Windows 10: HP installed Sweetlabs taskbar add-on start menu hanging

Never mind this. It was nothing to do with Adobe.

:)

 

Unable to add searchable commands to start menu

To add Emacs to your Taskbar, try this:

• Drag the tile from the Start menu onto your Desktop
• This will create a shortcut on your Desktop
• Right click the shortcut on your desktop and choose 'Pin to Taskbar', then delete the shortcut from your desktop

The problem is that you did not install this software, you said you unzipped it into Program Files, is there not an installer for that software which will add the correct entries to the Windows Registry, so it appears on your Start Menu like all other software?

 

Problems after downloading windows 10 on laptop with previous version of windows 7

Start menu not working. Taskbar not working. Desktop refreshes/restarts every 2 minutes. Laptop hangs. Any folder which is opened, automatically get closed.

Please HELP

 

Do you really think Adobe cares that some lone person on a message board threatens their reputation? They have millions of users across hundreds of products. One person waving their hands is noise to them.

To be honest, the fact that you think your own posts carry so much weight as to put Adobe's reputation in a "crisis low" state seems kind of silly to me. Do you really believe that?

Look, the fact is, lots of programs have bugs, and a company like adobe is not going to jump to your demands to fix what may or may not be a bug, just because you threaten to discredit them.

I also suggest you lookup the definition of malware. Malware would mean that the application is doing something nefarious, such as stealing your passwords, or bank account details, or being used to spread spam. A program that uses too many resources due to a bug is not "malware".

 

Nothing to see here, move along.

 

Notice the poster is on Windows 8.1 and has only just joined.
Having had no trouble on any of my systems from Adobe Reader then can only say it must be something to do either with his computer or his Windows 8.1 OS
As well put if it is only the OP having that trouble then Adobe wont do nothing

 

Must be. I've withdrawn my complaint on Adobe's forum in the following terms.

So Windows 10. The Start menu works, does it?

Also what about restore points for recovery from operating system errors?

Windows 8.1 doesn't seem to offer me the restore to previous working state option I remember the early version of Windows XP had.

If I remember Microsoft stopped the restore point function at some XP update for some unknown reason, which I thought was a shame.

Are there restore points in Windows 10? Is it easy to fix operating system problems in Windows 10 or do you have to do a "Refresh your PC" (what a understatement that is!) and lose all your installed applications?

I loved the early versions of WIndows XP and it looks like some bad managers took over Microsoft and made things much worse.

Is Windows 10 anywhere near as good as the early versions of Windows XP or is it still a case of every "upgrade" is worse than the last?

 

I suggest you start a new thread.

 

Well it looks like it is not even a Windows 8.1 problem but an issue with a taskbar add-on start menu developed by SweetLabs for HP, the PC manufacturer.

This posted with Sweetlabs

I've embarrassed myself so much by lashing out at Adobe then Microsoft, unfairly it looks like, I am reluctant to start a new thread here and embarrass myself even more. *Redface

The buck here stops with my PC supplier - HP - for supplying me with taskbar add-on start menu from Sweetlabs which has developed a fault.

I understand that Windows 10 has brought back the desktop start button which was removed from Windows 8 and PC manufacturers felt the need to reinstate.

 

Yes they have before you upgrade to Windows 10 from Windows 8.1 make sure your BIOS is up to date.
Then your drivers.
Then Backup with Macrium Reflect
Read this
Get Windows 10 app - Check Compatibility Report for Windows 10 - Windows 10 Forums

 

...............I understand that Windows 10 has brought back the desktop start button which was removed from Windows 8 and PC manufacturers felt the need to reinstate. ........................

Yes. MS has brought back the Start button. Not the same as in Windows 7.
You will have to get used to it.

It is correct to ask you to start a new thread.
You just go ahead and ask questions about Win 10 in a new thread and there is no call of embarrassment.
You ask because you don't know. There is nothing wrong with that.