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A problem once lurking in the code of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas has become a talking point two decades after its original release—thanks, in part, to Windows 11 version 24H2, and to the sharp eyes (and diligence) of the modding community. The Skimmer, a beloved water-plane in the classic...

Microsoft's Classic Outlook client has recently been causing significant headaches for users, with reports surfacing since late 2024 about mysterious spikes in CPU usage that degrade system performance markedly. The issue, now acknowledged by Microsoft, sees the application consuming between 30...

Microsoft's Classic Outlook application, a longtime staple for millions of professionals worldwide, has recently encountered an unexpected and frustrating problem: unexplained spikes in CPU usage when composing or interacting with emails. This sudden surge in processor demand, sometimes reaching...

Microsoft's acknowledgment of the classic Outlook CPU spike bug—and its broader implications—highlight critical challenges in the ongoing evolution of legacy software within a rapidly modernizing ecosystem. The bug, causing CPU usage surges of 30 to 50 percent during routine typing in classic...

When Typing an Email Turns Your CPU into a Furnace: Unpacking the Latest Outlook Bug Picture this: you’re drafting a simple email in the classic Outlook for Microsoft 365, and suddenly your computer sounds like a jet engine taking off. Your CPU usage spikes wildly, soaring to 30-50% utilization...

I'm not sure this is the right place for this but i'll give it a shot. I also posted this Link Removed3 months ago but i got no answers, and seems like other people are having the same issue. A while ago everything was fine, but suddenly Dropbox stopped launching when i restart the computer...

Office 2013 slow to open As of late, any office software I open takes a long time to open...20 - 40 seconds. It used to open instantly but now lags when it opens. Well I found a fix for it...here's how. It worked for me. Open any Office application first, Word, for example, go to Word...

Whenever I try to print something, it takes too long to allow me to print and it takes a while to print too. Any ideas why?

My recently used files no longer appear in the right-click menu of the Word taskbar icon. What do I do to get them back? Windows 7 Home Premium. Office 2010.

A while back I used Partition Magic Pro v7 (the last good one) to change some setting on my system drive. Surprisingly it worked (originally designed for win2K), but the problem is that it doesn't think that it worked. Now every time my computer boots it tries running the partition magic...

i installed an old partition program called partiton magic 8 without knowing the specs anyhow i installed the program when i tried run it it sjowed an error.I thought of changing the compatibility settings i set it to xp mode and then tried to run it again some error came but after a while i had...

i have just upgraded to win 7, i am running it with bootcamp on a macbook pro 13". i am trying to install a program called primal pictures, it is a 3d program for anatomy study. i have successfully added this on to my pc laptop running win xp service pack 3. I use a program called daemon...

Ever since I had gotten my new laptop with Windows 7 instead I have had nothing but problems with lag while playing World of Warcraft (WoW) or doing anything that requires sound (sometimes even when it has nothing to do with sound). Most annoying is: Playing WoW (with game audio shut off) and...

I installed Win 7 Ultimate and set up my HP 1010 printer using 1015 driver. It worked fine for about 15 days. Then suddenly it stopped. The text for printing goes to the printer and the printer goes through the motions of printing, but no txt printed! I reinstalled the printer umpteen times. No...

Ok duno if anyone else has noticed this but whenver i restart windows 7 the computer id changes, im getting a new computer id eatch time a restart wich is creaking an issue whit a program thats registerd whit me cumputer id. Im runnin windows 7 64bit RC. Is there any way too get windows too...

Maybe I'm doing something wrong, but every time I try to sync to a device, whether it be an SD card, an MP3 player, or even just a random flash drive, Windows Media Player seems to refuse to convert any of the files... It manages to copy the files that don't need conversion, but the files that...

i installed windows 7 to replace my copy of Vista ultimate but i didn't bother wiping the HDD i just did it as an upgrade. this then proceeded to put all of my old files in a older called 'Old Windows'. The OS itself works great but when i go into my old program files and try to load word (or...