The primary cause of this problem is that a dialog box associated with Microsoft Word is open. It might not be visible upfront if many windows are open on your computer. Please try the following ...

Q: Here’s my problem. Whenever I open a Word document, I get this message: “The command cannot be performed because a dialog box is open. Click OK, then close open dialog boxes to continue.” I don’t ...

A few simple tweaks let you add the location of your choice to Open and Save dialog boxes in Vista and XP. Dennis O'Reilly began writing about workplace technology as an editor for Ziff-Davis' ...

Microsoft has reported that when right-clicking on apps such as 'Calculator' installed in Windows 10, a dialog box 'Choose how to open this file' is displayed instead of launching the app. Microsoft ...

There’s lots of old UI in Windows, but some of it was only supposed to be temporary. There’s lots of old UI in Windows, but some of it was only supposed to be temporary. is a senior editor and author ...

If you use host printing, the Print dialog box sends the window contents to your default host printer device (see Specifying Your Default Printer Device). You can define host printer devices to be ...

This post will show you how to automatically show Fewer details or More details in the File Transfer Dialog Box in Windows 11/10. The normal behavior of the file transfer dialog box is that when you ...

Microsoft has released a new Windows 11 Insider build 25276 to the Dev Channel today. This is the second Dev Channel Insider build released in 2023. The new release brings changes to the Task Manager, ...

I recently wrote a column on how to open a dialog box in an ASP.NET MVC application. In that column, I had the HTML for the dialog box dynamically generated at runtime from a Partial View and ...

A group of us have written 4 separate MFC applications using VC++ 6, and now I want to combine them into one executable via a 'Launcher' style dialog box. What is the easiest way to do this? Is there ...