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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 started using the Windows 7 built-in administrator account. I basically copied over all of the original user settings to the new administrator account, setting everything up through Windows. I've encountered a situation where it appears that the administrator internal settings are causing a...

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...