software installation

So, I have been looking around my new windows 10 pc.. and I couldn't seem to find where you would search up installed programs and control panel etc.... and I can't seem to find it.. I know how to do it on windows 8.1 but I have no clue how to do it on windows 10 so if anyone knows could they...

Hi. I just created another Windows account for a family member. When I logged onto it, I see that all my programs is already installed there. The programs have no data on them, but I would like to know how to remove them from her account without deleting it from my account. I don't want to try...

Lately i get a blue screen with the following message... A problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer. DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR EQUAL If this is the first time you've seen this stop error screen. restart your computer. If this screen appears...

Hi I came to my attention today that some people seem to have much smaller Windows 10 installs then I do. I don't have any software in my C:\ drive other then a few really small things like CCleaner etc. I have W10 installed on a 100 Gb partition. It uses 63 Gb of that. Only 10 of those are...

I do not have much hope left but I'll try some more. So here's the situation: I'm currently trying to repair my father's laptop and loosing hope. What happened was that he had a free version of Panda when it shot all its clients' laptops to shit. Their next update repaired many but not all. My...

I have a Lenovo Ideapad s510p running original Windows 8.1. Bought it in May'14. The problem is that it's not able to find & run some bat & exe files given in the '%Path'. Whereas it can find some - it can't find some others. So it doesn't run them unless full path is specified. This is a big...

Hi, I'm hoping someone here can help me before I get too lost. I have been asked to to put a network into a office over the holidays. The layout is going to be the following: Reception X 2 PC'S Front Office X 2 Printers Back offices X 4 PC's Main PC/Server X 1 Switch - 16 port Netgear switch...

By using an offline installer is there any problem with doing it? i.e. spyware, tracking, cost

Laptop Lenovo G50-70 Model Name 20351 Windows 7 Ultimate x64 SP 1 Intel i5-4210U 1.7gh Lenovo Lancer 5A2 Samsung DDR3 8G PC3-12800 1.35V Integrated Intel HD 4400 Samsung Momentus 1TB 2.5 inch 5400RPM Microsoft Security Essentials Opera/Firefox/Explorer Hello, I got a new Lenovo laptop model...

Windows ( in the case Vista home Premium a system i am restoring on a VAIO for a friend). Setting it up with an Admin account and a standard user account. a Few questions: When is the best time to add the standard user account for everyday use? Here is why i ask, i notice that sometimes certain...

Message from device manager: Windows encountered a problem installing the driver software for your device Windows found driver software for your device but encountered an error while attempting to install it. NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M Message from NVIDIA Installer: NVIDIA Installer failed...

This has been going on for a couple months, and it hasn't gotten in the way but now it is as it's preventing me from opening certain files and games i want to use, such as Skype, and games like Bioshock Infinite. Whenever i start up my computer or open specific programs, it says ...

when I open a .exe in windows 8.1, it says 'how do you want to open this file' and im not sure what I open the .exe with??!! if anyone could help that would be appreciated :)

so i got a BSOD the other day while playing battlefield hardline on my new custom made desktop. I installed some software (bluescreenview) to view it in my dumpfile and it said that the BSOD was caused by the Driver pacer.sys. (driver adress is pacer.sys+1199) what should i do at this point? I...

Last year when check disk was run automatically on startup it repaired a ton of errors and then this week when check disk again ran automatically again it said that an unexpected error occured and it was not able to lock the drive and told that it may be because of a resent software installation...

hi intro: few days back i have formatted my hdd and installed win7ultimate i'm only user on this pc. no password. not messing with accounts, rights. what i want to do: make new folder in Program Files folder and download to this folder by program TortoiseSVN other app from github. problem...

The current version of my fingerprint scanner doesn't work with Firefox, and I want to install a different version. It will be a messy operation, and I want to be sure that I can return to the current setup if things don't work with different version. Can I be confident that I can restore...

This has been going on for a couple months, and it hasn't gotten in the way but now it is as it's preventing me from opening certain files and games i want to use, such as Skype, and Bioshock Infinite. Whenever i start up my computer or open specific programs, it says ...

Years of laptop anguish and literally despair from nearly four years of non-stop laptop issues. For years now, my laptop begins crashing windows even each time I have just started installation all over again, having just reset my computer back to default Windows and default only program (for...

Function Keys help, mine stopped working had my new asus laptop for a week and up until today windows media player 12 fn media keys stopped working. Before, i could have wmp minimized and still change the song pressing Fn and the arrow keys but now they stopped working. i would be able to play...