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This Week on Windows: ReCore, Star Trek and updates to your action center
We hope you enjoyed this week’s episode of This Week on Windows! Head over here to read more about the updates to your action center available with the Windows 10 Anniversary Update. Read more about the new powerful desktop apps in the Windows Store or keep reading to see what’s new in the...- News
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Apps built using the Desktop Bridge now available in the Windows Store!
A few months ago, during Build 2016, we announced the Desktop Bridge, enabling developers to bring their existing desktop apps and games over to the Universal Windows Platform (UWP) by converting their app or game with the Desktop App Converter and then enhancing and extending it with UWP...- News
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Windows 10 Last Win 10 upgrade broke some of my games.
Hi, i have windows 10 and a week ago i saw that when i was turning off the laptop it said shut down and upgrade. So i upgraded and it last like hours, then when i started the computer a day after i saw everything was changed... like my screensaver to another one. Then i tried CS GO and it worked...- Nabuegixi
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Windows 10 where i install softawre/games when i administrator
hello frends , FIRST I WANT TO APOLOGIZE BECUSE MY ENGLISH IS VERY POOR - HOPE U UNDESTAND i just now make a format becuse my child is infected virus my computer. i have ssd 250 GB + hdd 1TB and i decided to make the compute to administrator and all my childs to regulat user. i am not sure...- SHLOMIS1Z
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GAME: Last Letter Of The Word Game
Hello everybody! :wave: I propose to have a little fun! :peace: Its a simple game. Person 1 starts with a word. Person 2 makes another word that starts with the last letter of the previous word. First word : Window- WillyBo
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Windows 10 Windows 7 Games for Windows 10!!!
Hi This is a battle that I've fought for years trying to keep the old Windows games running on the later versions of Windows. I've use registry hacks etc. to keep them working. When I updated to Windows 10 Anniversary they all quit working again and my old hacks don't work. I was upset...- MikeHawthorne
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Countdown to Windows 10 Anniversary Update with offers in the Windows Store
We’re excited to share some great offers hitting the Windows Store beginning tomorrow through July 29 as we countdown to the Windows 10 Anniversary Update on August 2*. Enjoy new features on your favorite games, rent a movie for free and get up to four months of free music. Vote for your...- News
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Windows 10 PC World made E3 Easy for gamers
PC World just made E3 easy for gamers. They just put up a article that has videos of each game announced at E3. 47 must-see PC gaming gems revealed at E3 2016: Watch every trailer- brkkab
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Windows 10 Could anyone point me to a list of games that support.....?
I just got a new monitor this week. LG 25UM58-P with a 2560x1080 resolution. Could anyone point me to a list of games that support this resolution size?- brkkab
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Windows Store celebrates summer promotion
Summer is almost here. To help people get ready to have fun, today we are announcing the Link Removed, a promotion which is live in the Windows Store now and runs through June 6th. As part of the collection, we are offering more than a hundred deals on our most popular games, music, movies and...- News
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Windows 10 My games keep crashing with DRIVER_OVERRUN_STACK_BUFFER
Hello! I just recently got a better PC so I could play videogames, however, every time I play certain games, 15-45 minutes in the game crashes and I have to manually shut down my computer and physically turn it back on. I already looked around and I've tried reinstalling my drivers. I verified...- Amagnowski
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- crash driver issues driver reinstall driver_overrun_stack_buffer dump files games ntoskrnl.exe pc performance troubleshooting
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Windows 10 Having Compatibility Problems
I own a copy of Dawn Of War: Soulstorm. It has been modded, using Ultimate Apocalypse. I've owned this game since Windows 7, and it has worked on both Windows 7 and Windows 10, I've never had an issue with it. Today, whenever I try to run DoW, it complains that I need Windows 90Se, 2000...- SyntheticSeraphim
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Windows 7 Some games won't run!
I've been having trouble running quite a few games lately, which include Deus Ex: Invisible War, The Movies and Shogun: Total War. Now these games are quite old, The Movies being the most recent (2005) which may explain why they won't run, but I've had little to no problem running other older...- Patrik
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Windows 10 Mouse /controller unuseable after inactivity
I have a very weird problem that I have never encountered before on any computer. After a while of inactivity, sometimes as little as 20 minutes the mouse control goes into a weird state where the pointer sticks repeatedly and it bleeps when it sticks. So if you try and move it across the...- Leigh Pankhurst
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- audio controller drivers games hardware inactivity keyboard lag logitech monitor mouse pc specs performance pointer speakers system troubleshooting usb windows 10 wireless
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Windows 10 Random Computer Crashes During Specific Games: Need Help Diagnosing the Issue
My computer randomly crashses while I play games, not all games though, so far I know that it occurs in Smite and Marvel Heroes 2016. I do not know what causes it, and I look in event viewer but never find anything that looks like it would cause a crash. I do not think that it is graphics...- Slick85906
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- computer crash event viewer games graphics marvel performance settings smite troubleshooting
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Windows 10 Sometimes all my keyboard keys are opening random windows
Hi people, I have a problem, sometimes all my keyboard are acting like shortcuts, it usually happens when I minimize some game with alt + tab (I dont know if I press something else by accident) but them I have to restart the computer because if (for example) I press "S" it minimize everything...- Dr4
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- alt-tab bug control panel games keyboard problem restart shortcuts windows windows search
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Windows 7 How to get this game working after this update was added?
How to get this game working after this update was added.The game being Medieval Total War and was able to play on Win 7 before this update. Microsoft released a security patch in September, KB3086255- Age
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- compatibility games gaming kb3086255 medieval total war microsoft security patch troubleshooting update windows 7
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Windows 10 I can't get DirectX 9, 10 or 11 to work.
I've tried everything I could find. I've tried disabling antivirus, I've tried downloading the SDK, ect. None of it works. Every time I get the same message, "An internal error occurred. Please refer to DXError.log and DirectX.log in your Windows folder to determine the problem". Here is what...- The Guy
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- antivirus compatibility cs:go directx dll error games installation internal error just cause 2 logs module plugins sdk setup support troubleshooting update user guide windows
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Windows 10 System Image help needed
I'm having issue's in Windows 10 Pro x64 making system images. I've got Windows & Programs on a Samsung 840 Pro 256GB ssd. I created a folder in C:\Program Files(x86)\ named Games. I setup Disk Management to use this folder in Windows to store my Games on a Intel 530 Series 480GB ss I have. My...- brkkab
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- backup backup issues data management disk management games hdd intel issue fix march 2025 pc build personal data restore samsung seagate ssd storage system image windows 10 windows pro
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Windows 10 Anyone know how to save a Theme?
Hi I know how to create a theme in Windows 10 by putting all the image in a folder and pointing to it. What I want to know is there a way to save it as a Theme file, the way that the are in the Microsoft store, so that you can download the whole thing as one file? I'm working on my Rise of...- MikeHawthorne
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