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Hey all - Hoping someone can help me with the following: I had 8.1 installed when my hard drive crashed. I installed a new hard drive. My Dell all-in-1 XPS has a Windows Pro sticker but no activation code. I wasn't sure if I had 32 or 64 bit but installed 64. I was never asked for an activation...

Installed W10 via USB. Formatted SSD, VERY clean install. Fine and dandy for a few months... and then for the last 2 months increasing BSODs and general oddities and annoyances. File attached as instructed. BSOD message is ALWAYS "Memory". Thanks for any help. I'd rather now buy brand new...

I have a copy of Windows 7 Pro that i want to upgrade to Windows 10 but before upgrading i was thinking about slipstreaming updates into Windows 7 using Win toolkit. Then installing Windows 7 Pro with included updates and upgrading to Windows 10 from there. The reason i say this is because i...

I'm in the windows Insider program and have been running Windows 10 in a virtual machine. The last upgrade to 10565 has problems. Start and Search don't work. I did not upgrade from Windows 7 or 8. Can I just create a new VM and do a fresh install? If so what about the key do I skip that at the...

Microsoft has released their first major update to Windows 10 along with tools to make it easy to upgrade or clean install the OS on your current devices. read more Continue reading...

I have a laptop that was using the Windows 10 preview that I never had time to update to the Windows 10 full version. Now when I try to start it up, it reads "Your PC/Device needs to be repaired. A component of the operating system has expired file/windows/system/32/winload.exe error...

This may work for you. What I did was do a clean install of Windows 10, and not an upgrade from Windows 8.1. I have not had a freeze in several days, (keeping eyes,fingers, and toes crossed) :)

Hi All, I have purchased a new laptop with Windows 10 already factory installed by manufacturer. It came with HDD drive which I would like to replace with SSD to run apps faster. I came to several sites where they explain how to do that with several steps. I am thinking of creating a bootable...

Hi all, First post in this forum. Long story short.... My easy upgrade from Win 7 to Win 10 was not so easy. Had to do a clean install of Win 10 after system upgrade kept hanging at logon screen. Have now recovered everything except for Internet Explorer bookmarks. I do have old system image...

Hi and I hope this brings to light some of the installation woes Ive seen from many users. The only tried and tested way I found to do the upgrade...IS TO DO A CLEAN INSTALL and to use the windows 10 ISO tool. This requires also doing a clean install of the operating system you are...

I am not great with computers, but I'm going to do my best to describe my issue and see if there might be a way to fix it. I did the automatic windows 10 upgrade a few weeks ago. Yesterday I installed a new CPU on my system nothing else changed. After the CPU install things went...

Hi everyone, I plan upgrade from Windows 7 to Windows 10. But, there is one small problem. Nearly three years ago I noticed my computer does not launch Windows. It showed an error with "Your computer was unable to start". Okay, after few minutes of startup repair my computer finally made it into...

I have been trying to upgrade my win8.1 since yesterday. I left it running overnight and it now shows 14% copying files 48%. It seems ridiculous to take so long to copy the files. I am copying the files to an Intel NUC5i7 with 480GB of SSD storage and 1666 ram 8 GB. I have tried every...

On both of my Windows 8.1 systems, the MSN Weather app has decided it does not want to open correctly. The live tile works and the App appears to open, but the circling dots never stop. Possibly it is trying to get info from some source and is unable to do so. I have uninstalled and...

Hi, How do I "Perform a Clean Install of Windows 10 Pro With a Windows 8 Pro Key"? Thanks in advance. Ed

I used the display driver uninstaller, and installed the latest AMD drivers. I also tested RAM, which passed. Things seemed to go well, but then BSOD returned with a vengeance. Sadly, I had to revert back to Windows 8.1. It was simply too disruptive and time consuming to have to deal with. Maybe...

Hi, I am considering to clean install windows 10 oem activated. But I was wondering if my hardware will be compatible or not, because I have heard that an oem os is locked to the computer's hardware. Now considering that I successfully installed oem on my machine, will I be able to upgrade or...

Windows 10 preview will not update due to old version of preview. I had to do a clean install of my preview once I did windows updates quit working I found I had installed an older version that had no updates installed so I installed the upgrade you would use for windows 7 or 8.1 and it worked I...

Hi all, I am currently running windows 10. I did an upgrade and clean install from windows 8.1. Now I want to reinstall windows 10, but when I'm entering the windows 10 or 8.1 key I receive an invalid key. What can I do in order to get a valid windows key to work with the new windows 10...

Hey guys, I'm having a weird issue here that I have no idea how to fix. Every time I go to turn on my pc the next day, it won't boot unless I switch it off first - but that's not the whole story. I once tried switching off the psu before turning it on (again, a day later) and it still wouldn't...