Recent content by nigelwright7557

I had to reinstall Windows 10 on my 5GHz Coffee lake desktop pc. It seemed to reinstall ok. When the first update came along I was asked to restart my PC. It restarted then came up with the Windows install screens saying"Hi" and then "Wait while Windows installs updates" However for some reason...

The PC is one I built myself from components from various sources (Skylake). I had another problem with the pc that wouldn't go away even with a Windows refresh. So I did a clean install and now the pc works great. I can only guess it was a corrupted Windows 10 problem.

I have IE11 go to home page of www.google.co.uk in options on start up.

I have reinstalled Windows 10 about 10 times since it came out due to things crashing beyond repair. Even "refreshing" the drive didn't work, it needed a full clean install after formatting hard drive.

1/ Definitely doesn't work at www.diyaudio.com 2/ If you click on ie11 link and then start typing everything you type is ignored until www.google.co.uk comes up. It was fine before. 1+2 works ok in Microsoft edge.

I don't understand peoples opposition to Windows 10. I sell software and I still have to support Windows XP !

Buy a good anti virus program. I find Norton quite good. It does fall down when I create my own new programs and try to install them on another machine. I get a false positive and have to white list the program with Norton first. Its a pain because it takes about 2-3 days to go through the...

Microsoft keeps a record of your motherboard ID and uses that when you reinstall windows to allow you to register it. If you change your motherboard then you have to buy a new copy of Windows.

Just recently IE11 has changed a bit. 1/ Going back to previous page takes you to the top of the page and not where you branched from. 2/ When starting IE11 it now flushes the keyboard buffer before google.co.uk opens meaning anything typed in as it opens is lost.