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  1. Windows Vista clone hard drive with windows vista

    I have a 9year old acer aspire 5515 that I would like to install a new hard drive in. My idea was to clone the current hard drive and install the clone to the new hard drive with either a CD rom or external drive I've never done this before and had a question. Could I save the cloned drive...
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    New Laptop, Connecting Old Hard Drive, Error Message "Driver Door My Be Open"

    Hello, I just got a Lenovo G50 Touch today after my five year old Acer Aspire 5742 was dropped. After it was dropped and worked for a few hours I shut the old girl down. The next day when I went to use the Aspire I received a boot up error message "Disc Cannot be Read." After talking to Geek...
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    Windows 7 Acer 5560 USB 2.0 ports intermittently changes to 1.0

    My Acer 5560 laptop has developed a USB speed problem. When I boot up, my external USB 3.0 HD is connected to a standard enhanced host controller (usb 2.0 driver) and initially works fine. Then for some strange reason the port changes to a standard OpenHCD controller (usb 1.0 driver) and I get...
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    Windows 10 WIN 10 Classic Solitaire

    I bought a new ACER computer w/win 10 and downloaded the old Ver 7 Classic Solitaire game to replace the *&ap games that came pre-loaded. This all occurred early last fall. Since then, I've played a couple 1000 games. Over time, I've come to realize the games repeated. This was a shock, since I...
  5. Windows 10 Obtrusive Volume Control Popup Windows 10

    A volume control pop-up box keeps appearing top left of my Acer laptop screen where it overlays everything. Nothing I have tried will disable it. Worse still it then sticks the speaker volume slider on 100%. I have uninstalled any likely associated bloat apps. It disappears if I restart, but...
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    Windows 7 Acer VGA driver aspire 9410

    Hi every one Please need acer 9410 vga drivers for windows 7
  7. Windows 10 Can Euro Truck Sim 2 Run well on my laptop?

    I have a Acer Aspire One Cloudbook 11, its got windows 10 and 2gb of ram, I was wondering if games like ETS2 on steam could run well?
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    Windows 8 Formatting Win8 PC and Reinstalling

    Hi everyone, I am happy to join the forums :) I would like to format my ACER desktop, which has a WIN8 on it. Afterwards, I'd have to reinstall the WIN8, and I assume that I'd need the License Key to reinstall it, right? I have 2 questions please, 1. Could I use the same license key? 2. is...
  9. Acer Unveils New Line of Windows 10-optimized Laptops and All-in-ones

    Acer held a Windows 10 event in Taipei today at the Grand Hyatt to show just how well its new line of notebooks and all-in-one PCs take advantage of great Windows 10 features like Cortana, Continuum, Microsoft Edge, and the Xbox app. At the event, Acer announced two new devices that bring...
  10. Windows 10 How poor screen resolution of 1366*768 actually is?

    I have a windows 10 laptop, which actually came with linux but I installed Windows 10 pro 64-bit on it. The resolution looked fine to me while on linux and even windows 8, but as soon as a upgraded to windows 10, I can practically see all the pixels around the rounds. Text isn't clear at all...
  11. Acer Unveils New PCs and Phones Featuring Style and Performance

    Today, Acer unveiled a new lineup of powerful PCs that feature the best of Windows 10. The Predator 15 and 17, Acer’s most powerful gaming Notebooks, a refresh to their Aspire V Nitro Series Notebooks and a stylish Aspire V 13 Notebook, the new Aspire R 13 Convertible Notebook and two new...
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    Windows 10 Graphic card problem.....

    Hello! I'm stuck with my Acer Aspire 5553G, laptop has that thing with 2 graphic cards(one lower with the CPU and extended). For some reason neither one of the drivers won't work. I tried even the automatic detection which finds my extended card and drivers for it but when I install it doesn't...
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    Windows 8 Acer Aspire Z1-601 Failure to configure windows updates

    Hi, I am having the same problem with a couple of Acer Z1-601. Have any of these things worked for anyone. I am losing the will to live with each cycle of updates and failures taking hours to complete! It would be good to know if anyone has had success. Also, is it likely that the windows 10...
  14. Windows 8 Acer Aspire Failure to configure updates

    Hello! My Acer Aspire Z1-901 cannot update to latest 8.1 update without doing this: Edit: Been doing that screen for hours now
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    Windows 8 RealPlayer (RealTimes) issues

    Can anybody help me? I am running Windows 8.1 on an Acer Aspire E15. I downloaded RealPlayer (now called RealTimes) from the Real website so that I can use their RealDownloader to download videos from various websites, including TouTube. It's supposed to work on all browsers - I use Firefox...
  16. New Acer Aspire Z Series All-in-One PCs Bring Digital Conversations to Life

    Today, Acer announced its 2015 refresh of the Aspire Z Series all-in-one PCs, with the 23.8-inch Aspire Z3-710 with capacitive 10-point multi-touch, and the 19.5-inch ZC-700, both sporting a Full HD (1920×1080) LED backlit display. Both models ship with Windows 8.1 and are supported by Acer for...
  17. Acer unveils new PC lineup offering solid performance and stylish designs

    Today, Acer announced a new lineup of PCs offering solid performance and stylish designs great for families, students and professionals on the go. Aspire V 15, Aspire E Series, and all-new Aspire ES Series notebooks, this is the notebook computer lineup for the 2015 back to school season that...
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    Windows 8 Uninstalled Windows 8 and it's now lost

    When I got my laptop (Acer Aspire E1-510) it came with Windows 8. I had some really bad lag with this computer so it was recommended I go to Windows 7 which I did. Now, I want to try and re-install Windows 8, however, I do not have a product key... Is there any way to recover it?
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    Windows 8 Alt-E brings up 1" square magnifier -- how can I reset it?

    Suddenly I can't use Alt-E combinations in any program (e.g. excel where I use it constantly in many common combinations like Alt-e-f, alt-e-s). Even as I post this, if I hit alt-e I get full-screen crosshairs that can be moved with my mouse, and just below and to the right of the crosshair...
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    Windows 7 Win-7 wireless on Aspire E-15

    I have an Acer Aspire which came with Windows 8. I have re-formatted the drive and installed Windows 7 Pro but am having problem getting wireless networking to work. When I try going through Control Panel, network setup, it indicates no network adapter is available. According to the Acer...