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  1. Windows 10 Upgrade from 8.1 Professional

    why my W8.1 Professional on after the upgrade shows W10 Home edition?
  2. Windows 10 Getting the final release on July 29th...

    Hi If anyone hasn't seen this because then don't bother to read all the notices I think this makes it official that everyone in the Insider Program who is running Windows 10 will get it on July 29th. Mike...
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    Windows 7 Windows 10 Version

    I have Windows 7 Home installed. I have read that users with Pro and Ultimate will receive Windows 10 Pro while I would receive Windows 10 Home. At what point is this determined? If I were to upgrade my Home to a Pro or Ultimate, would I then receive 10 Pro. I've already reserved my copy through...
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    Windows 7 no restart after updates installation

    I belive in gpedit you can set no restart after windows update installation but gpedit is not available on windows 7 home edition. How can you configure " no restart after updates installation" on windows 7 home edition?
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    Windows 8 Windows 8.1 clean install using OEM key...

    Hello! I've recently bought a Dell Inspirion notebook with Windows 8.1 Home Edition 64 bit OEM pre-installed on it. Now, what i want to do is to replace the HDD with SSD, so i did a little research and....well, I' am more confused now! But first thing first. For those who want to tell me about...
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    DNS issue in LAN - network slow down

    Hi All, Our network is in workgroup but not in domain because of most of the computers in the office are home edition operating systems. Though we have windows server 2012 as a file server. Our issue is the network slow, by analyzing I found the issue may be with the computers cannot identify...
  7. Windows XP stop sign in on start up XP

    Hi, on start up XP home in my Acer netbook the "Log On to windows" comes up. Where the user name is it shows "user" & no password shown. By pressing OK it continues the boot up. I never asked to log on & this started the last few months. Any way to stop this happening?
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    Windows 7 Dell inspirion 1300

    Hello so I bought a second hand laptop and the os it is meant to run is windows xp home edition I have tried installing windows 7 32 bit home premium but when I try to install the drivers it is only giving me the option to install through vista is there a way to trik the computer into running...
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    Windows 7 Win 7 HE - Help and Support; View/Help tab; F1 not working. Advice?

    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...
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    Windows XP Trouble Restoring Windows XP: 'Restoration Incomplete' Error at Restore Point

    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.
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    Windows 7 windows 7 home 64 bit won't fully loaf.

    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...
  12. Windows 8 Want to download Win-8.1, and install with my key...

    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...
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    Windows 8 Reinstalling OS 8.1 free upgrade

    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...
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    Windows 7 Windows start back immediately after completing hibernate

    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...
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    Windows 8 HP Desktop with Windows 8 Home, can't access IE from Start Screen

    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?
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    Windows 7 Can't create new folders anymore

    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...
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    Windows 7 Help I Want To Use My Drive Properly

    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
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    Windows 7 Excel 2010: Displaying 2 documents on 2 separate monitors

    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!
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    Windows 7 [Problem] - Windows 7 ask for password if I access a Windows XP computer

    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...
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    Windows 7 How to Uninstall or Remove MS Paint from Windows 7 Home Edition

    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...