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Microsoft recently rolled out its much-anticipated Windows 11 24H2 update, stirring a whirlwind of excitement while simultaneously raising substantial concerns among a significant portion of its user base. The update not only brings fresh user interface enhancements and security features but...

I sometimes watch videos like deleting the program files folder, setting date to crazy big values and breaking win 11/10 every other possible way. In many cases modern windows starts slowly transforming into win 7/XP. Like alt-tab menu from XP, task manager from 7 and other weird things I wonder...

Hi there, I have installed Win10 on my laptop & also python, brave browser & putty. The windows folder is 45GB so, I think I might have a previous build or old version saved somewhere - I don't know. Is there a way of checking? Many thanks John

Hi, In the beginning I had XP installed and then Win7 in dual boot. Dual boot I could not undo and upgraded Win7 to Win10. After a Win10 crash, I couldn't do any repair. I reinstalled Win10 on another partition. My question is if I can just delete the older versions and just keep working with...

Assume I have a notebook with Win10 v1803. Now I would like to upgrade this Win10 to ONLY (!) Win10 v1903 but NOT the newest v1909. Is this possible? How can I avoid beeing upgraded to newest v1909? Peter

I'm currently in a backup project and I've got ALOT of old software. But should I even make ISO backups of theses old software? I've got old versions of Visual Studio, every Office back to 98, every Windows os back to 98 SE. Have any of ya'll come across a situation where you needed an old...

So today I went to the windows disk cleanup on my laptop which only has 32GB of storage on it, and it said that I could get 3.9 TB back and that seems impossible since it is 32GB model. It turns out that the thing that was 3.9 TB was the old windows versions that it saved apparently. But it...

I have been want to play an old racing game for some time now (Driver By GT Interactive) but it wont load. It was deigned for Windows 98 and 95 and i am running 8.1. I manually found the install file and installed it along with Direct X 6 and Direct X Media. I set the compatibility mode and...

Microsoft will officially end support for Windows 8 and older versions of Internet Explorer as the new year begins. They are asking users to upgrade to Windows 8.1 and the latest version of IE in order to receive continued security updates. read more Continue reading...

As I'm sure many of you already know, older Windows versions 95/98/XP had a way of soft-rebooting Windows; it essentially allowed you to reboot the system without actually turning the machine off. In the older versions, I believe you just held the shift button down after clicking Restart until...

A report says Microsoft is already sending early versions of Windows 8 to PC makers so they can get ready for an expected launch in 2012. Source: Yahoo! News

Microsoft is reportedly sending early versions of Windows 8 to its PC vendor partners. The company is releasing the software through its Connect testing system. Link Removed

Hi, A few quick questions on Word. We recently built a new PC that is running the 32 bit version of 7 Home Prem. We moved a bunch of word docs from an older maching running XP Home generated in, I believe, Word 2001(if there is such an animal...it was pre-installed on a Dell we purchased new...

I seemed to have collected a bunch of Microsoft Visual C ++ 2XXX Redistributable and Microsoft .NET Framework on my computer. Is it cool for me to uninstall all of the older ones and just keep the newest one?

Was visiting Wzors site and found these 7700.0.100122-1900_x64fre_client_en-us-GRMCXFRE_EN_DVD.iso screen shots. Early Windows 8 builds? Or maybe just SP1 betas? Any ways these builds are post-RTM. Link Removed due to 404 Error Link Removed due to 404 Error

I'm using Windows 7 Premium Home. I can't sign in yahoo messenger. I tried to install other older versions but it still did not work. Everytime I sign in ym, this table appears: I don't know what wrong is it. Can anyone help me pls? And one more thing, my laptop doesn't have a CD ROM...

At first I couldn't even load the Installer. Every time I would, it would stop and tell me to re-install Windows Live Programs. But now, finally, the installation works. Allas, new problem - no matter what I do, it wont sign-in. Error code 8001012e. "Signing in to Windows Live Messenger failed...