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once I had installed Start Menu 8 . After one day I uninstalled it because I didn't like that. But after uninstalling, I am facing a problem in Win 8.1. When I log in, then first start menu appears and then I have to open desktop manually. But I want desktop to appear at startup. Is there any manual settings?
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To boot to the desktop instead of Start
Open Taskbar and Navigation properties by swiping in from the right edge of the screen, tapping Search (or if you're using a mouse, pointing to the upper-right corner of the screen, moving the mouse pointer down, and then clicking Search), entering Taskbar in the search box, and then tapping or clicking Taskbar and Navigation in the results.
Tap or click the Navigation tab, then tap or click the When I sign in or close all apps on a screen, go to the desktop instead of Start check box. Then tap or click OK.
Source: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-8/personalize-pc-tutorial
Please use search engines like Google in the future :)
Right click on taskbar and open properties. Select Navigation tab and check the option Show Start on the display I’m using when I press the Windows logo key.
Press OK and reboot to try it out.
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I upgraded to Catalina, thumbnail preview stopped working on my desktop.
I tried everything that I know, "Show icon preview" is ticked, Preview app is applied to open all kinds of images, but still just the generic icons appears. This is very frustrating, since I am working with images and video files, that I need quick access to.
Hope to someone help me with this.
I was able to resolve the preview issue by doing following.
In Finder, press Shift ⇧ + Command ⌘ + G and enter ~/Library/Preferences.
Then find com.apple.finder.plist and move it to the Trash.
Right-click on the Finder icon in the dock and select Relaunch.
Press and hold the Option Key
Right-Click or Control-Click Finder in your Dock (maintain holding Option)
Select Relaunch from the pop-up menu (If you don’t see it make sure you hold Option before right-clicking Finder)
If this doesn't work, ensure that JPG files are associated with Preview. To do this, right-click on one of them and choose Get Info. Under the Open With section, select Preview, and then click Change All. You may need to relaunch Finder with this method too.
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I'm using a mac book pro.
When I'm pressing the upper left corner green button - it makes the window
into full screen and hides the dock bar.
I want my window to be almost full screen - I want the dock bar to remain.
One option is to manually starch it, but this is something that needs to be done every time.
Is there a way of customizing the upper left green button for that?
The functionality you're looking for is known as "zooming" the window. It used to be that the green button did that, but these days it enters full-screen mode instead. If you hold down the Option key when you click the green button, it reverts to the old zoom operation. You can also use the Zoom item of the Window menu. You can also configure things so that double-clicking on the title bar zooms the window, on the Dock pane of System Preferences.
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Not sure why but since recently, the Slack icon in bottom right notification area (Windows 10) isn't visible anymore despite Slack app being checked in "Select which icons appear on the taskbar" section. Consequently I need to keep Slack open at all times in my app bar (which I don't want because it's crowded).
Any idea what's causing the problem here?
Additionally, every time there is a Slack client app update, you have to go into the "Select which icons appear on the taskbar" in Windows 10 to turn on the "new" icon. It seems this changes when the application is updated.
Update on August 5th, 2018. This issue has been around for nearly two years. I sent them this message on the 'help' issue I first submitted 19 months ago:
People,
This issue has persisted for over a year, and a Slack update this morning did the same thing - the icon is in the notification overflow window, instead of on the taskbar. If there is one application that MUST always be visible in the taskbar, it is Slack, and you keep falling down on this basic requirement.
Clearly, with every Slack client update, the operating system thinks it's a new app (with a new GUID or whatever the nomenclature is), so defaults to the notification icon being in the overflow. This is on you. No other application that uses notification icons does this after an update. None. Okay, maybe not none, but I have never encountered another one, and I am a super geek.
It also doesn't help, that after a client update, the old client runs until exited (as the taskbar icon remains visible), but on the next launch, the icon goes into the overflow. So it might appear to the uninformed that the Slack client update didn't trigger the problem, but it did.
Seriously, you need to mark this as important. It only takes about 10 seconds for us users to change the setting on the new icon, after we discover it's missing. But that 10 seconds is multiplied by the number of users who want that icon to stay visible, for every update. That is a LOT of wasted time.
In Windows 10, you have to right-click on the tray (the area you referred to as "notification area") to be able to customize which icons are visible, choose Properties, and then click the Customize button.
From here, click “Select which icons appear on the taskbar”. Enabled items will show permanently on the tray bar.
Here you have a step-by-step guide to solve this issue.
Keep in mind, however, that the you also have to enable the option to "leave the application running in the notification bar" from Slack, as pointed out by Somnath Muluk
At some point my slack icon disappeared from the taskbar, and it turned out it was in the hidden icons popover(triggered by the arrow on the left of the icons list). I was able to put it back on the taskbar by simply dragging it there from the popover.
When Slack is running, you’ll find a Slack icon in your notifications area. You'll see a blue dot when you have unread activity on one of your Slack teams, and a red dot when you've received a mention, announcement, or direct message.
Click your team name to open the Team Menu.
Select Preferences.
Click to the Windows App tab.
Check the Leave app running in notification area when the window is closed option.
From Preferences, you can also choose how you want the Slack icon to flash in the taskbar when a notification is received: Never, When left idle, or Always.
Note: The icon will stay in the taskbar if your preference is set to Always flash when a notification is received.
Reference: App icon notifications
I found the setting in File > Preferences > Windows App: "Leave app running in notification area when the window is closed" to be opposite of what I expected. When I unchecked the option, the icon appeared in the notification area. Once the icon appeared I could adjust the Notification Preferences to "Show icon and notifications".
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I am using a monitor and a laptop. Currently the desktop appears on the laptop screen and the monitor is the extended desktop. I want it to be the other way around but I can figure out how to do this. Is is possible to configure it so the desktop appears on the monitor and the laptop screen is the extended screen? I am using windows 7 by the way.
There is an option on the settings to set a monitor as your primary. Check that for the monitor. Your taskbar will move to this.
Right click desktop and select "Screen Resolution".
Click Identify to show numbers on screens.
Click the correct screen on the window corresponding to the monitor.
Check "Make this my default display" if not checked.
Right click your desktop and select "Screen Resolution". Select your external monitor (will usually be #2), and click the check box that says "Make this my main display", and press Apply. That should make your external monitor your primary, and move the taskbar over.
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I use a VPN and Windows remote desktop to log onto my Windows XP work computer from my Win Vista 64 home computer. The only problem is that I sometimes forget to move all my important windows over to the main screen when I leave work. Does anyone know a way I can move the windows over to the main window without being able to see them? So far the only way I know how to do this is by closing them and reopening, which is not an option for tests that has been running for multiple hours.
I have seen a few non-free desktop management tools online but I don't want to pay to solve something so simple.
Right click on window in taskbar, choose Move and use arrow keys to move the window.
Optionally you can press Alt + Space when window is in focus to bring up the same menu with Move.
Window can't be maximized in order to move but you can Restore it using same menu.
On Windows 7, start Task Manager, chooses "Applications" tab, select task, right-click with mouse, and do:
1. minimize.
2. maximize.
In my case, it brought widows that had been opening onto the second desktop, that I have disconected, onto the main desktop.