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Good day, all I'm new here, and this is my 1st post. What brings me here, is that the Start menu's Help and Support is not functioning. The same can be said, when I attempt to use the toolbar's Help/View Help. The F1 key is useless, as well. I can't figure out what happened to the...

When I try to restore to a valid restore point, the final message is 'Restoration Incomplete' 'Your computer cannot be restored to........date/system checkpoint'. I have run various antimalware, but without resolving the problem. My OS is windows XP (home edition) on a Pentium PC.

Hi. After shutdown and a long disuse (a month or so) the 7 will do this: It will go all the way to the theme background, but will hang there. No icons, nothing, just background photo. 1. Will boot to safe mode. 2. Several times (discovered accidentally) I was able to put it to sleep (or is it...

I bought this Acer V5-472-6893 laptop just a while ago. Want to dual-boot it with Linux. But first have to wipe the six partitions on this drive. THEN... make a partition for Windows 8.1, and for Linux. So I used JellyBean to find my 25-digit number. Just need a copy of Windows 8.1...

I reformatted my hard drive the other night and put OS 8 back on. I was kinda of wondering if I would get OS 8.1 upgrade back in the Windows Store. It was not appearing there. I finally found the answer, a KB file was needed to be added to my registry to get the upgrade to show up in the...

Hi All, I'm using a dell vostro laptop with windows 7 home edition. My biggest problem is that, the laptop keeps walking up automatically as soon as hibernate process completes. This is very annoying and the only way I could put my laptop to sleep is by shutting down all apps. Any help here...

Running Windows 8 on HP. Have Microsoft Account set up and am able to access IE from Desktop but not from Start Screen. When I go to Network and Internet section, tells me I'm not connected to a network. What to do?

I am using a Fujitsu NH570 Notebook and am running Windows 7 Home Edition. A few weeks ago I don't know what happened but the New Folder link at the top of say the documents folder or any place that has that option that a person would use to create a new folder doesn't work anymore. You click on...

How do i take ownership of my secondary drives, i cant even get a proper right click menu which allows me to create notepads and stuff, i got windows 7 home

hi, All; I have MS Office 2010 Home Edition. Is there a way to make 2 different Excel docs show up on 2 different monitors at the same time (one on each, of course)? (I have a PC and 2 displays total.) Thanks!

Well there are 2 PC in my LAN: NB Notebook WiFi connection to my router NETGEAR DGN2200V3 Windows 7 Professional 64bit SP1 DSK Desktop Cabled connection to my router NETGEAR DGN2200V3 Windows XP Home Edition 32bit SP3 If from DSK I try to access NB shared folders...

I want to know how to uninstall, or otherwise remove Ms Paint. To all those who are going to want to know why or tell me I shouldn't; the why is that I hate it and think it is a piece of crap. I do not and will not use it and no one else uses my computer, so there is no good reason I should be...

I am running Windows 7 Home 64-Bit. I use Forticlient to connect to my company's VPN. I have used it for over a year with no problems. About 2 weeks ago, I tried to open it and it would not open. I made several attempts with the same outcome. I checked to see if it was running using the Task...

i have an acer aspire one netbook 11.6 does my netbook pass the requirements and do you recomend upgradeing to windows 8 my specs- INTEL CELERON CPU 877 @ 1.40GHZ (2 CPUS) MEMORY 2048MB RAM DIRECT X 11 WINDOWS 7 HOME ACER ASPIRE ONE 320 GB INTEL HD GRAPHICS 814 MB RES. 1360x768 DO...

Can you set a user on windows home so there can't change there password? Can you set a expiration date on Windows 7 home password? Is there a default expiration on win 7 home?

I don't have much knowledge in these things so I have to rely on what people tell me so I hope I am not wasting your time. I have a Sony VPCZ21 with an embedded fingerprint reader. I want to use my preferred encryption software DigitalPersona 4.1 (sadly they don't update this anymore) and under...

I have two HP laptops. One came with Win 7 Pro while the other has home edition. Is it possible to install the pro version on both the machines with the same installation disk. I think since I own both the laptops and their respective OS, I might try to do that. The main reason is one has a...

After trying every solution I can think of to boot my daughter's laptop, I've made my decision. I'm going to create a fresh install on a new, larger 640 gig drive. If that goes well, I told her that I would save what files I could from the corrupted drive. (I'll cross that bridge with her...

hi! guy's i have prob about hard drive write protected. i can't open any files i have win xp sp3 home edition(pro) thank's...

So I installed a beta version of W7 Ultimate and it's displaying a watermark that says "this is not a legit version". I never had a legitimate product key. I want to purchase a real version and upgrade appropriately. Can I purchase an Upgrade license to Windows 7 Ultimate or do I have to...