How to set apps to zones so they remember where to start? I can snap its windows to zones, but after relaunching those apps, they start on different monitor and not in specified zone.

I recently brought a laptop with an Intel Core Ultra 7 155H processor inside that comes with Windows 11. However, I realised that the software that I use, Serato DJ Pro, have many glitching issues with Windows 11. I’m wondering if I can do a Fresh install of Windows 10 Pro even when I have the latest Intel Ultra 7 CPU or does the different Performance core and efficiency cores in the CPU will need Windows 11 to work… thanks in advance!

Is it just me or the Action Center notificationns have just gotten worse after the last few updates? They were always kinda laggy and cumbersome, but lately it seems that every app that used to have it's own personalized notification display, is now just automatically rerouted through the default Action Center notification message. Which makes it even more laggy, as now i find i have to wait for one notification to disappear before i can read the next one, or i have to manually close it, but it's all very cumbersome. Not to mention that the default notification system doesn't accomodate large amounts of text. This is a problem , for example, when using an email client like Thunderbird, Before, i used to just look at the notification and have a pretty good idea on what the mail is about. Now i sometimes don't even see the whole email address of the sender because there's not enough room.

Is there anyway to return to the old system of notifications?

What is the most stable browser in windows nowadays?

I currently use Google Chrome in a server scenario (multiple users at a time) but it crashes several times during the day. When it happens the user has to kill the process with task manager and reopen Chrome, loosing all the job it was doing.

I do not care about privacy or resource usage (as I have plenty of CPU power and RAM).

I only need stability.

Is there a way to access the Microsoft mouse & keyboard center without downloading it or a work around if you're company won't let you download it? I do a lot of copying and pasting and my company won't let me download it on my new laptop since it's not in the software center

I read that I can pay for microsoft to support Windows 10. Is that true ? Can anyone advise me how to do it ?

So, I have a lot of files and need to change name for them one by one, and click on first name with two slow clicks and than rename option activate. After that first open of rename all text is selected, I find part of text I want to change and click on it and my text line appear to type text and than after one sec text is all selected one more time, this drive me crazy. Sometimes, this don't happen, but sometimes, its happen twice or more times for same name. Its not mouse problem, this is only place where I have problems with clicks. I'm not sure, but most of time my name changes are on OneDrive documents, .....

And I just realised its happen only on OneDrive and when I change name to one document its need time to name sync, and probably is around same time what its needed to sync with cloud files, so when sync is over my text got automatically selected on another file.

Damn, I have it for more than two years, and didn't find solution before on google or anywhere else... Great, so i need to pause OneDrive when do this.

Thanks, Its help me a lot to help myself just to write it down :)

And I just see to can't post this kind of post here, but you can look at it like on solution :)

Hi there,

got a situation where quite a few people keep moving Directories within a Network Share instead of copying the directories like they're told to do.

Setup is Basically:

Root Folder

--> Directory 1 (with Permissions for directory 1)

--> Directory 2 (with permissions for directory 2)

etc...

Problem arises once a user that has access to directory 1 and 2 moves files around. Those files keep their original permission (because the file/directory is moved) which results in non accessible files for users that only have permissions to one of those directories

Is there a way to have files or directories be copied and then deleted afterwards so that the newly created files get their permissions from that particular directory where the file is copied to (basically overwriting the default move behaviour)?

i already have told them that their permission problems stem from them moving the directories / files around. Either they forget, don't understand or ignore it but this particular problem reappears constantly and it's starting to get annoying

There are two media players. Movies & TV, the one I actually use, and the second media player (doesn't have a name). None of which can play two audio tracks at the same time on a video. I record videos with my mic on the first track and with PC sounds on the second track. And to actually listen to both audio tracks at once I have to use r/premiere which is a video editor program. Not comfortable. Is there anyway to do that?

I’m getting a 200 dollar refurbished (originally 500) windows 11 laptop and i have a feel that it would run tons better on the windows 10. Here’s the model -

HP 15.6 inch HD AMD Ryzen 5-7520U 8GB RAM 256GB SSD Windows 11 Notebook

i most personally think that this would run better on windows 10, what do you guys think?

I have a peculiar issue where I need to rename high-resolution video clips that have generic names but no individual short description in the file name.

I have the list of the filenames with description from another set that unfortunately is low-resolution. instead transfer the file name only one by one, how can I transfer this in bulk? see below sample screen shot.

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Suggest me a windows For 4gb ram Cpu:Core i7-2670qm Dell Inspiron N5110

I usually use windows for flashing,repairing phone,like android,ios....

I live in the uk and can get it cheaper is there any side effects?

(Errata: last word in subject title should read "set" not sent.)

The challenge (Example):

A folder contains i.e. 32 files of a TV series. For example, S01-E01 through E32
The original file names contain the episode title but are in a low-resolution.
Let's name this folder "lowRez."

A new, separate set of the same[above-mentioned] files, same folder/file structure but in higher resolution is available however, the episode titles are missing in each individual file.
Let's name this folder "highRez".

Now, name changing all individually highRez file by file to contain the episode title is tedious say the least.

I'm looking for a way or if there is a known app or methods to do such swiftly.
Something where I could paste the individual "lowRez" filenames only onto the "highRez" files!

Anyone know of anything like that, app or "how to"?

PS OS is Win10

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I'm wondering how safe it is to remove all the USB devices in the DM...will they reappear when I restart my PC?

A little background: In my quest (heh) to get an old Rift S to work on my newish PC, I've pretty much run out of options (the USB is not working). One last thing I've been instructed to do is go into device manager, remove all the USB devices, then shut down. Apparently the USB's will all reinstall at restart. Is that correct? I just don't want to be left with a system where I have no way to use a mouse or keyboard.

I have a 3 monitor system for my pc. My 2 main monitors and above a TV thats connected to my PC where i watch videos and movies. What I find annoying is that while im watching on the TV my 2 monitors are still on. i want my steam deck to turn off perferably the screens or a monitor itself so i can isolate the TV. Any recommondations or tips

I'm looking for a docking stopwatch app that I can put along the top or to the side of the monitor that lets me have a bunch of separate stopwatches to track the time that I'm spending on certain activities. I'd need up to 30, but a lesser amount (maybe minimum of 5) would be doable. I'd need to be able to label each stopwatch. I currently use the Windows Clock app in the "on top" format, but with that I have to stop it for the activity that I am ending, write down the time spent, and keep a separate log of the various activities adding the different times spent. If I could run multiple instances of the clock app, that might work as well, even though I couldn't label them. I'd just need to keep them in order.

I just want my wallpaper to look nice and stuff, how do I make it automatically (or manually) hide the taskbar when on the desktop?

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So love using the "Link to windows" function to efforlessly send over pics from my Android phone to my home PC or Work Laptop. It works great. The only thing that sorta annoys me is the fact that my phone constantly reminds me with a noise or buzz (depending on if it´s on vibration or loud) that it´s connected to the computer.

Is there a way to shut off the notification sound? I know, i could silence the phone, but then i might miss calls.

Hey all,
In light of Windows cutting support for windows 10 in a few months I'm looking for a way to get my machine compatible with windows 11 without the hardware upgrades. Is it possible to use a tool to convert from MBR to GPT on the boot drive without significant issue?

Thanks

So what's faster, 10 or 11, on a 5-year-old computer? And what's your evidence? Debating whether to finally allow the upgrade on my Windows 10 machine.

What I am really looking for is an app that allows me to select and area and it reads and copies text. For example if I select and area of text by pressing a keybind I can create a box, similar to shift+windows+s, and it reads and copies that text

So, short version... I talked to Gemini about protecting my computers ability to login outside of my own house. I'm concerned about thieves, and I live in an area and work at times where I can't really do anything about them. So Gemini actually gave me this idea, and I wanted to see if there was anyone available to kinda walk me through this. Not like I'm stupid or such, but more like, I haven't done this before and there were people outside my house last night so I need to do it now... Here's the jist of the tail end of the conversation (the part with the idea)

Is this because of the dual boot? Because I haven't faced such issue in my 6 years of windows usage...

It's an SSD. I want to buy a new larger SSD and have my data cloned there. Basically a C drive with much much more sapce. Is it possible?

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On my laptop it says that ‘Windows is activated with a digital license linked to my Microsoft account’. When I have downloaded windows on my new PC, can I sign into my account and transfer the license over?