confusion

I am a real dummy with this stuff. I bought 2 used computers at auction. They are Dell OptiPlex 760, 3.16 GHz, Core2Duo, 4Gb Ram. They have been sanitized and have no operating system on them. They originally had Windows Vista on them. I have been to EBay and there are a lot of products...

Greetings to all. Been busy helping my wife with her new laptop. Still a lot to learn with windows 8. Seems like Microsoft has a penchant for making people tunnel thru a maze of confusion by taking the simple and making it harder. We're still working on it trying to get stuff transferred from...

Hi, I just wanted to know how to get rid of using passwords when accessing windows 8 and my computer. I didn't used to have to butI some how changed something. Find windows 8 very confusing. you can e/m me at [Removed to prevent spam e-mails - Mike] Any help is appreciated. Arlen

Happy Easter everyone! I would so appreciate it if someone here could lend a helping hand. Here's the scenario. I have a laptop that came with Win 7 Home Premium. We got that reduced price version of Win 8 awhile back. We had installed it on top of Win 7 and most everything had worked at...

I was at a Best Buy today checking out touchscreens and Windows 8 since my daughter was looking at them. At another store the touchscreen did not seem to have the same functionality as a mouse, but I may have not been doing it correctly. A sales person came up and we starting discussing the...

Purchased Acer all in one touch screen PC with Win 8 installed. The UI is ok, big learning curve. My problem is with setting up accounts and emails. I followed the confusing instructions for setting up microsoft accounts. I think. Problem is most emails come through but some with the same...

My taskbar with toolbars: address, desktop, links etc becomes just empty blue space after PC was idle. nothing on it and I have to restart to be able to get it back again. Also. in that "state" I can choose application from Start screen but it does not open. Just show on that empty taskbar...

Windows 8 videos showcasing first time users utterly confused about the new operating system is nothing new. However, this might be the first video that showcases the utter confusion of a drunk woman as she experiences the new Microsoft OS for the very first time. The drunken Windows 8 video was...

I have my power options set so when my laptop is plugged in my screen brightness is around 100%, and when unplugged it's around 30%. I've noticed on a number of occasions that if I turn the brightness up with my keyboard keys when it's unplugged Win 7 forgets what my screen brightness settings...

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I just installed Windows 7 and, while trying to use a program that I installed, it advised me that my Windows 7 was not an RTM version, and only SP1. Can someone explain that and tell me if there is an update to sp1 rtm? My system is 32 bit.

Microsoft: Hey we've got a great Office application being released for you guys. User: Great! What's it called? Microsoft: It's called Office 365 and can be streamed online. User: Oh so it's called Office 365 then.. Microsoft: Well actually it's called Office 15. User: Oh ok...

hello, I am very confused for windows 7 ultimate 32-bit I was. in the first game built from windows 7 everything works fine ... but at some time ago when my son wanted to play the game, it appeared that no more (empty folder on the game). What is the problem on my windows? Please help thank you...

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This is a 1TB HD with Win 7 pre-installed on a 100GB partition (C:) and a remaining 809GB or 811GB depending on what I use to look at it on a second partition (D:). I would like to partition the remaining 811GB (D:) however I ran into a confusing snag. Even though Windows shows only 2...

Hi, I have been trying for about 8 hours to install my new win 7 on a new box. I only have a 500GB drive in it and a dvd. The rest is on the mobo. I have a usb mouse and usb kB plugged in. I started with the setup DVD and changed language and chose to install. It go to expanding files okay...

When you rename a user account in on a computer that is running Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2, the user profile path is not changed automatically. It may cause some confusion when the %SystemDrive%\users folder... More...

I have to admit that my main computer is a Mac (please don't hold it against me) but I've just bought a notebook running Windows 7. I'm doing ok getting the hang of it but I have one small thing I'm puzzled about, it concerns 'conime' and it puzzles me. I've looked it up and read a lot...

Please clue me in so I know what I have. My laptop is an Acer 8943g with a Intel Core I5 430M Proccessor with 4gb RAM and 1gb Video Memory. Where I'm confused is at the i5processor. I thought it was a dual core, but when I view a couple of different prgrams they say that the Core i5 is a single...

On my new Toshiba Portege R830, the first partition on the SSD is a small 1.46G system drive that is marked as the boot device and as a Recovery Partition. The next partition covering most of the disk is the C drive. I didn't even know this could be done. Is this a new way of doing things? On...