Andrea, After speaking with Sony support this afternoon, my dad had a cyber shot and Viao computer (I now have but don't use), they suggested the links I provided to you. At a minimum it should allow access through device manager. As I suggested above you can get a USB card reader, sorry I didn't clarify for older cards as well. I appreciate the way you treat folks that try and help you. It is no wonder others now refuse to help you. I may be wrong but since you won't try what is suggested, as usual, we will never know. Good luck with your computer and roses. Goodbye

This MS August update disaster is causing issues with Win 7.1, too. I had to do some pretty fancy footwork to get Win Updates to work after deleting 2982791. I finally succeeded by accessing it through "Restore Hidden Updates"...allowing a hidden update to load. Then, MS in its infinite wisdom...automatically installed the replacement for 2982791. I later uninstalled 2970228 and went through the whole ugly procedure again...only this time I had to remove the hidden update that I'd previously installed. Don't ask! GRRRRRR MS finally installed 2993651 from the restore page and life has been back to normal ever since. I should add that no repair tool worked trying to get Win Updates to work/repair itself. The repair tool ran and reported the Update tool was repaired. It wasn't. And I went round and round with that issue for a while until I just finally worked every trick I could think of with the Restore Hidden Updates temporarily repairing the problem. Currently...peace reigns! It's going to be very interesting to see what September brings. Anne

That is the registry fix worked on 8 but according to posters who have this same problem, says it doesn't work on 8.1. I am going to play around with enlarging every thing and possibly using one of my FF apps to work on the other. I can use it the way it is, it's just one of those things that nags at me and keeps me looking for a fix. I had a problem with personalize/color (taskbar) and kept messing with it until I stumbled on a fix. My taskbar was snow white and didn't match my wallpaper, all the borders were snow white. the option shown below was missing.

As well, there are many temp files left from program installations, updates, and so on that are usually not removed automatically. And that is related to the OS, not any browser. CCleaner works well for that. If you're worried about what's going to happen, just use the "Analyze" button and check what's going to be removed before clicking on "Run". CCleaner also has a very good registry cleanup function under "Registry" - used it many times. This post was edited by kbarb on Fri, Jan 16, 15 at 16:06