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Dear all, Thank you for reading this. Recently I've been getting a lot of BSOD's. To be more specific the "critical_process_died" one stuck at 0% so no dump file. I did my fair amount of searching on the internet and i tried just about everything and still can't seem to fix the problem. I have 2...

Since I did a clean re-install of Windows 10, on July first, I have not been able to re-install my Okidata Microline 590C printer, I keep getting the following message "Unable to install Oki ML 590C Elite, Type 3 - User Mode, x64 Driver." I have tried other Oki models with the same result. I...

I have bought a 500GB SSD to be the system disk on my old PC. The HDD that is now the C: drive will hold user files, not windows system files in future. I have read up on installing Windows on a new drive and I have one question: at what stage in the installation of Windows does the new SSD...

Need a little help. I Have a usb created via Rufus that I now want to use to do a fresh install on my Del Inspirion 3543. As far as I can understand I need to set the boot priority to that of USB. BUT for UEFI mode there is no usb option. Only Legacy has this option. So what now? How to I do...

I have a brand new clean install of Windows 10 Pro, I had recently installed Office 2019 from an ISO which was downloaded to the download folder, I installed from it's current location and all went well, activated product etc. Next time I went into "My PC" I saw my C drive (SSD), my D drive...

Before reinstalling windows, my laptop's monitor would turnoff whenever I set the brightness to 0. Now with a clean install of windows, 0 brightness is just very dim. I would like to know if there is a way to get this feature back, as it was very useful. Any help would be appreciated.

I have a Ceton Infinity 4 TV tuner card in my computer. I recently moved and had to get a new Cable Card but I was unable to pair it to the Ceton card due to not being able to get the Host ID of the Ceton card. Windows Media Center usually displays a page with this information but after 15 or so...

Hi I posted about having issues doing a clean install on my old computer, that I'm going to pass on to my nephew. Neemobeer and nmsuk gave me some help getting around the issue with running the install do to a formatting conflict. Once I got past that the install went smoothly and Windows...

I have been battling random BSODs for over 5 years. I built my PC in 2011. They occur only in certain games, and seems to have no correlation with graphical intensity (I can run loads of high end games with no issues). It's almost as if the games causing the issues are just poorly optimized (7...

I'm almost certain it has something to do with my hardware but I can't make heads or tails of the information in the dump files. I've recently reinstalled Windows, clean install, because of the BSOD's to no avail My computer is approx. 3 years old & I recently upgraded my graphics card. If any...

I need help, I have W10 installed Update 1709 and have not had any problems with updates until 1803 came out the update from Hell. It has downloaded 32 times and every time it failed. I contacted Microsoft Desk and they told me that I needed to do a clean install. I went and backed up...

I cannot reset my computer as the attempt always fails. I believe I am missing some system files. The restore application also fails. Windows 10 was upgraded from Windows 8 via download. So I do not have the registration key or whatever. So what solutions are available before taking it in for...

Recently my laptop can't connect to wifi nteworks, there aren't any network shown and i know there are since my phone connects properly. So i checked the adapter window and there isn't a wifi adapter, only an ethernet one. I check device manager and there's only a Realtek PCIE family...

Hi. It's my first time in here, i have a Windows XP and i want a tutorial how to restart it from the begging, how to delete everything and start fresh like i bought a new pc. Thanks.

I don't know if this is the right place to post this. 17133.1 is out and can be downloaded early for the US and Russia I believe. I downloaded it and did a clean install. So far no problems. Everything is running smooth for now. All my programs and printer work with it. I will put the link here...

Hi Upgraded to windows 10 Home 32bit and 64bit, by free download at the release stage. all OK for a long time then crash. Bought windows10 Home 32bit & 64bit (to meet my 2 disc system requirement) on USB Pen drive, found my old PC would not load from USB so used Product Key to download...

I have a Windows tablet with a Clover Trail processor that came with 8 Pro. Back in the days of the free upgrade I switched to Windows 10. Wanting to clean things up I did a reset to factory settings. Now trying to reinstall Windows 10 I get an error saying my processor isn't supported. Doing...

Hello, I decided to reinstall Windows because after almost 10 years using it I thought it was a good time to enjoy a fresh installation. But it went all wrong, as using internet is just impossible. I have the original windows 7 home sp1 disc and latest bootcamp drivers for my machine, which is...

Hi. Today i checked my event viewer and found some weird errors from 21.01.2018 : A spam of: WHEA Event ID 19 CPU-corrected hw error And only one : WHEA Event ID 47 memory-corrected hw error Here are screen with one of them: This day i remember i finished installing Windows 10. And system...

Hello. My cpu 8700K 16GD DDR GSKILL XMP ( 3000mhz ) 2 disks: SSD Crucial 525 GB MX300, HDD TOSHIBA 500GB 7200RP I downloaded from microsoft Windows 10 1709 and make bootable iso in Pendrive Kingston Data Traveler. During install i format SSD and HDD. I choose to install Windows 10 to SSD...