Recent content by barryman

Thanx to one and all for advice. I have now changed the "Scroll inactive windows when I hover over them" to OFF and lowered the scrolling speed and it is certainly an improvement, hardly any jumping. Thanks again

I am having a problem which is that when I am scrolling down a web page or even on Windows Explorer using my cordless mouse the screen jumps or scrolls on it own further down a page. I have tried updating the graphics card driver but that made no difference. I uninstalled the mouse driver, then...

I recently made a couple of recovery bootable USB sticks which seem to work. One of them was a Macrium bootable USB. The problem now is that every time I boot up I get the screen (in photo below). I have Macrium still installed on my PC but no recovery stick is present at boot up..... How and...

That's good enough for me. I'll also keep the recovery usb as a reserve line of defence as the Aomei system backup seems to meet my needs of restoring the OS without losing data/settings etc. Thank you once again.

Thanks for very helpful advice. I already do regular system backups using Aomei Backupper. In the event of anything major happening to my OS would a "restore" of my Aomei backup (saved onto an external hard drive) achieve the same result as using this new Windows USB recovery stick I made?

For safety I have just made a recovery USB for my Win 11 installation. I am trying to test it to see that it boots up OK but I have a simple question about using it. All the files seem to have been created on the stick (pic 1). That looks OK ??. Pic 2 shows the blue screen I get when booting up...

Stop press !! After downloading and opening many relevant reg files I have finally sorted out the new/shortcut problem (I've no idea which one actually did the trick. So thanks for helping with advice. Barry

I did my best to download and install reg files but even after restart nothing changed in the Context menu. I even found an old post that said to download WinaeroTweaker and to enable Classic Context menu. Even after another restart nothing changed, still no New/Shortcut etc on menu. Any other...

Before I switched to Windows 11 if I wanted to make a desktop shortcut to a website all I had to do was copy the address and then go "New" on the desktop and the next screen gave me the option to save to desktop. Now I don't seem to have that option under Win 11. Any answer as to why???

Thank you one and all for the advice. Between all the tips I now have things as I want them. I Incidentally, I believe the cause of the problem was 5 separate recent bloody Windows updates. I remember once turning off automatic updates but somehow they force themselves back on. I'd like to have...

Is there a simple way of removing selected folders from the left hand pane (see screenshot) to de-clutter it ??

Further to previous message I have discovered in my compute bits box a couple of adapters. You'll gather that I am not exactly a pc techie so, in case I end up suspecting the existing adapter being somewhat faulty, are either of these adaptors in attached photo network adapters that I could...

Thanks for help so far. 1) I have got as far as the network settings but cannot see any option to change to Balanced Settings. On changing adapter settings the popup properties box shows all items as ticked EXCEPT "Internet protocol version 4". Should this be ticked as well? 2) On advanced...

I have a problem with my internet dropping out frequently. The only way I can reconnect is to run the network diagnostics and choose " restart network adapter" or to go into command prompt and type "netsh winsock reset". This resolves the problem but then at any time after doing this my...

Hi all. I attach two screenshots showing: 1) Context menu with stuff I don't need on it example Glary utilities entries, Restore previous versions, and others. I am after a simple solution that will allow me to delete items that I don't want or need from this menu.. 2) Second screenshot shows...