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Everything went smoothly when I updated my desktop computer to Win 8.1. However, I now have a persistent message in the Action Center (see attached). It tells me to update my backup settings, but if I click the "Set up backup" button, nothing happens. I understand that the Image Backup tool...

hi at windows 7 ultimate from Control panel - Notification area icons how can i remove icons which are already has removed entrly from the windows and the hard drive such as utorrent for example i have already uninstalled it and removed from regedit and there are still program icons showed there...

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Hello, I have Windows 7 on Dell. How do I get it to log out automatically after, say, 5 minutes if it was not used? Thanks a lot, Boris

Hello All - Trying to activate my legit copy of win7, having incredible amounts of frustration/difficulty Upon entering my product key, i get the 0x80070005 "Access is denied" error After some detective work, it appears that this problem is related to administrator/permission levels on the...

I have changed my HTPC from a tower to the HTPC case. New everything except the Ceton InfiniTV 4 PCI card/cable card. Have identical Windows 7/64 Pro systems. Tried to copy all the power / sleep settings. New HTPC system will not sleep when it should. It is set to sleep after 10 minutes...

The Credential Manager (control panel) appears to have an entry that I did not put there myself. Generic Credentials Internet or network address: virtualapp/didlogical user name: (one that I do not recognise) Password: (unknown 8 character password) persistence: local machine (I am new to...

Hello. Windows 7 (Pro 64-bit) keeps offering me updates for this. I don't use it as I have a paid-for 3rd party security app. Where is it hidden (I can't find it on the machine) and how can I stop Windows offering updates for it? Regards, Cheemag

Hello all. Sorry in advance if this is posted elsewhere but I cannot find a solution. My outlook mail is now no longer allowing me to click and open links attached to the mail. I used to be able to open and view links previously, but lately no show. It says the System settings need to be...

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im using windows 7 home premium SP1 and none of the windows sound schemes are not working except for windows default i test sound them all and no sound comes out does anyone know how to fix this?

Hello all, After installing the April batch of Windows 8 Updates, I noticed there was a dramatic increase in my 60 GB SSD hard disk usage (almost a 5 GB increase right after the Updates). To cut to the quick, I determined that the updates had arbitrarily increased the size of my hiberfil.sys...

I plan to get a ssd drive and run only windows with few other most useful software on it. I transfer only windows 8 system with system settings. can I make a image of windows system only, not whole hard drive? and how to backup activation. the windows 8 I have is a upgrade license I brought...

I am accessing a remote computer through regular remote desktop. I have admin rights and all that good stuff and can schedule tasks. The problem that I'm having is when I select the option to "Run whether user is logged on or not" it does not work. It shows in the status as "Running". Even if I...

Booted up the PC, got this in the bottom right corner. No notification, just the not genuine marker. Running a virus scan now... But I am not sure what happened. Upon going into the Activate Windows program, an error occurs and the desktop turns black. When I go into System Settings, both...

Here is the problem. I'm an IT pro and I'm in the process of creating Windows 8 Pro (64-bit) images for my workplace using audit mode (i have done this countless times on windows 7). The problem is, the 'Change PC settings' button does NOT work when I click on it in audit mode. Nothing happens...

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Hi, since about 1 month my PC turns randomly off. Sometimes after 10 hours, sometimes after 2. Mostly when in Idle or when i'm watching movies on a second Monitor (TV but it also crashes if it is unplugged so thats not the reason). Sometimes when i try to boot again it wont start except if i...

Hi all, I have this weird issue with my windows 7. The security centre service and the Windows Firewall are always on disabled status after each boot. The start-up type is Automatic for both of them but it won't stick after a boot has been placed. Please help me solve this issue. Thanks...

I am still having a problem with my Japanese language pack - I am able to switch from EN icon to JP icon and actually see the language bar (can't do so with a mouse click as I have been doing for 15 years now but must use Alt/Shift on the keyboard) -- But -- the scroll menus do not open...