Sometimes, the Taskbar volume control icon in Windows may not respond to the mouse click. The slider doesn’t appear when you click on the speaker icon, and nothing happens when you right-click on it. The audio may still work in all applications, but only the controls don’t open. Due to this, users have to open sndvol.exe from the Run dialog to open the Volume Mixer and control the sounds.
This post explains how to fix the volume control (speaker) icon in Windows 10 and Windows 11.Read more
When you open Task Manager and click on the Startup tab to manage auto-start entries, you may notice one or more entries showing up as “Program” showing up with a blank or generic icon and without any Publisher information.
The unknown “Program” entries are most likely caused if both of the following conditions are true:
This article tells what does the “Program” entries in the Startup tab mean and how to get rid of those entries.Read more
The Windows 10 Photos app has some interesting features that makes it a useful image previewer & editor (although only basic editing features supported). All these days, you may have been using Microsoft Paint or some third-party editors to crop or trim images, such as IrfanView, GIMP, etc. The good news is that you can not only resize images but also can crop images, rotate, add filters and effects using the Photos app.
It’s always very convenient to have a single app to preview as well as to accomplish the basic image/video editing tasks. This post tells you how to trim or crop images using the Photos app in Windows 10.Read more
When you use the Media Creation Tool to create a bootable USB Windows 10 setup disk, error 0x80004005 – 0xA001A occurs during the process. Precisely, the error happens after the ISO download is complete, and during the ‘creating media’ stage when it nears 50%. Here is the full error message: There was a problem running this … Read more
Many users of Windows Mail or Windows Live Mail (part of Windows Live Essentials) used to backup individual emails and save them as .EML files. Since Windows Live Mail has been discontinued, users are forced to use third-party mailers or even buy Microsoft’s own produce, Microsoft Outlook. However, the preview pane in File Explorer shows “No preview available” when a .EML file is selected.
This article tells you how to preview .EML files in File Explorer Preview pane, in Windows 7 through Windows 10.Read more
When you try to create a system image using Windows Backup on your computer, the following error occurs and backup procedure stalls.
Windows Backup failed to get an exclusive lock on the EFI system partition (ESP). This may happen if another application is using files on the ESP. Please retry the operation. (0x8078011E)
Additional information:
Access is denied. (0x80070005)
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In Windows 10 Version 1803, the HomeGroup feature has been removed. We also saw how to share files and printers without HomeGroup in Windows 10. After updating to v1803, many users face a problem where the computers/devices in the home network are not seen when you open This PC -→ Network.
When you open This PC and click on Network in the left pane, none of your networked devices may show up. This article tells you how to fix network devices discovery problem in Windows 10.Read more
Every once in a while you may have definitely encountered a problem where one particular application uses 100% disk usage (or CPU, or memory usage). Many users reported “high disk usage” problem on their systems when Google Chrome is launched. Chrome may totally stall your system showing the status “waiting for cache”.
This post tells you how to fix the Google Chrome 100% disk usage problem in Windows.Read more
When you open a .zip file (compressed folder) in Windows and attempt to extract or copy its contents to a folder, the error 0x80004005 (“Unspecified error”) may appear. Here is the full error message verbatim:
An unexpected error is keeping you from copying the file. If you continue to receive this error, you can use the error code to search for help with this problem.
Error 0x80004005: Unspecified error
The Photos app, a modern (UWP) app which replaces the classic Windows Photo Viewer, as Microsoft wanted to make the UI seamless between Windows 10 Mobile and Windows 10 for computers platforms. When Windows 10 was released, many users had to manually add the Windows Photo Viewer classic app using a registry edit, as they didn’t find the Photos app appealing at that time.
The Photos app gets new features every now and then. For instance, Photos app can edit images, split videos or merge them together. And the newest feather in its cap is the ability to resize images (although only 3 preset options are provided). This post explains how to resize images using the Photos app in Windows 10.Read more