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  1. Microsoft Answers Retired; All Content Moved to Microsoft Learn Q&A with AI Assist

    Microsoft has quietly pulled the plug on the long-running Microsoft Answers/Support Community at answers.microsoft.com and folded its content and users into the Microsoft Learn Q&A platform, redirecting the old domain to the new Q&A home and pushing AI‑assisted workflows as the primary discovery...
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    • Forum: Windows News

  2. Windows Migration Made Easy: Your Guide to the New Transfer Tool and Its Limitations

    With Windows users facing a rapidly-approaching end-of-support deadline for Windows 10, Microsoft’s development of a new transfer tool arrives as both a lifeline and a subtle nudge toward adopting Windows 11. This newly-released migration solution marks a significant effort to streamline the...
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    • Forum: Windows News

  3. How to Fix and Prevent Corrupted User Profiles in Windows: Complete Guide

    A corrupted user profile is a scenario familiar to countless Windows users—sometimes it creeps in as a sudden inability to log in to your account, other times as strange errors, missing files, or the abrupt change of system personalization settings. Regardless of the symptoms, the underlying...
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  4. How to Fix Windows User Profile Corruption: Causes, Prevention, and Repair Tips

    Windows user profile corruption is a surprisingly common and challenging issue for both home users and IT professionals. The symptoms can range from seemingly minor glitches—such as missing desktop icons—to complete login failures that leave a system all but unusable. For anyone who depends on...
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  5. User profile transfer to AAD account

    How does one connect the users AD (or local) user profile to the user after joining the PC to Azure. The user (even when using exactly the same user name) does get a completely blank profile. - Some people actually panic when we try this. "Everything is gone :-(" as one manager said today...
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    • Forum: Windows Help and Support
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    Windows 10 Windows User profile migration - browser credentials- and favorites

    Moving a users documents etc. from an old PC to a new one is quite simple but my tecs all tend to do this differently and the results are mediocre.. How do you get about easily migrating everything including browser favorites and credentials from mainly Edge, Chromium Edge, Chrome and Firefox...
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    • Forum: Windows Help and Support
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    Windows 10 COVID-19 Migrate to new PC over internet

    Hi, 88 year old Grandad is in isolation; I don't want to visit him as I have family members with symptoms. His ancient PC (running Windows 10, just about) needs replacing. I have remote access to it (Teamviewer). I have a new laptop for him. I want to transfer his basic settings to new PC...
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    • Forum: Windows Upgrade and Installation
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    Windows 7 Corrupted user profile, help needed!! Wont let me copy files

    UPDATE Problem SOLVED...I dicovered that it was temporary internet files which were too long. Not that that fixed my problem, I was still unable to access my copied files in the new account I created, kept giving me an access denied message. So I decided to just do a system restore instead...
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    Windows 7 ACLs, partitions and users profiles

    Hi In Windows7 SP1, I noticed that the ACLs of the root directory of a logical partition (D:) formatted NTFS are different from those of the root directory of the system partition (C:): C:\Windows\system32>icacls c:\ c:\ BUILTIN\Administrators:(F) BUILTIN\Administrators:(OI)(CI)(IO)(F)...
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    Windows 7 How to view hidden files

    I'm trying to move my thunderbird profile folder from xp to a win7 folder. The AppData folder in user/(name)/ is hidden. In xp and vista you can un-hide them. How to do this in Windows 7 :confused: Thanks!
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    • Forum: Windows Help and Support