Showing posts with label Windows 8. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Windows 8. Show all posts

Monday, July 18, 2016

How to add a program to start automatically on Windows startup?

How to add a program to start automatically on Windows startup?
Some programs installed are set to start on Windows startup by default. For some, we may need to enable them manually. This may be ideal for programs which you need to use right after Windows startup. Such startup files can be software programs, or even Office documents such as Excel sheets, Word Documents etc. But too may startup items can slow down your computer so you need to enable only those required. See below how to manage Windows startup items.

Watch this short video tip how to check startup programs in Windows and how to add programs to start automatically on Windows Startup.

How to check, enable or disable startup programs on Windows?

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Thursday, February 18, 2016

[Workaround] Unable to install Visual Studio in Windows 8.1: Access Denied

This post is a troubleshooting done on the issue of Visual Studio installation on Windows (Windows 8.1 in this case). Error Encountered: 0x80070005 - Access Denied

Visual Studio Express setup log shows:
"Error 0x80070005: Failed to write run key value.
Error 0x80070005: Failed to update resume mode.
Error 0x80070005: Failed to begin registration session.
Error 0x80070005: Failed to begin registration session in per-machine process.
Error 0x80070005: Failed to register bundle."
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Wednesday, February 17, 2016

[Solved]: Unable to uninstall Visual Studio Express 2012 from Windows computer

Issue: Unable to uninstall Visual Studio Express 2012 from Windows computer

Microsoft Visual Studio Express 2012 installation did not get installed due to Access Denied error. But Visual Studio Express 2012 is found in the list of Programs in Control Panel > Uninstall a Program. As it is not installed properly, the Visual Studio Program is cannot be run.

Attempts to uninstall the program but still getting "Access Denied error".

Visual Studio Express setup log shows:
"Error 0x80070005: Failed to write run key value.
Error 0x80070005: Failed to update resume mode.
Error 0x80070005: Failed to begin registration session.
Error 0x80070005: Failed to begin registration session in per-machine process.
Error 0x80070005: Failed to register bundle."
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Sunday, January 31, 2016

Upgrade Windows 7 or 8 to Windows 10 for FREE!

Windows 10 is a personal computer operating system released by Microsoft as part of the Windows NT family of operating systems. Windows 10 is the latest Microsoft Operating System released to consumers since July 29, 2015. To encourage the adoption of Windows 10, Microsoft announced that during its first year of availability, upgrades to the operating system would be made available free of charge to users of genuine copies of eligible editions of Windows 7, and Windows 8 after update to Windows 8.1.

However, not every Windows Operating System is up-gradable to Windows 10. On Microsoft Website it says:
"This free upgrade to Windows 10 is available for PCs and tablets. Qualified Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 devices can upgrade for free."
Find out if your Windows is eligible for free upgrade to Windows 10.

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