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Hi folks, I'm having real trouble diagnosing a persistent blue screen problem. It started about a year ago after upgrading from windows 7 to windows 10. I initially did an upgrade install but have since performed numerous clean installs of win 10. It is a home built system. One of many I have...

I have a 600 GB hard drive and run Win 10 -clean install. I would like to use the Windows 7 the pc came with. Can I shrink the drive by 100GB and install Windows 7 on the new partition I would create without hurting Windows 10? I have never done this before so could use a few tips.

I picked up 9 trojans at once with Win 10 defender and stock firewall at youtube while trying to read about a clean install of Win 10. I have windows defender and firewall with mbam and a router. Is there a more secure solution for a mid level user like me or was I just unlucky when I took that...

When I try to install Windows 10 fall creator update, I get this error message: 2017-10-20 22:16:30, Error MOUPG CInstallUI::GetDefaultLanguage(1785): Result = 0x80070002[gle=0x00000002] I tried through update assistant, media creation tool and windows update and all failed. I...

Running 32-bit Windows 10 Pro with 4GB RAM, and planning to move to 64-bit Windows. Primarily so I can add some more RAM. Do I need just to install a 64-bit version over the current 32-bit installation (which has all the current updates, except the latest September 2017 Redstone 3 version) ...

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Hello, I just recently bought a custom computer, and just did a clean install of Windows 7 64-bit. Now I'm just looking for the correct drivers to install. Checking under the Device Manager, these are the Hardware Ids I found for the missing drivers: Ethernet Controller...

Hello there, I have an HP Pavilion DV6-6C35DX. I did a clean install of Windows 7 (64-bit), then tried downloaded the drivers from HP's site. All the drivers worked except for the WiFi driver. I tried upgrading to Windows 10 to see if it would auto update but WiFi still wasn't working. I was...

I'm about to buy a new Windows 10 (power user class) PC. I want to migrate all of my applications and files, however, I don't want to migrate my Windows 10 from my current PC to my new PC. Does any migration software migrate files and applications without over-writing the (newly installed)...

hello, To cut it short my pc got hacked yesterday and had malware and other stuff on it so i had to act quick tried to clean install win 10 through usb but didnt work out well for me so i used my win 7 cd to format driver and install it. my question is will my product key work on win 7 after i...

I tried to fix a C:\WINDOWS\System32\Logfiles\Srt\SrtTrail.txt PC Boot error. When that didn't work I tried clean install clean install win 10 from a USB Drive with the windows 10 ISO installed on it. That didn't work either. When I got to the part " Where do you want to install windows" None of...

After clean installing Windows 10 Home day before yesterday it showed 3 unknown devices in Device Manager. I ran the diagnostics thing at Dell Support and it fixed two of them. Now I don't know how to fix the remaining one. I'd like to just install the driver but I have no idea what it is...

Hi, Planning to reinstall Windows 10 and I have some questions regarding above Title. In my laptop, it has a MircoSsd built into the motherboard and I would like to know how to use it effectively? ( How is stuff place there? Is it done automatically? Or can I put stuff in there and how?). It...

Hello, I recently purchased a Samsung NP900X3A-B01UB notebook and buyer said that Product Keys or COA are attached so I can do a clean install. On the bottom of the device, there is a Windows 7 symbol, but in order for me to get an ISO for Windows 7, I would need the Product Key. There is no...

I've had my machine for quite some time and last month the BSOD started to happen. One damaged windows 10 that I couldn't connect to internet and I hadn't activated restore. Several DLLs So did a clean install but they persist. It happens when I'm playing a game, it can happen withing an hour...

Hello there, I just did a clean install of Windows 7 64-bit on my Asus U52f-bbg6 and still have some drivers missing from the Device Manager. Below are the Hardware Ids for the drivers. Network Controller Hardware Id: PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_0087&SUBSYS_13018086&REV_5F PCI Simple Communications...

Hi guys....here are my specs Gigabyte h110m ds2 I5 6600 MSI GTX 1060 WD Blue 1TB 8GB DDR4 HyperX fury 2133Mhz So here is the thing..i am facing bsods since past month after a clean install...there were many- memorymanagement,watchdogviolation,faultyhardware,nonpaged area and many more.... So...

I am currently trying to overwrite my old PC to hand it to my girlfriend with a clean slate. It's currently a win7 home premium. I changed boot priority to DVD over HDD, insert Win10 disc, start PC. When prompted to press any key the win10 logo comes up and after a few minutes I am told that a...

Hi there, I just upgraded my Lenovo G50-45 to Windows 10 Home from Windows 8.1 (64-bit). I previously did a clean install of 8.1 and manually installed the drivers from the Lenovo site, now finding that I lost many of the drivers after upgrading to Windows 10 (and they don't show up as yellow...

Hello there, I have a Lenovo G50-45 and I recently did a clean install of Windows 8.1 (32-bit). Had a lot of trouble tracking down all the drivers, since I discovered most driver compatibility was for the 64-bit of Windows 8.1. Now I am trying to do a new clean install of Windows 8.1 64-bit...