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Xbox Game Pass - White Desktop icons?
Hi guys, Anyone having issues with white Windows icon of their Xbox Game Pass games appearing on their desktop? It appears to happen after a game update through the Xbox app or an Xbox app update via the Store. I found this fix on Reddit but it's annoying to keep having to do it... Thanks.
Win 11 Snipping tool issues
Hello. Came from Win 7 to Win 11 and noticed how much less user friendly the Snipping Tool is compared to the old counterpart. 1. Biggest issue - On high resolution displays (3K+) it does not scale the pasted image to same size. Thus, if I drag and snip something in the view, and paste that image to an email for example, the result is huge in size compared to what it was snipped. Example at the end of this post (snipped this text and pasted it into email.. it stretches all over the screen at full resolution). Display resolution is 3200x2000 with 200% scaling. Everything else looks and sizes normally, only the snipping tool pasted images go totally whack. 2. When clicking on the Snipping Tool icon (keeping mine on the taskbar), why doesn't it go into snipping mode right away? Instead have to make another click to 'New' in order to start the action. In Windows 7 it started the snipping action immediately with no extra click necessary. 3. After dragging over an area to snip and let go of mouse button.. why doesn't it bring up the snipped image? Instead it stays in the background and now have to click on the icon again in order to see it to make markings on it with a pen, or to hit save, etc. If you are trying to save a click here by copying it to the clipboard for immediate pasting, why not save a click when starting up the whole thing? 4. After the snip is taken, and brought to view in the tool, it is too small. In order to see anything inside the tool window, one must first drag the window bigger, to actually see the image in order to make any edits on it. So many things about it seem totally backwards and take way longer to be actually useful. Make it behave like it was in Windows 7, which is actually useful and speeds up process. In Win 11 it's all upside down. Pasted image sample, issue with the scaling:
Possible to install windows 11 without microsoft account?
Hello tech community members, I'm new to Windows and want to install Windows 11 on a PC given by my dad, but I don't have a Microsoft account and I'm not planning to create one. I've heard that it's possible to bypass the Microsoft account requirement during the installation process, but I'm not sure how to do it. Could anyone provide a step-by-step guide or any tips on how to install Windows 11 without Microsoft account? Any help would be greatly appreciated! [Latest update] Please don't send private message any more as I don't have time replying one by one. If you had the same question, please follow this step-by-step-guide with screenshots to get it done. I already successfully installed Windows 11 on my PC without Microsoft account. You can also contact the support to send you the custom ISO to skip the Microsoft account requirement.
Microsoft Print to PDF Missing
Hi, In the last couple of weeks the Microsoft Print to PDF has dropped off my laptop. I have tried everything suggested online already but I cannot get it to work. I have a Samsung Galaxy Book 4 Edge with Windows 11 ARM64 and Snapdragon which I have only had since the beginning of Jan. I am not very techie but I have tried the following based on other forums I have looked at: Checked it is turned on in windows features - it is Turned it off in windows features and restarted then turned it back on and restarted Tried to reinstall in via add device but when I go to the list of drivers it isn't there so I cannot select it Checked the print queue but it's not in there Various things on command prompt including: dism /Online /Disable-Feature /FeatureName:”Printing-PrintToPDFServices-Features” /NoRestart dism /Online /Enable-Feature /FeatureName:”Printing-PrintToPDFServices-Features” /NoRestart Updates to the powershell including: Disable-WindowsOptionalFeature -online -FeatureName Printing-PrintToPDFServices-Features Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -online -FeatureName Printing-PrintToPDFServices-Features I just get an error code: 0x800f0922 I also did a full factory rest of my laptop and NOTHING!!!!!! I have just done a screen share with Microsoft and they reinstalled my office 365 but that did nothing and then I was told they couldn't help and to post here. PLEASE can someone help me fix this as it is driving me crazy? I need to create PDF's of my invoices to make sure I get paid each month.Copy & paste permission error after Win11 23H2
I have a file share that has very specific permissions due to regulations. Users are only allowed to read and write files, but they are not allowed to delete or modify the files in any way once they are created, see picture below. Note that users do not have "Write attributes" or "Write extended attributes". Users get their permissions through nested security groups. This has been working well for several years when users had Win10 and the Win11 OS. But after users upgraded to Win11 23H2 they are getting an error when they are copy & pasting files from their workstation "you need permissions to perform this action". Same user on a Win10 or Win11 22H2 workstations can perform the same copy & paste action. If I add the "Write attributes" or "Write extended attributes" permission to their security group they can copy & paste files to the share from a Win11 23H2 or 24H2 workstation. I know that the file explorer in Win11 23H2 got a new code base and many new features. Has anybody seen this behavior or can they replicate this problem?A app called 't' always tries to prevent reboots and shut downs. What is it?
Whenever I try to reboot or shut down my laptop, for a few seconds I see this message: t This app is preventing you from restarting. I've looked on the task manager but I can't find any apps named 't' running on the background, I've also done a full scan for viruses, nothing. Any ideas? Thank you.
Question about Windows 11 free upgrade from windows 10
Our company has a Desktop T1700 workstation powered by Windows 10. As it ends support very soon, the management team decided to upgrade Windows 10 to latest Windows 11. Currently, the specs are still decent: Intel Xenon E3 CPU 16 GB RAM 1TB SSD How can we get windows 11 free upgrade from Windows 10? We want to keep the files, apps and settings. Is this possible? Regards, Zoe
Drive LED flashes once then nothing happens
I have a PC with Gigabyte B550M DS3H AC motherboard running Windows 11, version 24H2, with Samsung SSD 980 1TB. It suddenly wouldn't boot up today. Symptom is, from power up, one flash of drive LED then a black screen with a cursor in top legt corner. The boot sequence doesn't proceed from there. After 4 power up cycles, it booted normally. What should I check first of all, please? I've run chkdsk on c: and no problems were found.Peculiar issue with Windows 11 .....
I have a collection of PC's in a small home network. All of the PC's are "Check Update"-ed every Tuesday. All are running Windows 11 PRO. 5 of the PC's are running on Build Number 26100.4349 (as of yesterday), but I only just noticed that one of them is 'stuck' on 26100.4202. Can anyone offer a suggestion as to why this should be? and how to fix it? MS are completely unhelpful!How can I create windows 11 installation media from iso
I built my first PC from scratch. Now all the parts are connected to motherboard and the new PC is able to boot in to BIOS. The next step is to put an OS on it and I am considering using Windows 11 at this time. Is this a good idea? If yes, how to create Windows 11 installation media from ISO? I have a MacBook Pro at home and I can use a Windows 10 workstation at my office. Which tool is the best for making Windows 11 USB installer? I am not familiar in this matter and really need some help!
