boot options

Hi everyone, The other day while I was using my pc the windows explorer program suddenly stopped working. I rebooted my computer, and received the black screen of death upon log in (only the cursor works). I am able to open task manager, but attempting to open any other window through task...

Hello, i have hp/compaq dc7800 pc and win7 ultimate 32bit. I try to go to advandced boot options (hitting f8 at startup), but i only get keyboard error. (42 301 keyboard error) In windows it works ok. I have tested this pc with 4 keyboards and results are all same. Other win7 computer boots ok...

The Nvidia video driver on my daughter's computer is continually getting corrupted in W8.1. Have re-installed it twice, but each time it only lasted a week. Now there is no screen at all. The supposed failover that Microsoft has developed to access UEFI [now that key strokes at boot are...

Hi The safe mode is one of the best trouble shooters Windows has. Here's the way to get this windows feature back on W10. I have to have my safe mode! Hope this helps someone. Please move if needed. This will work when you can't boot into windows and get to safe mode. Give it a look. You might...

Hey guys! As the title says I cant access the advanced boot options in Windows 10. After Windows failed booting I tried the option to recover a previous version of Windows. After that failed it has gone into an infinite loop of reboots, trying to recover a previous version. The problem is that...

Hey guys, I have the EVGA Z68 FTW motherboard, that has multiple bios profiles, I'm using first profile with bios version R22, it works great and boots. Ony my second bios profile I'm using bios version A05, I downgraded my second bios profile to A05 because that apparently is better for...

I'm having a huge problem with my laptop. Yesterday while playing a video file, Windows Media Player became unresponsive for a good 10-15 minutes. When it came to and I was able to click the close program option. It closed and everything seemed fine. I then decided to restart the system but it...

Hi I really wish that Microsoft would make an easy way to get into safe mode on a computer that won't boot. I've had to deal with several issues that I believe I could have fixed easily if I could just have selected "Boot into Safe Mode" or "Boot to last good Configuration". The truth is...

Hi Today one of my friends called and we were trying to fix his computer throwing a critical error every time he boots up. Microsoft's solution it to boot into Safe Mode and then reboot back into normal mode again. So I told him over the phone how to boot into safe mode using msconfig...

I currently have Windoes 8.1 installed. I want to add Windows XP and be able to choose between the two at boot up. How should I go about installing Windows XP?

My computer is a Lenovo Y50-70 and if I press the power button to start up I get a black screen with a blinking underline character in the upper left hand corner, I don't seem to be able to type or do anything from this screen. If I start up using the Lenovo one key recovery key I can open up a...

I'm getting the message "Windows cannot verify the digital signature for the drivers required for this device. A recent hardware or software change might have installed a file that is signed incorrectly or damaged, or that might be malicious software from an unknown source. (Code 52)" for a...

Hi I've got my Windows TP 10041 install disk made. I've tested it and it boots and starts the install process. I want to install to a new partition with out removing my current install from the drive it's on. It's on a different physical hard drive. Any suggestions, I don't want to get into a...

I installed the operating system with the reinstalling disk which made it the primary basic OS.Looking in Computer when open, it showed 2 Hard Disk Drives, OS(C:) and Recovery (D:). When I start the computer the Recovery OS is used when started. Looking at OS(C), it shows my original OS. So it...

I know that when formatting the C drive from within the Windows command prompt, you get an error message, however would it format it successfully if you were to boot into the command prompt version of Windows XP and type the same command? Also, I know that typing "del c:\/f /s /q" can delete...

Maybe this will be of use to some. Worth adding here, perhaps. Users have read, or experienced, a faster boot time in Windows 10. In a way, this has been a bit of a cheat by Microsoft. What they have done is eliminated a window/facility during the boot process. This has, itself, caused the now...

hello sir, i have acer aspire v3-571g laptop with windows 8.1 x64 based OS. Processor is Intel Core i5. To get a faster booting, i selected 2 processor instead of 1 in advanced boot option (msconfig) by mistake and now my laptop become dead slow on booting and startup. I am in a big...

I have installed windwos 8.1 in my computer, I want install windows 7 inside of my win8.1 . but I don't like I'll be saw windows chosen page. and I like when I turn on computer windows 8.1 automatically load up and just when I'll need to use windows 7 just I press a key (Such as F7 or F10 or any...

I have an older tower running W8.1 update 1 and Wxp - each OS is on a separate hard drive, when I boot the computer I get the choice of booting to W8.1 or earlier OS. I am now ready to remove the XP drive and delete all the information, my question is: Is there a proper method to remove the...

how do I boot a recovery drive usb on start up in windows 8 .1 How do I boot a recovery drive usb on start up in windows 8 .1 like I can do in win 7 with a repair disk DVD? I followed the instructions and I cannot bring up the usb disk. Please help!! I have had problems with win 8.1 to the...