can I determine the source of this issue? TIA, edm2 View the full article

I get a message that says to insert a writable disk but it always spits it back out. Another thing when I check the available space on my E drive disc the diagram shows the whole disc is blue. It does not show any numbers indicating available space. I thought maybe there was a problem with my CD-R disc's so I bought some CD-RW disc's but it didn't make any difference. I have been using my DVD player to watch movies and play music I have recorded on disc's with no problems. I just don't understand why when I find songs on Frostwire I want to record that it ejects the disc when I tell it to burn the song. It didn't seem to matter if I was in the torrent section or the Library section on Frostwire. I'm very frustrated please help,thank you. View this thread

Get the message Photo Gallery cannot open this file. Is there a way to allow it to open Olympus Raw Files? View this thread

My computer was recently formatted and windows media player 11 was installed. Now I can't see download this video on the right hand side top corner. I went to settings to locate it but could not find it. Not even the recording button. If I go on to youtube, I can see the download this video. I used to be able to record / download from streaming live tv without any problem. I used this feature before I formatted the computer. I can't remember what version I had of media player before, Most probably I had older version. Please help. Thank you View this thread

Hardware is not compatible so no you can't convert them.

I just purchased a new computer about a month ago. Everything is working fine hardware-wise. Within the past day I have been unable to use file explorer. I click on any folder on my desktop and in the taskbar it shows that the correct folder is open, but there is no display. I had the same problem with Google Chrome, but after a computer restart Chrome is working. I can click on any folder and none will display. When I hover over it, the small view of the folder is there. Can I receive some help with this problem. Thanks Itouchmaniac View the full article

I'm unable to turn windows defender on it say it is turned off, can you help? I also tried downloading it and it say its under vista, please help me get it turned back on.... View this thread

I found an old post from 2009 here: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_vista-desktop/my-display-icon-is-missing-from-my-control/c3a4d7c1-0149-4c41-bcbc-75ba11c6d99d I tried both of the suggestions described there, but neither one restored the Display Icon. I'm wondering if anyone has ny other suggestions on what to try. View this thread

We have recently installed a Windows 8 Pro edition OS on one of our 64bits laptops, and the installation works great. Installation of programs have worked fine (such as Office and Opera webreader), but when installing latest versions of java (Version 7 Update 10), both 32 & 64, the installation stops and shows an error. We downloaded Java from the official site and the Windows 8 is activated with our valid key recieved via e-mail. Below roughly translated errormessage from google translate: "Can not open thisinstallation package. Verify that the package exists and that youhave access to the one, or contact the applicationvendor to verify that this is a valid Windows Installer package."- I run the installation as administrator. Does anyone know what this could be caused by? I have searched the web for two days without finding this out. Offcourse we open internet explorer from desktop mode and download it directly to desktop mode where we also try to install it from. Please reply here and/or send an e-mail to morten.austad@c2i.net if you would be so kind! This since I am helping someone else with this issue and will not be checking this thread on a daily basis. In advance, THANK YOU! View the full article

Hello everyone, I recently installed Windows 8. I have some issue, but I'm not sure if it's a feature or a bug. When I minimize a tile, the sound from it is decreased immensely. For example, if I open IE10 from the app tile, and open a YouTube video and play it, when I switch the screen to something else, such as Desktop, the sound is decreased dramatically. The same happens even when I open Xbox music and switch out. Is there some way around this? Thanks What is a signature? View the full article

I thought this might just be one PC, but am finding this problem on home, work and even my Surface RT. Sometimes when viewing web pages (or graphics in metro apps that use IE to display content like a newsreader) a graphic will be replaced or mangled with a what looks like green video noise, and sometimes part of the previously viewed graphic is part of it. It's hard to describe without seeing it, but it shows up on pages with lots of graphics boxes like news blogs (sites like a Buzzfeed or Google News). This is what happens: Its very very common, and I thought it might be video drivers (mostly use AMD), but when it happened on my Surface I found this to be more common than I thought. Is anyone else seeing this or have a fix? Curt Kessler - FLC View the full article

I have tried several times and get the same error. View this thread

Any reccommendations for virus protection, etc? I`ve used Panda for 3 years and they are next to impssible to contact. Thus they provide 0 support. I have windows XP,7 and Vista Thanks View this thread

I am trying to download home video to my computer and instructions say I need windows XP SP3. I am presently running Windows XP home addition. View this thread

Hi folks, What can you tell me about Browse2save.com? My poor unsuspecting ASUS got infected by this, during a download and I found it in uninstall software under the name of YOTOOL DLL. I looked it up and found out some info on what it is and what it is about, and to add this, the name varies depending on what sons of b****** would want to hack your PC. I started to appear on whatever page that had text and appeared as highlighted in a different color and had a coupon of all sorts linked to it. I followed the instruction on how to remove it all from installing the software that is was hooked on to removing cash and cookies in IE and firefox as well as resetting them both browsers. What more is there to it and why didn't Defender discover this.. is it harmful, as in, taking of identity and such?? Merry Merry to all View this thread

Outlook have UNASKED invaded my hotmail and I can't get it to go away and now I can't understand/use my computer. I don't want them - I did NOT ask for them. I don't KNOW how to answer the questionat the bottom of this page. What do you want.??? View this thread

When I tired to put Microsoft Essentials on my new windows 8 computer it told me that I had web defender and didn['t need to install Microsoft Essentials Security. My new computer came with a free 5 months virus portection software called Kaspasky. Should I install this software also. View this thread

I seen the same thing. I used Googlebar and had the same results with IE 10. Could have something to do with Metro and the way IE 10 interacts with it.

when i try to connect my live account to windows 8 it shows the following error &quot We're sorry, but something went wrong. your account wasn't chang to microsoft account. Code: 0x80070426 &quot View the full article

While doing searches ie google... yahoo or any other search engine , I find an untold amount of old useless, information that is not needed, outdated, and completely useless. For example lists of addresses for stores that no longer exist. It would seem to me that all this needless information is taking up much space that could be detrimental to the World Wide Web .... Anyone know about this stuff? jim View this thread

While doing searches ie google... yahoo or any other search engine , I find an untold amount of old useless, information that is not needed, outdated, and completely useless. For example lists of addresses for stores that no longer exist. It would seem to me that all this needless information is taking up much space that could be detrimental to the World Wide Web .... Anyone know about this stuff? jim View this thread

My system has a third party raid controller on which I have installed Windows 8. Everything works except recovery mode. When I run recovery mode I don't have any of the normal options I am used to seeing in safe mode. I have to load into System Image Recovery, add my RAID driver, and go back to the main recovery mode screen before it will detect my installation. It seems to be too late by then for any safe mode options to be displayed. In Linux I am accustomed to adding any needed third party drivers to the 'boot image' if I need them loaded before the kernel. Would adding the drivers to the Windows 8 install image also add them to the Windows boot image after install? Can the boot image be mounted and drivers added to it with dism? If not, how do I get the safe mode options? View the full article

I don't have a wireless hotspot as I rarely use the internet outside of my bedroom, which which is half bedroom and half computer room. Since I've graduated from school, I rarely use my laptop except as a sort of e-reader reading at night. I use a long CAT5e patch cable instead. Unfortunately, I damaged the connector last night, and won't be able to get a new RJ-45 plug until after work tomorrow, and I won't be able to actually fix it until I can bring the cable in to work and use their crimper. In the mean time, the connection keeps comming and going every time I breathe with the laptop resting on my chest in bed. Is there any way to stop those balloons that notify me the connection is been disconnected, and then is connected again? Preferably while keeping the icon there so I can look when I'm ready to click on a link for the next chapter? In other words, I want to turn off the "local area connection 2: A network cable is disconnected" and "local area connection is now connected speed: 100Mbps" They keep poping up and are getting annoying. Not to mention blocking the bottom of the browser window. I realize they are there for a reason as there is a very real malfunction, but it's going to be a few more days before I can fix it. BTW, is there any way to rename "Local Area Connection" to "Wifi connection" and "Local Area Connection 2" to "Wired Ethernet Connection"? Easier to remember which is which. View this thread

Somehow, I no longer have Windows Defender functioning on my computer. I try downloading it anew, but the system won't allow me, stating that it came preloaded on Windows Vista. How can I overrule the system and downoad Windows Defender? View this thread

I have connected a vga & audio lead to a converter imput, & then from the output HMDI lead to the TV HMDI, I tried Display properties & settings and the best I get is when I restart as instructed is the windows XP (black screen with logo) with the loading bar under doing it's thing........this comes on the TV fine but then stops and goes black on both screens, I dont seem to get to the control alt del stage at all.........All help needed out there please......Thanking you, yours sincerely liam k View this thread