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How do I mass delete junk mail in Hotmail on Windows 8?

How can I mass delete emails from my junk and deleted folder?  Takes too long to highlight and delete 7 or 8 at a time.

Windows for home | Previous Windows versions | Internet and connectivity
asked 2012-11-22T20:52:08+00:00
Anonymous
49 answers One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

How to pair/connect Bluetooth audio device to Windows 7 PC when Windows 7 reports "Device driver software was not successfully installed. Bluetooth Peripheral Device. No driver found."

I spent many hours trying to figure out how to connect my two Windows 7 64-bit PCs to my Bluetooth stereo audio device (the Motorola S705) but the problem seems to be generic to many Bluetooth stereo audio devices, and the web shows many people having …

Windows for home | Previous Windows versions | Devices and drivers
asked 2012-02-29T00:14:29+00:00
Anonymous
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Windows updates failed, Want to delete all failed update files in history location

Windows update section states I have 1 updates and one optional. Files download and computer restarts, but files fail to log. Also, how can I delete all the failed window files fromhistory. Taking up lots of room.

Windows for home | Windows 11 | Windows update
asked 2010-12-18T04:10:17+00:00
Anonymous
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External Hard Drive "is not accessible. Access is denied."

Hello people: Today I really need your help. For the past week I have been doing nothing but only tagging my music files which I have in my Western Digital 1TB HDD. Two days I ago I started to notice that some songs wouldn't play half way through or…

Windows for home | Previous Windows versions | Files, folders, and storage
asked 2011-01-07T20:27:25+00:00
Anonymous
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Windows Media Player cannot play this DVD because there is a problem with digital copy protection between your DVD drive, decoder, and video card. Try installing an updated driver for your video card.

I am having difficulty watching DVD on Windows Media Player Inspiron Dell Laptop.  I get so far into the dvd and then the playback stops and the CD/DVD drive starts making a noise that sounds like the DVD is either stuck or catching, this has happened a…

Windows for home | Previous Windows versions | Devices and drivers
asked 2009-06-20T14:51:43+00:00
Anonymous
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How do I put my taskbar back on bottom of screen?

I need to know how do I put by taskbar back at the bottom of the screen. My task bar somehow was put to the side of the screen. Now when I go to open up a window, I am not able to see the whole window. What do I do?

Windows for home | Previous Windows versions | Accessibility
asked 2010-01-29T14:20:05+00:00
Anonymous
49 answers One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

Disable F1,F3, Etc Hotkeys in Windows 7 Enterprise

I am trying to figure out if there is some built in way to disable the built in hotkeys in windows 7 enterprise? For instance, when I hit F1 it pops up the help window in windows, or a new tab in firefox with firefox help, f3 opens search window etc. I …

Windows for home | Previous Windows versions | Accessibility
asked 2009-12-11T23:09:04+00:00
Anonymous
49 answers One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

windows 7 backup error "shadow copy could not be created"

I am trying to backup my PC to a USB external mass storage drive using Windows 7 backup feature. I am getting the following error: "A shadow copy could not be created. Please check "VSS" and "SPP" application event logs for…

Windows for home | Previous Windows versions | Windows update
asked 2009-10-29T00:57:14+00:00
Anonymous
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My recycling bin has disappeared and I cannot find it.

My brother went on my laptop and after he was finished, he said he 'deleted' my recycling bin. I'm not sure if that is what happened, but I cannot find it. I have searched for it, and it isn't showing up. Help greatly appreciated.

Windows for home | Previous Windows versions | Accessibility
asked 2010-04-16T13:55:29+00:00
Anonymous
49 answers One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

Registry Cleaner that works well with Windows 7 Pro 64 bit OS

Do you or can you recommend a Registry Cleaner that works well with Windows 7?  In my searches I found RegAce to be the best recommend but on commencing to run the application Windows 7 gave a warning that it had not been tested on this OS. What…

Windows for home | Previous Windows versions | Apps
asked 2009-12-23T16:17:49+00:00
Anonymous
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Windows Backup nearly completes but fails with 0x81000001 error

I've been trying for a long while to backup to a 1.5TB hard drive. I have my documents on my E: drive and my Windows 7 installation on my C: drive. Windows backup is set to backup my E: drive and also a system image to my backup I: drive. There's plenty …

Windows for home | Previous Windows versions | Windows update
asked 2010-08-04T12:36:12+00:00
Anonymous
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"Windows backup failed while trying to read from shadow copy on one of the volumes being backed up

I am receiving the message "Windows backup failed while trying to read from shadow copy on one of the volumes being backed up  " when back up operation is run. I changed some back up folders and deleted some files on back up drive and think…

Windows for home | Previous Windows versions | Windows update
asked 2010-02-15T23:36:31+00:00
Anonymous
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How to a change my printer default setting from color to grayscale permanently.

How do I  change my printer default setting from color to grayscale on a permanent basis.  Since I mostly print in greyscale, I want this as the default and then can change manually, as needed, when I want to print in color.  Thanks

Windows for home | Previous Windows versions | Devices and drivers
asked 2010-01-23T20:06:16+00:00
Anonymous
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Can't format USB drive in NTFS format

Can't format USB drive in windows 7 I recently bought a kingston 64GBUSB flash drive.  This works fine but I need to  format it in NTFS and windows format says it can't complete the format. Can anyone help?  answer here or at *** Email address is removed…

Windows for home | Previous Windows versions | Devices and drivers
asked 2010-06-07T17:17:06+00:00
Anonymous
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Outlook express error message 0x800C0133

HELP!  HAve not been able to download e-mails for several days.  After signing in to Outlook Express, it starts receiving messages and then an error screen pops up with POP3 Port 110  and error message 0x800C0133  After this no messages show up as the…

Windows for home | Previous Windows versions | Internet and connectivity
asked 2010-03-22T01:31:20+00:00
Anonymous
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There are multiple instances of explorer.exe running in task manager (currently 7), each one using between 10-40MB of memory.

Different explorer.exe processes are using cpu resources at different times.  I remember reading a while back that this could be a sign of a virus, but I've done a full scan with NIS 2010 and nothing showed up.  Can anyone give me pointers where to…

Windows for home | Previous Windows versions | Windows update
asked 2009-11-03T00:15:23+00:00
Anonymous
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How do you change the screen orientation by 90 degrees (rotate by 90 degrees)?

For any Vista system. It is different in Vista than in XP.

Windows for home | Previous Windows versions | Accessibility
asked 2009-11-13T18:38:40+00:00
Anonymous
49 answers One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

PDF thumbnails not showing up in folders

I just loaded Vista Ultimate 64-bit. Folders only show thumbnails for JPGs and not PDFs. In past, when I had 32-bit Vista, the thumbnails showed up for PDFs. All view settings are correct. Hidden files, file extensions boxes, etc. Box to always show…

Windows for home | Previous Windows versions | Files, folders, and storage
asked 2009-12-22T21:17:35+00:00
Anonymous
49 answers One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

BSOD's on Wdf01000.sys Win 7 Ultimate 64bit

G'day, I am getting random blue screens every couple of hours. no particular pattern to it. more occur when bubbles screensaver is running, but many occur typically just after I have clicked on something in ie8, windows explorer or Microsoft Word. I…

Windows for home | Previous Windows versions | Performance and system failures
asked 2009-12-23T02:57:17+00:00
Anonymous
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Print Spooler Keeps Crashing in Windows 7 Ultimate Edition

Recently I upgraded my system from Windows Vista Home Premium to Windows 7 Ultimate edition. Although the system overall has been working well, I've been unable to print, let alone view my printers because the print spooler service keeps crashing. When I…

Windows for home | Previous Windows versions | Devices and drivers
asked 2009-10-27T23:35:05+00:00
Anonymous