Month: December 2015

After uninstalling Microsoft Essentials, Windows Defender automatically takes over quietly in the background. If you want to install another antivirus protection program, you must turn off Windows Defender.

Here is how.

In the search box, type, Windows Defender.

Click Windows …

In Windows 10 you can turn off Windows Defender real-time protection, but it will only be temporary. Windows will automatically turn real-time protection back on if it’s off for a while.

You can turn Windows Defender off with three simple …

Ever since upgrading to Windows 10, sometimes ,when I open the Task Scheduler, I get error dialogs stating that certain tasks are missing. Why? I don’t know. But to clean it up, you can just delete them from the registry …

1. Open up Windows Explorer. Go into options and check the box “Show hidden files, folders, and drives”. Also uncheck the box “Hide protected operating system files”.
2. Delete the file, “autorun.inf”.
3. Restart PC or right click on the drive, go to

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Here is my story:

I at one time installed Visual Studio 2015 Community Edition. I then uninstalled it, but the uninstall went badly somehow.

Weeks or months later, I saw the software lingering in the Programs and Features area where …

This process could be used on previous version of Windows, but I am only giving instructions for Windows 10.

This is a post taken from www.techspot.com.

You can find the original post here:
http://www.techspot.com/community/topics/usb-drive-or-flash-problems-how-to-cleanup-and-remove-old-usb-storage-drivers.145884/

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USB Mass Storage devices …