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There is another question on here that allows users to find the path to their current background image through a cmd command.
How could I find out the path to the current desktop image?
In Windows 10 this no longer works. It only returns the first…
On previous versions of Windows I have used the below technique to run a batch file on Windows startup.
Create a shortcut to the batch file.
Once the shortcut is created, right-click the shortcut file and select Cut.
Click Start, then Programs or…
For the past several versions (since Windows Vista, I think), if you hit the Windows key and start typing, Windows will search for applications.
Since upgrading to Windows 10 with Cortana, she is only hit or miss at finding applications. And she…
How to get different background images for different virtual Desktops in Windows 10?
I know how to change it for two different monitors, but is it also possible for virtual desktops?
How can I pin arbitrary programs to my Start Menu?
I can't create a shortcut in C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs; Windows says:
Can't create shortcut here; create on desktop instead?
I can't drag and drop it onto the Start Menu…
In the latest builds of Windows 10, there is a new feature, in Beta, called Windows Projected File System. I cannot find any information on Google, other than programming APIs that do not make sense to me.
What is it, and what kind of users would it…
I have 3 Drives, Boot(C:), Data(D:) and Restore(E:)
My C: , which has 116 GB is full, and most of it is in my Appdata\Local (50GB)
My D: has 377GB Free Space and I wanted to Know if it is safe to move the AppDta folder to it.
I did this with the…
In my machine there's a service called CDPUserSvc_1bf5729. The description says
Failed to Read Description. Error Code: 15100
The path to the executable is C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe -k UnistackSvcGroup, and the startup type is Automatic. If…
On my Windows 7 computer, I was able to right click on icons on my taskbar to unpin them.
I just upgraded to Windows 10, and I could have sworn the right click menu was working when I first installed it, but now when I right click on taskbar icons…
So, I installed Windows 10 Pro 64-bit yesterday and have been configuring it since. Somewhere along the way a setting got triggered somehow which results in a message "Some settings are managed by your organization." I would like to know how to…
After the last Windows update (21H1), I got this weather icon on the taskbar and clicking on it shows the news, weather and traffic information.
How can I remove it?
I used to use Windows back in the XP days and there used to be a button on the Task Bar that would temporarily hide open windows and show the Desktop:
Recently I started using Windows again and I am a bit lost!
Is there a similar button on Windows…
