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Recently I had to reset my computer which I upgraded to windows 10, it reverted it back to windows 8.1 (the original windows) is there someway to recover it?

I have tried to do the Windows updates as there is 132 of them but it just won't update, I was give 5 standalone update patches and every time I run them always get blue screen of death. I have read on net many things to do to get it to update working but nothing at all seems to work. I am not a...

When you say that someone is a movie buff what you mean is that the individual is very enthusiastic about movies. Similarly, a computer buff is someone who is very enthusiastic about computers. And right now, thanks to the World Cup, we have cricket buffs turning into couch potatoes. But do you...

Hello, I built a computer and for a few months it worked fine. Now I get BSOD with Critical Process Died, I reinstalled windows and it sort of stopped it for a while but the screens come back a couple of weeks later. This has happened several times :(. I did the tool thing and the file is...

Posted this onto other sites FYI I've installed Windows 8 onto a computer, the sound worked nicely for one day, but after a restart it no longer works. Checking shows that the drivers are all installed and it can detect the speakers, but yet no sound comes out of them. Anybody have this issue...

I spend a lot of time on my laptop since being a disabled veteran limits what I can do. Anyhow, I created a PDF version of a report on the good , the bad and the supposed ugly of Windows 10 while, dispelling the myths regarding the telemetry. it's a positive report that states that people will...

Hi I'm new to the forum and would like to see if any one knows what this is It's called trade-off. I took a picture of it on my son's computer it keeps popping up a lot I'm worried if it's a virus or if the OS is corrupted. Any help is appreciated, please see attached picture. Sent from my...

I recently had to restore a windows 7 computer. When I restored my media files, they were already formatted to windows 10. Now the windows 7 computer won't read any of the playlists. As much as I've tried, I can't find a way to get the playlists to work again in the older format. Any ideas how...

Hi, I would really to know when i remove the USB from my computer, i use the USB 20161026 porbably untill 20161110 i removed the USB. I saw pnp happends and two event code 20001 in the system (date 20161110) but the code 20001 was something about a printer, i have not plugged in any printer...

Hi All, Believe my wife installed keylogger/keystroker software on my PC. Whats worst is I believe this has been happening for over 7 years since well before we are married. Invasion of privacy, call it what you will. What would be the best way to detect if any is installed? I am willing to...

Sooooo I've reformatted a number of hard drives in my time, and never encountered an issue like this one, and it's stopping me cold. First, a little background: my lady friend is out of the country for a few months and desperately wants to come back to a reformatted laptop. Her Dell laptop...

Last time in my house was power outage , and after next boot i had this error in event viewer: Faulting application name: NvStreamUserAgent.exe, version: 7.1.2071.1338, time stamp: 0x5726e1d3 Faulting module name: ntdll.dll, version: 10.0.10586.306, time stamp: 0x571af2eb Exception code...

I am trying to go back to win 7 ult from win 10. My computer is a HP 8200 sff (refurb) with: i5 3.2GHZ processor 8G RAM 1 TB HDD The problem is getting rid of the win 10 partitions. Most disk wiping utilities either don't have partition editing capabilities or are not set up for the win 10...

Just curious what the bonjour app is. It was removed when I reset my computer. Does it do anything useful? If so, I can reinstall it. Thanks.

Hi Guys, Something is corrupting files on my computer by putting some random names to files and changing it to (.b8b0) file format, There are several files like this on my system. Most of the affected files have the following extensions: .b8b0 .doc, .mp3, .jpeg, etc. I am not sure what is that...

I don't know what happened, but Cortana no longer responds. Neither does clicking on the search box. I haven't made any tweaks to the computer, so it just happened on its own. I think she's been down several days now. What gives?

Hi, I get BSOD one a week, month, whenever. Not often. At strange times. Middle of night. Mostly when not using computer. Can someone peek at attached dump file and give me a clue as to what's up? I recently updated graphics adapter driver. Still got a BSOD last night. Time to solve...

i have found that the problem was on my hdd in my previeus post i told i stucked on the load screen i unplugged my hdd Windows 10 doesn't open it didn´t happen anymore and when i did plug in my hdd back i format it but then the computer was stuck and i was again stuck at the load screen what´s...

I've got Windows 10 Pro 64bit installed on my system and the hard drive is showing me over 60GB of used space. When I open the C drive and unhide all folders and do a Properties, it shows just over 20GB of used space on my system drive. I'm trying to figure out where 40GB of files are hiding...

Hi, I am attempting to reinstall windows xp home on my mom’s Dell 740 optiplex computer with the Dell reinstallation CD that came when unit was purchased. All her files were copied to a flash drive & no need to recover data. Have done this in past without any problems but this time I can’t seem...