Recent content by GracieAllen

I had a feeling this might not be a trivial as I'd hoped! What has me confused is my wife, a very NON-technical person has gotten her laptop, in Chrome, to somehow go in at startup, start Chrome and calendar and be ready to do work. She CANNOT remember what she did and swears it was...

Version 24H2. This SEEMS like it ought to be simple, but. On my firefox desktop I want to click an icon on the desktop and have the browser go to the address, put in the username, NOT do anything with the password, then sit in the browser waiting for me to give it the password. So, I want to...

My laptop - Dell 7740, Windows 11 Pro - is slow to shut down. Not sure when it started being slow to shutdown, but at some point it got slow (I THINK it was fine until the last Windows update). Is there some way to have windows record all the stuff it does at shutdown and show how log it's...

Well that's embarrassing... I don't recall any of the things I tried having me do the settings>personalization>taskbar - other system tray icons..... BUT, everything in there was turned off. What turned everything OFF? One day it was fine, overnight it rebooted for an update of something...

I have some items that normally sit in what I believe is the "system tray" - the thing on the right side of the taskbar where items like the eject media and Nvidia settings and such reside. They're now hidden and I have to open the hidden stuff to get at things. It's not the biggest problem of...

Thanks for the reply. I have the Startup configured - there are only 2 things that start when the system does. Everything else is disabled.

Which is why I"m NOT trying to get rid of the unnecessary garbage any more. I just ignore it.

My only goal was to NOT have a bunch of unnecessary "stuff" running that uses memory, bogs things down, does things I don't want, or does things I don't use, and can always do something annoying, stupid or damaging. I'm OLD. I came from an era where designed and created efficient code that ran...

Thanks for the information. I think I'll take the advice above, maybe disable a couple tasks I'm sure I won't need, and leave things alone... I figure I'm more dangerous in there playing around with no guide than the average bull in a china shop, so... I've got good backups, but I'd rather...

I'm not sure where to ask this, so I'll put it with general things... Similar to the old Windows 10 thing with lists of services that can safely be disabled (which I really wish there was one for Windows 11), is there a list somewhere that shows which of the massive number of tasks in the task...

I'd be with #4, though I'm not sure about the tears and short-circuited computers. Fortunately, there are 3rd party tools that help with some of the more unproductive things.

If you mean poor Gracie, she's very appreciative! You guy knew about the Tweaks, which I hadn't seen... They'll come in handy I suspect. And I did warn you it was just a long narrative of stupid human tricks! So, Wynona, you were a big hit with her royal highness!

True, though you're missing the point - I don't WANT to have to go searching for things that are sitting right in the open in the Control Panel. I've been using the Open-Shell Menu since Windows 10 showed up. And yes, I KNOW it's money, but is there SOMEBODY that's the adult in the room and...

I don't have any problems getting around in the Windows 11 setup, as long as you're doing trivial stuff like shoving a different profile onto a display or something like that, but every time I need to do something important, like use the Device Manager, I have to go into the Control Panel 'cause...

Thanks for the replies... Actually, GracieAllen is the cat. She does most of the online shopping and such, and receives a surprising amount of spam and special offers. Unfortunately, I've never been able to get the bank to give her a credit card... I'll have to look at the tweaks... As I...