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    Windows 7 Windows 7 refuses to totally reset - help!

    I am trying to factory reset my Samsung R519 laptop (running Windows 7 home premium) in order to recycle it but have encountered a problem: once the Samsung Recovery Solution 4 utility has finished using the 'initial computer status' recovery option and the system reboots, I still get the...
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    Windows server 2016 with Silicon Sil3114 Raid5 system with MSI Main board won't boot

    Hi I have installed Windows server 2016 essentials on a system using Silicon Sil3114 Raid5 with 3 4TB Drives the install went find as normal but the system will not boot. When the system is starting up I hit <F11> and the Raid5 system is there as an option to boot on, but when I select it, it...
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    Windows 10 messed up libraries

    Win 10 1809 Somehow my libraries are all over the place. My main query is how to sort out my libraries please. I tried using their properties and location but the location I choose is rejected. I tried an option I found to restore libraries to default but that didn't work. The problem is...
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    Windows 10 Not exactly the BSOD but Win10's startup is broken.

    This issue is my friend's who has spent many hours building data using non-Microsoft apps. His laptop refuses to start up into Win10. Microsoft agent says the way forward is to do a custom install on the C: drive. There are three other drives that my friend has created on his 1TB HDD. He...
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    Windows 7 Can't delete "free space" partition!

    I used "AOMEI partition assistant" to shrink a partition, during this "Memory Dump" appeared, when I restarted the PC I found that this partition became locked, I deleted it, and it became free space... 1 - When I try to create a partition in that free space: -It says "not enough space"... 2...
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    Windows 7 Windows 7 32bit, windows update OS failure complicated with kapersky encryption

    So, I’m running windows 7 32 bit on my work pc and some new policies come down from corp. headquarters that all the pc’s hard drives need to be encrypted with kapersky and the have to be updated every month with windows updates else the pc will be booted from the network. So, I reboot by pc one...
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    Windows 10 Windows unable to start after laptop crashed during encryption

    Hi all! I really hope that I am in the right part of the forum here. I have the following problem: I tried encrypting my laptop yesterday, but while DiskCryptor was running, said laptop crashed. When I turned it on again, it attempted to repair itself, which it wasn’t able to do. I was given...
  8. Windows 10 Finding duplicates of photos with different filenames

    My daughter is running Win10 on a Dell laptop. Because she has four kids, she has thousands of photos and the list keeps growing. Thanks to some difficulties with downloading photos from her iPhone in the recent past, she has many duplicate photos and, unfortunately, many descriptive filenames...
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    Windows 10 Unexplained files appear on usb and keep coming back after deleting

    Hi all ,can someone please help me ,I have a 32 gig sandisk usb ,I always only used It on my 2 computers until 1 day I got software from a friends laptop. Right after that I’m getting random files with different names with the desired files but they all appear to have the same file icon and they...
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    Windows 7 Backup and restore problems Window 7 pro

    I keep having trouble with my backup/restore thing. It will backup but but it won't hit the target(external drive) Error Backup skipped backing up E:\ 0x810002F Can someone Please help me!!!!
  11. Windows 10 Has Macrium Made Things Worse?

    My win10 machine wouldn't boot. I tried system restore but it failed. Three or four restore points to go back to and none of them succeeded. I ran Kyhi's usb and found macrium on it. I thought I had a macrium image so I ran it. The Macrium image wouldn't restore. 'read failed 22 invalid...
  12. Windows 10 Deleted/Lost Outlook Folders/File

    Not sure if I can post this here... but gonna try.. Yesterday while using Outlook 2013. Using IMAP, I wanted to share my folders on my computer to another computer, these folders weren't on the IMAP server only locally. I did abit of reading here and there on how to do this and one way to do...
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    i want to take my old sticky notes from an old hard drive and ideas how i can do that ?
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    Windows 10 Upgrading SSD

    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...
  15. Windows 10 Help! My Folders are Hidden After a Possible Virus Infection

    Hi everyone, my pc recently got infected with what I think is a virus and all folders in my drives including drive C(windows installed) have been HIDDEN. When I click on any of my drives the folder is empty. The only way I can access my files/folders is keying in the folder directory in the...
  16. Windows 10 Deleted WindowsApps folder and now I cant boot!

    I tried deleting (after copying it to another location) the %ProgramFiles%\WindowsApps folder in order to perform a system restore. The restore point gave me an WindowsApps error, so I searched the internet and found several workarounds consisting on deleting or renaming that folder. It seemed...
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    Windows 10 Daily BSOD crashes.

    I've been getting BSOD crashes increasingly for the past couple of months, it started out as a couple times a month, and now its multiple times a day. Mostly UNEXPECTED_STORE_EXCEPTION and CRITICAL_PROCESS_DIED. I don't know if this is relevant, but i replaced my hard drive a couple months back...
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    alternative to system restore

    I watch a YouTube video of Rollback Rx free and it seems too god to be true. Has anyone had experience with this program. Is it straight forward? I am used to inserting a flash drive to overcome issues but this seems to boot before Windows. I use Macrium but this works differently, I think. If...
  19. Windows 10 We work in MS Access 2013 database during some months

    Our office department uses it every day. Only some days ago, we got a problem. Database at opening showed us...Unrecognized Database Format 'General.mdb' (Error 3343). We applied Compact&Repair function to Repair Access database, it opened but part of data disappeared. Now we scare to do...
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    Windows 10 Pros and cons of Windows updates

    I have adopted a fairly old IT philosophy of 'If its not broken, don't fix it' when it comes to Windows 10. After all, the only 'valuable' stuff on your computer are documents and emails which you spent time on - if these are 'lost' there is a cost to recover this data. So - for the past...