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I am in dire need of some help. I have tried the Microsoft Answer Desk, both in chat and on the phone, and have had no luck. I recently purchased all the hardware to build myself a custom build computer, along with a Windows 7 Pro OEM disk. I am not new to building computers (although it has...

Microsoft seems to be using an information trickle down process to fill in many of the holes about how the Windows 10 upgrade will work. read more Continue reading...

So, my laptop has a problem where it crashed while setting up a new account after resetting the laptop, and it said I needed to restart my "install disk" well I didn't have an install disk so I was screwed. I searched around eBay for an affordable Windows 8 Copy but to no avail. So, does anyone...

Windows defender detected an attack and after it has been removed I am unable to access "my computer, my documents, folders I have created etc". I still have access to things such as icons on my desktop that are for games and programs but anything for file access and viewing that I get that I do...

Hi Here's the new version. After doing a clean install my C:\ drive is using 55 Gigabytes of the 100 available. I've eliminated Hiberfil.sys, removed Recovery Image, and moved the Pagefile to another drive. The thing that really puzzles me is how much space it used for System Volume...

Hi I've got my computer all up and running again with everything installed and for the most part working. It's running very well, but there is a down side. Cortana has stopped talking again. I can clearly see that she is sending the speech signal to my Sound Blaster Card, but unlike last time...

Hello WindowsForums i've been having some trouble installing Windows 8.1 on my ideapad z710 laptop, so here's what i did... 1. i downloaded a Windows 8.1 Enterprise ISO from "microsoft(com)/en-us/evalcenter/evaluate-windows-8-1-enterprise" 2. i burnned it to a dvd using the slowest possible...

I have a HP desktop that came with Vista Home Premium 32 bit and two identical hard drives configured in RAID 1. My access to the RAID drives was through Intel Storage Matrix Console. I recently did a clean install of Windows 7 Home Premium 32 bit. My question is what happened to my RAID 1...

On my new clean install, Cortana is actually speaking when it responds. I had the panel lock up when I first enabled the Respond to Hey Cortana setting, but after a reboot it seems to be working better. Many questions are met with "I can't do that until after an update". More use of the App...

I am trying to reimage my Windows 8 computer with Windows 7. I tried to boot from the DVD, and got some error like it wasn't able to recognize the DVD, or some such thing. I think, perhaps, the DVD is not configured for this. Maybe it's not bootable compatible, or whatever. When I double...

Hi Well I've been putting it off because I was going to clean install Windows 10 build 10041 on a different drive as a clean install, but Windows suddenly announced that it was rebooting to install "Windows". The only options were do it now or do it later so I said "Go" and after about 45...

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...

There is a method for taking the ESD download of build 10041 and converting it to an ISO image that can then be burned to DVD or placed on a USB drive to perform a clean installation of the latest Windows 10 Technical Preview build. read more Continue reading...

I have an HP Envy 15 laptop and every now and again (at least once per day) the screen will go completely black for maybe half a second then come back on again. This sometimes occurs more than once but it will happen at least once every day while I'm using the computer. In addition, on occasion...

So i recently just installed windows 8 into a new hard drive i got, as it started it up into the desktop screen it asked for my product key to activate windows. So i used the key i had and it didn't work then went it into a error "saying the software licensing service determined that this...

I have Power ISO installed, so if I mount the Windows 10 ISO as a virtual disc, can I just install it like that, rather then using a real disc? I know it will not work if I'm formatting and doing a clean install but I am just upgrading from Windows 7.

Hi all, My apologies if this is a repeated question; I am at my limit with computing today and have been scrolling through forums to find people with similar issues as I have. I had installed Windows 10 TP from Windows 8.1, and after realising what a mistake that was, I tried to revert back...

Hello When the free upgrade is available, for people who are not techy like me, could you correct some misconceptions I have. I think I will click on the installation file to begin, I don't know if I will need a product key, I hope to choose 'custom' for a clean install and not upgrade, I do not...

Hi I was still trying to decide whether to do a clean install this morning. I was checking to make sure that Guild Wars 2 was working after my recent redo of my second hard drive when the game suddenly closed and the message, "Windows need to restart several times to finish updating". I had...

Hi When the next update comes online I'd like to do a clean install, on my original C:\ drive in place of Windows 8 which won't boot anyway because the drive became Dynamic when I was messing around. I have everything on the drive backed up, I'd like to format it, partition it the way I want...