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I have these 4 recovery partitions and I have no idea what they are for. Can I get rid of them if they are not necessary? And how do I do it, if it is safe to delete them?

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Hi Guys Hope u r fine am facing differnt problem regarding saving user setting.. e.g when I open explorer, its not maximised, i maximise it and close and reopen, again not maximised... 2nd if i change folder view, close explorer, reopen explorer, folder view is not saved what i selected at each...

Okay, so I've hit a panic state lately, and I've came here. My laptop only recently started to do a BSoD with a KERNEL_DATA_INPAGE_ERROR code. Doing checks, diagnostics, SMART readings through Speedfan, I've pretty much realised that this laptop hard drive is reaching the end of its life. After...

Today, we provide advance notification for the release of 16 Security Bulletins. Five of these updates are rated Critical, nine are rated as Important, and two are rated Moderate in severity. These updates are for Microsoft Windows, Internet Explorer, Office, Exchange, .NET Framework, Internet...

Today, we released Security Advisory 3010060 to provide additional protections regarding limited, targeted attacks directed at Microsoft Windows customers. A cyberattacker could cause remote code execution if someone is tricked into opening a maliciously-crafted PowerPoint document that contains...

Today, we provide advance notification for the release of nine Security Bulletins. Three of these updates are rated Critical, five are rated as Important, and one is rated Moderate in severity. These updates are for Microsoft Windows, Internet Explorer, Office, .NET Framework, and ASP.NET. As...

Hello Since I installed icloud on win7 computer it has messed all my settings in my outlook 2007. Now when I go to email something- it tells me that the contact is not there, however it is there but in another folder the icloud made. Even my calender changed- it added a icloud calender that...

Alright, so one day i was being dumb, and decided it would be a good idea to follow one of those YouTube videos that lets you upgrade from Windows 8 to Windows 8 pro for free. I entered their given code, Windows told me it was acceptable so i went through with it. Later, it's constantly telling...

Hi I've never used Virtual Machine before but I decided that I should get a handle on how it works. I'm trying to create a virtual machine with Ubuntu in it. I followed the instructions in this video step by step... ...and I have VM installed and running. Link Removed The problem comes...

I have been using an app/program (Rhapsody) that started crashing every time I started it. I decided to uninstall it and then reinstall it. I opened the control panel list of programs, clicked on Rhapsody, and chose "uninstall." Nothing seemed to happen but now Rhapsody is gone from that...

Hi there lately I've got BSOD right after I play BF3, each time I either quit the gameplay and hit my crome browser, my pc crashes and goes into BSOD. I've never had this kind of problem before, it started some months ago, and I ignored it, now I keep getting it when I close BF3 and hit exit /...

After having got a new Win 8 system and start of it occasionally some big fat help "help" arrows appear on the desktop telling me what happens if a move the mouse into which corner. Where can I disable this nonsense forever? Peter

Hello, I have recently had a crash dump file appear in c:\windows\minidump I am uploading it here for those who wish to review it. I am unsure of the cause of the dump and would appreciate some guidance. This machine is running win 7 Pro 32 bit and has had two crashes in the last two days...

T. S. Elliot once said, “What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.” So as we put one season to bed, let’s start another by looking at the April security updates. Today, we release four bulletins to address 11 CVEs in...

Today we released Security Advisory 2953095 to notify customers of a vulnerability in Microsoft Word. At this time, we are aware of limited, targeted attacks directed at Microsoft Word 2010. An attacker could cause remote code execution if someone was convinced to open a specially crafted Rich...

I get really frustrated w/ people saying or thinking there is nothing in Windows 8.1, from Microsoft, telling them, educating them or guiding them w/ enlightenment or instructions on How To use the OS. There is!! Yes, there is! There problem isn't that it doesn't exist but, rather that people...

My Dell Vostro 3700 laptop original purchase allowed me an update to win 7. I had separate 32-bit update and 64-bit win 7 updates OEM discs sent to me by Dell and updated it to win 7 32-bit. Then I put in 4 more megs of ram (now have 8) but realized that I can only use the original 4 unless I...

Today we provide advance notification for the release of four bulletins for January 2014. All bulletins this month are rated Important in severity and address vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows, Office, and Dynamics AX. The update provided in MS14-002 fully addresses the issue first described...

I recently got COMODO and every time my windows 7 OS loads up it promts me if i want to run the snz.exe executable. I dont know if prior to me getting comodo SNZ.exe was executed or not, but my point is that from reading online about this executable i dontr know if it malware or not. Some...