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    Old TOSHIBA with Windows 10

    I have an old TOSHIBA laptop that hasn't been used in 5 or more years. It came with Windows 7. A HUGE mistake I made was to upgrade to Windows 10, in spite of warnings that the machine really can't handle the upgrade. Boy, the warnings were right. The computer became super-slow, I guess because...
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    How Can I Access a 2nd C Drive Linking 2 PC’s With USB Data ‘Transfer’ Cable

    Hello, I am using a special data transfer cable with particular softwares: Bravura & PCLinq5 to link 2 mini-PC sticks together to recognize each other’s C Drives to wipe them clean and reformat to them, but I’m not able to see the C Drives of each no matter what I do. Both use Win 10. Is there...
  3. ste20man

    Windows 11 Back to basics

    Hi. I used to have win 10 and updated to 11. Everything's great. I want to wipe out back to standard Windows 10. A complete clean so that i can sell it. How do i do that? If i wipe everything will there still be a Windows 10 operating system on there? My laptop is a surface laptop 2 and i...
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    Windows 10 Change program target location

    It's been many years since I had to do this so I'm requesting assistance. My PC has 2 internal drives. I need to reformat one so I want to relocate a couple of programs to the empty HD simply because I don't want to uninstall and then reinstall due to the complications of the add-ons. I would...
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    Windows 10 All directories changed to Read Only.

    I'm preparing to reformat my PC with Win10. Currently, all the directories are Read Only due to Windows updating my PC over the past week. Rather than continuing to attempt to change the settings for each one of these directories (which they all just switch back) I have decided to just...
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    Windows 7 Cannot format my PC

    system specs: PC, win 10 Home installed, (upgraded from Win 7. 64 bit OS, x64-based processor. version 1803 OS Build 17134.765. problem: Win 10 failed; unable to open Defender. Plus, unable to connect to Internet (fibre optic cable is hard-cabled in to the box.) I have backed up all of my...
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    Windows 7 Bluray player problem after reformat

    I just reformatted my pc with Win 7 home premium, and am not able to play files from my pc through my bluray player. Before the reformat it worked fine. I checked network , and it shows the player, but says it can not be added to the network. I can play Netflix, Hulu, etc fine, but can not play...
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    Windows 8 Windows Remote Desktop app hacked

    I have got a second computer in my house and was going to have it up as much as possible for a Minecraft server. Both PCs Win 10 Pro x64 1809. I installed from the windows store the remote desktop app and started noticing Kaspersky blocking some attacks. (attached picture, mid-Oct) I...
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    Windows 10 REINSTALL Windows 10

    HELP ! So I am told their suppose to be something AVA on the internet that I can Save/Burn to a USB Stick and I can Reinstall/Reformat my Windows 10 ? My Computer is kind of hit bad with Spyware , So I just want to FLUSH it completely. Where do I go , what do I need ? Thanks I got DELL ...
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    Windows 7 BSOD - Need your expert help

    I've had this problem for years, and I can't seem to fix it myself, so i've decided to seek your expert help. I've attached the required files as per the sticky. I always get a BSOD with the ati graphics driver as the culprit, however I used to have a nvidia card in this same setup, and the...
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    Windows 10 MicroSSD in Motherboard - HD reformat key Concern

    Hi, Planning to reinstall Windows 10 and I have some questions regarding above Title. In my laptop, it has a MircoSsd built into the motherboard and I would like to know how to use it effectively? ( How is stuff place there? Is it done automatically? Or can I put stuff in there and how?). It...
  12. LUGUYOK

    Windows 7 Windows Updates

    After I reformat my computer from Windows Vista Business to Windows 7 SPK 1 64 bit checking for updates take me long & never get the updates, what I can do? please HELP!!!
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    Windows 7 Formatting woes: disk recognition problem

    Sooooo I've reformatted a number of hard drives in my time, and never encountered an issue like this one, and it's stopping me cold. First, a little background: my lady friend is out of the country for a few months and desperately wants to come back to a reformatted laptop. Her Dell laptop...
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    Windows 10 Reformat vs Reset after Unable to Remove Trojan

    My PC is infected with a Trojan that NOD32 can not cleaned. Before Windows 10 I would just go ahead and reformat. However, since WIN10 have the reset option (keep my files but reinstall all Windows files) I was wondering if I should just go this route.
  15. rhett1449

    Windows 10 Uninstall all traces of Win 10

    Hello all. I am in quite a predicament here. I recently installed Win 10 because it was time to reformat and I figured that an upgrade from win 7 was a good idea. After installing and using win 10 for a few days I decided it was not for me and used the system reset function on win 10 to wipe...
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    Windows 7 What Clean install or Reformat Install Do???

    I'm going into a Clean install, and what does it do???? 1 - Does it Fixes Audio Problem and DNS connectivity 2 - Does it all Delete Users 3 - Does it Remove Viruses?? Please REPLY Cuz i'm really going to reformat my PC
  17. Explodey

    Windows 8 Why is windows 8.1 using up 80 GB of hard drive space ?

    I just reformatted my system drive and reinstalled Windows 8.1 yesterday. The only software I've installed so far is Chrome and Steam (just the Steam app, no games). But for some reason I'm using up 80 GB of space on my system drive. Windows can't possibly be using that much space, right? I...
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    Windows 10 Reinstalling windows 10

    I have windows 10 on my laptop, and now i need to reformat my laptop for some issues. after reformatting would i still be about to reinstall windows 10 or would it go back to windows 8.1
  19. dann3

    Windows 7 digitally signed drivers required /can't update windows

    I just reformatted recently, wasn't having trouble, just felt it was time. After a fresh install of Windows 7 this started to pop up after trying to install graphics driver. I tried downloading again but I don't think it installed correctly. Looking in the device manager it tells me this...
  20. Tamecutedog

    Windows 7 (Sigh) New windows install driver problems

    Just reformatted my hard drive and reinstalled windows 7. However upon launch, I found that it could not detect my graphics card nor could it detect my microphone and used the wrong configuration for my keyboard. I looked around but could not find much that fitted my CPU. I use a Radeon R9 280...
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