reinstallation

Hello. I'm new to this forum and hope to get help. I've been running an old application since the XP days on various systems. I'm currently running it succcessfully on a W10 laptop, a W11 laptop, and it used to run on my W10 desktop. Starting yesterday, when it starts to load, it is...

Hi. I'm having a bit of an issue with certain software and games. This pops up when I try to start them: I've tried several things, including: Reinstalling Epic Games Launcher. Removing all instances of Visual C++ and reinstalling them. Renaming all versions of xinput1_1 - 1_3.dll in...

I've discovered that my Dell PC does not have Windows RE enabled and is missing the Winre.wim file necessary. Should I worry enough to go through the reinstallation process to recreate the file, which means (I think) loss of certain apps and a lot of general inconvenience to return to where I...

The latest feature update to Windows 10, version 21H2, KB4023057, installed on ‎25/07/2022 and took five and a half hours. It messed up my computer in many ways so I reverted to the pre latest feature update (under Settings/Recovery). This feature update is poised to install once more, and...

I have built a new PC (Intel Alder Lake) with a new empty drive. I intend to install Windows 10 or 11. I also intend to move two old drives from my old PC to the new one. One old drive has Windows 10 on it, plus some applications. The second old drive has lots of data and some applications...

Hi not sure if this is the right forum for my query... I have a refurbished Surface Pro from Microsoft which I received as exchange for my original Surface Pro which stopped charging. I cloned the original one to my new machine but it is running very slow. Not sure if this is definitely due to...

I worked for a startup and they provided me with a laptop. However, they changed their business and moved to other country and they asked me to keep the laptop myself. I do not have the company email address to login and there are no IT guys of the company etc as they completely changed their...

Okay.... So I'm an Artist using an Xp-Pen 22 Pro Drawing screen monitor. I was using Adobe, and now currently use clip studio. I'm having an issue where at some point I won't be able to use my mouse and my keys begin to spazz out and act as if I'm hitting short cut commands (Such as alt acting...

Since yesterday I have not been able to send any emails from Mail (although there is no problem with sending emails directly from my provider's email). I receive the ominous message: We weren't able to send this message, so we've put it in your Drafts folder. Before you try sending it again, you...

After resetting windows 11 (remove apps and reinstall windows), I cannot connect to my 5GHz wifi network. When I try connecting to it with the password correct, it shows "Can't connect to this network".

Windows 10 x64 desktop BIOS legacy. Fresh reinstallation of Windows, but the PC cannot wake up after it has fallen asleep, no matter what settings I use in the Power Settings. I have set the PC screen to sleep after about 1hour, and the Disks to sleep after 4 hours. After the disks go to sleep...

My experience with windows 10 was pretty great but now for my school project I am working on building an android website and some of the applications aren't installing and even they are compatible with windows and my other fellows can easily install them. My computer specifications are great and...

Hello, I'm consistently getting this BSOD. I've updated drivers, reinstalled the game that seems to be causing the issue, run disc and mem checks, but I'm sure where to look next. Here is the error from the event viewer: The computer has rebooted from a bugcheck. The bugcheck was: 0x0000007f...

hello again... [just wanted to start by saying that...even tho discontinued; & probably inappropriate topic material, S&T is STILL the best mapping program on earth (or at least for me)...& I REALLY need it for my work] Did a reinstall of Win 7 Pro (got corrupted somehow); & did not back up my...

I have been using Hyper-V on a W-10 Pro 64b for four years, with two virtualized OS: a] Windows XP-SP3 b] Windows 10 Pro satisfactorily for testing, in a Lenovo laptop P70 (Xeon 2.8, 64GB RAM) with Windows 10 Pro. Just updated the OS a week ago to v:20H2 built 19042.685. Today the two virtual OS...

My computer is running Windows 10H2. It was upgraded from Windows 7, I have no install media. The "run as admin" doesn't work so I may need to do a "Recovery", "reset". If I reset I need to reinstall a lot of programs, "Apps and Features" says 173! How do I get a full list of these so I can...

Some context : Back in June I got this laptop that sadly had Pirated Windows Pro 10 Edition installed, and now that my license is expiring, and due to not being able to buy the license directly in this time, I want help. I decided I want to reinstall windows using the ISO file. I tried to read...

Good day. my windows 10 suddenly keeps on signing in on a temporary account every time turn in on and i cant log in to my administrator account after restarting it several time so i decided to reinstall windows. unfortunately after the process all my files went missing and i cant even see it in...

Printer is not printing in color even though I have color selected. I had this problem before and it was fixed but I had to completely reinstall Windows 10 and lost the info. Ink is fine. Tried another set of cartridges to make sure it wasn't the ink and it did the same thing. Microsoft has...

Hello, I'd like to do a Windows 10 reinstall ( a complete OS reinstall) on my current PC, as it's old and getting very slow. Would anyone know can I reuse my Windows key, which I originally bought on Ebay the first time I installed it about 4 years ago? According to my system page it's a...