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    Windows 7 Excel 2010 does not print more than 1 page even if you ask it to

    I am not sure if this is the right place to post, if not please point me in the right direction. We have been having difficulties printing an excel document more than once. When I request anything other than 1 page (eg. 2 pages/15 pages) it gives me the below message and ALWAYS prints just 1...
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    Windows 10 Black screen with movable arrow on power up

    Hi new here hoping for some help, my daughters laptop which is a year old but has only been turned on about 10 times hardly used just sits under the bed in its box, well she pressed power button and nothing happened just a black screen and an arrow that you can move nothing else no welcome no...
  3. Windows 7 How can we recognize and prevent identity Theft?

    Hope this one is a very informative topic for a wide margin of people. I came to know and interested on this topic after a social engineering manipulation on my wife's banking account. Like everybody we also get many prank calls and mails. One day somebody called her and asked for the pin number...
  4. Windows 10 Unexpected Store Exception crash

    Hello, I have been having regular crashes as of late (every day once or twice usually). They were always freezes, my computer would become unresponsive and there would be no blue screen and no dump files generated, so it was very hard to debug. Today it actually produced a blue screen with...
  5. Windows 10 Sleep mode doesn't work

    The sleep mode on my computer doesn't work properly. I go to Start->Power->Sleep and the computer turns completely silent (like it should), but after a few minutes it begins making noise. Why? I have tried to turn off "hybrid sleep mode", but with no luck.
  6. Q. Why is my computer saying, "Your PC needs additional software to work properly?"

    Enjoy an abridged Q&A from Fred Langa's LANGALIST, a feature available exclusively to paid subscribers of the Windows Secrets newsletter. Today's Q&A: Why does my computer keep spitting up the error message ‘Your PC needs additional software to work properly?’ read more Continue reading...
  7. The first of many? Microsoft sued over Windows 10

    It seems someone was so pissed off at being forced to upgrade she took Microsoft to court and won! Microsoft pays 10,000 after automatic Windows 10 installation
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    Windows 10 Windows 10 Asking for Product Key

    So I was downloading a video editing software today, but it turned out to be a fairly nasty virus. My computer blue screened numerous times as a result. And now, whenever I log in, Windows is asking me for the product key I was given when I purchased windows - but Windows was pre installed on my...
  9. Windows 7 Is CTRL-Fn an Rx for everything?

    My adult daughter is running Windows 7 SP1. She swears that whenever the computer misbehaves or otherwise does something she doesn't like, she presses CTRL-Fn and the problem goes away. I know, I know, these are both modifier keys and require another standard key to accomplish something, but...
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    Windows 10 Account lost after someone associated their Microsoft account to this computer.

    So i have been using windows 8.1 and only had one local account in this computer. I come back to find that someone has associated their cloud account to this computer and now my account is missing and now i have their accounts instead and windows 10. My question is, can i somehow retrieve my...
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    Windows 7 Having Trouble With Internet.

    Hi, I'm Having trouble with my DNS or internet Weeks ago, And i'm so Pissed Having This Pop up Almost I wanna Smash my Montior And kicks the CPU :mad::mad::mad:. [/IMG] Here's the problem! -http://imgur.com/Wv3qqK0 -http://imgur.com/gOmeQ2N If Anyone knows the problem cover me up and if...
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    Windows 10 "We couldn't complete the updates..."

    Hello WF, I upgraded to Windows 10 on several computers with no issues. However, on one of my Dell laptops, after installing W10 regular updates, I get the following below message after restart. The computer undoes the changes and then boots to my desktop. This happens on every restart. Any...
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    Windows 10 windows updating

    im getting so tired of constantly getting requests to update to windows 10. You would guess after 100 rejections of it, it would stop. But no, it still dosen't get it. Today i startet to automaticly update to windows 10. That is some fucking BS. I dont wan't the program, so do force it on me...
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    Windows 7 Deleting files permanently removes them instead of moving to Recycle Bin

    Dear All, I have been searching a solution for this strange issue for long. I'm an IT Admin in a windows domain where few PCs are affected with this issue. When users delete files, it gets deleted permanently and do not go to Recycle Bin. Users do get alert that file will be deleted...
  15. 95%of being a tech on a help forum is Goggle IMHO!

    Hi I have registered on several help forums. I enjoy learning from others and then passing that forward. A lot of the issues that are posted on help forums I have personally witnessed; but a lot of the issues, I go to Google for answers. There's a good chance that there are several other...
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    Windows 10 Windows 10 boot problem + freezing after power outage

    At first the power went out and the computer wouldn't boot, and kept trying to repair it but couldn't. Eventually booted it in safe mode and it froze after a minute or two, requiring a hard reset. When I restarted it, it was able to normal boot but continued to freeze after a few minutes and...
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    Windows 10 High disk usage renders Windows 10 unusable

    This is a problem I've had for months with no solution in sight, even after trying multiples fixes. Windows 10 ran fine for about 3 months prior to this issue, but ever since this happened I haven't gotten it to run properly since. A few months ago, I ran into an issue when I installed an...
  18. Windows 10 Random BSODs, freezes and unexpected shutdowns.

    Hi everyone, I've been having a huge issue lately with my computer. At random times (for instance while playing League of Legends or just browsing the web) my computer will either BSOD, freeze or just shutdown and reboot. This has been happening for the past month or two but I only have 5 dump...
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    Windows 10 Win 10 BSOD multiple causes

    Hi this is my first post here so please let me know if I left anything out. Since upgrading to windows 10 my computer has crashed with the blue screen. Every time I try and game I get the CRITICAL_PROCESS_DIED BSOD. I turned the graphics down on Diablo 3 and was able to run it for about an hour...
  20. Windows 10 Random BSOD when PC is idling, cant find the source ntoskrnl.exe+142480

    I've been experiencing lots of issues with my pc recently. Most notably is that, no matter what I tried to fix it, my AMD drivers crash at the most random times even when my pc is idling. after trying every software solution I could find and/or think of (Incl. reinstalling windows 10) I decided...