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I am unable to persuade W10 to accept VLC media player as default music/video program. Can anybody advise me? It's installed on Drive D, not the Windows Drive - I don't know if this makes any difference. (C:\ is a small SSD which I want to reserve for stuff which needs to load fast)

Ok I am new to building computers. I set mine up about 2 months ago and unfortunately I didn't partition the drive(480GB SSD) like I should have. Is there anyway to do that now without losing all the content I currently have leaving 1 partition with my games and videos and such and a 2nd...

On my laptop Asus HDD is Disk0. I have installed Windows on SSD but Recovery Partition is on HDD (Disk0), also EFI System Partition. My laptop has only one SATA port so I cannot change to other port SATA. In BIOS settings in SATA configuration I have only two options, AHCI and Intel RST Premium...

I just cloned my old SSHD onto an SSD and now when I try boot my PC with the SSD it keeps saying my password is incorrect. It boots up fine all the way to the login screen (I can see my old wallpaper and everything looks normal) but I just cant seem to log in, I even tried changing my password...

My computer needed more than 3 hours to install the last update today (August 20th, 2019) while I needed to finish an urgent work. Can you please inform customers about the time an update should take ?! ("Between 2 and 3 hours" for example). Because I am really furious! My computer is normal: 8...

I have bought a 500GB SSD to be the system disk on my old PC. The HDD that is now the C: drive will hold user files, not windows system files in future. I have read up on installing Windows on a new drive and I have one question: at what stage in the installation of Windows does the new SSD...

I'm setting up a new computer that will have a 250 GB Samsung EVO 850 SSD and two 1 TB Seagate Barracuda hard drives. I want the SSD to be the boot drive and have the Windows folder with the operating system (Windows 7 Professional 64 bit). I also want to have a few programs on the SSD...

Hey guys; having WHEA's pop up after random amounts of time while playing ARMA, or generally any game, really. CPU - Intel i7-8700 @ 3.20GHz GPU - Palit GeForce 2060 RTX RAM - 32GB Corsair Vengance @ 2133MHz MBoard - B360M-DS3H - Gigabyte HDD - 2TB HDD Unknown Make/Model SSD - Kingston? 500GB...

My computer was running Windows 10. Here are my specs: 2 x 16GB G.SKILL Ripjaws V Series 288-Pin DDR4 SDRAM DDR4 2400 1 x WD Blue 3D NAND 1TB Internal SSD 1 x EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 FTW GAMING ACX 3.0, 08G-P4-6286-KR, 8GB GDDR5X 1 x Intel Core i7-7700K Kaby Lake Quad-Core 4.2 GHz 1 x ASRock Z270...

Hi all, I have 2 drives, an SSD and a hard drive. Windows is installed on my SSD, but I moved my documents folder to my hard drive in order to save space on my SSD. This worked fine, but my hard drive is showing problems and I wanted to move my documents back to my SSD in preparation for when I...

Hello I was working on my server didnt even touch the drives and it wont boot i have windows server 2012. I ran chkdsk and it found 7 errors says it fixed them but still wont boot ? blue screen says system wont boot ? could a old cmos be the problem ? I have a ssd samsung 850pro for main drive...

I am running Win 10 using a 3.5" Hot Swappable HD caddy. I am interested in graduating to a SSD HD. Is it necessary to disconnect my existing caddy in order to install the adapter? Or can I affix the adapter to the SSD drive, and merely insert it into my existing caddy? TIA

Hi All, I'm having a strange problem I've never encountered before. When I first boot my Win10 machine, I have about 17-18GB of disk storage space. After about 2 hours (often less), my page file has grown considerably to the point where my storage is out of space and my system crashes. A reset...

Hi, everyone. Trying to fix this issue already 2nd day and I realize that I need more help. My windows 7 was installed on Samsung SSD. I recently got Crucial SSD and decided to install Windows 10 as second OS. Before installation I decided to change my Windows 7 disk from MBR to GPT using...

I installed a new SSD, not in raid, that was meant to run my virtual machines for school. This was a few months ago and they have been happening frequently. A full restore of windows was completed yesterday and I deleted everything because I am done with school, the BSOD's are still frequent. I...

Hi all, I'm currently in the process of moving over from MacOS to Windows. While it has not been a problem-free experience (is there really no affordable and user-friendly ref manager for Windows?) I'm generally satisfied with my machine. Thing is, though, that just now that I have everything...

I'm building a new computer, ill make this question quick. Should I install a fresh copy of windows on my SSD that I'm reusing from my old computer, or just let it be? Should I wipe the drive completely and redownload everything? I know it doesn't really make a difference, but since I'm using...

Hi, I recently built a PC with 2 drives, a SSD and a HDD. I had originally installed Windows on the SSD but after a malfunction, I temporarily installed it on the HDD while the SSD was getting replaced. When the new SSD arrived, I did the following : - Unplugged the SATA cable from my HDD -...

Hello ! I changed my HDD with an SSD. I had kept an image of Windows to a usb. After putting the SSD , put the USB , windows automatically recognize it and start recovery proccess, selecting "Remove files and clean the drive ". After completing, instead of the first steps after recovering...

Hey guys, I'm back here again for some help, seems like I have some sort of issue every few months. I have a 500Gb Samsung 860 EVO, and randomly (2-10) times an hour it will be at 100% usage and my computer freezes (anywhere from 15 seconds to 2 minutes). When I say freezes, I mean I can still...