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  1. Shopping for back-to-school PCs? Check out these Windows 11 laptops

    Another school year is on the horizon – for some, it’s already started – but if you’re still looking for the right PC, Microsoft’s partners offer plenty of choices. These devices all include Link Removed, which makes every task easier, especially when it comes to helping prepare students for the...
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    Windows 11 Music on PC is distorted and scratchy

    Hi Everyone, I hope you can help me. I have Windows 11, Acer Aspire 5 PC. I love my music. But something has happened. When I play my music from internet Deezer, or YouTube, or Jango etc it is distorted. You could say "scratchy". I have tried every possible thing, with audio settings etc. Even...
  3. Windows 10 KB4598291 won't install

    Preview Quality Update KB4598291 ends with Error 0x800f081f, you may try it later.. I am using an Acer Aspire E5-575G-55N, Windows Home 64, version 10.0.19042 Any thoughts?
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    Windows Server 2016

    Hello All, I am trying to teach myself more about Windows Server 2016. I have a physical machine to use for the installation - Acer Aspire M3201 - AMD Phenom X4 9150 4GB Ram 1.5TB HDD 1.0TB HDD 1GB Nvidia Gigabyte GPU DVD Drive. However, this only has a 10/100 nic in it and the Windows...
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    Windows 7 Windows licence??

    Hello, I have restored an older laptop of mine, it originally came with Windows Vista (which I liked) I now have installed a new HDD and am contemplating my next best plan. I do have a Windows licence for Windows Vista on this machine, unfortuately I know of no way of getting Vista. I could...
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    Windows 10 Acer Aspire M3-581TG DVD drive not working since Windows 10 upgrade

    Hi there, I recently installed Windows 10 on my 3-4 years old Acer Aspire laptop, and after fixing the wifi and bluetooth drivers problems I've just found that my DVD drive no longer works! It shows up in My Computer, Device Manager etc and has power and makes whirrs, but it won't read any...
  7. Windows 7 How To Uninstall Botched Win7 Install on XP machine?

    I have an old XP machine. An Acer Aspire. I put Win7 Ultimate on it but it hasn't taken. Always gives me an error message and asks for the install disk again - which was a USB stick - but when i provide it nothing changes. So I need to get it off and start again. I have 3 physical disks...
  8. Windows 7 Internet Connection Issues

    Ok here we go, problem: My fiance' has an Acer Aspire 5810T (old but still usable) Well it hasn't seen much use since we moved IPSs from Verizon to Comcast. Recently installed Windows 7 to said Acer (because 8 bogged it down) Anyway the problem I am having is this: I can connect through our...
  9. question on Zorin os

    I was thinking of installing an os called zorin on my laptop. Another user on here recommended it . Its an acer aspire from 2009 it currently has windows vista. I'd love to give it a try but first would like to know if my vista drivers will work with it or what drivers if any I would need...
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    Windows 10 Changing Windows 10 user accounts

    I have a new Acer Aspire E5-574 laptop that cam with Windows 10 pre-installed. I now have a single admin user account using MS Live. I now wish to change this account to a local account but I find that this is impossible. I have found on the internet simple instructions as how this can be...
  11. 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...
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    Windows 10 Start Menu does not work after Windows 10 Upgrade

    I upgraded from Windows 7 Home Premium to windows 10 but i have noticed i can no longer use the start menu. Also if i right click on any file in a folder or on desktop everything freezes. When i access the task manager that also freezes with a not responding in brackets at the top. How can i get...
  13. Windows 10 Critical failure, startmenu and Cortane don't work

    Have you ever seen this? I do a clean install of 10162 from USB flash, on a Acer Aspire One (yes, a minimal system), remove all partitions and create a new one. Everything seems to go as expected, devices are installed, I select use Express settings, see the message “Even geduld” (One moment...
  14. Windows 8 Windows detected a hard disk problem

    Hello everyone, I was using my Acer Aspire laptop and suddenly I got a pop up message telling me that Windows detected a hard disk problem (and I keep having this message like every 20 min). The HDD was working just fine and still works good, but I just get that message. I also checked the...
  15. Windows 10 W10 on small / marginal systems

    Here some issues, of which I think, that they are all related to very small or marginal systems I am testing on an very small and underpowered system: Acer Aspire One, (Atom N270 @ 1.6 GHz, 1 GB ram, Intel 945 Express – WDDM1.0 Video, Hitachi HTS543216L9A300 ATA 150 GB disk, Realtek PCIe FE...
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    VIDEO Can anyone help me ASAP?(SOLVED)

    So until 2 days ago, my laptop was fine and everything was properly working. I had left it alone for like half an our then when i got back the mouse started tripping out, the wifi is fine and connected but pages in chrome either won't load or loads text only, and it gets super laggy. Oh and the...
  17. Windows 8 Click and drag fault.

    Hello everyone! ♥ I'm facing an incredibly frustrating problem with my laptop. First of all I would like to say that the laptop has been exchanged once for an identical one, and the same problem occurs on the new one. Also a full system recovery does not fix the problem. The problem is either...
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    Windows 8 recovery drive not seeming to be recognized

    My Acer Aspire A7600U-UR24 came with windows 8. I made a recovery drive by choosing "create recovery drive" in windows 8. After making the drive i installed windows 8.1 from DVD. Some time later I tried to restore it back to factory with my recovery usb. Every time I try I get "windows cannot...
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    Windows 8 BSOD when using Buffalo WLI-U2-KG54L Wireless Adaptor

    Everyone in the house has a laptop each (except for parents) but I wanted a computer in my attic bedroom. I have an Acer Aspire T180 and it runs XP (normally run Vista). My router is all the way in the dining room so I cannot use wired connection. I have this Buffalo WLI-U2-KG54L wireless...
  20. Windows 7 [IE 11 Crash] APPCRASH with Fault Module Name_KERNELBASE.dll

    Hi there, I have a old Acer Aspire 5515 that I just reinstall the Win 7 Ultimate x64 couple weeks ago. OS is brand new, hardly has anything install expect all the drive and anti-virus software. ============================= Problem signature: Problem Event Name: APPCRASH Application...