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General Computer Support / Re: Stuck in Safe Mode

« on: October 08, 2015, 06:33:23 pm »

The machine has Windows 8.  I was able to get to msconfig by using the Windows buttons plus the arrow keys but because the Keyboard & Mouse were wireless it appears that they don't load  with Windows so I wasn't able to tab over the the correct tab.  I tried another keyboard & was able to reboot out of save mode but am not getting but a black screen.

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General Computer Support / Stuck in Safe Mode

« on: October 07, 2015, 10:03:19 pm »

I downloaded the latest version of this program to run on my other PC.  It said that for best results run in 'safe mode'.  I tried reopening the program to continue but everything continues to be in 'Safe mode'. 

I have restarted the PC a couple of time since but its always in safe mode.  Is there a fix for this or do I try & see if I have a system restore available?

Thanks in advance

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General Computer Support / Re: I can't see any vertical dividers on screen

« on: March 30, 2015, 12:24:58 am »

Shane,

I don't know whats going on.  I opened your program & noticed that you had a new version available for download.

I downloaded it,ran it & my problem went away.  I can't see any mention of something new that might have altered my settings to give this good outcome.

Thanks

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General Computer Support / I can't see any vertical dividers on screen

« on: March 27, 2015, 03:55:37 am »

I appear to have an unusual problem.  When I go to 'Windows Explorer' & try to see details most of the usual columns aren't there, or are there in a very truncated form. This is because the usual vertical dividers are missing.  I might  be looking for a file & all I see is part of a file name & perhaps 1 or 2 letters say for file size when I'm looking at video files that might require 6 columns to show the correct file size.  You know approximately where the divider should display & it's often very difficult to find where to click & drag, since there are no markers at all to go by so you have to move the cursor very slowly.

I have even gone to some sites that require me to enter both ID name & password & but you can't see exactly where these fields are located on the page.  On some sites the entry place was located on a white ares of the screen so I thought that I might not be able to see where to enter data because by monitors brightness was too high but this was not the case.

Any ideas as to where to look to solve this problem?

Thanks in advance

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General Computer Support / Re: Can this program help wih this problem?

« on: November 04, 2014, 05:01:58 pm »

I have entered more messages in this thread but they seem to have been either lost or combined into another thread.  I have removed the QL & reinstalled it.  but this has had no impact on 'loss of focus'.  I think other things are in play here as well.

For instance I get a message from Microsoft about a small update which I download.  I don't restart immediately so when I go to the start button I get a reminder that I have an update to install.  Instead to shut down I request restart.  When Windows restarts all the programs that I had been using when I pressed restart appear & are open again.

It's as if the machine sort of went into hibernation mode except that I hadn't get the icon asking me which user wants to use machine.  I'm only one who ever uses this machine.  Perhaps I should run all of Tweaking options & see if that that makes a difference?

As I mentioned in the missing posting I had a USB3 drive only a few months old,it's NTFS.  I had put all of my raw video footage onto it.  Now sometime when I plug it in to edit using Vegas Pro it tells me that the drive mist be formatted.  I run all of the Windows things like ckeckdisk, repair errors etc & it finds no problems.  I also have other software programs for checking HDD's & they find nothing.  I use the drive a few more times without a hitch & then the next time I plug it in I'm told I must format it.

That's what I mean when I say there may be other things at play.

Thanks in advance

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General Computer Support / Re: Can this program help wih this problem?

« on: October 27, 2014, 10:56:40 pm »

I had done another posting about the Quick launch toolbar but I can't see it on this website.  It appears that perhaps 2 different threads have somehow got mixed.  I had had lots of icon on bottom toolbar so I deleted a few.  I then created a second toolbar.  This left me with an up/down arrow to switch  from one to the other.

Navigation is difficult because of original problem 'Loss of focus'.

Its so difficult to get to where you want to be operating its sometimes almost impossible to do so.  I suspect there are several other things going on in Windows that don't seem to help. 

For instance I got a new 2TB USB3 Passport external drive, a few months back & I had been putting all of my home videos etc on it.  Every so often I plug it in & Windows says that I have to format before I can use it.  So I go to the trouble or running checkdisk & all of the other hardware checking software on it & they all find no fault.  Then the same thing can happen all over again the next time I plug it in.

I can select say 3 files from the desktop as I want to paste them into a folder on a different drive.  When I try past only one moves & I have to do it all over again.  As I said in the previous post I have had Windows 95,98,XP,Windows 7 & some other version I can't even recall.  None of them ever did what they were supposed to do.  It seems as if version 8 is a debacle so there going to jump to 10.  Good Luck.

I wish  that I could give a more detailed answer about the QL toolbar.

Thanks once again

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General Computer Support / Re: Can this program help wih this problem?

« on: October 23, 2014, 09:19:35 pm »

A search of 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Taskband' produced nothing at all.

A Search of 'HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer produced nothing at all.

A search of 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer produced nothing at all



I have tried Shane's suggestion about creating a new toobar, & pasting the address to to Internet Explorer Quick Launch. I hadn't done this before. I did this but when I click on the Quick Launch nothing happens.  Could this be because I almost never use this program for searches usually use Firefox as my browser?  I can still open Internet Explorer if I go through the start menu.

If this information isn't of any help I could get a list of start up programs from MSCONFIG or else from Ashampoo Win Optomizer 11 which is also installed in the machine.

I have used the snipping tool to show the bottom toolbar as it currently exists.

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General Computer Support / Re: Can this program help wih this problem?

« on: October 22, 2014, 04:52:33 pm »

I had include photos of both in my last posting but I can only see the second one which shows Taskban pin.  I will try to get the other photo attached to this posting.

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General Computer Support / Re: Can this program help wih this problem?

« on: October 21, 2014, 06:46:31 pm »

Every morning before anything else is ever done I do a complete scan of my Machine with Malware Bytes pro as well as Avaste anti-virus.  The most that I ever find is an unwanted pup.  Everytime I download any program I install carefully & opt out of any extra add on's like toolbars.  Even though you have opted out some programs install there wares anyway.  I mostly do a restore point before I run Ashampoo uninstalled 5 program which logs the install so that you can reverse it if necessary.  I then catch them with the any pup's with  supsequent scans.  I always opt out of every survey or questionaire as I'm well aware about data mining. 

Windows & now several other programs offer to update drivers but as you may know these can be terribly wrong.  I can recall that Windows told me that my old PC turner card had the best driver available. It never worked.  I had to get the correct detals from the manufacturer in Hong Kong.

The bottom line is that I'm very cautious about everything that happens on the internet & always proceed with extreme caution.

But I also know that programs that do similar things look at diverent things & perhaps interprey what it sees in different ways. For instance I can reun the much recommended CCleaner & it finds & deletes what it finds.  If I were to then run Ashampoos Win Optomizer 11 immedieately after this it says that it's found more things that are either whong or vould be better.  Maybe between them they sometoimes either delete or change things that they shouldn't.

You geve me two places to look at & report upon in REGEDIT. Rathet than expand the tree as I go I decided to try the search function where tou tell it to find 'Tashband'  You then tell it to find the next instance of that word in your search.

I did the search for the first location & then using snip took a picture of it.  Your then supposed to press F3 to search for the next instand of "Tashband'.  Pressing F3 takes me to Taskpband pin' which is located within other loactions with with very long names & most of each address is made up aminly very long numbers whaich seem to mean nothing to me.

As for the second location you gave to search I did a post & past into regedit search & this didn't find anything at all.

I have attached 2 snip photos but they don't display in the preview.  I hope that this is what you want.

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General Computer Support / Re: Can this program help wih this problem?

« on: October 20, 2014, 08:19:31 pm »

What I have done is just tried to open quite a few windows.  I have an icon on bottom task-bar for the more commonly used programs. Firefox, Photoshop, VideoReDo etc I set them to open maximum size.  I can see the icons on the task bar at bottom of screen & if I move the cursor over these icons I can see the programs name whether the program is open or not.

If I then open Notebook in a somewhat smaller window it opens flashes & then sits on the task-bar & where I can reopen it if I click on it.  As soon as the cursor moves off window the window which was underneath is displaced & Notebook is back on the task -bar.

Someone asked If I ever had the situation where all new windows opened on the bottom of the stack.  The answer is yes but since then I have had a complete reinstall of Windows.

I get the feeling that it might me fault of a setting for the mouse or for Windows Explorer.  Windows Explorer sometimes does strange things like a few days back it resused to open disk manager.  It always offers to look for a solution.  Can I turn this offer of fixing the problem off as I have never,ever had it find a solution for anything?

Maybe it gets broken because of the updates.  A few days ago Windows had about another 17 updates.

I hope that this helps explains things a bit better than before.

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General Computer Support / Re: Can this program help wih this problem?

« on: October 19, 2014, 03:49:38 pm »

I'll  try your Notepad solution when the grand kids go home later.  I should point out that Notepad is just a prime example since similar behavior is shown by other programs as well.

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General Computer Support / Can this program help wih this problem?

« on: October 17, 2014, 12:54:38 am »

I only just heard about your program thr other day & it was able to fix my missing CD & Blu-ray burners.

I have a PC problem that no one knows how to fix.  I'm running Windows 7 pro 64 bit & it keeps losing focus.  By that I mean I can have several windows open at a time & they can be seen on the task bar.  If I then wanted to copy something onto say Notepad I click on its icon.  Notepad flashes open for about a fraction of a second & then disappears.  Apparently many people have the same problem as seen on the web.

Some solutions seem to involve changing things in regedit, others suggest that its caused my the way the mouse behaves.  It seems in older versions of Windows there were tweeks that you could apply that could change things like this but these are no longer available.

It's never possible to do a cut/copy & paste unless you make every window very small.  I have had 3 different experts already have a go about fixing this.   Do you have any solution?

Thanks in advance