How can I modify the delay time? It currently has no delay and is so frustrating.
I've currently tried to modify
HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Control Panel/Desktop/ActiveWndTrackTimeout
in regedit. Although I was able to modify it, it did not make any effect.
Rename your registry value from ActiveWndTrackTimeout to ActiveWndTrkTimeout. Then sign out from Windows and sign in again.
It seems that this name changed in Windows 8.1.
I had this problem when I upgraded from Windows 8 to Windows 10, and after searching for a while, I eventually found the answer on Super User, so do vote up over there if this helps you!
Also see the Microsoft TechNet reference.
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I'm sorry if this is the wrong place but I really don't know where to go for something like this.
I did a fresh install of Windows 8.1 on my new SSD and the context menus for the task bar looks like this now...
I realize this may not be the right place to post, but could you point me in the right direction? Thanks!
The solution was to uninstall Windows Update KB3072318.
https://www.reddit.com/r/techsupport/comments/3f4yz9/my_jump_list_icons_are_huge_and_weird/
You get this graphical glitch because you use a custom Windows 8 theme under Windows 8.1. Microsoft changed the format a bit. StartIsBack+ (for Windows 8.1) fixes this issue and restore the Win7 Start menu for a better Windows 8.1 UX.
Ok, forget my previous answer! It's got nothing to do with the SSD.
I just found a fix/workaround:
Just make a clean install with the internet completely disconnected and only connect after the setup is fully finished.
Also, this way, you won't even see the windows 10 upgrade notification on the setup.
Hope this helps...
I have been trying to get windows 8.1 to force into a blue screen, but all of my attempts have failed. I don't really want to go into driver code or anything to do it, but just crash it using some sort of silly loop hole.
I tried creating the CrashOnCtrlScroll registry and it doesn't seem to work, even after restarting my computer. I also tried ending csrss, but microsoft has decided to let the user have no control and denies access at all costs (even after an informative prompt window).
I looked online for a while, but can't find anything on blue screening 8.1. It seems that everything out there is for 8 and below.
Notmyfault , a portable tool created by Microsoft's Mark Russinovich for the Windows Internals book will help you get a BSOD with more than a couple of ways (i.e High IRQ fault, hang IRP, stack trash, deadlock, etc)
Which registry key have you tried? There is different key location for PS2 and USB Keyboard.
USB Registry Key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\kbdhid
Add DWORD32, name= CrashOnCtrlScroll, value =0x1
PS2 Registry Key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\i8042prt
Add DWORD32, name= CrashOnCtrlScroll, value =0x1
Restart. Hold the RIGHT CTRL key and press SCROLL LOCK twice quicky.
This should be a simple question that should have a simple solution...yet nothing that I have tried works. My question is why? Is there a security feature in Microsoft preventing sending keys to "Security Windows"?
AutoiT attempt (does not work):
WindWait("Windows Security")
Send("{DOWN}")
Sleep(10)
Send("{ENTER}")
I have also tried/look at this question
I have tried to do this in C++ and in C# and I can only get the window to become the active window but when I send keys to it it ignores it.
Below are some of the places that I have look in order to suppress or automate this window:
Windows 7 - Disable signature verification of drivers
Permanently disable driver signature enforcement on Win 7 x64
How to disable driver signing in Windows 7 SP1
Disabling digital driver signing in Windows 7
Windows - Suppress "Windows can't verify the publisher of this driver software"
All "solutions" from the above links don't work. I have been searching for an answer for more than 2 days now.
If someone can tell a successfully way to suppress/automate this I (and everyone that wants to know how to do this too) will really appreciated.
Are you able to identify the window using the Win... functions? If so you could try using MouseClick:
$aPos = WinGetPos("Windows Security")
MouseClick("left", $aPos[0]+50, $aPos[1]+100)
First get the position of the window, then add some pixels so that when you do a right-click with the mouse you click the appropriate button. Of course you need to adjust the number of pixels to add to the x-/y-axis.
I know this is old, but I just came across this issue as well.
I was able to solve it by using the following once the window was active:
ControlClick("Windows Security", "", "[CLASS:Button;INSTANCE:2]")
It did not work if I included the TEXT:&Install this driver software anyway in the control ID.
I get "Unable to activate Windows Tailored application" error in Metro app when I'm running it under debugger of Visual Studio 11. I installed Windows 8 x64 Developer Preview on my Dell E6510 laptop.
I googled it and found out many people saying it happens when screen resolution is smaller than 800x600 but it's 1920x1280 in my case.
The app itself contains nothing. It's just empty wizard created application which is nothing but windows with black background.
Any ideas? It seems like very common issue.
The solution was quite bizarre but I figured it out.
It turns out not a single Metro application works under Administrator account including my apps. I'm talking about built-in Administrator account that is disabled by default (but which I enabled).
It gives "Access denied" error so I suspect it's somehow related to the way WinRT COM objects were registered or something like that. Go figure.
I hope somebody from Microsoft is reading this.
Best solution is to wait 2 weeks for the next release. The developer preview is full of fun bugs like this. I've seen this error caused by invalid app.xaml. Double check that you really haven't changed anything. I've also seen this error sometimes resolved by rebooting. Have fun!
I have a NSIS installer that installs my non-Metro application on Windows 8.
After installing, all the executables installed by my installer will show up on the Metro-style Start screen. Is there any way of avoiding that? Even the uninstaller exe is shown in the list, which is terrible in my opinion.
What's the best way to avoid installed .exe's from showing up on the Metro-style Start screen?
Set the System.AppUserModel.StartPinOption property of your shortcut to APPUSERMODEL_STARTPINOPTION_NOPINONINSTALL.
There is no documented way to exclude something from the Metro start screen AFAIK. The only thing I could think of was to set the System.AppUserModel.PreventPinning property on the shortcut but that does not seem to have any effect (Other than removing pin from the context menu in explorer).
I don't think this is quite the answer you were looking for, but Microsoft suggests you don't include things like uninstallers in the start menu; you should only include a shortcut to start the program itself. If you did this then you wouldn't have this issue.
The Windows 8 Start page is the equivalent of the Start menu in Windows 7 and below. They are both launchers, where the Start page has more data and personalization, live tiles, etc., but their role is identical.