pc upgrade

I have inherited a Lenovo H330 pc complete with HDMI monitor. It was apparently bought c. 2013 and at that point came with windows 7 home premium pre-installed: the processor shows as an i5 2320 3.0ghz and it now has 8gb ram fitted (4 originally) and a 500gb hd. At some point it was upgraded to...

Hello everybody! I just got my custom PC upgraded to Windows 10 version 1709 from 1703, and what really bothers me is the Cortana Search bar in my taskbar. It used to be a lighter shade of my accent color earlier, and looked less distracting. Now, its dazzling white, looks like it pops out of...

I just upgraded my PC and my laptop to the Windows 10 Creator's upgrade and after the upgrade I noticed that my laptop is having a minor issue. I know that with the update Microsoft has removed Control Panel from the START menu but it's still available by searching for it on your PC. On my...

I installed a new Sandisk SSD on my old PC (using EaseToDo for the cloning) but had to leave the old drive connected as well, due to boot issues which I gave up trying to resolve. I'm sorry if today's question doesn't make sense: do I gain any advantage by opening Windows with the old drive...

Hi, I have tried to upgrade Win.8.1 to Win 10 last year (before 29 july) and now with windows 10 (assitive technologies) My Win. 8.1 is Danish and 32bit version. Windows 10 seems to install correctly by using "windows 10 assistant" but fails around 29% when doing final upgrades and then PC...

Hello Windows Insiders! Today we are excited to be releasing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 14942 for PC to Windows Insiders in the Fast ring. What’s new in Build 14942 Hide app list on Start: We are releasing a new feature that enables you to collapse the app list in the Start menu. This...

My Brother brought a computer home and said the hard drive went bad but I am not exactly sure which Windows is on it and how do move Windows from the bad hard drive to the new hard drive

I bought a refurbished Windows 10 desktop and I want to install my windows 7 h/d in it. Will it work? The motherboard is bad on my old system. Thanks

Hi all I've just upgraded my PC running Windows 7 Professional to Windows 10. I was expecting that I would get Windows 10 Pro but instead I can see that I now have Windows 10 Home. I did the upgrade by using the Windows 10 Media Creation Tool to create the Windows 10 DVD, and then ran the...

I am running a pc with an i3 4170 processor, gigabyte h97m-d3h mobo, 6 gigs of ram and a gtx 650 video card. I upgraded to windows 10 a couple of months ago and some time after that i was getting hit with bsods of different errors at random times. My response was to use the reset feature on w10...

So, I'm going to buy a new hard drive, but I'm kinda scared if I can't install Windows on the new hard drive. Can I do that or is it against some "laws"?

Hi guys, I am in dire need of some help/advice. My parents are on vacation and I thought I would finally upgrade my mother's PC. This PC was still running on Windows XP along with several old programs. Normally I would do a clean install, however she wanted to keep everything *sigh* So first...

I am running windows 10 build 10240 on a Dell laptop. Activation is OK. I have insider preview turned off. Is there a way to upgrade the build on this PC?

Hi Yesterday I helped my friend upgrade his Windows 7 computer to Windows 10. Everything went smoothly except the sound. Even though he has a different model of Sound Blaster card, (a SB X Fi Fatality Pro) he has the same issue that I did when I switched to Windows 10. After the update there...

Hi I was just reading about Windows 10 upgrade policy and it seems to indicate that users of Windows Vista (already screwed once, LOL) will not have the free upgrade offer even though the previous and post versions of Windows are eligible. If that's true it seems like a very strange option...

Hi all, So I have had a small nightmarish time of updating my PC. I had bought a new GPU and a SSD harddisk. I could not get them installed properly myself, so had to turn in my PC to a professional to get them installed and working. I got my PC back today and the new GPU and the new harddisk...

I decided to upgrade my pc from win 7 ultimate 64bit to win 8.1 Pro 64bit. However, on booting from the dvd (I used an external drive which is working perfectly), after the "press any key to boot from cd/dvd" screen the screen goes blank and nothing happens at all. I tried using the internal dvd...

Hi, My brother would like to upgrade his pc.His current config is core i3 3.3 GHZ with 2gb ram and win 7.Would win 8 x64, 4 gigs of RAM with a GT 640 ddr5 graphics and Corsair 450 watts SMPS be a decent upgrade for adobe PS ,movie viewing and occasional gaming(Max Payne..);Please suggest.

Hi, I have replaced an IDE HDD with a cloned SDD on an XP SP3 (Asus motherboard) PC. The PC boots up off SDD ok after the error message "IDE HDD master not found press F1" and pressing F1. I'm trying to get rid of this error message. The Bios setup thinks the IDE is still in the PC even thought...

I just wanna share something to you guys here who spends a lot of time in forums or anywhere on the web using an old laptop or PCs with only 2.4Ghz wireless adapter. I have not been using my Vista laptop for years because of it's "slowness". Even web browsing is so slow even though I have a...