Recent content by VicM

Thanks Spunk. But I am plugged in and fully charged. The advanced settings show pretty much the same info: When plugged in, turn off display after 10 min; put computer to sleep after 45 min. When on battery, turn off display after 3 min; put computer to sleep after 3 min. Display still turns...

Hi, I recently bought new laptop with Win 11 Pro. In the Power settings I set the display to turn off after 10 minutes. But it always turns off after 1 minute. I find this extremely annoying especially if I'm working on something and, say, have to answer the phone, etc. I don't know if there...

Thanks to all for your suggestions. I recognize that Edge will render pdfs. I guess I'm just a creature of habit and was trying to make my Win 11 experience as close as possible to the way I did things in Win 7. I'll have to revisit how I will go forward. And glasskuter, I did uninstall...

I'm using Win 11 Pro on a Dell box. I bought this because I was using Win 7 for a long time with virtually no issues. Unfortunately, my laptop was experiencing hardware issues or I would have stayed with Win 7. Twice I downloaded Acrobat Reader, and twice it would not launch. When I ran the...

Hi garlin, Thanks for the reply. I pasted the code in a Cmd Prompt and it created the message. I tested it as per your instruction and it worked just the way I wanted. However, I'm unfamiliar with the schtasks app and will have to investigate it. But I do like working in the Cmd Prompt...

Hi, I recently purchased a new Dell XPS 15 (5930) laptop with Win 11 Pro, Version 22H2 (OS Build 22621.2070). Previous laptop was running Win 7 Pro. I had quite a few tasks that would display a message on screen to remind me of things I had to attend to. I was disappointed to learn that Win...