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I just upgraded my motherboard/cpu/ram and installed windows 10 home successfuly. However, I am unable to activate my windows 10 because I don't know how to sign into my mircrosoft account that my digital license is tied to active it. I get an error code: 0x803F7001 and there is no place to add...

I have three computers on a network. I also have a common account for Skype that worked on them all until Microsoft bought out Skype. Last Monday while logging in to Skype with my usual frequently used and long held username and password, Skype refused to continue until I had entered my...

Hi. I am currently running Windows 10 on my laptop. Can I find other laptops/devices running with Windows 8 / 8.1 devices using my Microsoft account? Or do I upgrade those first to be found? Thank you.

I have Windows 8.1 Pro installed upgraded recently from Windows 7. Unfortunately I have a problem with the Store app constantly running at startup and it does not go away unless I manually Terminate it from the Task Manager. It seems to be ingrained with my Microsoft Account. Because even...

Hi, I'm sorry if the title is confusing... I have windows 10 64-bit. I log in using my Microsoft account (not local account) and have a child account also setup so my son can log in and use the PC. However, there are some software that I would not like my son to have access to or know I am...

I just installed Windows 10. During installation, I created a sign in password at the login screen. Within 30 minutes of using Windows 10, I went into the Windows Store App and tried to download the Free version of Photoshop Express. To do this, I had to sign into one of my Microsoft...

So i have been using windows 8.1 and only had one local account in this computer. I come back to find that someone has associated their cloud account to this computer and now my account is missing and now i have their accounts instead and windows 10. My question is, can i somehow retrieve my...

Link Removed The user experience for roaming app data is similar to a magic trick. Work is done behind the scenes to create the illusion that data is moving from place to place when, in fact, all that really happens is data gets copied and destroyed, over and over. The data itself never...

Users today are mobile, transitioning from one device to the next throughout the day. Increasingly, these same users expect (or even demand) to take their data with them. Fortunately for us, roaming app data makes this a reality. Today, we kick off a two-post series that explores how to use...

Bought a new Surface Pro, charged it up and started on set up. I then got the blank screen and spinning circle. Held the power and volume button down together and it rebooted. That was the first issue. Then when I had created a Microsoft account as advised, I tried to download some apps but...

I just found a huge Windows 10 flaw and it has impact on File History, too. All us previous Windows users that login with a Microsoft Account have all noticed how Windows 10 names our user accounts after our Microsoft Account. I just noticed this flaw in File History. In previous Windows...

Running under Win 7, we have six Outlook accounts. Ordinarily, all our email work was done locally under Outlook; however, occasionally we had to go out to live.com to get into accounts at the server. No problem -- sign in with our email address and password and we were fine. Then somebody...

Here's the setup on my home network: Win10 Machine A - Win 10 Pro, Automatically logs on Using a Local Account (In Netplwiz I Unchecked that users need to enter a User Name/PW and have an admin account automatically logging in). Win10 Machine B - Win 10 Pro, Normal Logon process with a...

Firstly, I'm very sorry if this is not where to post this, but recently, I've bought GTA: San Andreas on my Windows Nokia Phone. Don't remember which model, but I will check and respond if anyone needs to know. Anyways, I am not very sure if this is how it even works, but I've gotten the idea...

Hi to everyone, This is my first post and my knowledge of Windows is basic to say the least! Looking to purchase a new desktop PC later today - with windows 10, however this will only be used for photo editing and spreadsheets, word processing and the like - won't require internet access at...

Earlier this year, NPR released a Windows 8 version of Link Removed, and recently, a Universal Windows Platform (UWP) version. They were eager to share their challenges and developer experiences in bringing the app to UWP. Link Removed provides talk radio personalized for each listener. NPR’s...

I have been using OneDrive for business. After upgrading to Office 2016 I can no longer sync the files on my laptop. I can on two machines with Win 7. I have tried restarting OneDrive for Business from Start but the issue is that I get the error that we can't connect to the specified Sharepoint...

I start up Visual Studio 2015, it shows me this Link Removed I have a Microsoft account, and have signed in and logged out many times on this screen. But if I click the Close button, or the Top X, the whole program closes rather than just the login screen. It tells me my license has expired...

Hi Today one of my friends called and we were trying to fix his computer throwing a critical error every time he boots up. Microsoft's solution it to boot into Safe Mode and then reboot back into normal mode again. So I told him over the phone how to boot into safe mode using msconfig...

One thing I am really having problems with is getting “Cortana” to function. I have a Toshiba is Qosmio X500-116 (only computer that I have upgraded to Windows 10), It has a built in Mic, I have changed the language to English US (I understand English UK version is not ready yet for running...