computer upgrade

With the New Year rolling in, resolutions often top everyone’s to-do list. Whether it’s hitting the gym, managing finances, or refining productivity, fresh starts are in vogue. But wait—what about your good ol’ computer? It’s time to upgrade its performance with tools that meet modern needs. And...

As the octagonal clock ticks down toward the official end of life for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025, a critical announcement from Microsoft cast a spotlight on its unrelenting security requirement for transitioning to Windows 11. The Trusted Platform Module (TPM) 2.0—a seemingly innocuous chip...

I am trying to figure out what happened to my system to prevent it from happening again, and how to fix it. I had an old hard drive that I got from my family member after I upgraded their hard drive to an SSD for more speed. My plan was to slave it to my computer and format the hard drive, using...

Hello there Windows Forum As the title says, I'm having quite some issues with my driver CD from Gigabyte. I recently got installed from Win 7 to Win 10 home edition. Though I have a slight problem installing my motherboard utilities, meaning the CD I have got for my motherboard runs into this...

Hi I posted about having issues doing a clean install on my old computer, that I'm going to pass on to my nephew. Neemobeer and nmsuk gave me some help getting around the issue with running the install do to a formatting conflict. Once I got past that the install went smoothly and Windows...

I had a SSD installed in my computer with the OS on it. This SSD became to small so I bought a 500Gb SSD. I made a backup of the SSD with the OS en put that at the new SSD. But now there are two partitions at this SSD, one with same capicity as the old one and an empty one with a different...

I answered a question on Quora about what are the first programs you install on a new computer. I gave my basic list of utilities i.e. CCleaner, Agent Ransack, HWMonitor, Defraggler, Malwarebytes Pro, SuperAntiSpyware, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, etc. Another computer geek posted back...

hello all - FIRST TIME POSTING QUESTION we have a win-8 drive that is being pulled out of a dell box that had a win login& password established. if i were to install this drive into a win-10 box as a secondary drive (drive-D or drive-E perhaps with a usb internal-2-external housing), will...

I have an old (10 years) computer which I have had to reinstall Windows XP on.This was done using the original installation disc. To use this disc I had to reformat the hard drive. The computer is now running XP again. The original installation disc was of course also 10 years old so the...

I recently upgraded a win7 computer on our lan to win10. now i find I cannot copy files from another computer on the net, winxp, to this new win10. previously I could and did, quite frequently. now the win10 computer tells me i need admin permissions. and the winxp computer tells me to...

I'm currently trying to update from Win 10 version 10249 to version 1151 and using the media creation tool since the update has not yet appeared in Windows Update. I updated a few other computers to the original version of Win 10 some time ago. When those ISOs were downloaded using the media...

Read the whole post before answering as I put some assumptions. If I upgrade a computer from windows 7 to 8, Does the windows 7 license become available for use again? The license on the computer is FULL-BOX-RETAIL windows 7 (not oem) , and the license I am upgrading to is FULL-BOX-REATIL...

Hi I want to upgrade to Windows 8.1 but I've had problems with it. As long as I'm running Windows 8 and my sound is fine. When I upgraded to Windows 8.1, Windows installed new sound drivers and my sound is distorted especially computer generated speech, and sound in computer games. After a...

Hi all, I have been battling a bsod since I moved my guts to a larger case and installed a EVGA GPU (which I have since uninstalled and believe I got all the drivers too. I have updated my bios and ran Driver Verifier for 48 hours w/o a bsod. I just disabled it, restarted and 1 hour later a...

I'm hoping you guys can help a guy who knows just enough to get himself into trouble. I just bought the HP Envy 17t-j100 Quad Edition with the 1TB hybrid drive and the 240GB SSD Upgrade Kit that you can get on the Customize and Buy page. I wanted to put the OS onto the SSD because I haul my...

Help. I'll be upfront and honest and confess that I'm Apple knowledgeable but not PC. That said, I'm looking to buy and upgrade our computer system at a non-profit organization here in our town (food pantry/thrift store). We currently have a Dell computer with Windows XP that must be at least...

I just bought a new computer with W8 installed. This is a big step from XP that I've been running for quite a while. I had two drives (both 500Gb) in the old box, and I'd like to use them in the new. When I try the old drive with boot tracks as an internal - the new box has three spaces for...

Hello everyone! First off I'm going to tell you guys and girls that I'm not the computer smart. When it comes to cars, I'm your right hand man, but computer not so much! (Yea i understand the basics of virus protection and what to and not to download) Today while playing Star Wars The Old...

I'm thinking about getting some new RAM, not because I usually don't have enough, but occasionally for reasons unknown to me, RAM usage will spike and cause the system to freeze. It doesn't even have to hit 100%, because when it exceeds 80% it may freeze or at least cause things to become...

I was running Windows 7 for a long time with no problem. It would sleep and wake up just fine. One day, it would not go to sleep any more. I never got to fix it before upgrading to Windows 8. After upgrading, the system still would not go to sleep. I did some research and basically found...