I want to use Read Aloud to listen to a document while I work, but all my work is in Word and this causes a problem. I can change the focus to some other app, and Read Aloud doesn't care. It just...

Thank you very much for the link. That post definitely attempted to address the problem I'm having but the recommended solution did not work.

I ran the Dsim fix as described above:


Dism...

I ran the Dsim fix as described above:


Dism /online /add-capability /capabilityname:MathRecognizer~~~~0.0.1.0

And then I confirmed the presence of Math Recognizer using the recommended...

I make VERY extensive use of bulleted lists, and when I copy them from one file to another, it is very often necessary to do a global adjustment of indentation of the list bullets using Ctrl-M or...

Windows 10 Pro

I recently installed trial version of Corel's Video Studio and decided I liked it, so I made the purchase. Now, I'm getting this error message whenever I start it:

This...

Why does Microsoft offer a palate with a rich set of shades of color if Word is just going to ignore those choices and impose some alternative that a Microsoft designer prefers?

I want Word to...

Just want to follow up and say that based on the recommendation ignatzatsonic made above, I looked into SyncBackFree and ended up purchasing SyncBackPro. I really love this software package. It...

That's why I'm posting here asking around to see if there is a program that does everything I want. Google's Backup & Sync will modify your machine. I hate that. It's free, but it's just too light...

Thanks very much for the information, but I am looking for an app that can backup to a cloud service, particularly, Google Drive.

I'm looking for a Windows 10 compatible desktop backup and sync app that has the following characteristics:

(1) Google Drive: Can backup files to Google Drive (My Computer)

(2) One-way Copying:...

I'm looking for a Windows 10 compatible desktop backup and sync app that has the following characteristics:

(1) Google Drive: Can backup files to Google Drive
(2) One-way Copying: Allows me to...

Edwin, you've been incredibly helpful. I didn't mark the problem as "Solved" because I continued to have problems after installing HideVolumeOSD. But your recommendation of that tool is much...

I tried both versions of HideVolumeOSD.

The behavior I'm seeing is so pathological that I begin to suspect that maybe I have a virus.

In particular:


Even when the large audio volume...

After installing HideVolumeOSD I got a tray option to turn off the OSD popup as expected. At first, this interesting tool seemed to work, but now, the tool no longer has any effect. The popup keeps...

All of a sudden, I'm getting popups for controlling audio volume in the upper lefthand corner of my desktop. These dang things cannot be moved or resized or minimized. They're just there, hogging up...

I rarely unplug these external drives, so it wouldn't be that. I will try disabling Fast Startup. Thanks much for the suggestion.

No. Is Fast Startup known to cause this kind of problem?

I keep all my personal and business data on a 2TB Passport external drive and back up key parts of it daily to two other external drives using robocopy. I've been doing this for years.
Since I...