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I upgraded to Windows 10 on a brand-new laptop running Windows 8.1. This is a gaming laptop and, unfortunately, not all of the software/drivers that came with the laptop is compatible with Windows 10 right now. The laptop is an MSi GP60 2QF Leopard Pro. It has a 16GB recovery partition...

When I update to windows 10 I left for work and when i came back the installation was all done. when i booted up it was super slow compared to before, so i went and checked to see where the partition it was installed to was. it turns out instead of replacing windows 8.1 on the ssd it instead...

I need fat32 for C: to boot windows, how can i format the drive so i can use fat32 for C: instead of ntfs?

Hey guys after the update this is my second day of Windows 10 and it really take long to boot, any fix?

You can use Windows To Go, a feature in Windows 10 Enterprise (and previous versions), to provision a USB drive with a complete and managed Windows 10 system image. You can insert the USB drive (known as a Windows To Go workspace) into a managed or unmanaged Windows 10 host computer to boot and...

This has been bugging me for some time now so I finally decided to post. When I start my computer up it always stops at the login screen asking for a password and I do not have a password so all I do is click enter on my keyboard and it finishes booting me into Windows 7 so how can I get rid of...

Hi Well one of these days it looks like I'm going to have to bite the bullet and get ready to install the real Windows 10. I don't have any other OS on my system at this time, so as I understand it, I'll have to reinstall Windows 8 from my Windows 8 disk, (I have a real Microsoft windows 8...

Is there commandline utility to modify boot entries in EFI? I need to set BootNext flag to one of my loaders but i hate GUI programs since its slow and require lot of time and energy. Any suggestions? EDIT: Tool for windows (win32/win64 pe)

Hello, I'm wondering if anyone can help me. I'm trying to replace the HDD on my laptop (Samsung RV520 with Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 x64). So I made a system image on a portable HDD and a system repair disk. After replacing the HDD with the new one and trying to boot with the repair disk I am...

Good Day, I hope I am posting this in the correct location, I have come across a laptop with Windows 8 on, the user forgot the password, it is a local account with no admin account, how can one go about resetting the password? I have tried ntpassword, but it does not support Win8. Any...

Hi, i installed a custom cursor pack on my system that looks awesome. It worked perfectly, until some days ago. When i boot the computer the mouse is the aero default cursor. If i change the cursor pack to none and then back to the custom one it works, but it's anoying because i have to do this...

When I boot my PC, on occasion, it will freeze, requiring me to completely restart my computer. Because of that, I would like to rollback back to windows 8.1. However there is a problem. The windows rollback menu does not show up when i boot up my computer. Any ideas?

I need to be able to boot from my usb stick. It wasn't working so I was messing around with the UEFI boot order and I accidentally totally deleted the boot from usb option. What do I type to make a new filepath for it?

My laptop (every time I boot it up) gets stuck on the starting windows screen. It does boot into safe mode . I tried start up repair which can't fix the problem. Any suggestions ?

When I boot and login, I initially get connected to my home network. But then I see that the network connection is dropped. The only way out is rebooting and then surprisingly every things goes flawlessly, I see my 2 network drives Z: and Y: and I get connected to internet. Does it ring a bell...

Hi This morning when I booted my computer I got a message, "Your computer did not boot correctly, starting repair". It then went to a window that said "Repairing" after a minute or so it rebooted and started the whole thing over again. After messing with it for a while I decided to just...

Hi. I am having a problem with a brand new computer from day one. I ordered a new computer from a reputable manufacturer with an ASUS X99 motherboard, Samsung EVO 850 SSD hard drive, Geforce 980GTX and 16 MB of system memory. After the very first boot which was successful I am experiencing...

Hello everyone, I'm having a very strange problem (atleast it looks like one for me): when I bootup my computer, only the wallpaper shows. No taskbar, no icons. But the strangest part of this is that when I open up the Task Manager, I can clearly see that there's explorer.exe proccess. If I...

I am trying to demo Ubuntu, the latest Non Beta version as of 1/28/2015 on the Dell OptiPlex, but how can I do so? I thought I would have to change the boot sequence to have the USB on top, but that didn't seem to work at all.

I have a HP windows 8.1 laptop. Yesterday it was working fine, but today it's not. It starts up to the part where it requires your password fine, but after I type in my password, it loads for a moment then goes to a grey screen and won't work. I haven't done anything to it so it seems very...