Hey guys, I was wondering if any of you could help me with this. The search section of my charms bar won't open. When I open the charms bar and click on the search icon, it highlights the icon for a second and then closes the charms bar and does nothing. I am running windows 8.1 core OEM single...
I need to reformat my windows 7 PC, but I don't have a PS/2 mouse, only wireless/USB. When reformatting in the past I've gotten stuck before the USB drivers installed, when a USB mouse would not work. Previously I usually had a corded PS/2 mouse around and just plugged it in and kept going, but...
I expect the answer to this is that I'll have to install Windows again, but I wanted to make sure before I open the disk case and waste $80.
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-Gets to the loading windows screen and crashes just before the four colored balls make contact. The screen freezes for about a tenth of a...
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Looking at the pricing on Newegg for the two versions of 8.1 Pro, I have to wonder why the full version gives you the 64 and 32 bit versions but at a cost of $199, while the OEM 64 bit version is $139. No extra license included in the Retail version, just another $10 CD?
I am assuming the 8.1...
1. Is there a difference between a clean and custom installation?
When considering a OS change from Vista 32 to Win 7/64 bit, which process should I be using? Or are the words clean/custom install more or less semantics and mean the same thing?
2. I have been looking at purchasing Win 7 Pro...
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I have just found out last week that when Windows 8 goes out on sale in the shops tomorrow on 26th October 2012,it will only be sold as an upgrade install. And I telephoned PC World a large computer store in England,where I live and they confirmed this.
Which means that there will be no full...
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I have a Windows 7 Home Premium 32-bit with SP1 (OEM). I have already installed the Windows and activated online.
Also i have installed all my motherboards drivers such as audio, lan, raid and gpu.
The whole process took me around 1 hour 30 mins.
Next month i'm planning to format my hdd and...
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I have run sfc/scannow in win 7, and have followed instructions to run sfc at boot in command prompt, but nothing has solved the errors. i have saved the file sfcdetails.txt to desktop, and have extracted only the problematic parts and saved it in another file problems.txt
kindly check the file...
Hi i just bought a laptop and i keep getting BSOD while doing random stuffs like surfing the net and streaming movies.. Here are some specs and the ZIP report...
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OEM version (i reformatted 3 times using Windows 7 Home premium, Windows 7 Pro...
I have been building my own machines since 1980. Over the years, probably 40 to 50 of them. Since about 1990, I have purchased the components at Fry's Electronics, most recently in Roseville CA. In December, I started converting to Windows 7. Over a period of six months, I have purchased the...
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I have a desktop pc and laptop. The desktop pc is using windows 7 home (OEM version) and i want to use windows 7 home on the laptop as well. If i install windows 7 on the laptop, what will happen to windows 7 on my desktop pc??
I built an AMD Athlon II X4 with an ECS Black 785 mobo in October 09. The whole sys stopped powering up last August. In a series of long-timey repairs, I finally got all the components repaired (replaced bad PS, and I exchanged the CPU). Now, I can't get past the classpnp.sys in safe mode. I...
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I recently bought a new PC (Intel Core2 Quad, 6GB ram, Sata with 300GB HDD) and installed a new (OEM) version of Windows 7 Home Premium (64bit)
Everything was running fine until I decided I'd physically add the old 'primary' drive from my old Pentium 3 as a secondary/backup. It's only 120GB so...
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Q: I want to get Windows 7 Professional to replace my Windows XP. I noticed that most online stores sell the upgrade version for about $200, but I found a full OEM version of Windows 7 for $120. Are there any...
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I've got OEM version of W7 Pro 64 bit. I've had it about 2 months and everything is working fine except IE8 64 bit. I normally use Firefox so haven't been to concerned.
I'm now trying to figure out why my IE8 64 bit dosn't work. The IE8 32 bit works fine.
The error I get when I start IE8...
I have a really big big problem on my pc. Firstly it began when i was trying to restore my ipod touch and with iTunes it didn't work, so i've looked for other software to restore and i found one. But i had to install something called " libusb" but i have a 64 bit and it's only for 32; so i found...
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Hello,
could somebody please give me an advice to the following problem:
I wonna install Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit version on my PC (Acer) which currently has Windows Xp 32 bit installed.
But SLIC Dump Toolkit tells me: Dump Error ! (SLIC Table Not Find ! )
Is it under this circumstances...
I used an OEM full-version Windows 7 pro disk to do a clean install (not upgrade) over windows vista home premium. Everything is fine except now there are two lines in the boot manager. The first is Windows 7 and the second is Windows Vista Home
Premium (recovered). This computer was purchased...
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Ive bought a Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit OEM version. But i have an problem. Windows 7 says i need to update it. So okay. I update it. When i finished the update it says ; "Restart your computer to finish the updates". So i restart my computer. But when that 4 coloured little...