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I did a file restore from a backup program (Retrospect), but I cannot seem to be able to do anything with the folder it created, even delete it. The folder icon is grayed out..? I do have permissions on it, and am the owner, and also have admin privileges. Opening a cmd prompt as admin, and...

Sometimes the Forgotten Password Wizard will not open from the link in Control Panel/User Accounts/Create a Password Reset Disk or through Windows Search. Sometimes it will open in the background and is visible using Win+Tab. But you cannot bring it to the desktop. If this happens, close it with...

Hi, Since today I have a very annoying problem. I keep getting my startupscreen saying 'Preparing automatic repair' loop' and after a few seconds switches to black screen and then back to 'Preparing automatic prepair'. This loop basicly goes on forever...what can I do??? My only options seem to...

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...

I have a ASUS Netbook (X200CA) that has received the free Win 10 upgrade a year or two ago. It recently went about it's business and installed one of the many Win 10 updates and has never been able to recover since that time (around 12/25/17 or shortly thereafter). It gets to the blue Win 10...

After a reset all is fine except I have lost sleep. I have followed all the Google advice but nothing. I went to power advanced and clicked 'features that are not visible''. I tried everything I could but still I only have restart and shut off. I found a cmd prompt that did not work which makes...

I have an HP Compaq dc5000 sff. I clean fresh installed windows 7 professional. Whenever I reboot or shut down and turn back on; just before the os boots, it stops and prompts, "FATAL ERROR: Failed To Locate Necessary Table(s) To Make Adjustments. Press Any Key To Continue Booting". After I...

So i have a pretty good understanding of computers, i like to change my password often just to be secure. When doing so i change it via CMD prompt, because for me this is just the fastest easiest way. Well today something went horribly wrong, i have no idea what happen. All i know is i can no...

bought new laptop few days ago and went to factory reset via the recovery partition, it stuffed up few times during instlallation and got few blue screens and was stuck on formatting so i formatted laptop to win xp to burn myself a win7 installer into disc so i did and tried installing via disc...

I'm currently running windows 7 home premium, 64 bit. A few days ago, I hopped into my cmd prompt to find that instead of the usual "Microsoft windows 7 [version 6.1 etc etc]" copyright notice, it just says "you lose". I'm guessing this is a prank one of my mates pulled, but I can't figure out...

As many of you are aware Windows 7 has it's own Disk Cleaner for cleaning stuff like temporary files. This little app can be found via the Start menu although a much better version can be found via 'cmd prompt'. (see screen shot). To set up the advanced cleaner right click on cmd prompt and...

in windows 7 i hav created a new user(others) . i am the administrator and hav to restrict access of some hard drives like c:,g: from the user(others)..!! how to do tat and i had to disable the control panel,cmd prompt,run also..! 1) i went to group policies and try to disable the hard...

So recently I stumbled across the feature to view my energy report via cmd prompt and the following input powercfg -energy -output "f:\Energy Report\energy-report.html" I'm trying to create an autorun program on my flash drive where the command automatically runs and saves a log onto my...

Basically I push the sleep button and the computer stays on but the keyboard lights turn off, so I suppose it's in hybrid sleep. I want my computer to go into Sleep mode and completely shut off. I don't see an option in the power options to disable hybrid sleep, and I even tried to disable it...

Ok, i've been reading A LOT of forums and calling a lot of people, and asking the Geek Squad guys at my job (I work at BestBuy), and so far I have NOT been able to fix this problem.. Computer: Mobo: Asus M2N32-SLI DELUXE Processor: AMD Athlon 64 FX-62 RAM: 4Gig HD: 320 Gig Partitioned (C...

Hey I had a dual boot of vista on another parition that i didnt need anymore so i eraced it but I cant seem to erace about 2 gigs worth of stuff in the windows folder including the folder and program files folder no matter what I try it wont give me permission to do it, ive tried some stuff it...