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    New Hard - drive

    My New Hard - drive , keeps restarting with a blue screen this computer must restart . At least 4 times i have had trying computer repair , and i still can't get online anymore . I tried to download a free anti - virus i think the make was avast or avira . I tried installing it after a few...
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    Windows 10 Will changing product key remove my company policy?

    As the title says, I got my PC from a dying company and it has some Company policy set on it like auto installing and restarting in the middle of the night. I have tried deleting group policies in group policy editor and such and nothing has worked. I was thiing if i change product key, will it...
  3. Windows 10 Windows 10 Fatal Error: Issues with Desktop Icons and Permissions

    So I enter my password, PC's taking longer than usual, I hear the typical error sound. I'm suprised, my desktop wallpaper is gone, the icons on it are stacked rather than as I set them, the pinned buttons on taskbar are gone. The Start button won't respond, neither the toolbars. Then there comes...
  4. Windows 10 W10 Pro: Initially BSOD, now won't load at all

    Hey guys, First of all, thanks for any help that you may send my way...it's been a very frustrating day. Everything was fine with my PC until last night when it suddenly crashed with BSOD. After a restart all was fine but it was running really slow on start, ten another BSOD. It was dinner time...
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    Windows 10 Can't access Windows apps

    Several weeks ago, I had to do a restart on my Asus laptop (Norton couldn't repair a drive). Since then, I can't access any Windows apps (One Drive, Store, etc.) According to Windows, I have no internet access, which just isn't true (I'm using it for everything else!). I had two chat sessions...
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    Windows 7 Blue box with msg

    Dell Inspiron - Not really a bsod I don't think... 2nd time this has happened. MSN site when reading a story, screen becomes sort of transparent and seconds later, a small box with blue background says a problem has been detected. It then closes and goes to a black screen on desktop. I restart...
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    Windows 10 Windows Update Automatic Restart

    I left GTA V to download overnight last night, but my computer restarted during the download, preventing the game from finishing the download. I'm now looking for a way to turn this off. I still want the updates to download automatically, but I don't want them to install and restart my computer...
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    Windows 8 windows update problem

    i want to upgrade to windows 10. i got updates in windows 8.1, i downloaded them. after that it says that i have to restart my pc to install the update. if i restart it, it just restarts and doesnt update anything. when i go to control panel, it asks me to restart again. i did 10 tmes but still...
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    Windows 10 Windows 10 Reinstalled Itself or Update?

    Hi All, I've had Windows 10 home edition for quite some time now, basically since it was released. All the sudden this morning it asked me to restart for an update (didn't think anything of it) but then it was at the install screen doing the three steps "Copying Files, Downloading Drivers...
  10. Windows 10 Watch out for a silent update with windows 10

    Just a heads up, when i got done with my last windows 10 session my system hung during restart. I personally had a bug like this before so I just restarted manually as windows gave me no prompt that the system was updating. But it was and when resuming windows I got the updating prompt and...
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    Windows 8 Getting hacked?

    I was lagging, my pc... whenever I typed something, it wouldn't do anything and then after 5 seconds would start typing what I typed 5 seconds ago... I restarted my pc, it was good for 1 min and then it got worse then before. I restarted it once again, and went to get something to eat (I didn't...
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    Windows 10 Windows 10 downgrade

    Last night i installed windows 10. It took a while but in the end, it succeeded. Except for the icons in my desktop kept disappearing and appearing... I shut down my computer and when i started my pc this morning, it didn't work! I got the choice between restarting my pc or opening advanced...
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    Windows 10 Restart when resuming from Hibernation

    Don't recall having that issue prior to upgrading to Windows 10. Basically, when I turn on the PC after hibernation, it often just restarts instead of resuming. I tried to Google the issue, but it seems to be widespread around laptops, tablets, etc which makes it harder to pinpoint what exactly...
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    Windows 8 Windows won't update after 3/21/15 KB300850

    My Windows 8.1 was updating automatically until it received KB3000850 0n 3/21/15 . That update failed with error code 80246013 (Which supposedly means that the Windows Auto Update service has stopped) I went to services.msc and found that both Windows Update and Background Intelligent Services...
  15. Windows 8 Installing Windows 8/Removing Ubuntu

    Hey guys! I'm a long time Linux user and after using a work computer for the last 6 months that has windows 8.1 on it I decided I'm going to make the switch. I have my own custom rig and I would like to completely remove Ubuntu and install a copy of windows 8. I already purchased a license from...
  16. Windows 7 Trying to flash my BIOS- error messages?

    I'm trying to flash my BIOS to fix some random restart problems I've been having lately. I have a BIOSTAR Group A880GZ motherboard from American Megatrends Inc. When I try to run afuwin.exe and update my BIOS through the Flash Utility that they have available on their site, I get an error...
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    Windows 7 I Don't Understand Why?

    Okay is this about Windows 7 or Internet Explorer 11 or is it about Yahoo Mail? I receive an email thru Yahoo from a site called "Liberty Headlines" and in this email may be an article from "Alex Jones' Infowars.com. then my computer goes "Bonkers", it won't let me do anything and I have to do...
  18. "0x0000009F" Stop errors when you restart the computer in Windows 7

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  19. Windows 7 Urgent Help Needed!

    My machine runs with an I5 processor with a 2GB Invidia Geforce Graphics card on Windows 7 Pro. I was running Autodesk Revit 2014 (a 3D architectural program), Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and 2 folders were open. The machine suddenly running much slower, I saved and closed all the programs and...
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    Windows 7 BSOD - BCCode: 1000007e - atikmdag.sys

    I've recently had my computer give me a few strange crashes; twice while playing Champions Online but several days apart, it just froze up, gave a graphical glitch, sound stuttering and computer restarted. Then finally, I got an actual blue-screen, giving several error codes and also referencing...