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I have a Laptop lenovo Win 10; I always do an Image backup of the System with an external Toshiba HD via USB. The Image I do it using the Win 10 Control Panel (Back up and restore Windows 7) Just today I had a problem with Outlook and decided to restore my last image of few days back as I...

I have a Lenovo PC with win 10 that is no longer working due to hardware problems; I have kept a good last Backup Image done before I had problems. I now have found an identical same make & model PC as the broken one I had with win 10 my question is can I restore to this new identical machine...

Create a System Image Backup and Restore in Windows 10/11 Difficulty: Beginner | Time Required: 20-30 minutes A system image is a complete snapshot of your computer: the operating system, programs, system settings, and your files. Having a recent system image lets you recover your PC exactly as...

The Plug and Play (PnP) service is a critical backbone of the Windows operating system, quietly orchestrating how our computers detect, configure, and utilize new hardware devices with almost magical ease. For most users, the days of fiddling with jumpers or wrestling with IRQ conflicts are a...

The Case for a Clean Install Ladies and gentlemen of the digital age, let's talk about one of the grandest rites of passage for a PC enthusiast: the clean install. You're not just doing a bit of spring cleaning; you're rolling up the sleeves and giving your system the full Marie Kondo treatment...

Hello, Windows 11 on my HP x360 14tea laptop. After creating a backup image, I am trying to restore the image. The image was created and stored on a network hard drive without any issues. Unfortunately, I haven't found a way to restore the image. I have a USB CD/DVD Burner that I have used to...

I have an HP x360 14tea laptop that came with Windows 11. I have been trying to create a backup image and then go through the procedure to restore the image. I have created the image and stored it on a network hard drive with no problems. But, I have not found a way to restore the image. I have...

This AM EST at 7 AM I failed at updating Windows 10 21H1 19043.1081. I am sorry I cannot remember the #. I tried everything including recovering an image to no avail. I tired about 6 times and it always said that red waning it was not good. Inexplicably, I ran windows update successfully, no...

Beginning about four days ago, all three of my Windows 10 machines stopped running batch files scheduled in the Task Scheduler. These batch files had been running on schedule for over a year when all three suddenly stopped about the same time. I believe that this is about the time that the...

I bought an HP Envy 15 May of 2013. I did not want Win8 or a touchscreen, but that was all that I could find. I hardly used it the first two weeks and then the screen cracked, so I sent it in under the extended warranty. As I recall, I needed to reactivate Windows afterwards, and ended up...

I have an ASUS vivobook S500Ca which came preinstalled with Windows 8 Home Premium in Oct 2013. I had made a USB for the purpose of reinstalling it at any point. Name on this USB is 'Recovery'. It has around 13 GB size with 6 .swm files of around 2GB each. So it happened and my hard disk...

Hi I've got my computer all up and running again with everything installed and for the most part working. It's running very well, but there is a down side. Cortana has stopped talking again. I can clearly see that she is sending the speech signal to my Sound Blaster Card, but unlike last time...

Can anyone provide me with a link, or preferably a file, to download a Windows 8.1 32-bit System Repair/Recovery Image ? I cannot create one on my Dell Venue 8 Pro (pre-loaded with Windows 8.1) because my tablet cannot access the homescreen (cannot log into Windows) as it is stuck on the BSOD...

This is more of a cosmetic question than a "I seriously need help" one. Nevertheless, I appreciate any insight your may be able to offer about the nature of this issue. When Win 7 is first booting one ordinarily sees the 4-color animated "flower". However, recently the gui animation during this...

Hello out there, LostInCyberspace calling for help! I ran a cleaner, System Mechanic to be precise, and lost all my icon images. I know, sill of me, I was warned that it would be a problem replacing the Registry Keys that held the images, since that portion of System Mechanic deleted said...

I don't have any experience with UEIF machines. My nephew is autistic and learning disabled and I got him a new HP Windows 7 PC and it is UEIF. I've been setting it up for him. I made the repair disk and figured out how to boot from it but it says disk error or not a system disc. I burned an ISO...

I re-installed win 7 on a new SSD and after the first time I turned it off it said it was downloading 137 updates! next morning it started up and kept rebooting in an endless loop. I got out the cd and went into repair after several botched attempts this worked! I carried on adding my programs...

I recently did an update of my machine from Windows 8 to Windows 8.1. The update process did not show any errors or warnings and by the time it finished I was under the impression that everything went smooth. After the update I was testing the environment and discovered that one of my desktop...

Hi! I'm new here. My name is John Todd. How are you? I apologize if this has been covered already. I tried the search and browsed a lot but couldn't find the answer. I think it is because I don't quite know what to ask for. Here is my problem: I need to re-image my main C:. I'm running...

Hi Here's some info about creating a recovery image that will retain your installed software, in Windows 8 that I didn't know about. This seems like a better option then restoring Windows and losing all of your installed programs. Everything You Need to Know About Creating Custom Recovery...