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    Windows 7 Mistake when reinstalling Win 7 - seem to have set 2 drive to System?

    I reinstalled window 7 on a computer that was having issues. I deleted the existing Windows partition/drive and ran the install to that Drive (c). After getting everything reinstalled I was going to image the C Drive. It appears to be linked to another large drive (3tb). That drive didnt show up...
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    Windows 10 Trouble with Windows 10 update 1803

    I need help, I have W10 installed Update 1709 and have not had any problems with updates until 1803 came out the update from Hell. It has downloaded 32 times and every time it failed. I contacted Microsoft Desk and they told me that I needed to do a clean install. I went and backed up...
  3. Windows 10 Plz help!!! Stuck in Safemode bootloop...

    Ugh... So, I'm having major issues with my PC freezing up a lot. I even tried reinstalling Windows 10 and it worked great for about 2 hours before freezing up again. I figure there must be some kind of trojan downloading stuff to my PC. This is strange because I formatted the drive twice before...
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    Windows 7 How to install additionally Win 7 onto a system with Win10?

    Assume I bought or got a desktop/notebook with a pre-installed Windows 10 system. The hard disk is either MBR or GPT based and contains the typical partition scheme with Windows Recovery partition, Efi System partition, Microsoft reserved and Windows 10 main partition. Now I want to...
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    Windows 10 Windows 10 - 2 problems on fresh system

    My pc: 8700K stock 2x8GB DDR4 GSKILL 3000mhz ( XMP Corsair 750 i Asus Z370 Pro Gaming. I have 2 disks. SSD Crucial 525 GB MX 300 and Toshiba 500GB. I have an question about system Windows 10. I installed from Pendrive USB Windows 10 from here: Link Removed On a fresh formatted ssd i...
  6. Windows 10 Turn off specific update?

    Hi I have an update for Office 2003 that keeps starting and failing. I don't care if I get the update, but I'd like Windows to stop trying to install it. Link Removed This continues right up to today. I don't see anyplace to tell Windows 10 to ignore the update. Is there a place that I can...
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    Windows 10 Problem installing to a GPT partition

    I'm trying to install win10 to a new SSD on an intel NUC5i5RYK. I created a GPT partition table containing two equal size partitions using GPARTED (Knoppix). Then I booted to a win10 install DVD (usb device) using the default bios settings. Windows setup shows the two primary partitions...
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    Windows 10 Update and Shutdown Still Updates on Boot

    I manage several PC's in an office environment and staff have been complaining that their PC's are taking 10-15 minutes in the morning to update after they chose the "update and shutdown" option the night before, Is there any way to ensure this does not happen?
  9. Windows 8 how to come out of safe mode

    how to come out of safe mode? EDIT!!! : Found it. type:- MSCONFIG, Boot, & un tick safe mode
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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 10 What's Windows doing when I switch my boot disk.

    Hello, I don't unerstand something. I want to have Windows 10 on 2 different SSD. So I hooked up another SSD to my PC and installed Windows 10 on that other SSD too. I booted to the other SSD by changing the boot sequence in the the BIOS, which worked fine. But then when I switched my boot...
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    Windows 7 Set default "mailto" handler when registry protocol branches empty?

    I have problems to set an eMail client (e.g. Thunderbird) on my 64bit Win 7 system for handling all "mailto" links. It is often recommended to go to Control Panel --> Set Default programs or Control Panel ---> "Associate a file type or protocol with a program" and assign the (new) email...
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    Windows 8 Windows 8.1 services and other issues

    I managed to solve 90% of the issue but it created new issues and I don't want to reconfigure the system. I prefer to find a solution. There is a lot of useless information on the net but I managed to find what I need except for one thing. I want complete control over the boot up and login. I...
  14. Windows 10 Regular desktop initializing after winlogon shell changed in regedit

    Hi there. Something I used to do in windows 7 doesn't work anymore on windows 10. What I am trying to achieve is running my own program before desktop initializes, so I can display a simple menu without any desktop gui. In windows 7 I did it by replacing value [...
  15. Windows 10 bản chính thức bị lỗi màn hình đen gây khởi động lâu!!!

    Tình hình là mình vừa update Win 8.1 lên Win 10 (có key bản quyền) nhưng khi update lên Win 10 thì laptop khởi động rất lâu. Máy mình dùng SSD Samsung 850 EVO, trước đó chạy Win 8.1 khởi động có 15s thôi. Update lên Win 10 khi khởi động nó hiện cái logo windows xong chuyển qua 1 màn hình màu đen...
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    Windows 10 where i install softawre/games when i administrator

    hello frends , FIRST I WANT TO APOLOGIZE BECUSE MY ENGLISH IS VERY POOR - HOPE U UNDESTAND i just now make a format becuse my child is infected virus my computer. i have ssd 250 GB + hdd 1TB and i decided to make the compute to administrator and all my childs to regulat user. i am not sure...
  17. Windows 7 How To Uninstall Botched Win7 Install on XP machine?

    I have an old XP machine. An Acer Aspire. I put Win7 Ultimate on it but it hasn't taken. Always gives me an error message and asks for the install disk again - which was a USB stick - but when i provide it nothing changes. So I need to get it off and start again. I have 3 physical disks...
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    Windows 10 Folder access error after reinstall

    Hello. I have a partition holding my data and another for the Windows installation, I like to edit the save locations so that common folders (Documents, Music, Videos etc) all get redirected to my data drive, but since I reinstalled W10 it now complains saying "You don't currently have...
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    Windows 7 Edit the registry

    I know this is not specific to windows 7. I want to delete registry values using a .reg file so it can be batch processed. I created a new registry within adobe : HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Adobe.adobebridge\Desmond I then created sample.reg file with the following...
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    Windows 10 Windows Firewall

    I have noticed that a number of applications give themselves permission to get through the firewall. No matter how many times I deny these apps access through the firewall they seem to mysteriously regain permission. Since the last time I unticked all of the following, they are all re ticked...