I have Win 10 Pro Ver. 21H2. When I go to my Win 10
Control Panel > All Control Panel Items > Default Programs,
I have the following choices:
Set your Default programs
Associate a file type or protocol with a program
Change Autoplay Settings
Set Program Access and Computer Defaults
When I click on Choices 2 or 4 I get the same page that I get when I click on page 1. Choice 3 works properly. I can't find any way to see where the links for the Choices point to but the page for Choice one always appears.
Thank you for any assistance that you can provide to help me with this issue.
Tom
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I clicked on something in Visual Studio 2017 and now all the dropdown menu options are floating to the left instead of the default right. Below is a print screen of how it should look...
But I get something like this, floats to the left ...
I've gone through the options pretty thoroughly but I can't seem to find the option for this. Does anyone know where the option to control this is?
The direction of the menus in Visual Studio is actually controlled by a setting on OS level. On recent versions of Windows, it's pretty well hidden but you can directly run the following in the Windows -> Run dialog (Win+R) to open the settings dialog:
explorer shell:::{80F3F1D5-FECA-45F3-BC32-752C152E456E}
and change the radio button in Tablet PC Settings -> Other -> Handedness to Right-handed.
You can change the horizontal direction that the menus in Visual Studio roll out to by editing the registry as well (useful if the "Other" tab in Tablet PC Settings is not visible on your instance of Windows).
Open the registry (type regedit in the start menu and press Enter).
Navigate to this location:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows
If you don't have an entry called MenuDropAlignment, right click and create a new StringValue (REG_SZ) called MenuDropAlignment.
Change the value of MenuDropAlignment to be whichever way you want the menus to open to.
0 = Menus open to right (this is the "normal" way that most people expect the menus to open)
1 = Menus open to left
Once you have finished making this change, close everything and restart your machine.
I have an Excel workbook shared with other Excel users. When my co-workers and I use our different computers to print the same sheets to PDF, the page breaks differently in the resulting PDF, even though it displays the same in print preview.
We both run Windows 10, Excel 2016, using the same printer driver and printing preferences. I've confirmed the regional settings in our system are the same. No special fonts are included in the workbook. No difference in the AppData/Roaming/Microsoft/Excel/XLSTART/.
How can I avoid the layout changes? Is there anything that I might have missed checking? Any help would be appreciated!
If you're both printing the same version of the same document on the same printer, driver, operating system, etc, then you are missing a setting.
Some printer settings are buried pretty deep. Also, were you using the Print Preview or Page Preview when you both viewed it?
I suspect you missed a screen of settings somewhere from the image below, likely the Options... button in the bottom right, which take you into the Manufacturer's settings dialog(s).
Another place to check for settings you may have missed is the control pael. Hit the Windows Key and type printers and hit Enter and make sure you double check every setting in that window and all of the sub-dialogs. Some printers can have hundreds of settings.
If you still can't find a difference, get a third person on a different computer to try printing it. The odd man out of the three of your print jobs, is likely the one with the different setting!
If still no go, please post screen shots.
On Windows, Control Panel -> Display settings on different computers distort how Excel fits cells onto a page from computer to computer in my experience.
Windows7 Control Panel Display Settings
Display settings did it for me. I checked language packs, versions, removed and readded the print to pdf driver packs, the works. I was about to clone the working system to the non working system. The non working system had display scaled 125%....
While using MS Excel (Outlook, Word, or Power Point as well apparently) I create a userform. The toolbox shows up showing controls tab and 16 icons representing various controls. When I right click in some empty space in the tool box control area, a menu comes up listing "additional controls" at the top and two greyed out options below it. When I select "additional controls" a spinning blue circle appears briefly then disappears and nothing happens.
It is my understanding that a dialogue box should open at this point and I should be able to select some additional controls.
I noticed the problem while trying to follow a video on how to data scrape for my personal project which I asked for help here.
What I have tried
Creating a user form on another computer and then importing it to this one. No success.
Repairing MS Excel. This resulted in a full reinstall I believe as I had to re enter my product key. No success.
Resetting various registry keys as mentioned in this article. No success.
KB 369383 as mention as part of the process above. No success.
Issue described here but no solution, just a work around to something to what the person was trying to add.
Setting MS Excel to run in compatibility mode. There was no compatibility mode listed as an option under properties for the desktop icon.
Running as administrator even though my Windows account has admin rights. No change.
Cleaning the registry with both ccleaner and wise registry cleaner.
Running Excel in safe mode using excel.exe /s. Confirmed with (safe mode) in the title bar. No success.
My System
Windows 10
MS Office Professional 2013 - 32
(Note, no crystal reports added that I am aware of)
Additional Info
I tried another Windows 10 machine running same version of MS Office and it worked there, so it should not solely be a Windows 10 issue. My machine was an upgrade from Windows 7 - 64. The other machine was an upgrade from windows 8.
I created a new Windows user account and the dialogue box comes up for that account. At least now we know that its SOMETHING to do with my user account/profile.
I found a solution to 'my' problem after spending 2-3 nights over this. It turned out to be a very simple and not-so-intuitive fix.
My problem was that when I right-click on the Toolbox, I do not even get to see the "Additional Control" option in the menu.
Click on the userform, so that its selected.
Now go to Tools and Additional Controls is no longer greyed out. :)
Make sure the the Toolbox window is selected first then click on the Tools menu and Additional Controls should then be visible
In my case it was the toolbox that needed to be selected and not the userform.
When toolbox is selected, bam! the "Additional Controls" is no longer greyed out.
In Windows 8 Microsoft has removed the Start Menu so you can't see easily see the installed programs pieces that can be clicked on to run. Is this correct?
So it appears when you install a program under Windows 8 that you must now just know a few letters in the start link names for what was installed, so you can then type the Windows key and those few letters to then be shown start icons for the programming. correct?
So it appears my software menu shortcuts need to include a common two letters in each of their start menu link names so the user then can press the Windows key and type those two letters to see the software start links that have been installed. Right idea?
"In Windows 8 Microsoft has removed the Start Menu so you can't see
easily see the installed programs pieces that can be clicked on to
run. Is this correct?"
The Start Menu has been "reimagined" into the new Start Menu with tiles that can receive live updates. Instead of a Start Menu that lists each program's static name, each application now has a tile which can surface fresh information relevant to the app (for example, a Weather app can show the current temperature in your city and sunny vs. cloudy graphic, etc.).
"So it appears when you install a program under Windows 8 that you
must now just know a few letters in the start link names for what was
installed, so you can then type the Windows key and those few letters
to then be shown start icons for the programming. correct?"
When you type the Windows key, that brings you to the new Start Menu. When you then type those few letters, that is automatically invoking Search (which you can also invoke at any time though Windows key + Q).
"So it appears my software menu shortcuts need to include a common two
letters in each of their start menu link names so the user then can
press the Windows key and type those two letters to see the software
start links that have been installed. Right idea?"
Since it is invoking search, you don't really need a common two letters. Just name your app something memorable that makes sense with the app's functionality, and the user can type the name of your app or its first few letters to bring it up as you describe using search.
The user can also browse through the Start Menu to find your app, and group similar applications together on the Start Menu to make apps easier to find (here is how-to info on making and naming groups).
I need a control to enter small numbers on Windows Phone 7 and would like to have some kind of endless spinner control like the one for entering day and month and the date setting of the device.
Is there a standard control to spin through these kind of selections? Or at least some way how to build this kind of control?
There are a few options here -
Nick Randolphs' Windows Phone 7 Wheel Control (Clint Rutkas' updated version)
Rudi Grobler's LoopingSelector
I hope either of these two controls will help you in your app development. I maintain a list of Windows Phone 7 developer resources here (including a number of WP7 controls)
Hope this helps,
indyfromoz
If you already using the Windows Phone Toolkit then you can use the same LoopingSelector control from the DatePicker. You need to implement a data source for it, but it's pretty simple.