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Dear all, I am new here, so Hi! I just woke up my PC and suddenly a unknown icon appeared on my taskbar. I cannot click it and when I point the cursor at it there is no description there. Do you have any idea what could it be? It looks wireless-ish. Also, there is one more thing - my Windows...

Hi I'm new to the forum and would like to see if any one knows what this is It's called trade-off. I took a picture of it on my son's computer it keeps popping up a lot I'm worried if it's a virus or if the OS is corrupted. Any help is appreciated, please see attached picture. Sent from my...

Hi I am new on the forum. I'm working with Side Effects Houdini and it crashes all the time due to "command exit code: -1073741819". I thought it was a Houdini issue, but I tink now it is a Window issue. Please advice. Ragnar Egeland

Hi all, I'm new and not very tech capable. I have just received a new laptop with a Windows 10 Pro Operating System DVD - however my new laptop does not have an optical drive. Can I copy the DVD onto a USB stick on my desktop which is running Windows 10 and use it to upgrade the new laptop...

Hello. I am having an issue. Whenever I try to delete or move an item, a message pops up and displays "Invalid MS-DOS Function" I can't seem to get past it so can someone help me? Thanks! PS I'm new to this forum so.......

Hello, I'm new here, I'm wondering how I can integrate software in the Windows. For example, if I want to add an item to the context menu, in the explorer window, to send a file to an OLD folder. So, after click in «Send to Old» it would create a folder «yyyy-MM-dd - Old» in the same path of...

Good day. Small introduction. I'm Rien from The Netherlands. 42 years old. In a few weeks 43. Things go FAST! Excuse my english, I'm doing my best. As the title says, i'm currently moving away from mac osx and going to Windows 10. Basically for economic reasons. My macbook has died on me, I...

Hi people, not sure if this is the right place to ask for help about a graphics card as I am new to forums.

Hellow guys I am new in the forum , please help me out to solve the problem . Few days ago I saw the old jpg pictures and words and pdf and video files not possible to open and this happened this time i never had experience of this problem . I explain the new word or jpg pictures and pdf is...

hello I want to set up a new user in windows 10. Right now I only have my admin user on it. I want a secondary user for someone else. He needs to be able to download and use a program, but not be able to access to any of my files. So when you first log in with him, it looks like you just...

I'm sure the gurus know how to do this but it is a daunting task for normal users. So, it would be great if one of the many gurus here could provide step by step instructions for the rest of us to go from an existing 8.1 oem factory installation to a dual boot 8.1 and 10. I've done some...

I figure, if done and presented correctly, it will take about 5 tutorials to answer 98% of any questions about Windows 10. Such things as how to make a Public Network a Private Network should be very popular. And it should not be much of a stretch to find other common questions. The ones...

Yesterday I built a new gaming desktop and everything worked fine but after i installed windows 7 with the installation cd I can't connect to the internet even tough I have my Ethernet cable plugged in! I found out I don't have any drivers for them! It seems like windows didn't install all the...

I have just bought a new computer with Windows 8.1 and I am confused and underwhelmed by 8.1. My main gripe is the totally uncontrollable start Screen. OK I can sort apps into groups and name the groups so that's a start. After getting apps into different groups I now set about sorting them...

Hi! Im new to the forums and all so I'm sorry if this doesn't belong here. So basically i have a problem with my headset and speakers. I have a speaker that a slot for me to plug in a headset. My speaker is a insignia-2.0 stereo computer speaker system (2-piece)- Black. you can search this up...

Hey guys, I'm new to this forum and i don't know if thIs thread is placed in the right category. I've got a question. Can i install a torrented Windows 7 ISO to my Windows Vista laptop? If yes, how? I'd like to have Windows 7 on my laptop. Thanks in advance, Twitmuck.

Hi, I accidentally deleted a corrupt user account in windows 7 before creating a new user account. I chose not to delete the files, thankfully. The files are there in the c: drive under the deleted user. My question is this; how can I bring those files over to my new user account? Any help...

What do we know so far about win 9? And when is update 2 coming out? Thanks Ps. I'm new here! Tyler.

Sometime next Friday or Saturday, I'm going to be getting a Nokia Lumia 521. I was wondering if someone could point me to any Windows Phone 8 guides, as I'm a newb. to Windows Phone or any smartphone, in general. I already know how to upgrade it to the Windows Phone 8.1 Preview. Which I plan on...

I am new to Windows 8.When I open Internet Explorer and every time I go into a website, I always get this message: Internet Explorer blocked this website from displaying content with security certificate errors. Is there anything I can do to stop this message from appearing. I never had this...