Recent content by BuddhaNature

For a registry hack see this, or you can do it the easy way and just use WinAero Tweeker: Disable Automatic Folder Type Discovery in Windows 10 P.S. I use Winaero Tweeker to do the fix and it works fine in Windows 11.

LibreOffice Extension: Office 2003 Blue Theme

I have a similar problem with my Lenovo laptop computer. Intermittently it will fail to mount a USB-A wired mouse on booting the system up. The only workaround 'cure' is to, after Windows has booted in, unplug the mouse and then plug it straight back in again; at which point it gets detected by...

Found a good general guide to installing and using Open-Shell: How to Download and Use Open Shell on Windows 11

Download and install Open-Shell here: Welcome to Open-Shell Once installed and running open Open-Shell Menu (dialogue GUI) to do that right-click on the Start Menu button and chose 'Settings'. Now click on the 'Start Menu Style (tab)'. In there select 'Classic style' and 'Replace Start button'...

I like good ol' XP style — thank you Open-Shell!

I'm not using a Microsoft Account and I don't want to. I do have a hotmail email address, does that count?

Actually the problem is seemingly with USB-A ports that are failing to mount a USB-A wired mouse, I've tried six different mice, if one is already attached to the system on boot-up. USB-C port works fine every time in mounting a USB-C mouse on boot-up. USB-A ports work fine on boot-up with...

I doubt the tech will do that but I will ask. As it stands the repair info I have states (at the end of a repair), "You are responsible for reinstalling the operating system once the repair is complete." Presumably that would extend to updating the BIOS as well. This said I have on one previous...

I have a Lenovo Legion laptop. Details that I know of it are in my 'My Computers' System Specs. Cutting a long story short it seems that the motherboard is faulty. Lenovo have now arranged for a tech to come to my home and replace the board with a new one. I have never been through replacing a...

It was several years ago when I got hit with this on a single monitor system, so Stride isn't a multi-monitor thing. Nevertheless, at that time, years ago, Stride was specifically mentioned in the 'fix' I found and, as I did have Stride entries in the registry I altered them accordingly to how...

Thanks for the responses. I managed to work it out.

In Windows I managed to configure my Ethernet adaptor settings to use OpenDNS servers. The OpenDNS server addresses that I used were: 208.67.222.222 208.67.220.220 I think I am fine with that and understand what I have done. However, there is a thing called 'DNS over HTTPS' (DoH) and I'm not...

Try TreePad Lite which is basic but good with a small program size. This is no longer in development. The developer died several years ago now. I have a licenced version of TreePad Business Edition which by a huge margin is my most used word processor/note taker, the tree structure is fantastic...

OpenOffice is not a good move. It hasn't had a major update in years and is cruising into obsolescence. LibreOffice is the way to go and it has much better capacity to deal with MS Office files than OpenOffice has. However, the compatibility is not perfect. As it stands MS Office Word can...