Recent content by LesFerch

By default, folders are at the top if you sort by date ascending (^) and are at the bottom if you sort by date descending (˅). You can force the folders to always be at the top, regardless of the date sort order, by Shift clicking the Name column. I'm not aware of a way to force the folders to...

Normally, it displays with the same colors as Windows 10. Any chance you have something else running that could account for the change?

As @Ghot suggested, you can use WinSetView to permanently set your preferred search result views. Although Windows provides no options in its interface to change the default search results views, they are defined in the FolderTypes registry key. Editing a copy of that key in HKCU allows you to...

There's an issue with dialogs quickly closing on their own which started recently and appears to be affecting a lot of users: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/5972693/windows-11-confirmation-dialogs-automatically-clos...

All electronic devices perform more reliably when dust free. Blow out your laptop and gaming console vents as well. Also blow out your smoke detectors to reduce false alarms. Do the blowing outside whenever possible. Since I already have Ryobi batteries, I bought this little blower; works great...

Are you arranging by "Date" or "Date modified"? The former will cause Explorer to read the metadata for every file to see if there is a "Date taken" field. The latter will just sort by the system last write time, which is much faster.

WinSetView applies the same registry settings as detailed in the tutorial here. The Downloads option should continue to work as always. There was a change that affects the trick to set any arbitrary folder as an Explorer startup folder (previously I think was Option 3 in this tutorial). From...

I've always used a local account to sign into Windows and my Gmail address as my Microsoft account. Zero problems. Zero hassle.

I tested many of these tools and, of the ones I tested, the fastest was PDF-XChange. https://www.pdf-xchange.com/product/downloads/enduser/pdf-xchange-editor

I also use Paint.Net. It's great, but doesn't do batch conversions, AFAIK. If I have many files to convert, I use XnConvert.

Also note that you can lossless convert TIFF to PNG and still get much smaller files for sharing.

My favorite batch conversion tool is XnConvert but, as mentioned, for a few images, pretty much any paint program will do the job.

Some exes must run or the system wouldn't even start up. Can you run notepad or mspaint or anything else from the Start menu? Can your run cmd.exe or powershell.exe? Please post a screenshot of the error. There are sometimes clues in the screenshot that a simple description misses.

Have you tried temporarily disabling BitDefender (or temporarily uninstalling it) just to see if that's the cause of the error?

So, this program "uncleans" your computer? 😁