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On my Laptop I upgraded to Windows 8 - back in 2011. Prior to the upgrade when travelling overseas I was able to download onto CD discs my original music. Because I wanted to save space - I would only take with me a bunch of printed covers and then purchase blank CD'S and cases wherever I was...

So consider this to be a bit of self indulgence as I give my own eulogy at windows XP's funeral. Windows XP was my first full time operating system, and as it ends its support cycle its time for me to do some fun looking back on one of the computing worlds biggest successes and how it all went...

Commodore VIC 20 Computer The VIC-20 (Germany: VC-20; Japan: VIC-1001) is an 8-bit home computer which was sold by Commodore Business Machines. The VIC-20 was announced in 1980, roughly three years after Commodore's first personal computer, the PET. The VIC-20 was the first computer of any...

to my home computer. How can I get this back to my old password not connected to Microsoft account?

Hi, So my dad got a "trusted" co-worker who is a computer guy to build our home computer for us while I was away (for a price). For the most part he has been helpful. However, he seems to have fractured the HD into some peculiar partitions arranged as follows: DISK 0: 465GB (mostly empty)...

It really bugs me that I can't change some settings, like fast startup, because I don't have permission. I am the only user on my home computer and Windows 8 tells me to see the system administrate. I want FULL permissions on my Windows 8. Anyone know how to fix it? Windows 8 pro 64bit.

[SOLVED] My Windows 8 Upgrade Odyssey Greetings. I am journaling my Windows 8 upgrade experience here in hopes that others can learn from the experience. If I am able to resolve the problem here in these forums, I would consider that a plus. But most of all, I am hoping to create some...

Hi Guys Looking to try and improve my home computer station / internet speed I have added as much info as my ability allows (and Speccy's help) to my profile hope this helps Any help advice etc greatly appreciated

I have a padlock symbol on C:\ProgramData\Start Menu I AM the administrator and this is a home computer Control Pannel -> Users tells me also that I am Administrator.

I started to post this in Networking, since my issues first became apparent when I was trying to do networky... stuff... but the more I've tried to resolve the issue the more problems I seem to uncover. Basically I am at my parents' house for the break. I have my computer, PC2, running Windows...

When I connect with my office computer (win7 Pro) from my home computer (XP Pro) everything work fine. When I attempt to connect my laptop (win 7 Pro) to my office comouter (win 7 pro) it will not connect. Any ideas?

Hi, i have a strange :( i run win 7 ultimate 64 and in Network ID, when i change the initial setting (this computer is part of a business network) to: this is a home computer, and prompts me to restart, the system reverts to the first setting (business network). I ve done this procedure many...

I have a Dell Inspiron One 19. Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller. I was minding my own business, and rebooted after doing an update to AVG Antivirus, and when the PC came up, it said that the Realtek NIC driver did not install properly. I uninstalled my antivirus and firewall, and ran a...

Penetration testing for the home computer user | Naked Security

I have been getting a blue screen a lot. I have run all the hardware diagnostics and everything checks out ok. I tried to run chkdsk from a c prompt but I get the message "Access denied as you do not have sufficient privileges. You have to invoke this utility running in elevated mode." This...

Hello, We recently upgraded our home computer, a Dell Latitude E6500, from Windows XP to Windows 7. Everything is working fine except for the installation of our printer, an HP Officejet 6310. I downloaded the full feature software and drivers and successfully installed them, even printed a...

I used the right-click mouse button to select "share with nobody" on a personal file. It did not ask for a password or anything else to allow myself in. Now the file is locked and denied excess to myself. What is the procedures to undo this? This is a home computer and I was just trying the...

Howdy all: I've seen some threads elsewhere on this problem, but found nothing that I could follow to fix it. I cannot believe that Microsoft would sell an OS that will not allow a computer user to edit/save something as simple as a notepad document on his own computer. When I try to save a...

So I'm currently running 32 bit XP right now, and was wondering if my computer would be able to handle the new Windows 7 64 bit. Here are my known specs... Link Removed AMD Athlon 64 X2 5400+ Dual Core Processor 3GB P2-6400 DDR2 Memory 500GB 7200rpm SATA Hard Drive 16x DVD+/-RW Dual Layer...

I have Windows 7 on a dozen home, office and family computers but wanted to try a lite version on an old HP 510 laptop and Gateway 700 with limited 528 ram. I downloaded the popular Windows.7.Beta.Build.7000.LiTE (1,43gb) from the web, it activated with MS Win7 key and works perfectly on both...