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samgreen3
AskWoody LoungerMarch 25, 2025 at 11:37 am in reply to: Classic and Extended Control Panel — no need to say goodbye #2758143All you have to do is right-click and open to get the old school menu…
Hi samgreen3:
Right-click what to open what “old school” menu? Could you provide an image?
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Dell Inspiron 15 5584 * 64-bit Win 10 Pro v22H2 build 19045.5608 * Firefox v136.0.2 * Microsoft Defender v4.18.25010.11-1.1.25020.1007 * Malwarebytes Premium v5.2.8.173-128.0.5184 * Macrium Reflect Free v8.0.7783Anything. I’m assuming you’re using the small icons view as you should be. right click any thing there i.e. Devices and printers. power options.
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samgreen3
AskWoody LoungerMarch 24, 2025 at 10:19 am in reply to: Classic and Extended Control Panel — no need to say goodbye #2757897All you have to do is right-click and open to get the old school menu…
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samgreen3
AskWoody LoungerJanuary 30, 2025 at 11:52 am in reply to: Best way to backup Windows 11 files to an external hard drive #2744073You can use Windows backup and restore found in the control panel. I personally prefer to use Veeam Free for this and set it to run on a schedule. Both options allow for an image to be made or just selected files/folders.
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samgreen3
AskWoody LoungerI found a fix for this. It restored my functionality perfectly
- if you have multiple profiles this may affect all of them use at your own risk!
Please follow the steps :
1. Click Start > Run (or Cmd+R).
2. Run this command: reg add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Outlook\Setup /v DisableRoamingSignaturesTemporaryToggle /t REG_DWORD /d 1
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samgreen3
AskWoody LoungerThe cases mentioned directly in this thread are not subscription Microsoft 365, but Home and Business; so presumably can’t switch channels (and don’t get new features often)?
Correct. still no word from Google on this.
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samgreen3
AskWoody LoungerAfter much digging. this is a Google issue. They are aware of it.
https://www.googlecloudcommunity.com/gc/Workspace-Q-A/Signatures-not-working-in-GWSMO/m-p/543090
1 user thanked author for this post.
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samgreen3
AskWoody LoungerOddly none of that worked.. I even performed a “long: repair of Office, tried disabling roaming signatures via the registry. I guess next I’ll just create a new outlook profile and see if that does it. I also have at least one co-worker with this issue and another without it.
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samgreen3
AskWoody LoungerThis is what i suspect. They are a Google Workspace based outfit as are we. so no signing into MS needed for standalone versions of office..
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samgreen3
AskWoody LoungerThis is a much larger issue.. I even have it now on outlook2019 H&B
All of the 3 options for what signature to use where are greyed out. There is ongoing chatter about it in the Microsoft support forums, but no fix as of yet. uninstalling kb5022497(most recent) did nothing as well
*when you do the long repair, you are required to sign back in to the MS account associated with that install and they do not know this information so we will not be going that route :/
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samgreen3
AskWoody LoungerNone of that worked. But thank you!
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samgreen3
AskWoody LoungerJune 24, 2020 at 12:40 pm in reply to: Debilitating “Outlook needs to close” bug linked to a likely bad Windows cumulative update #2275025Ran into this exact problem last week. even removing the kb and nuking the account in outlook the proper way failed to correct it. what happened in my users case was this corrupted the user profile in windows which MS confirmed on a support call. creating a New profile fixed it. Windows 10 2004. Office 2016 Home and Business stand alone not the o365 version but Microsoft is hosting their mail.
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