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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...

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...

I do not understand formatting with different operating systems. An example would be using a flash drive in my computer running windows 11 and formatting it at the default which is fat 32. Then I insert in either a Chromebook or a MacBook or Linux each having different operating systems. When my...

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...

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...

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...

I have a system that refuses to boot to Windows 10 Professional (64-bit), and I think I need to do a reinstall. The advanced boot options is available, but it will not go into safe mode. I can however get the command line, and it recognizes both robocopy and xcopy. Assume that C is the hard...

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...

I've got what should be a really simple fix, but I can't figure it out. So my step-dad just reformated his old ASUS x205t laptop. Upon first setting it up he chose a local login password, wrote it down, then it got thrown away. Now we can't login. Normally, I would just put a windows disc in the...

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...

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...

I posted this on Link Removed yesterday and just trying to get all the eyes on this as much as possible. I went as far a reformatting Windows 10 x64 1803 build (different drive and fully updated) and still drawing a constant download rate. I've tried to block all net activity with Killer...

I have an Asus X58L laptop on which I am attempting to upgrade the mechanical HD to SSD. The SSD was originally in my desktop and is still loaded with Win. 7 professional. However, I keep getting an error message 0x0 and the program refuses to run. What I would like to do is remove everything...

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 ...

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...

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...

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!!!

I have an xp machine with a new install on a 1T drive. Now I think I should have had a system partition so's I have the option of reformatting and installing another OS on there - without destroying all my data. Win10 has a shrink partition ability that leaves used portions of a drive...

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...

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.