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black camera view
why is that my pc camera is always black
Compiled FYIs, Suggestions & Recommendations - OS & Edge
In no particular order: * Use Applications window (>Run > shell:AppsFolder)โ๐ค๐๐๐โญโญโญโญโญ * Pin Settings icon to Taskbar * Have Storage Sense ON * Set Edge Dev as DWB (because it has neat things GA doesn't ๐) * Don't put 3rd Part securities or firewalls in Win10 * Let Win+X be your good friend. Learn the K/B shortcuts * Have File Explorer > This PC (> Folder Options, change from Quick Access to This PC) * A. Edge ad blocker ON B. Edge pop-up blocker ON C. Edge Tracking Prevention to Strict * Start can be without tiles * A. Desktops can be icon-free B. Employ Desktop toolbar (Rt clk taskbar > Toolbars * A. USE VIRTUAL DESKTOPSโ๐๐ B. >Settings > Multi-tasking Set Vitual desktops to: 1. Taskbar - Onthe one I'm using 2. Alt+Tab - ALL Desktops * Grab Notepads from Store. MUCH better than Notepadโ * Check Store for Updates * DO NOT EVER turn a "Production machine" into an Insider machine. โญ โโ Run Insider Builds as virtual machines, Dual-boots or on a "Spare box"โโโญ * Middle Clking taskbar icons opens another instance. * Run MSRT occasionally Win+MRT * Set PrtScn to work Snip & Sketch ( > Settings & type Prt in Search ) * Edge can have vertical tabs & no title bar. Recommended * Recommended Edge Extensions: 1. Microsoft Bing Quick Searchโ ๐๐ 2. Microsoft Editor๐๐๐๐๐ 3. Print Friendly & PDF 4. Scroll to Top 5. Office 6. Peapix New Tab Backgound from Chrome Store. Allows 100% clean photo, can even shut off search bar. Optional; Bing page is damn nice, too. * Areo Clock is a great addition - https://theaeroclock.en.lo4d.com/windows * Make use of Collectionsโ * Make sure you keep everything 100% currentโ * DO NOT connect a Win7 machine to the Net ๐ * DO NOT use IE or Edge HTML * Grab Windows Terminal from Store, NOWโ๐๐ <-- It's SO cool & coming to Win10 by default, SOON. I'll probably think of more soon as I hit Post ๐, Murphy's Law ๐คฃ Cheers, Drew
unwanted and unused apps
I have no desire to turn on my camera or microphone Sure, some friends love skype, games, etc. MY laptop &Internet are for personal research& occasional entertainment, writing articles and short stories. Other Windows apps are shared with a second user account Windows often refers to him as my "child" when I attempt to delete unwanted apps and suggest I give him spending money, referring to him as my "child" This silliness has taken place several times over. Attempts to point this out via feedback most times result in a line up of staff posting "Thank you" posters rather than a any sincere effort to correct an annoying problem. - Very insincere response...
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Converting Sites to Apps
As you all know sites can be converted into apps. Usually, it can be done in 2 ways or via 2 locations. 1. >Ellipsis > Apps & "Install *Name Site* 2. OFTEN there is an icon at the right end of the address bar (3 squares & a +) that does it, also. It sits to the left of the "Block 3rd Party Cookies icon & the Add to Favs icon. As we all know, any site can be run as an app, instead of opening as an Edge tab in a browser window. Cheers, Drew
How do I discover and remove malware when the OS can not?
If the operating system doesn't detect and remove the root kit how do I remove it from the system? Please post a walkthrough on how to detect and remove malware using command prompt or an external drive. Why does my administrator require "elevation" in command prompt? How do I patch a system after removing a root kit? I do not want to format my hard drive, how do I know my media tool isn't infected? How do I know someone isn't connected remotely to my windows or iOS?
Right-click context menu personalization
Hello, Can you share with me how to edit the right-click context menu? There are several features that are presented that I never use and others I would like to add. I have checked other sources on-line and they recommend working with the registry, which I do not want to do. I am smart enough to know the damage that can be done by a non computer-literate user like myself. Please advise alternate strategy. Thank you, Greg
List of programs can print
It would be very useful to be able to print the list of installed programs from the overview.
Pinning Websites
I'm sure some of you may have noticed, while others may have not, but you can no longer pin websites to the start screen, even by pinning it to your taskbar and dragging to your start screen, it can no longer be done. I've been aware of this, and have working around it, but after this last update....... ok, well we'll leave it at that... I was chatting with Microsoft Tech support this afternoon, and after I finally got them to try and pin a web site to their start screen, they admitted they couldn't do it either. Funny though they had a work around? So here's the work around, and it involve Google Chrome! Open the website you want to pin to your Windows 10 Start Screen in Google Chrome. Yea, you read that right! Once your website is open, click on the three dots located in the upper right hand corner. Scroll down until you sees More Tools. Hover over that and choose Create Shortcut... a pop up will appear where you name your shortcut, and here is where it gets important! You need to check the box that says Open as Window, then click create. Now go back to your start screen and under recently added apps you will see your recently added website. There is one last step. With it there you will not be able to move it around. So while it is in the Recently Added Apps right click and choose Pin to Start Menu. Voila! You're done, and your websites are now back on your start screen. Let's do hope that the boys and girls in Redmond fix this!
Chromebook with Microsoft Office (not 365)
My uncle is pretty old (over 70) and is used to Win 7 that is no longer going to be supported. He does not accept change well. I was considering getting him a Chromebook and adding a permanent copy of Office 2016 (1 time purchase) or similar. Any recommendations?
Windows Shell - Win32 apps | Microsoft Docs
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/shellWindows Shell SDK Documentation. The Windows UI provides users with access to a wide variety of objects necessary for running applications and managing the operating system. The most numerous and familiar of these objects are the folders and files that reside on computer disk drives. There are also a number of virtual objects that allow the ...
Windows Shell (Windows) | Microsoft Docs
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/desktop/legacy/bb773177(v=...Windows Shell SDK Documentation. The Windows UI provides users with access to a wide variety of objects necessary for running applications and managing the operating system. The most numerous and familiar of these objects are the folders and files that reside on computer disk drives. There are also a number of virtual objects that allow the ...
Get Windows Terminal - Microsoft Store
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/windows-terminal/9n0dx20hk701Windows Terminal. The Windows Terminal is a modern, fast, efficient, powerful, and productive terminal application for users of command-line tools and shells like Command Prompt, PowerShell, and WSL. Its main features include multiple tabs, panes, Unicode and UTF-8 character support, a GPU accelerated text rendering engine, and custom themes ...
The Windows Shell - Win32 apps | Microsoft Docs
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/_shellExposes a method that initializes Shell extensions for property sheets, shortcut menus, and drag-and-drop handlers (extensions that add items to shortcut menus during nondefault drag-and-drop operations). IShellFolder. Exposed by all Shell namespace folder objects, its methods are used to manage folders. IShellFolder2.
