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I have a computer clean installed with Windows 8.1 Pro, it had Windows 7 installed on it but I formated it and installed Windows 8. Anyways, boot time is very fast as the Fast Boot helps it make it fast, of course. But after booting a day later without going on it, it shows the boot screen...

I have an SSD in my computer and have it as the boot drive so that I can boot quickly. However when I went to change the directory location for all my folders (Document, Videos, Music...etc) the Pictures folder was some how changed in the D drive. I can't delete it and it acts as the D drive...

I have an older tower running W8.1 update 1 and Wxp - each OS is on a separate hard drive, when I boot the computer I get the choice of booting to W8.1 or earlier OS. I am now ready to remove the XP drive and delete all the information, my question is: Is there a proper method to remove the...

Hi, Could someone please tell me what the difference, if any, there are between installing an original English version of Windows 7 (or 8 for that matter) and installing an English Language Pack through Windows Update? So far, I just understand that I need either an Ultimate or Enterprise...

How do I make Windows show the file extensions? Like .exe or .jpg

BSOD info: *** STOP: 0X000000F4 (0X000000000000003, 0XFFFFFA800ADB2B30, 0XFFFFFA800ADB2E10, 0XFFFFF8000318e7b0 When trying to use system restore, I get "you must enable system protection on this drive" however, when I try to do this from command prompt using a windows 7 cd...

In the early days of Win7 it was usual to install one Win7 system on a partition (say A) and let it be called during bootup from the partition independent MBR from the hard disk directly: MBR ---> partititon "A" (with Win7) Then it became more and more popular to install two different Win 7...

I know I went the wrong way about this....but can anyone point to a SIMPLE solution? So I have an Athlon 64 as my spare PC and it runs XP perfectly on 4Gb Ram. And after building my Haswell i7 and upgrading the SSD to the Samsung EVO 250Gb, I had a Samsung Pro 128Gb spare; and a copy of...

Tired of not being able to get into safe mode easily with Win 8, want to get rid of the Metro boot loader? Start an elevated command prompt and issue the following command: bcdedit /set {default} bootmenupolicy legacy If you want to go back to the old boot menu simply revert using: bcdedit...

I have two hard drives: a SSD and a mechanical hard drive. I've set the mechanical as the boot drive in BiOS. However after starting the computer, I can't verify in Windows which drive is the boot drive . How can you tell?

Hi, I need some quick help in enabling hardware virtualization on my laptop. My operating system is Windows 7 and I am using HP Pavilion DV6. For my uni course, I need to run Linux on Oracle VM Virtual Box, but in the process I got the following error message: Link Removed After some googling...

I recently got an external hard drive, and I need help. I finally got Windows running good, after the recent update to 8.1...I do see I have on optimize drives C drive, Winretools(12% fragmented), PBR Image, and some long winded VOLUME file. The VOLUME file is 56% fragmented, and even though...

Guys, Windows 7 Pro SP1 64-Bit with an ASRock P67 PRO3 (B3) MoBo that has a UEFI BIOS, i5-2500K and Corsair Vengeance 16 Gigs. My C, D and E partitions are on a 120 GB NTFS SSD with a MBR. My present STORAGE HDD is a 2TB Toshiba with a MBR. I recently purchased a Toshiba PH3300U-1I72 3TB...

It's never been a problem before...at least not like this. At about 4:00 A.M. I noticed that Windows time was 2 hours behind the actual time, so I ran a sync on time.nist.gov, which corrected it. However, just ~20 minutes later, I was dismayed to see it had gone back again, but this time 3...

My system is Windows 8 Pro, 64bit OS. Hardware is Lenovo thinkpad helix (model 37011J7). I have problem with finding the blue tooth device. In short, I can only find bluetooth after "restart". When the computer is booted first time, in the "PC settings" "Wireless", the bluetooth switch is in...

I have a "main" partition which contains my main "Win 7" system. Occasionally I want to boot a second Win 7 from another primary partition. When I hit at boot time <F4> I get into the Win BootManager menu. But unfortuantely there is only my main Win7 listted. The other Win7 is NOT listed...

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Not sure what is going on here. I had firefox running and suddenly this browser has taken a turn for the worse...adverts up the ying yang. Now it appears I have lost functionality of Windows IE9 browser. Browser says I have IE10 installed...I hit the home icon and I am taken to Firefox. What...

I have Windonws 7 Professional running on several virtual desktops (VMWare View). The virtual desktops go to sleep after a few minutes, and require a password on wakeup. I've read a number of threads that deal with either disabling password on wakeup, or preventing the OS from going to sleep...

Hello, I recently bought a sony waio, windows 8 last December. I installed winrar 4.2 64bit. But whenever I open any zipped folder and chose to open a specific file, winrar would extract out that file. Then, instead of opening that file, it would open any random file from the folder in which...