Where Is My Computer In Windows 8.1
Sep 15, 2014In W7 I had My Computer on my desktop and found it very useful. Now, with Windows 8.1 I can't find it. Where?
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There is no abnormal behaviour at all during this process. The computer does behaves identically to if it was supposed to Restart and Windows throws no errors, BSOD's or any trace of something going wrong and thus somehow causing the machine to reboot rather than shutdown. powercfg /lastwake gives no information at all and Event Viewer lists nothing under Critical or Errors that could be a cause.
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