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• All my shortcuts on the desktop and start menu - all programs are showing up with blank windows pages icon.

  Original title: broken shortcut

  ALL my shortcuts on the desktop and start menu - all programs are showing up with blank windows pages icon and the name of the file and .lnk I uninstalled something and it happened that I tried system recovery and everything else that I uninstalled the States are back but this how can I solve this?

  Hello

  1. what changes have been made to your computer before the problem?

  Follow these steps and check if they help.

  Step 1:

  I would say you rebuild the icon cache and check if the problem persists.

  a. press the keyboard Windows logo key combination + R to bring up the Run dialog box.
  b. type cmd and press ENTER to open the command prompt window.
  c. in the command prompt window, type the following commands pressing ENTER after each line:
  Taskkill /f /im explorer.exe
  attrib-h "%userprofile%\Local Settings\Application Data\IconCache.db.
  del "%userprofile%\Local Settings\Application Data\IconCache.db.
  Explorer.exe

  d. this restart Windows Explorer and rebuild the cache icons as needed.

  Step 2:

  Test the issue in a new user account.

• Suggestion: Add the ability to spedify default applications for modern desktop and "apps".

  One of the things that makes the Windows 8 experience feel jarring is the constant flipping between the office and the 'metro' style applications, especially when opening for example attachments to electronic mail, etc.

  Can you not an engineer (perhaps under a set of advanced options for default programs) a way to have both configured 'default' programs, when opening a file or an attachment to the desktop environment, and the other for when opening a file or an attachment of an APA 'metro '. This will become even more useful as developers to provide desktop computers and their applications ' metro' versions.

  For example, I'm in Outlook to send and open a PDF file. By default, it turns back to the app full screen (metro style) of Microsoft Reader, which is far from ideal.

  If, instead, I set the default PDF for Adobe Reader desktop drive, then it's better from Outlook. However, if I use a file browser in the metropolitan area or open an attachment, and then it comes back on the desktop to open it - that feels almost like a seamless experience.

  That kind of capability is especially important around things like photos, videos and music as well as files PDF - but would also help in other areas, for example WinZip (where they offer desktop and applications of metro style) and I am sure than others to go forward.

  It would be difficult to apply, but I don't think it's impossible.  But just my opinion here, I think that in most cases, people are not using the metro and the office.  If you are on a workstation, you probably only use Outlook and Adobe and all other office applications and never use metro file browser.  If your default program will be a desktop program.  But if you have a Tablet, you will probably not use the office. If your default program would be the metro application.

  I don't really feel like Microsoft for you allows you to switch backwards between the two experiences, because (as you say) it's very shocking.  But you (the user) are in control of that.  You would probably have a better experience if you just stuck to the one who is the most suitable for you.

  It is a point that I do not understand when people say they want it to work like Windows 7.  Except for the start menu, there is nothing doesn't stop that. You could put the programs and the shortcut on your desktop icons and the taskbar that you want and you will never see Metro again.

  Just my thoughts anyway.  I feel as if the switch is jarring (who he really is), do not switch. Stay in the most appropriate to your hardware and your preferences.

• Tile desktop in Windows 8 start screen

  Tile Office in my Windows 8 start screen is empty and the background is black.  Any ideas how I can get to display the content?

  What happens if you choose a background wallpaper by double-clicking the blank desktop (not the tile, the current Office) and then choosing Customize?

• How do install CC Desktop and Apps on one drive other than "C"?

  After several problems, help forum, and finally an Adobe of the India technology technology was able to install Desktop CC.  The technology had to make hidden files visible and change an existing file OO? (I don't remember the last two letters") oo? _OLD.  Maybe this will help someone else.

  Maybe I'm wrong, but that the technology has been downloaded and installed Desktop CC, I saw no option for which drive to install on.  I am trying to install apps CC.  I see no other choice as to which drive to install the software.

  I have my computer as C: operating system configuration; D: sctratch; E: programs; F:, G: cd/dvd files.

  How can I install Desktop CC to 'E '?  If done, CC apps automatically install on 'E '?  CC desktop will work properly in other than the drive "C"?   CC apps will work properly on other than the drive "C"?  If CC Office should always be on 'C', I can install applications CC stll on 'E '?  I get no dialog or window with an option of where to install all programs CC.

  You can install apps to another location by selecting a folder in the LTCC prefs LTCC itself will always install on the root of the system, as well as some components Adobe shared globally. Has always been so.

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• How can I remove the deletion of taskbar icon and remove all traces of McAffee AntiVirus Plus? It seems immpossible to get rid of it.

  I don't not re-subscribed to MCAafee Antiplus security last year. I made so many attempts after you remove the program from my file have tried so many times and programs remove all traces of this software. I still have the icon at the bottom of my screen and pop ups several times a day, prompting me to re - register my system ' at risk '?

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• When you remove the desktop icons, they will recycle bin, how do remove them permanently?

  I have image icons on my desktop and cannot remove them, whenever I try to delete them they go into the trash and a copy appears. How can I get rid of them?

  Hi PierreCormier,

  1. did you of recent changes on the computer?

  2. where to find the copy of the files delete?

  3. This does happen with icon specific illustration?

  4. What is the version of Windows installed on the computer?

  Read the articles and check them off below if it helps.

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  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/320031

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• After you have installed Windows 10 and signature with password (Windows 7), the following screen (I guess the desktop of Windows 10) just flashes and the arrow cursor just spins.

  After you have installed Windows 10 and signature with password (Windows 7), the following screen (I guess the desktop of Windows 10) just flashes and the arrow cursor just spins.  Try to understand the problem.  Can I try to reinstall? Problem is on flashing screen cannot do anything.

  Original title: Windows 10

  Hello

  Thanks for posting in the Microsoft Community.

  (1) do the Windows 10 installation process is complete?

  (2) you are able to view the Windows 10 desktop?

  You can check the help below article and check if it helps.

  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows-10/troubleshoot-screen-flickering

  If the problem persists, you can reinstall Windows 10 by downloading an ISO image file to create installation media.

  To download an ISO image see the link below:

  https://www.Microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/Windows10

  To create an Installation media check out the link below.

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• Windows 7 full screen games and desktop applications losing focus and stealing discussion questions

  NOTE: The updates at the top of this announcement, the original message is less than.

  UPDATES: here are a few updates and new information that I have gained since the original publication.

  Registry settings

  After doing a lot of reading, I found some registry settings that appear to solve some of the problems I see. All three were found in HKEY_CURRENT_USER-> Panel-> Desktop

  ForegroundLockTimeout: Has been reset for some reason any. I removed the key and restarted, but he is back to zero. This is why I looked at the default value of 200000 (decimal) and set it. After that, he stayed. \

  I saw two other keys HungAppTimeout, WaitToKillServiceTimeout, and WaitToKillAppTimeout and all have been set to zero. I deleted these registered.

  I have no idea what set these registry keys to zero, but after being put into default, I can now click on an application full screen reduced, and he returned immediately. I can still lose focus in full screen or desktop app, but not as often as before and now he is usually just badly behaved apps stealing focus rather than seemingly random events.

  I wonder if there is a patch that has changed these values, or a settings option that does. From what I read, they are sometimes twisted to allow faster restart and stop servers.  I don't have a software that would be while and manually set their and none have the people I know. One of them has confirmed that their box also has these set values zero and has no idea why.

  I hope this information is useful to other people with odd focus problems.

  ORIGINAL POST FOLLOWS *.

  I have a problem in Windows 7, which at first I thought a number of different problems, but I am more convinced that they are all connected.

  All of them started to happen around the same time - late January or February after a Windows Update - and largely the same or very similar issues affect 3 of my friends and co-workers running Vista and 7. Unfortunately my notes on the update happened while the time are missing, but all 4 of us have seen questions start at the beginning of the year in the January/February calendar, which makes it seem like they should be linked.

  NOTE: There were a few minor problems before even with the update, but nothing like what happened in early 2011. I had problems to update with Vista and 7 alone, but they were rare and sometimes fixable with registry hacks or it was an offending program, something did not like Aero, etc..  The questions below got a lot worse in early 2011 so they appear together in this post.

  I will describe each problem separately and the affected BONE and the symptoms, and I hope that some can make sense and help me solve the problem. Major problems first, then a few small problems and measures that I took to the to check follow after. Sorry for the long post, but it's a maddening problem affecting many people, and I want to be as complete as possible.

  Games not switching and the apps full screen #1: if I'm in a game fullscreen and I go to the office, it is very difficult to go back. If I click on the taskbar icon, nothing happens. I have to click on it repeatedly, often a dozen times or more before the application full screen or game is restored. It is most often with the games. Full screen I don't want not maximized, I mean where a program takes the entire screen. Games is easier to reproduce so far have all I currently use the question and variances in how it is difficult to come back in full screen are not significant between them.

  Apps full screen #2 focus lost: this happens especially to my friend running Vista, when you play the game full screen. She will play something like the Lord of the Rings Online and she loses the keyboard focus and the mouse, but the game is always full screen. Usually the only way that she can solve the problem is to use CTRL-ALT-DEL to bring up the Task Manager, which for some reason solves the problem and she can return to the game for a little while that. I run Windows 7 with another couple of friends and we can also see this question, it is much less common. Changing an old mouse seems correct for Vista for some reason any. 7 that it happens rarely, if hard to duplicate to see if changing the mouse would help. In any case, will and against a beautiful new mouse laser mouse is usually a horrible option.

  Office applications #3 lose focus: it affects two of us under Vista and 7. We will be typing in chat, email, anything... and the foreground app will lose focus. What catches there that is impossible to determine. In my case, I can occasionally see a taskbar popup button and then disappear immediately, but I have never been able to track it down. Running in safe mode or boot seems to have no effect on this, or disable all services, extension and program but by default Microsoft in Windows 7 and Vista. Its almost like a Microsoft program is to do. Also, even though I mentioned the taskbar icon appears briefly from time to time, which cannot be bound: it does not always coincide with the loss of focus and is not always present when the focus is lost.

  #4 desktop applications lose keyboard focus and the mouse: it's like the number #2 above, but happens at the level of the office. Unlike the #3 that the window does not lose focus, it is always in the foreground, but keyboard and mouse stop working. It is usually impossible to move to another window. Just like #2, the solution that we have so far is to use CTRL-ALT-DEL to switch to the Task Manager, which temporarily solves the problem. ALT-tab through windows does not work.

  Here are other minor problems that may or may be linked, because they seemed too much to start with.

  Switching away applications full screen takes more time: Windows 7 on my machine, switching off games full screen takes more time than he did in the past. It was a minor issue in autumn 2010 and became much worse early 2011.

  Some windows lost focus while being re-size: if I take the corner of some windows for re - size, sometimes the re-size operation stops until I release the mouse button, as if he has lost the focus. Color of the window indicates usually focus however is still there, and grabbing the corner once again we will move me a little more. It may take several tries to get the window size as I want, as the re-size operation closes several times before I release the mouse button. This affects only 2 of the 4 people I talk so much that I can tell from our conversations and shared between Vista and 7. Both of us have Logitech mouse it might even be a driver problem, but using a mouse cheap test has not fixed the problem with me.

  Firefox: Firefox repeatedly will "dim", where Aero makes the window lose color to indicate that the application is not responding. It didn't happen before January 2011 for any version of Firefox.

  Concrete results to track down the problem:

  I ran programs like WhatHang and others who are trying to catch the programs that are suspended, stealing focus, etc.. Hours of testing found no results except that Firefox crashes frequently. Disable Firefox doesn't solve all the issues however, so I guess that its not related.

  I tried booting safe and clean, and they have had no effect. Secure boot is rather useless since I can not usually run programs that show the problem more easily. I also tried turning off everything except what comes with Windows 7, and it had no significant effect.

  I tried to use a different mouse. While it helped a bit with one of my friends, it only helped me so far. Different mouse drivers do not seem to help either. I also tried various nVidia without significant information acquired or corrective drivers.

  I also ran through various other ideas here as the race of the file system scanner and so on and not found any problems with my system, and where I could help my friends do and they also found nothing of note with maintenance and verification tools.

  My friends and co-workers: most of them are not local to me, so my focus of their issue has been rather limited. The main thing that we all have in common is that we had some minor problems in the past, as in 2010, and they've all got a lot worse in early 2011. Unfortunately none of us kept of records accurate enough to indicate any special updates that might have caused it.

  In any case, I apologize for the log message, but this issue emphasis is maddening. Its become a frustration serious then I thought to post information on the problems which seem related would be the more useful approach.

  I am a graduate of comp-sci systems and a companion systems programmer, and I have tried everything I can think of to debug and isolate problems, symptoms, etc. and had no chance. My friends are usually illiterate computer so that they are even more perplexed and frustrated by this problem. In my reading the forums, I see a lot of Windows Vista and 7 discussion questions, but rarely a lot of details, and when a problem is identified, it this far does not apply to me or my friends.

  I am happy to provide any other details I can.

  Updates:

  I forgot to mention that I have a Setup dual monitor. Aero seems unhappy with it, a lot of flicker when switching to full screen in games and other applications. I guess its because a single display off Aero while the other has it we or maybe not accelerated. Remove the second screen does not solve the problems I see, but I mention it in the interest of further development.

  I want to just chime in that I see similar (but not exactly the same) behavior and time seems to match as well. Among the updates must have messed something up. I forgot my Cardinal never update rule anything :/

  In any case, I have a few specific questions all problems related to full screen/window/input. When you play the Witcher, when you look at, if the mouse touches the edge of the screen, it stops, thus giving a very narrow range of angles I can watch from. Baldurs gate, as soon as I hit any key, I can't click on anything whether (and what I typed does not appear). Looking for police 3 (dosbox) it works fine until I hit a key, and then the mouse bounces oddly around the screen. If I alt - tab, in these 2 cases to last and go back, the problem is solved until I have a button again. In the case of the Witcher, if I alt tab and click the icon to the taskbar, it seems this problem, until I have a press.

  And I'm sure I had none of these problems a few months ago. I have tried everything I can think :( I tried the registry settings, but they do not seem to help.

  Edit: Oh, almost forgot. Whenever I click on full screen on an online video, like youtube, it appears in the background behind other windows, and then I have to click on it in the background to bring it forward. Very weird. Not sure if it's related. I'll try to change my video drivers... So boring when everything was working fine a few months ago.

  Edit 2: Do not take into account my post, I had a program called synergy race (usually use a mouse on multiple computers at the same time). Apparently, he was the problem.

• Through white icon on the desktop and Windows Explorer.

  Hello
  

  A lot of my icons on the desktop and Windows Explorer is more appear a normal icon, instead, they show a white square.

  Here is a screenshot of my 3 hard disks with shortcuts on the desktop.

  http://i293.Photobucket.com/albums/m...blankicons.jpg
  

  I tried to solve the problem by doing a rebuild of the cache icon but that did not work.

  Anyone would be able to help me solve this problem?

  Thank you.

  Hello

  Have you used the utility changes or registry to remove the shortcut arrow overlay?

  First make sure the utility is uninstalled and the registry change is removed.

  Try this and check if that helps:

  1. right click on a box empty desktop and select Customize.

  2. click on adjust the resolution of the screen.

  3. in the drop-down color menu, select medium (16 bit).

  4. click on apply.

  5. when Windows you asked if you want to keep these settings, click No to restore your 32-bit color depth.

  6. restart your computer.

  See also the mentioned thread link below for workaround for this problem:

  http://social.answers.Microsoft.com/forums/en-us/w7performance/thread/6213e892-D4F8-4E77-b5d9-1ce048e8859b  

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• I have an oval window on my desktop (Mac), which sets out everything I do and he's also very strong! Malware? Adware?

  I have an oval window on my desktop (Mac), which sets out everything I do and he's also very strong! Malware? Adware?

  If it looks like something like this, you have probably enabled VoiceOver.

  

• Windows jump out of the screen and an external monitor

  I have an external monitor connected to my MacBook Air.  When I turn off the external monitor (MacBook cover is already closed at that time) and return hours later to turn on the monitor, I find most of my windows have been dispersed (jumped) off the screen.  It occurs on multiple applications: terminal, iMail, browser Chrome, Preview, etc...  I usually find the window peeking out of the side of the screen - a small shard of window - and I have to drag it to the center of the screen.  I have to do for almost all windows (again not all windows to do this).  Its very annoying.  Any ideas on what is the cause?

  I am running v10.11.1 El Capitan (B 15, 42) on MacBook Air (13 inch, mid 2013).  External monitor is Dell.

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  He used to do this permanently on Yosemite.

• I have a desktop with Windows Vista. Many times, the screen is the gel with an error massage "video Mode not supported". What could be the problem and the solution. ?

  I have a desktop with Windows Vista. Many times, the screen is the gel with an error massage "video Mode not supported". What could be the problem and the solution. ?

  Hi Izzy Nagar,

  ·         Exactly when you receive this error message?

  ·         Did you do changes on the computer before the show?

  ·         Do you have any extended monitor connected to the computer in the past or at the present time?

  Follow the suggestions below for a possible solution:

  Method 1: You can try to reduce the resolution of the screen (lower), then check if the message still appears.

  Check also if the refresh rate of the monitor is set correctly and check the manual of the monitor for assistance.

  Ways to improve display quality

  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows-Vista/ways-to-improve-display-quality

   

  Flicker of the correct monitor (refresh rate)

  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows-Vista/correct-monitor-flicker-refresh-rate

  Method 2: Use the option ' enable video low resolution (640 × 480) "start, then update your video card driver and check if the problem still persists.

  a. click the Start button, click the arrow next to Shut Down and then click on restart.

  b. do one of the following:

  ·         If your computer has a single operating system installed, press and hold the F8 key as your computer restarts. You need to press F8 before the Windows logo appears. If the Windows logo appears, try again by waiting until the Windows logon prompt appears, and then stop and restart your computer.

  ·         If your computer has more than one operating system, use the arrow keys to select the operating system you want to start in safe mode, and then press F8.

  c. on the Advanced Boot Options screen, use the arrow keys to select activate video low resolution (640 × 480) and press ENTER.

  d. connect to your computer with an account of a user who has administrator rights.

  e. If you can see your desktop, there is a problem with your video card. Try to update your video card driver. For more information, see the article:

  Updated a hardware driver that is not working properly

  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows-Vista/update-a-driver-for-hardware-that-isn ' t-work correctly

   

  I hope this helps.

• Windows goes directly to the desktop and not the boot screen.

  . My computer just updated windows 8 and now it goes directly to the office when an application instead of tiles to apps closing.  How to stop

  It's an easy fix, once you know what to look for.

  Go to the desktop and right click on the taskbar. Click Properties,

  On the first tab, there is an option to "See the Windows Store apps on the taskbar" uncheck the box.

  Then go to the Navigation tab uncheck "Boot to the desktop."

  That should do it. If it is not, please let me know.