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Hello all, Came across this yesterday. Video on how to remove Windows.old after upgrading to Windows 8; Hope you find this useful Don

Hello everyone! I just ran Ccleaner and ran the registry cleaner and well as cleaned all the temp files and such. Now I find that I cannot access my email in Firefox or IE. Cookies are enabled in Firefox. Does anyone have any tricks I can try? :confused:

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Hi guys, I thought I'd give the W8 consumer preview a go, not being that tech savvy (I'm not computer illiterate though) I think I've messed it up a bit. Now I want the space back, but CAN'T find the VHD partition in DISK MANAGEMENT on W7, but I CAN on W8. I've added print screens from both...

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Hi I have optimized and cleaned,defragged my windows 7 home premium with Yamisofts windows 7 manager 4.1.6,and this time i have followed the instructions given by the program,just to see if anyone without knowlegde about computers,can optimize their system without having a clue of what they are...

Hi, Everytime several programmes I use (Word, Excel, Solidworks etc.) opens a file, it creates a temporary backup file (starting with a tilde ~) in the same directory as the original. This makes my folders look very messy and makes it diffiuclt to find others files in the same folder. Is there...

Hi In Audit mode, before running the sysprep /generalize /oobe /reboot command, I have to run the Disk Cleanup utility of Windows 7 SP1 to delete any unnecessary files or this is not necessary? In other words, the removal of unnecessary files made ​​with the generalize option of Sysprep is the...

VERY IMPORTANT: This guide is still under construction! It is subject to change at any time. Don't see something you want? Comment/reply and I'll add it. Use the information in this guide AT YOUR OWN RISK! This guide is organized by "issues" or problems. Seek help in the section you need help...

Why is CCleaner trying to delete some of my important programs? Like Google earth, Skype, MS Anti malware which is program for the safty of my computer, and a dozen more important programs.

I've had trouble with BSODS and screen freezes on and of for a couple of weeks. Sometimes there is no dumpfile and sometimes there is nothing in event viewer. I uninstalled Avast free and the problem was gone for 4 days. I've tried almost everything. Cleaning out dust updating drivers sfc...

Using the tool WinDirStat, I have been able to trim my hard drive down to 47 gigs (according to the program). However, under my computer, it says that the drive still has 179 gigs of data. What is causing the huge discrepancy? I just ran a chkdsk, and nothing spectacular happened. I am trying...

A couple of days ago I did something really stupid: I tried to download a game for free by following a tutorial which required me to install a Babylon toolbar from an ad. It didn't work, so I uninstalled all the babylon stuff and scanned my computer with Avira and Ad-aware, they came up with...

Okay, my computer is very clogged at the moment and I would like to do a complete restore, but I have some files that I need to keep. Is there a way I can do a complete restore but keep some of the files (no external hard drive).

Alright so I just did a clean install of Windows 7 and want to keep my Link Removed (I am very obsessive about keeping my laptop as clean as possible). As seen in the title I use programs such as CCleaner, Remove Empty Directories (it is a program), and Glary Utilities to achieve this...I also...

Ok, before telling anything, I am going to tell my computer specs . Please tell me if i need to attach some files. Windows 7 Ultimate Service Pack 1 Intel Core 2nd Generation i5 2400 processor 8 GB ram (But I have 32 bit system, so only 3,49 GB usable) Nvidia GeForce 550 ti graphics card So the...

Once again I have setup here an 64bit Win7 pro system. Many of the files from the D: partition were taken from the previous Win7 system resp. copied from another Win7 (WinXP) computer. When I look at some of the security tabs of some of the files and folders then various user entries exist...

I recently have begun having constant BSODs when playing any games on my system. They just started this weekend, besides an occasional crash here and there in the past. Now, I can't go more than 20-30 minutes of playing any game without it crashing. All of the dmp files seem to point to...

Hi all, I used Glary Utilities empty folders finder and found a whole bunch of empty folders, I was wondering can I just delete all of them or should I just leave them where they are? Thanks, Frank

WAS CLEANING OUT AN OLD SECONDARY HDD-DELETED A LOT----WHEN I DELETED THOSE ITEMS IN THE RECYCLE BIN IT WOULD STICK ON ONE ITEM---COURF_1.FON, A FONT FILE--IF I RUN CCLEANER IT STICKS ON THIS FILE AND WON'T CONTINUE ON TO REMOVE THE OTHER ITEMS- HAVE TRIED TO DELETE, RESTORE IT ETC.:mad: BUT TO...