Windows 10 Update

[barn32]

Twice today Windows did an automatic update on my brand new PC.

If you right-click on the desktop/displaysettings/fonts,etc. you can set up the way you want your fonts, menus and icons, etc. to look.

When Windows updates it pushes these settings back to default.

Also, when Excel is loaded, it will close down Excel, and create a new file called whatever.xlsx(repaired), which is a super annoying pain.

For that reason I've yet to install Office on my new PC. I still use the old one for that.

So I did some digging and I found this site (scroll down about half-way), which tells you how to disable the automatic Windows updates.

Just remember to reverse the process and turn them back on occasionally to get new updates when it is convenient for YOU.

[098poi]

On another note I found a cool W10 thing. On XP and 10 if you bring your cursor to the lower right by the taskbar you can click and minimize all windows or reopen if you want. Nothing new, BUT if you want to keep one thing open just grab the top of it, Firefox for example, and shake it everything else will minimize except what your were shaking.

Even more exciting I have my computer monitor on the left side of my desk and a TV on the right. Sometimes the TV just covers the right side of the monitor so I have lean forward to see the scroll bar on the right of the browser. I found a way to have the scroll on the left! This is for Firefox only

You need to change your settings in about:config. Here's what to do:

1. Enter about:config into the address bar (if it gives a warning about your warranty, click the button to say you'll be careful)
2. Enter layout.scrollbar.side into the search box at the top of the page
3. Double-click the result and replace the current value with a 3 when the prompt comes up
4. Click 'OK' and then restart Firefox.

It works!! I am so happy now.

[pandy]

All of a sudden my Windows Media Player won't burn cds and gives a vague error notice that was no help. Cheetah and Imgburn aren't that good for burning music discs so I downloaded a free program, CDBurnerXP, which I never tried before, and it worked great and allowed me to pull in one of my Playlists and burn it, plus it's a player.

[pandy]

Well, my windows 10 totally failed a few days ago. I tried a restore point and that made it totally unstable and unusable. I couldn't even reboot. Finally after several tries I was able to reboot in Safe Mode, and the computer is working perfectly in safe mode, so it was definitely a windows 10 problem. I had ordered a new machine from HP and custom built it with the help of one of their sales guys, it comes tomorrow.

[Sinner369]

Originally Posted by pandy

All of a sudden my Windows Media Player won't burn cds and gives a vague error notice that was no help. Cheetah and Imgburn aren't that good for burning music discs so I downloaded a free program, CDBurnerXP, which I never tried before, and it worked great and allowed me to pull in one of my Playlists and burn it, plus it's a player.

I have to agree with using CDBURNERXP...........I LOVE the pop songs from the 70s' and 80s' (the songs that you hear when you are in your teens so I recorded them for my car's CD stereo player.

I found CDBURNERXP by random search on Google and have been using it every since.