system upgrade

I have had no contact with W10 until yesterday. A friend's HP Desktop all-in-one apparently went through the MS 'forced upgrade' to W10 some time ago, and appears to have a corrupted Users --> Default folder (especially the NTUSER.DAT file), so I have a couple of questions: 1. Can I copy that...

Hi, I seen a few posts relating to disks with less space than anticipated - but think I have gone through the suggestions. I have an older ACER X1301 which has been upgraded to W8 then W10 and with an SSD instead of the HDD. When I installed the SSD I thought I had a 'C' drive with approx...

Hi this is my first post here so please let me know if I left anything out. Since upgrading to windows 10 my computer has crashed with the blue screen. Every time I try and game I get the CRITICAL_PROCESS_DIED BSOD. I turned the graphics down on Diablo 3 and was able to run it for about an hour...

Windows Edge is becoming a joke. Half the time it 'cannot find the page your are looking for. It also prints 'gobbledygook. in IE and in Google e.g. random characters are printed when attempting to enter a web address. It seems to be pushing you towards using Edge and nothing else. I never had...

Like the title says, I'm stuck just after final restart of the upgrade, when it gets to the series of screens that say "We've updated your PC", "All your files are exactly where you left them", etc. My computer has been sitting on the first message for well over an hour. I thought maybe it was...

I have a copy of Windows 7 Pro that i want to upgrade to Windows 10 but before upgrading i was thinking about slipstreaming updates into Windows 7 using Win toolkit. Then installing Windows 7 Pro with included updates and upgrading to Windows 10 from there. The reason i say this is because i...

Well I have decided to take the plunge and update to Windows 10 from Windows 7 Pro. At the same time I intend to upgrade the hard drive on my laptop to an SSD. The thing that I am trying to figure out is the cleanest and most effective method to accomplish this. Which one these do you...

Immediately after i upgraded to 10, no audio in coming through speakers or even headphones. I don't know how to fix it, so can someone help?

Loaded it on my spare 500gb HD, took ages & had to do it twice from the 7gb usb stick. The swiping to the right does not work. Any other way to get whatever is in there? Do you think Classic Shell will work onw10? The dropdown menu from the Start Button seems fully active. Cntrl. panel I had...

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Microsoft seems to be using an information trickle down process to fill in many of the holes about how the Windows 10 upgrade will work. read more Continue reading...

Hello When the free upgrade is available, for people who are not techy like me, could you correct some misconceptions I have. I think I will click on the installation file to begin, I don't know if I will need a product key, I hope to choose 'custom' for a clean install and not upgrade, I do not...

Hi, My brother would like to upgrade his pc.His current config is core i3 3.3 GHZ with 2gb ram and win 7.Would win 8 x64, 4 gigs of RAM with a GT 640 ddr5 graphics and Corsair 450 watts SMPS be a decent upgrade for adobe PS ,movie viewing and occasional gaming(Max Payne..);Please suggest.

Link Removed excerpt : Microsoft yesterday confirmed that Windows 8.1 users must upgrade to Windows 8.1 Update, the refresh that begins rolling out to customers today. "Failure to install this Update will prevent Windows Update from patching your system with any future updates starting with...

After reformatting and reinstalling W7 Pro and getting it all set-up and updated i am going to do an image ( with one of the tools on UBCD). But it occurred to me that in the near future i am going to be upgrading my system entirely and am curious, what happens if i take the image of my current...

Hello, This is my first post here. Maybe this is a silly question but I couldn't figure out to solve it by myself. Until some time ago I had two HDs on my system, being Windows XP at a SATA and Windows 7 at an old IDE. Recently I upgraded my motherboard to a new model that doesn't support IDE...

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Hi While I'm somewhat undecided about how I'm going to update to Windows 8.1, I started wondering about how the update process works. The last thing I do before I update will be to make an image of my C:\ drive, so I can experiment a little. If I just run the update from the Windows update...

Hey guys, I have a question. I have both Windows 7 Ultimate and Ubuntu 13.04 installed on my laptop. Here's the partition details: Link Removed I wish to remove Windows 7, but keep all my personal data on that partition. I'm seriously done with W7 on my little netbook... it can't handle 2...

I'v been building & upgrading computers for 23 years now I just built my latest P.C. Anyway when I bought this motherboard (Asus P9X79 Pro) I thought that UEFI meant just some kind of different interface for the bios, after researching I see its a whole new ballgame. I installed win7 64bit on...