Thanks for your post! It helped me to see that the Windows designation is indeed displayed below the "rather strange and unhelpful string". In my dark theme it was so faint I hadn't noticed it....

Renaming a USB drive at the level at which Windows usually presents it is trivial. It can be done through Disk Manager or even Windows Explorer. What is annoying me is not the name that appears in...

Thanks for the sympathetic answer! I found other complaints in this forum about the increasinG difficulty of customizing th Windows GUI going. back years, so I guess I’m not the only one ;-(
One of...

Thanks, you're absolutely correct! The eyes aren't what they used to be ;-}
I seem to be a victim of the way MS interprets my dark theme, not to mention the low contrast icons and outlines.
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I rarely use Control Panel, so I'm not sure when it disappeared. It was certainly there last year. Here are some screenshots of how it *should* look:...

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More often than not, when I open Control Panel in my Windows 10 22H2 installation, the search box is missing. It is there sometimes, but rarely. What is the likely cause and how can I get it to...

I am confused. I want IrfanView as my default photo viewer, not Photos. I thought the REG file would restore the missing context menu entry *without* my having to change my default photo viewer,...

Under "Printing Preferences" - "Microsoft IPP Class Driver Advanced Options" I do have one for "Paper Size" that I can set to "A4". In fact, Windows even seems to respect it. Meanwhile I have seen...

Thanks for your informative response.
The CUPS server settings are correct, it is the Windows client that is misbehaving.
The first article is quite extensive, and already has me very confused. The...

What, me worry? I have experienced the cropping I mentioned, and it's a pain.
I'm not worried, I just want Windows to respect the printer's setting.

Not true: A4 is 210 x 297 mm, letter is 216 x 279 mm (see Wikipedia)
A4 documents printed on letter size paper are cropped in length.
Letter-size documents printed on A4 paper are cropped in width.

Because my Brother MFC-6890CDW network printer would abort running print jobs when I shut down my Lenovo X230T running Windows 10 21H2, I set up a print server on my NAS exposing the printer via CUPS...

Thanks, been there, done that. Meanwhile, it seems to have been fixed (as of 105.0.2).

Thanks, there are indeed a few tidbits there that I didn't know about ;-)

Thanks again! The post you mentioned above does suggest a possible explanation:
Firefox appears under *both* HKLM\Software\Clients\StartMenuInternet and HKCU\Software\Clients\StartMenuInternet,...

Thanks but that doesn't seem applicable.

The duplicate Firefox entry does *not* appear in the "Open with" dialog as shown in the topic you referenced, but in the list of available browsers under...

I have two Firefox entries in the menu for "Settings - Default Apps" in Windows 10 21H2:
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Yet there is only one Firefox entry, "Firefox-308046B0AF4A39CB" in the registry under...

According to this, the error is a result of conflicts between Windows Update and some USB devices. This makes sense to me, because my PC often hangs on reboot after updating if I have USB devices...

I closed Office applications and performed the fix in the above link for "a personal account", but as soon as I tried to open one (Outlook) again, the same error appeared:

Failed to parse element:...

That well may be. The file is over 4GB and it was on a NAS. A local copy on the SSD went significantly faster (SHA256) but it still took almost 30 seconds.

I used the registry hack, and it works fine.. However, it took so long to return a result (showing an empty PowerShell window) that I thought it wasn't working. My PC is running Windows 10 21H2 on...

My Lenovo X230T running Windows 10 21H2 (Build 19044.1706) has a folder C:\DRIVERS which apparently contains only unpacked Intel driver installation files. I inadvertently deleted the contents, but...

When I was copying some forensic tools, WD tried to quarantine key components. Not knowing that this would allow them *everywhere* I told WD to "Allow" them. Of course I only want to allow them in...

When I want to save a new file Windows 10 (Pro x64 21H2) generally opens the File Open/Save dialog to the last used directory, which is usually one of many on my NAS. However, instead of using the...

I have seen this advice on several websites, but it doesn't work for me.

I don't have any empty spaces.
Wherever I try to drag, it either does nothing, or just screws up the arrangement of my...