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Windows 8 Dvd Rw Drive (E) Not Working Properly
Hello, This drive is giving me poor performance. When I insert a blank disc to make a copy of some music, I can hear the music being skipped and the drive also makes a sound that sounds like it's not inserted correctly. But after checking, it looks ok. So I think I may need a new drive...- rejlocal22
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- diagnostics drive dvd drive hardware laptop performance repair troubleshooting
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- Forum: Windows Hardware
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Windows 7 How to repair Firewall (service) - Options in dialog partially missing
On a computer with Windows 7 I started the built-in Firewall dialog. Much to my surprise the Firewall does NOT show the full, usual firewall setup dialog but only a part of it. It looks like as the left dialog in the attached snapshot. If I click on the button "Use recommended settings"...- tobwen
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- administration command prompt configuration corruption dialog box error firewall interface internet lan management network repair services settings support troubleshooting windows 7
- Replies: 1
- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 10 Windows 10 home freezes after update 21H1 ver. 19043.1288
Hi Windows Forum I have been experiencing some rather annoying issues with my WIndows 10 Home Edition. At random times it either gives me a blue screen where it says "Your PC closed unexpected, please restart" or just this evening after opening Battlefield 3 while having a administrating program...- shadows
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- blue screen bootable usb crash error freezes gaming home edition loading screen media creation tool pc maintenance performance reboot repair software conflict system issues tech support troubleshooting update windows 10
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 10 my windows 10 running into attempting repair on startup
windows 10 is getting into attempting repairs when windows startup any one please help how to solve- prasadk
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- boot issues error help recovery repair startup troubleshooting windows 10
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 10 Windows Boot Manager installed to other harddrive with windows on it.
I am trying to figure out what happened to my system to prevent it from happening again, and how to fix it. I had an old hard drive that I got from my family member after I upgraded their hard drive to an SSD for more speed. My plan was to slave it to my computer and format the hard drive, using...- malak2004
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- active partition bcd bios boot manager boot time command line disk formatting drive management hard drive hardware upgrade installation media m.2 os partition performance issues repair storage system issues tech support troubleshooting windows
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 10 unable to reset Dual Boot
Hi, In the beginning I had XP installed and then Win7 in dual boot. Dual boot I could not undo and upgraded Win7 to Win10. After a Win10 crash, I couldn't do any repair. I reinstalled Win10 on another partition. My question is if I can just delete the older versions and just keep working with...- nolib
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- dual boot installation old versions partition repair system crash upgrade windows 10 windows 7 windows xp
- Replies: 1
- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 7 Trouble joining a forum
Hi ........ I tried to join a DIY repair forum so I can fix up my house. I put in my email address and a password. After that I checked my mail and there was nothing new in it. I tried a different forum and the same thing happened. I'm using Firefox with some privacy addons. Are the addons...- CeriumOxide
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- add-ons diy email firefox forum join privacy repair support troubleshooting
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 7 I cant access launch startup repair
I hold down the power button while the system is booting and it takes me to the different kind of page. I cant access system recovery mode.- Vako
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- access boot recovery repair startup system windows
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 10 Recover Product Key
I bought a Win10 laptop and had a major crash a couple years ago. I had lost the paper where I wrote down my product key, and can no longer find the whole thing. The repair center kept the old install in a partition. I was recently able to recover part of my original product key. Is there...- Ninpodeshi
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- crash installation laptop legit software licensing partition product key recovery repair windows 10
- Replies: 13
- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 10 How to find reason for random crashes?
Hey there, for a few days I am experiencing crashes on my Windows 10 desktop PC. I couldn't really find out any trigger yet and there is no BSOD. It could be possible, that it crashes more often, when I play graphic intense games, but it also crashed while just listening to spotify. Everything...- Josebra01
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- amd audio issues crash desktop gaming graphics motherboard performance processor repair self-built pc system freeze tech support troubleshooting windows 10
- Replies: 5
- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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How to load an embedded Windows to a different motherboard?
I have a machine that is working software-based and has a "Fujitsu d3243-s12 gs3" motherboard. Unfortunately, this motherboard is defective and nobody could repair it. I try to find the same motherboard but could not succeed either. The software of the machine is Windows embedded copy and before...- Sinan508
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- bios check process compatibility defective error handling fujitsu hardware installation migration motherboard repair replacement software system requirements system setup tech support troubleshooting upgrade
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- Forum: Desktop Customization
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Windows 10 How to start MSCONFIG and 32bit applications in command line of Windows recovery - low permissions problem
Hi! I got problem after modifying startup services of Windows 10.20H2 Pro x64. I forgot single value and tried in command line of Windows recovery to start programs allowing to repair my problem. But it needs higher permissions and even WinPE supports not starting other than 64bit...- MIRKOSOFT
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- 32-bit admin account command line msconfig repair startup services windows 10 windows recovery winpe
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 7 Lost boot menu
Hello, I have a problem with my PC boot process, I have a dual boot system with Win7 and Linux mint each on it's own HDD. I have just replaced my motherboard which is a used one that came with no driver/ installation disk. Having got it working ok I was setting up the boot sequence using...- longshanks70
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- boot process dual boot easybcd installation disk keyboard issues linux mint motherboard mouse issues neogrub pc troubleshooting repair safe mode tech support troubleshooting windows 7
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 10 how to fix SWTOR
issue = the latest update busted the game repair = open the config file and fix their spelling mistake credit to ruffolofi for finding it and may the force be with you!- ussnorway
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- bug repair swtor
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- Forum: Windows Graphics and Gaming
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Yet more problems
So I'll give intro of what I did in windows 10 before moving onto Linux as this is a Linux forum section. I wanted to run a program in windows, I don't know why but I suspected it might have had a virus or malware in it. I had no intention of running it in windows but may or may not have...- anotherwindowsuser
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- bios boot issues bootable usb bootloader corruption drive issues gparted installation linux malware non-bootable repair reset system restore troubleshooting virus windows 10
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- Forum: Linux Forums
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Windows 10 BSOD don't know why
I,v had a few Blue screens of death lately . The first one happened when i tried to move a video screen ( I was watching a video ) . I thought that may have caused it because i did'nt move the screen properly . I tried to update window's earlier today , that was on ages and ended up with a...- NettleWarbler
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- bsod error installation repair screen tech support troubleshooting update video windows
- Replies: 23
- Forum: Windows Blue Screen of Death (BSOD)
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Some is this laptop broken?
This is all I get when I press the power button.- anotherwindowsuser
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- broken electronics laptop power repair startup support troubleshooting
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- Forum: The Water Cooler
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Windows 10 Search button not working
Search button on taskbar, and typing in start menu/start screen no longer works. It does nothing. At the same time, Timeline history does not show up. (even if it's enabled on settings) I tried searching online methods such as windows troubleshooter, resetting index, sfc command, powershell...- NerferMC
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- 20h2 clean install error functionality indexing non-responsive powershell repair search settings sfc timeline troubleshooting update user account windows 10
- Replies: 1
- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 10 No Edge-icon in pdf-contextmenu !
The Edge-icon is missing in the pdf-contextmenu , it should be next to ( Open with) Microsoft Edge . After the upgrade to 2004 its still gone ............how to repair , any idea ? Its a white spot now , how to get this icon back again...........- Bassie
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- microsoft edge pdf repair troubleshooting upgrade version 2004 windows 10
- Replies: 19
- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 8 Windows recovery can not initiate
Hello, I haven’t used my laptop for long time and when opened the os won’t boot up and tried to repair it says can’t be repaired. I used dell recovery tool to get a iso file and made a bootable usb stick. When tried to install Iget the efi system is formatted to ntfs format please format to...- Jaya Adithya Phanidhar
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- boot computer dell efi error fat32 formatting installation iso laptop ntfs partition recovery repair ssd troubleshooting update usb windows
- Replies: 5
- Forum: Windows Help and Support