I have problem with Windows 10 Enterprise N x64. When I press "Start" and start to type application name it never finds it.  I can't even find applications like "Calculator", "Microsoft Word" or any other. Just moving dots and I let it run for 30 minutes without any success.  PS. There is chance that this will not work for you if you did upgrade instead of clean install of Windows 10. But you can always try.  This are my indexing options.
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When I wanted to launch an app in Windows 7 (or Gnome), I pressed the windows key and typed the name of the app, for example, "Firefox", and pressed enter. Now in Windows 10 the Search Windows have weird behavior - I can search for "Edge", but not for "Firefox". "Firefox" will result in nothing found. However, "Firefox." (notice the dot) will result in result that will open Firefox.   Searching for "Notepad" will result in only windows usual Notepad, I cannot select Notepad++. Query "Notepad+" will yield the same result - only Notepad showing. Only typing full "Notepad++" yields useful Notepad++.  Is there logic behind the Search I cannot understand and/or can I bypass it and make it search the regular apps too?
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Not sure when this started happening but some time after upgrading to Windows 10 I noticed some of my search results were not showing up with what I wanted. For instance, when I searched for Word 2013 or Skype, I did not get any results. I decided to investigate and tried rebuilding the indexing file and moving it to a new location but it made no difference.  So I checked my start menu and manually tried looking for the shortcuts only to discover that they strangely weren't there. Also notice how some of my tiles have suddenly disappeared.    Strangely enough when I browse the actual location of the start menu folder, the shortcut for Word and Powerpoint are there.    I've checked that none of the folders/shortcuts are hidden or read-only and that the files/folders have sufficient permissions via the Security tab.  Any ideas how to solve this?
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Why is it that:   a 32-bit OS, when installed on a 64-bit CPU, can run old 16-bit applications,  but if you install a 64-bit OS it can't run those applications directly and need some sort of emulation (that doesn't always work perfectly)?     To be more specific, I have an 64-bit processor (Intel Core 2 Duo). When I had Windows XP and Windows 7 (both 32-bit) installed, they could run old DOS and 616-bit Windows applications.   Now I have installed the 64-bit edition of Windows 7. Why can't it run those same applications anymore?
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I can open software center and the main page with a list of categories comes up but when i click on an icon or type anything into the search box the loading screen comes up and it just stays like that. Running 11.04. Anyone know how to fix this?   Thanks in advance.
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Is there a "noop"-esque exe somewhere as part of the Windows installation? I'm preparing some batch jobs and scheduled tasks, and for a couple reasons I'd like to reference an executable that does nothing -- i.e. launches with no visible window, and quits immediately.  Does such an executable exist in the usual Windows installation anywhere? or how can I come close? I do not want to have to depend on anything not already included in Windows.
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OK, please, following you have an updated one step ahead question regarding my first question post on the title.  The question now is, how possibly get some info or tracing/debug on, which possible reason is leading to this error referring to SYSPREP.  In the net I found several posts for this, and the following link do have quite exact instructions what to look at and try, and I have also been following most of them, except maybe one-two, which I now will still follow on a next Upgrade trial in few hours.  ->   Here you have a summary of the background info for this case:   Windows 10 Anniversary Upgrade is stuck at ab. 32% done, in a minute after the second (despite named as FIRST_BOOT) restart at 30%, during the actual final update process phase, with blank grey display and power-on after an emergency power-off in a quarter or so, the Upgrade trial will got reversed and following error splash window will pop-up:     We couldn't install Windows 10      We've set your PC back to the way it was just before you started installing Windows 10.      0xC1900101 - 0x30018    The installation failed in the FIRST_BOOT phase with an error during SYSPREP operation  the laptop is some 7yrs old with dual-core AMD 1.9GHz 32-bit, memory 3GB, and has been working great with Windows 10 Pro (updated from 8.1) since 9 months I know there is outdatings with e.g. display driver, now run with the basic MS one, and Wi-Fi driver etc., but several of the risky devices and also software have been disabled during the Upgrade trials   I hope someone could help me some step ahead on this.
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I've got a third-party application (in this case Cognos Data Manager) installed on 64-bit Windows Server 2003.  Is there a quick way to determine if an application has been built/compiled as a 64-bit application or as a 32-bit application?  By default a program wanted to be installed in Program Files (x86). I'm guessing that means that it is a 32-bit version. I had to get it to talk to an Oracle database and to get that working I eventually reinstalled it in a directory path which didn't have brackets "(" and ")" in it, as that was causing a problem. I've also installed both 64-bit and 32-bit Oracle clients.  For future reference, I'd like to be able to type a command "xxxx fred.exe" and have it tell me whether fred.exe would be needing 32-bit or 64-bit setup (eg ODBC data sources etc).
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I find that at the end of a long day, I sometimes have a large number of programs running. All which I will need to use tomorrow. Normally, this isn't an issue, I can simply lock the machine and come back tomorrow. My problem arrises when windows update launches in the middle of the night and force restarts my computer. That in turns closes all my open software. I of course save everything regularly so I don't loose anything, but I waste time reopening all of those resources whenever there is a restart.   [EDIT]  I should clarify that I still want to be able to restart my computer when an update comes down. Preventing the restart only delays the problem until later. I should have been more specific in that I want to be able to recover my working environment after a restart for any reason. Things like scheduled maintence, power loss, updates, and software installs.  [EDIT]  I can't simply have them setup to launch at startup becasuse those files change from week to week. So I need something that monitors what I have open, and gives me the option to "recover" those software sessions when I log back in.  Anyone have any suggestions on what I can do? I'd even be willing to purchase software to do this for me if that is the only option.  Thanks
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I recently upgraded to windows 10 on my daily driver laptop and I have liked it so far except for one thing. Randomly the windows menu decides to stop working when I press the windows key or I press the button in the corner. Has anybody else experienced this problem? Solutions?  Thanks!
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I've been using the 64-bit version of Windows 7 since the CTP and have run into a few problems with applications that get installed in the C:\Program Files (x86) folder. What's the purpose of having 2 separate Program Files directories anyway?  Every program I've installed has gone into the C:\Program Files (x86) folder. It doesn't seem to matter if the app is 32 or 64 bit. Why don't 64-bit apps get placed in C:\Program Files?  Is there a way to change the default to be C:\Program Files instead? Would it mess anything up if I just put everything into C:\Program Files?   If indeed there is some benefit to having a separate folder for 64 bit apps, it seems like the more sensible default would have been to use C:\Program Files for x86 apps and create a new C:\Program Files (x64) folder for the new 64-bit apps. This would help maintain backwards compatibility. I work as a software developer and some of my projects contain path references to libraries under C:\Program Files. Now those references are broken on the Windows 7 machine that has placed them in C:\Program Files (x86). I even tried to change the target location in the installer to be C:\Program Files, but that was ignored and the app went into C:\Program Files (x86) anyway.  This is very frustrating because I need to share source code between 32 and 64 bit machines and I don't want to have to mess with some configuration file that sets the path to these libraries differently on different machines.  Edit regarding environment variables: (Using only default English values of variables for simplicity.) On a 64-bit machine %ProgramFiles% will be C:\Program Files while the brand new variable %ProgramFiles(x86)% will be C:\Program Files (x86). So, if you have a 32-bit program that needs to find the folder path that it would be installed under, it would need to check to see if it was running on a 32-bit or a 64-bit version of Windows in order to know which environment variable to use. Any 32-bit apps that were written without this consideration would need to be updated in order to work correctly on a 64-bit machine. So even using environment variables, the backwards compatibility is broken.  Also, %ProgramFiles(x86)% doesn't exist on 32-bit versions of Windows. If it did, then 32-bit apps could just always use that environment variable and wouldn't need any conditional logic based on which OS they're running on.
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I have windows 8.1 . On my system I have configured some shortcut keys like CTRL+ALT+A will launch the Equra application. On my windows 8.1 when I press CTRL+ALT+A it starts the Equra app.  I also have configured it to run as maximized.It works fine on my system. But when I connected with one client to deploy this application on his windows 10 system. This shortcut key issue arrised.I have configured the shortcut key how I did on my pc but it did not work on his pc . I dont have windows 10 but next time in future when I will connect with him through anydesk I want to fix it. Why this shortcut key problem arrised on windows 10 pc and how to fix it. English is not my native language excuse me please : )
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I've had a memory leak issue with Windows 10 for about a year now, but I really want to fix this now as it is having a sizable impact on my work.  As you can see from the picture below, I have 8GB of RAM. 92% of it is in use, even though the applications don't exceed 1GB.  I upgraded from Windows 7 Pro 64-bit to Windows 10 last year.  Ask for more details, I don't know what else to provide. I'm at a loss as to what could be causing this.
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I have a Windows Vista computer.  How can I check if all my hardware is supported by Windows 10?  I don't want to purchase it and then find out there are no drivers for the chipset or whatever.
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I've got a Windows 10 Computer (home edition), which has 4GB of Ram and an i5 processor. I need to run an old 32 bit accounting programme. The vendor said it won't release a 64 bit version (although a 64bit version exists, it's missing key features from the older version).  The programme installs fine, but when I click on the programme icon, it says the programme won't work on a 64 bit system.   What options do I have?    I've done a fair bit of research, but it seems to run up dead ends.   1) WoW64     Apparently, this is supposed to let you run 32 bits on 64 bit Windows. However, I am not sure how to install it. I think it's for web servers only. However,  says it can work on Windows 7, but doesn't explain how to set it up (or if it will work on Windows 10).  2) XP mode     A 32bit Windows XP emulator. However, it seems to be for Windows 7 only. Also according to this , you need Windows Professional.   3) Virtual Box Machine    Let's you emulate Windows. Seems overkill for my purposes. Plus I would need to buy a 32 bit Windows license. I think it would run slowly with 4GB of Ram.  4) Partition drive into 32bit and 64 bit versions Apparently, you can use the free tool  to split the drive into two and then install separate 32bit and 64 bit versions.   Again, seems overkill and it looks like I would need buy a 32 bit Windows 10 license.   Are these my only options?     Images  Installation    First run (From the error message I guess it's a 16-bit program)   Clicking on programme
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Occasionally Task Manager shows that "Store", "Settings", and/or "Calculator" are mysteriously running as background processes.   There's no corresponding foreground application, just the background processes. I haven't interactively run either during the current session. Neither is listed in the "Everything" tab of .    As discussed in  to , these two background processes cause a delay in executing Windows shortcut keys. But besides that, it's just plain weird.   Does anyone know why these foreground apps are mysteriously launching themselves as background processes?   And, ideally, how I can prevent it from happening? As discussed elsewhere ( and ), I could uninstall the Calculator and Store apps. But it seems like overkill to uninstall them just to defeat a shortcut key delay.
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I first installed Windows 8 Pro 64 bits OEM a few months ago. I did a clean install with the same disc and key yesterday, after installing new hardware. I remember having this very same issue with my first installation, but I am absolutely unable to remember or find what I had managed to do. I remember it wasn't one of the obvious solutions, though.  I am unable to activate Windows. In PC settings, I get "Windows cannot be activated right now. Please try again later. If the issue persists, contact your system administrator or technical support to get help." (Rough translation)  When I try to activate it through alternate methods, I get error code 0x8007007B, "The syntax of the file, directory or volume's name is incorrect." (Rough translation)  I have tried the following:   Normal method through PC settings Normal method through control panel slui 3 method (which tells me my key is correct when I type it, then an error when I try to do the activation) Running cmd as administrator and using slmgr commands
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When I search for any app in the Windows 10 search, it has the same wrong icon (this is just an example):    When having the app open or when looking at it in different places (start menu, taskbar, the app itself), the icon is fine (these are just examples of places I could look):     How can I resolve this? I did nothing quirky with the metro app system (like modifying/installing/uninstalling via PowerShell or by using external tools). This is in a fresh Windows 10 Pro setup that is one day old.  I already tried:   Rebuilding the Windows search index completely Rebooting Installing an app and uninstalling it again from the Windows store Giving "Everyone" full permissions to C:\Program Files\WindowsApps