Recent content by donald_s1

Thanks Jumanji, that's probably worth a try.

Thank you OAT, you pointed me in the right direction. I have a USB hub on my computer, as it doesn't have a lot of USB ports natively. It looks like the hub is the issue. I plugged in the Blu-ray to a port directly on my system and now it works fine. I switched back to the hub and same...

I was running some software from my external USB Pioneer Blu-ray, and got an error that the file didn't exist. Turns out that the operating system lost track of the D: drive. I clicked try again and then it found the drive and the file. This keeps happening. The drive is there, and then it...

I like having the task bar labels as well as the buttons for open apps. However, they can be kind of long. Is there a way to reduce the width? I'm looking at one right now that is about 25 characters wide. I would really like to shrink that a bit if possible. Thanks for any advice. Don

Ah Ants, that may be it. I know they've been adding more options. I'm 'fully' updated on Win 11 Pro and I'm at 22H2. They are probably rolling out that capability.

Winuser, I don't have that option either. I got the Xbox stuff to go away by uninstalling or turning off every Xbox option. For example turning off the Xbox Gamebar in the Game settings. I don't know exactly which one made it go away, but it did go away. Ants suggestion cleaned up my lock...

Thank you Ants, that did the trick. Slowly but surely I'm making Win 11 work more like Win 7 :).

Two things that may be related: 1. When I boot or wake up my computer I see an annoying Xbox ad every time. Is there a way to make that stop? 2. Can I do away with the random picture when Win 11 boots? Thanks very much! Don