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  1. Windows 7 Retaining destination settings for copy/paste operations - MSWord 2013

    Greetings, I am using Word as a log and memory jogger for changes I am making or need to make while editing code in Eclipse and other IDEs. The main problem is when I copy a snippet to paste it becomes white text on blue background, by time I paste it into word it is black text on blue...
  2. Windows 8 System Disk Confusion

    Hi, My 1Tb non-system disk has been giving trouble recently, so I bought a 2Tb replacement, fitted it, Robocopied the files I wanted over, took the old drive out and rebooted. What happened was a Windows 7 OS recovery was attempted and failed. I couldn't boot the computer. I installed...
  3. Windows 8 Question about Disk Management?

    Hi Yesterday I was getting tight on space for my Windows 10 software etc, this is not the drive that Windows 10 is installed on. It's a separate partition on the same drive that Windows 8 is installed on. I decided to shrink my G:\ drive which is the Windows 8 partition, and move the space to...
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    Windows 8 Windows is deactivated

    Dears I bought asus notebook From 5 months installed windows 8.1 on it then I get partition recovery to my usb drive And formated my hard then I restored my hard but it know deactivated what can I do please
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    Windows 7 Microsoft Word 2010 Calendar Help!

    In Microsoft Word 2010 how do I add a calandar that already has every holiday on each month that it's suppossed to be so that I won't have to type or write it on there and how do I save it as a template in Word 2010 so that I can use it every time I need to and also be able to start with any...
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    Windows 7 Moving old HDD with Windows 7 to new PC with Windows 8.1

    I'm building a new rig and planning to install Windows 8.1 on an SSD as the boot drive. I'd like to move over my HDD with Windows 7 boot from my old machine to the new PC to use as a storage drive. Do I have to format the HDD in my old machine first or can I just install it to my new rig as is...
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    Windows 7 Windows wont open usb drives / sd cards any more, keeps telling me to format them :(

    Can anyone please help, up until recently my laptop was fine and i know ive opened files up a few weeks ago, now my laptop isn't opening anything i attach. i have a card reader, every time i put my sd card in my laptop says i need to format this drive, and when i try to it says windows is...
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    Windows 7 Random BSOD after start-up

    Hello, I am writing with the problem of recurring BSOD, which happens randomly, almost always after the computer's start-up (ca. 2-5 mins). Important is the fact, that very often is not BSOD - computer also tends to freeze or it restarts without any BSOD (and this is worse case, because no dump...
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    Windows 7 Trouble Installing Windows 7 on USB Flash Drive for Dell Latitude E6510

    Afternoon i was trying to install windows 7 onto my cruzer glide 64GB flash drive so that i could have another os to use without updating laptop hard drive however im having trouble installing it onto the flash even though i have formatted the flash into a ntfs as i saw on a different tutorial...
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    Windows 8 Stuck in black screen cant install new os.

    Hello.I bought asus laptop k551ln-xx250h 2 months ago from Malasiya.It was fine bt 4 days ago it ran into a problem and started automatic repair.After waiting about an hour it started checking the c drive.Then the loop continued when i started my laptop.I tried to fix it by refreshing and...
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    Windows 7 Accessing old Documents Folder

    Hey guys, My windows had crashed pretty bad and since it was cluttered anyway, I decided to make a clean start. since I just bought a new harddrive it seemed like the perfect moment anyway. So I installed Windows 7 to the new harddrive, leaving the old one with windows and everything, and after...
  12. Windows 8 EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE -> Cant select "Change drive letter and paths"

    I tried to change the drive letter because it wont appear, but it didnt work. I have tried the CMD method with the volumes but the volume did not show up. All I know is that its a G-Technology hard drive. I tried formatting it to NTFS but that wont work. Basically I tried everything and nothing...
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    Windows 8 Annoying volume bar??

    I’m using windows 8. Whenever I first boot up my computer, this volume bar will appear (refer to the picture). Everything will lag when this happens. It’ll not disappear until I reboot my computer. Virus scan had been done, and windows have been updated to the latest version. I have tried...
  14. Windows 8 Operating system not found

    My laptop Sony Vaio y series was not passing the Sony logo screen so I thought of reinstalling Windows but that was not happening from a bootable usb nor a disk. So I removed the hd and completely formatted it and also made it a bootable hd with windows 8 but my laptop does not go to bios...
  15. Windows 7 I Have A Pc And I Want To Make It Like Brand New By Formatting But I Have No CD.

    Basically I Got This Computer From A Refurbisher And It Came Pre-Installed With Windows 7 Ultimate 32 Bit But A Virus Came On It And It Is Taking Up Space From My Hard Drive. So I Now Want To Format It But Have No CD, I Found This Website Which You Can Make It Again But If I Format My Pc, Will...
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    Windows 8 Clean install SSD

    Hello everyone I will be getting an SSD tomorrow so I've been looking around a bit, but nowhere could I find what I really wanted: what I want is just to install Windows 8.1 on my SSD and then remove my 2 HDD partitions and make them 1 again, and format it so it'll be clean again. I don't...
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    Windows 7 "Setup was unable to create a new system partition or locate an existing system partition" error

    About a month ago my dell m6700 precision workstation got an error when I turned it on which said: "Unable to find operating system." This happened when I restarted the laptop. I still do not know what caused it to do it but for the last month I have been trying to fix it. In the end I couldn't...
  18. Windows 7 installation help asap! :(

    hello ppl, i have an iso image of windows 7 all in one i put it on a pen drive using windows 7 usb/dvd tool rebooted the system installation came but i am not able to install 64 bits windows 7 ..it tells me to do custom installation and a compatibility report comes when i choose upgrade...
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    Windows 7 Seagate hard disk shows not formatted error, how to recover data

    I have a Seagate hard disk drive which has been divided into 2 sections (C drive, D drive) on my PC. Now, the D drive is inaccessible and it says the drive is not formatted. Should I format it? But will I lose everything on the drive after formatting?
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    Windows 7 Programms Not Running

    Hello! Last night my computer accidentally shut down because the wire tripped. When I tried loading my steam this morning, it went up till signing in and 'updating steam information' after which there was a blue loading ball over the cursor showing the system is busy but nothing happened after...