I have notebook computer running Windows 10 that is missing icons on taskbar. I tried to follow the instructions on fixing the problems at How to Fix Windows 10 Not Showing App Icons in the Taskbar (makeuseof.com) but it didn't work. The notebook can't be upgraded to Windows 11 due to missing TPS and old CPU. Any suggestions ..read more

Plenty of options. Have both Win 10 and 11 dual booting on same machine, but prefer Win 10 and will not give it up. May prefer Win 11 by then if it becomes more in line with my preferences, just not too sure about that yet. May replace Win 10 with LTSC version which will continue to get support till 2032. I need at least 2 OS on same machine and prefer windows over Linux. Any Win 10 hold outs left here? What are your plans post 10/2025 ..read more

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Windows update restarts then shut down? This week, I click on "Start" and "Shut Down" when there is Windows Update available - small icon next to "Shut Down". Two computers running Windows 10 and 11 start updating, appear to shuts down but restarts, goes through updating Windows, and finally shuts down ..read more

Hello everyone, I am at my wits end and need some help from people more qualified than myself. I've been grappling with a issue where my mouse freezes for a brief moment (0.5 ~ 1 sec) both in desktop usage and in-game. This happens regardless of the activity – browsing the web or intense gaming sessions. The cursor simply freezes in place. In-game, the world keeps moving around me and on desktop music playing while it happens keeps playing without stuttering, popping or anything like that.... Mouse freezing on desktop and in games cross multiple configurations ..read more

So Windows finally forced me to switch from Mail app to the new Outlook. The new app does not save some preferences like "always use multiple rows for messages" or setting ribbon size to Classic instead of simplified. I purposefully stuck out as long as I could in the hopes when the transition was forced the app would at least work but nope. How come in 2024 Microsoft cannot implement even a working user interface for an email application... Feel free to use this thread for ranting about... Outlook (new) is great (not ..read more

Currently trying to play Return to Ravenhearst from BigFish Games but the game will only go into an 800 x 600 window in the top left corner of my monitor and won't run fullscreen! Windowed mode is fine in that I can drag it around my 1920 x 1200 monitor but it's still, 800 x 600, Alt + Enter doesn't work on this game so can't go fullscreen using that! Have the latest NVidia 385.41 drivers on a GTX 780 and Windows 10 LTSB 2016 and tried all the scaling options in the control panel like... Some 800 x 600 games won't go fullscreen in Windows 10 ..read more

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-com...-to-simplify-dlss-fsr-and-xess-implementation I'm surprised no one's talking about this considering all the DLSS and FSR talk ..read more

Hi, so in short I wanna run Gigabyte RGB Fusion at Windows logon to make it apply the RGB lighting effect and then terminate since the effect persists after the program has been run and I'd like to have the least amount of software running in the background. How could I achieve this? It's easy to create a scheduled task to run a program but cannot see a straightforward way of also terminating it after execution ..read more

Hi! I'm in the quest of saving a piece of HW that's a jewel in PC music production and that many love and use nearly 20 years after its launch despite Creative absorbing E-MU for its intellectual property and then dismissing support: https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=529349&sid=ea36352b660d10b98e5866aaa1527288 Long story short : everything has always worked fine under Linux but in Windows I face a multitude of HW resources assignment. Some data about the actual... Manually reserving and assigning HW resources in Windows ..read more