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PC : Acer aspire M5700, Windows Vista, I installed Windows 7 Pro. in 2009. CD: Bought Windows 7 Pro. DVD install disc in 2010 & install Win 7 on M5700. Use: Not much, 4 to 5 hrs a day, editing photographs, 2010~2015. Then a standby PC storing backup files. A moth ago, started having start up...

Recently, my windows 10 computer suddenly stopped functioning properly i.e. no applications would load and I wasn't able to open any files. I decided that I'll need to perform a factory reset on my computer. I rebooted the computer in safe mode so that I could back up all the files (I'm only...

Hello: Kinda related to a previous thread, but not the same question so..... Awhile back, I backed up my iPhone 5S to a computer. I have sensitive data on in (on the strong end, my clients personal financial data/SSN/cc numbers). I need/want to securely remove all of my phones backup data from...

Hi, I have Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit. I have used Windows Backup to back up my files to an external hard drive and create a system image. When I click on the backup folder on the external drive and then dig down to a particular file which I try to open, I get a message to say I have been...

My boss purchased a new desktop last year and transferred files from a backup drive to the new system. The new desktop has a folder where all of the backed up files are located. When transferring some files from the backup folder to the desktop, a message will pop up that says "sync all format...

[SOLVED] My Windows 8 Upgrade Odyssey Greetings. I am journaling my Windows 8 upgrade experience here in hopes that others can learn from the experience. If I am able to resolve the problem here in these forums, I would consider that a plus. But most of all, I am hoping to create some...

Trying to keep this concise... Win 7, 64-bit, SP1 Running weekly backups through the Task Scheduler; periodic checks always show task completed successfully; discovered that "completed successfully" doesn't necessarily mean "completed correctly"; checked in Control Panel >> Backup/Restore and...

I just finished setting up a new PC for another one of our internal IT guys with Windows 7. As he was going through installing all of his programs and getting his email setup this error appeared. It seemed to coincide with him loading a .PST file for his Outlook 2007. He has several .PST...

Hello, The size of my D drive is 397gb, it is currently showing that I have only 14gb free. There is about 20gb of stuff on my D drive which I can see, not including the roughly 46gb backup file. So, I can only account for 66gb of the 397gb. What should I do? I've ran ccleaner...

How do I control how much disk space my Windows Backup takes up? I have a 1TB external disk for backups and other files. My computer's HDD only has about 250GB capacity. I don't know why my backups file got so bloated. What should I do? I see that I can delete the older backup file: 22-Oct...

Having a problem with an .ini file. I installed the game baldur's gate 2 and messed up adding some mods to the game. So I did a full uninstall.. reinstalled and got all the mods working. I went to the baldur.ini file to add in the Debug Mode for cheats. But it doesn't take. In fact doing...

Yesterday my PC was running very slowly so I rebooted, only my PC has never fully rebooted since then. Every time that I attempt to use Win 7 it crashes after I reach the desktop. I can run in Safe mode with command prompt, and I have backed up all of my files this way on an external hdd. I...

Hello, fine Windows 7 sages. Been a while since I was here, and I hope you're all doing well. My issue comes from negligence on my part. I tried to use the Remove Blur tool, to make things behind the transparent windows appear clear, and I have the retail version of Windows. I used it on the...

I have just upgraded from Vista to 7. That went well. Before I performed the upgrade I carried out a backup to a second HDD for the first time. I have just gone to search the back up and have dicscovered it is in 149 seperate files and one global catalogue. Apart from going through every file...

I have tried taking out all unneccessary things from the comp, leaving 1 stick of RAM in and just the keyboard and mouse.. It always gets stuck at 61% on transferring files. The setupact.log says 2009-11-12 22:17:27, Info SYSPRP Status: Total = 232, Complete = 142...

Hey Guys I recently just bought an SSD and installed a fresh copy of Win 7. Upon completion everything worked fine until a recent restart the boot mgr couldn't be found. I did a startup repair and everything worked fine EXCEPT my secondary drive which had the old version of windows 7 on...

Hi guys -- when something's not broken why fix it as the Engineers say -- I haven't yet been able to get the Library management / search facility to work properly. It might be OK if you just want to look for documents / pictures etc but I'm always "Hot swapping" discs (often quite large one's -...

Hi I was having a Lenovo X61 laptop installed with Windows Vista Business. I did a backup using Control Panel > Backup Centre to a USB hard disk. After the Backup I saw it was backed up as *.wbcat (Global Catalog) files and numerous zip files. Now I am trying to restore it to a new X61...

So i am trying to help a good friend of mine. It seems her new dell insprion 1720 is having a bit of a problem. When you start up the laptop it goes to the bios like usual but then it pops up and displays a missing file error. It appears that windows is missing the msimg32.dll file. i've had...