Daves Computer Tips - Forum: Windows 8 Operating System https://davescomputertips.com/forum/windows-8/ Simple:Press Version 6.11.14 Mindblower on dcp_watchdog_violation errors https://davescomputertips.com/forum/windows-8/dcp_watchdog_violation-errors/#p14913 Windows 8 Operating System https://davescomputertips.com/forum/windows-8/dcp_watchdog_violation-errors/#p14913 All is well Jim. Hope everything I did has removed the problem. Forgot that glitches are bound to happen to all of us. Just over reacted. Thanks for the reassurance, Mindblower!

]]> Sat, 22 Aug 2020 06:43:58 -0400 Jim Hillier on dcp_watchdog_violation errors https://davescomputertips.com/forum/windows-8/dcp_watchdog_violation-errors/#p14912 Windows 8 Operating System https://davescomputertips.com/forum/windows-8/dcp_watchdog_violation-errors/#p14912 Yes, well, operating systems are extremely complex involving millions of lines of code, it doesn't take much to upset things.

Is the machine still blue screening or has it settled down now?

]]> Fri, 21 Aug 2020 18:37:34 -0400 Mindblower on dcp_watchdog_violation errors https://davescomputertips.com/forum/windows-8/dcp_watchdog_violation-errors/#p14911 Windows 8 Operating System https://davescomputertips.com/forum/windows-8/dcp_watchdog_violation-errors/#p14911 Transferred from Blog. Yes Jim, run sfc / scannow, chkdsk /f, and Samsung Magician for firmware updates. No errors detected and something I run monthly.

What I find odd, is this error took place months later with basically nothing ...]]> Fri, 21 Aug 2020 18:11:05 -0400 Mindblower on Monitor going to sleep https://davescomputertips.com/forum/windows-8/monitor-going-to-sleep/#p14413 Windows 8 Operating System https://davescomputertips.com/forum/windows-8/monitor-going-to-sleep/#p14413 Just an up-date to my problem which went away the same as it appeared - all by itself. Noticed it earlier this month when I was tempted to adjust the sleep interval, Mindblower!

]]> Sat, 17 Aug 2019 10:49:32 -0400 Mindblower on VLC media player 3.1.1.0 officially ruined. What other alternatives are there? https://davescomputertips.com/forum/windows-8/vlc-media-player-3-1-1-0-officially-ruined-what-other-alternatives-are-there/#p14300 Windows 8 Operating System https://davescomputertips.com/forum/windows-8/vlc-media-player-3-1-1-0-officially-ruined-what-other-alternatives-are-there/#p14300 Yes stevenshaw. See you are new and are asking questions. BUT, you do not reply when given answers. Makes me wonder if you deserve replies (other than this one from me), Mindblower!

]]> Thu, 18 Apr 2019 07:47:54 -0400 stevenshaw on VLC media player 3.1.1.0 officially ruined. What other alternatives are there? https://davescomputertips.com/forum/windows-8/vlc-media-player-3-1-1-0-officially-ruined-what-other-alternatives-are-there/#p14298 Windows 8 Operating System https://davescomputertips.com/forum/windows-8/vlc-media-player-3-1-1-0-officially-ruined-what-other-alternatives-are-there/#p14298 Windows store updated the VLC app to 3.1.1.0.

The old version was basic, and highly reliable and easy to use.

The new version is buggy, crashes all the time, can't autorotate in all planes and is generally terrible all around.<a href="http://tradevenue.se/" rel="nofollow" ...]]> Thu, 18 Apr 2019 01:09:43 -0400 Mindblower on Help, Need to reactivate lockscreen for windows after shutdown https://davescomputertips.com/forum/windows-8/help-need-to-reactivate-lockscreen-for-windows-after-shutdown/#p14294 Windows 8 Operating System https://davescomputertips.com/forum/windows-8/help-need-to-reactivate-lockscreen-for-windows-after-shutdown/#p14294 Hello stevenshaw. In 8.1 go to the Control Panel, select Power Options and then on the left side you will notice Require a password. Is this what you are looking for, Mindblower!

]]> Tue, 16 Apr 2019 12:09:24 -0400 dandl on Help, Need to reactivate lockscreen for windows after shutdown https://davescomputertips.com/forum/windows-8/help-need-to-reactivate-lockscreen-for-windows-after-shutdown/#p14293 Windows 8 Operating System https://davescomputertips.com/forum/windows-8/help-need-to-reactivate-lockscreen-for-windows-after-shutdown/#p14293 It would help to know what version of Windows you are running. I am running W10 version 1809 and the lock screen can be toggled on and off with the desktop personalize tab. Windows 8 and 8.1 require a different ...]]> Tue, 16 Apr 2019 05:31:13 -0400 stevenshaw on Help, Need to reactivate lockscreen for windows after shutdown https://davescomputertips.com/forum/windows-8/help-need-to-reactivate-lockscreen-for-windows-after-shutdown/#p14292 Windows 8 Operating System https://davescomputertips.com/forum/windows-8/help-need-to-reactivate-lockscreen-for-windows-after-shutdown/#p14292 I can lock&sign out of my Pc but the PC will remain on. the lock screen isn't appearing after a turn off since I disabled it a year or so ago... I can't remember how, but now I need to ...]]> Tue, 16 Apr 2019 03:14:05 -0400 Mindblower on Monitor going to sleep https://davescomputertips.com/forum/windows-8/monitor-going-to-sleep/#p14267 Windows 8 Operating System https://davescomputertips.com/forum/windows-8/monitor-going-to-sleep/#p14267 For some time now, I am only able to set the sleep time to 5 and 10 min. Trying 15, 20, 25, or the standard 30 min. prevents the monitor from sleeping.

Thought it might be a bad sector on ...]]> Mon, 18 Mar 2019 16:46:50 -0400 Marc Thomas on Something wrong in this post https://davescomputertips.com/forum/windows-8/something-wrong-in-this-post/#p14228 Windows 8 Operating System https://davescomputertips.com/forum/windows-8/something-wrong-in-this-post/#p14228

Yue Ling said
(Not a question about Windows 8/8.1 but can't comment in below post)
https://davescomputertips.com/8-reasons-why-windows-8-sucks/

In "Stripped out features" in mentioned post (link) there's something wrong. Windows still have sounds.

Also, desktop gadgets got removed due ...]]> Wed, 23 Jan 2019 04:06:27 -0500 Mindblower on Something wrong in this post https://davescomputertips.com/forum/windows-8/something-wrong-in-this-post/#p14225 Windows 8 Operating System https://davescomputertips.com/forum/windows-8/something-wrong-in-this-post/#p14225 Yue Ling. As a fist time poster here, making a comment on a very old post, I can almost rest assured you will not reply, but here goes.

If you read all the posts, from the beginning, you ...]]> Sun, 20 Jan 2019 19:14:52 -0500 Richard Pedersen on Something wrong in this post https://davescomputertips.com/forum/windows-8/something-wrong-in-this-post/#p14224 Windows 8 Operating System https://davescomputertips.com/forum/windows-8/something-wrong-in-this-post/#p14224 Hi Yue,

This article is going on five years old and comments are no longer being accepted on such an aged post.

I can't respond to what the writer had in mind when he was talking about the Windows Sounds. Sorry, can't ...]]> Sat, 19 Jan 2019 18:35:15 -0500 Yue Ling on Something wrong in this post https://davescomputertips.com/forum/windows-8/something-wrong-in-this-post/#p14223 Windows 8 Operating System https://davescomputertips.com/forum/windows-8/something-wrong-in-this-post/#p14223 (Not a question about Windows 8/8.1 but can't comment in below post)
https://davescomputertips.com/8-reasons-why-windows-8-sucks/

In "Stripped out features" in mentioned post (link) there's something wrong. Windows still have sounds.

Also, desktop gadgets got removed due to vulnerabilities.

]]> Sat, 19 Jan 2019 17:07:05 -0500 dandl on Newly Cofigured PC https://davescomputertips.com/forum/windows-8/newly-cofigured-pc/#p13494 Windows 8 Operating System https://davescomputertips.com/forum/windows-8/newly-cofigured-pc/#p13494 https://davescomputertips.com/wp-content/sp-resources/forum-image-uploads/dandl/2017/04/W8.1-WXP-In-Dual-Boot.PNG

Got the W10 image on a SSD but I decided to reconfigure this PC using W8.1 Pro and WXP Pro in dual boot. The PC is running really great and although it ran W10 ...]]> Tue, 18 Apr 2017 16:28:54 -0400