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  1. Windows 10 Time between switching OSs

    Hello, I dual boot Win 7 and Win 10 TP. If I want to switch OS, all I have to do is to click Restart and I will be given a choice of the 2 OSs. That's nice. The time it takes to switch to the other OS seems to be forever. That's disgusting. Is there any way to speed up the switch over ...
  2. Windows 10 Installation Problems

    How can make a hard drive that allows me to install both 64-bit and 32-bit windows into any machine if I plug it into. I don't mean a USB stick, or external hard drive, I mean an actual hard drive. This is my only option right now. I tried the media creation tool but it only allows me to use...
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    Windows 10 BSOD: Inaccessible boot device after updating from April 2018 to May 2019 update

    Currently running a dual-boot system on a Lenovo Yoga 730 with manjaro and windows 10. Upon restarting and allowing Windows Update to upgrade to the May 2019 update, I get a stop error with INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE. Initially, GRUB menu wouldn't appear, but has now appears but will not boot...
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    Windows 10 Whats autostarting 3x services and how to stop it? UsoSvc, wuauserv and WaaSMedicSvc

    I have Windows 10 Home because they didn't feel like my Ultimate Vista license which got me to 8 was good enough one more time lol. Anywho, I run a dual boot system and have some server and camera stuff that run on this machine so windows auto update regularly explodes my system and causes a...
  5. Windows 10 Dual Monitor Issue- Only 1 works at a time

    I have 2 monitors, My primary monitor is connected via a display port and the other one is HDMI. My primary is a 114hrz 21" I think? While my secondary is 60hrz 16". They have been working as a dual display when suddenly my secondary stopped working and when I turn it on it goes to HDMi and says...
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    Windows 7 Dual boot Win 7 and Ubuntu

    I have a Dell desktop and I am currently running Windows 7 and I would like to install Ubuntu on separate hard drive in same computer. My question is, when I install Ubuntu, do I keep Win 7 hard drive plugged in or do I remove it. Thanks Zavier
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    Windows 10 Can't Open Application

    Hello, I have a very important application that I would like to use on my new Windows 10 desktop. I have already reached out to Microsoft for support and they performed a remote session with no luck. They told me that the application needs to be updated to use on Windows 10 and to contact the...
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    Windows 10 Local account, Microsoft app and disconnection from Microsoft account

    Hello, if I installed Windows 10 (and Windows 8.1 too, as dual boot), both with local account, no Microsoft account. I have only Microsoft account created on Microsoft site. I would only install Microsoft application from Microsoft Store according to this description (with "Sign in to just this...
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    Windows 10 Issue Dual-Booting and Installing 2nd Windows 10

    I have been running Windows 10 on a desktop I built using a 120GB SSD. PC running great but needed more space. Had an extra HDD (750GB) from a Toshiba laptop. Wiped, formatted, bought W10 key, and installed as secondary drive. To be clear I know have one PC tower with 2 drives that each have...
  10. Not waking up from sleep mode

    I have had this problem for some time. Don't remember if it was a problem with build 1803, but for sure since the beginning of build 1809. I have the screen turning off after 30 minutes, sleep after 60 minutes, and no hibernate. Yet about a third of the time it will not come out of sleep...
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    Windows 10 Dual boot issue and need help?

    I have 3 partition in my pc C, E,and F. I installed Prime Os in E DRIVE and had installed windows 10 in c drive. I used prime os for pubg. I installed it and after first restart i could not go into the prime os. The boot was only going with windows 10. So i ised easybcd 2.4 i guess for the first...
  12. Windows 10 Reinstalling bootloader on a different disk

    Hi all. Last week I've installed Windows on one of the SSDs in my computer (the other one has a linux installation). During install I chose the free disk however Windows decided to install the bootloader in the other SSD (I believe I was never asked about where to place the bootloader...) My...
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    Windows 7 How to Resize Windows 7 Partition Without Losing Data in Dual Boot Setup

    I have been experimenting with another OS and running dual boot. I allocated too much space to windows and wish to decrease it. Can I still do this without losing data in my Window 7 OS? If so what tool should I use and how to go about it. Thank you.
  14. Windows 10 Boot Problem

    Hello , I had installed Ubuntu Alongside Windows 10. Now I wanted to remove it .In the process , I used ECD Boot repair and now windows is not booting . It goes into this screen right after booting . What should I do now?
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    Windows 10 Doing a clean reinstall of Windows 7 pro to Windows 10 pro

    If I am doing a clean reinstall starting with Windows 7 pro SP1, would I need to update it fully before I do a Windows 10 upgrade? Just like when you would do a service pack install, you did it immediately after installation. Sometimes it feels like windows 10 is just another service pack...
  16. Windows 10 Dual boot question

    I've been trying to set up a virtual machine on both of my PC's to no avail since they don't have sufficient RAM (only 6 GB). I'm thinking my other recourse is to set up a dual boot system. I've never done that before. Are there any caveats to be aware of? I don't want to mess up the current W10...
  17. Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 18277

    Happy Diwali for the Indian Windows Insiders who are celebrating! Today, we are releasing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 18277 (19H1) to Windows Insiders in the Fast ring. REMINDER: As is normal with builds early in the development cycle, builds may contain bugs that might be painful for...
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    Windows 10 Cannot boot from USB or HDD

    So I am trying to dual boot windows 10, but I cannot boot from any usb or hdd I install it on. I have used the media creation tool, on two computers, and 3 different usb's. But I get the error as follows: Due to this I am unable to install any copy at all. Please help it's starting to piss me off!
  19. Windows 10 Formatted EFI partition when installing Linux

    Hello everybody! As the title suggests, im in a bit of a rough one right now. I am not sure of this, but I am pretty sure I screwed my Windows bootloader on my machine. I can't speak in boot lingo since I don't exactly know what to call everything, so I'll do my best at exlaining the situation...
  20. Windows 10 Need to fix boot loader. Can't boot into windows

    I installed Ubuntu 18.04 on my HDD and it asked me to format full drive. So, I backed up my data on my friend's drive and formatted mine and installed Ubuntu but then I came up to a point where I couldn't work on Ubuntu any more. So, I decided to reinstall Windows back. So, I booted in using my...