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Malwarebytes has been a really terrific program for me for many years. Lately, it's been acting up and their tech support dept. has not been responsive to their customers. One of the posters on their site said they posted a need for help on Oct 8 and as of this morning -- Oct 13, have not...

XAML Standard We are pleased to announce XAML Standard, which is a standards-based effort to unify XAML dialects across XAML based technologies such as UWP and Xamarin.Forms. XAML Standard is a specification that defines a standard XAML vocabulary. With that vocabulary, frameworks that...

Hello Windows Insiders! Today we are excited to be releasing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 14936 for PC to Windows Insiders in the Fast ring. New Extensions in Microsoft Edge We’re working with partners on adding new extensions and want our Insiders to try them out first! We have another...

I have a hovering text on my screen that is coming from another window ( another opened Chrome window ) Why does it happen, and how can i get rid of it without rebooting ?

Hi guyz m new here & hving a small issue pls solve asap Using Dell Laptop And wnt to create wifi hotspot using mypublicwifi app becoz it lite app than connectify bt it always stucks at ''obtaining ip address'' in my android phone and sme times connected by entring manually static ip bt no...

Blake McNeill gets the Hat Tip today for posting about this in the MVP IoT Yammer Group. GHI Electronics has been a bunch of busy beavers releasing a ton of very cool components. Recently we highlighted, Tipping your Raspberry Pi FEZ HAT and today we're highlighting another, one that will make...

Hello, I have been reading some posts about you to repair a file and it says to use the text converter. I dont see how to use it though. The attached file is corrupt and I think it is because my HD crashed a few days ago. I want to repair this file. Can someone try to repair it? When it...

This blog was written by Kevin Dallas, General Manager, Windows IoT Group. Today the Link Removed announced the retail availability of their new board, the Raspberry Pi 2. We’re excited to join the Foundation in also announcing that Windows 10 will support Raspberry Pi 2, which will be free for...

I bought this Acer Aspire laptop new in 2009. It came with Windows 7 Home Premium. I have exhausted all possibilities of installing Service Pack 1. I've tried directly downloading it through Windows Update several times and I just finished unsuccessfully installing it by downloading, burning a...

Hi everyone! I'm new here, and I'm also relatively new to computer nitty-gritties. However I've been facing this problem for quite some time and it's gotten worse recently so I've decided to seek help here! For a few months, my Asus U36JC laptop has been freezing quite often (70% of the time?)...

Okay, small situation sketch. Ist I had a win 7 x64 which ran smooth for over a year (had x32 before that, and some linux variants)..Then I decided to upgrade my pc to win 8 (i had heard from fellow it'ers that the upgrade was much better than previous versions so i thought why not give it a...

Hi all, I have been using Windows 8 release preview for about 3 weeks, installed on its own drive, and I have Unbuntu and XP installed on another drive, and a 1 TB drive with windows 7 installed. I must say that in order to get some of my legacy apps to run I just boot into one of the...

ACER Eee PC running Win7 with all windows updates. The problem is the machine running Windows 7 Home Premium intermittently loses "internet access". Where the bars are full, but the ! shows and there is no connectivity. The other Win7 machine is set to automatically install updates and is...

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Hi all, I'd appreciate any and all help i can get. I just purchased a new Fujitsu P770 i3-330, running Win 7 Home Premium 64bit. Its installed with SP1. I keep getting BSOD Bcode 7f out of the blue :P Cant figure it out and its driving me nuts. I'm attaching info about the memory im using...

Scott's at the Intel Agile Conference today and got the chance to talk to Rally Software's Agile Fellow Jean Tabaka about why your project sometimes needs time to fail and whether we need both internships and a formal track within Software Development. Jean is a Certified ScrumMaster and...

We've started a new Show on Channel 9 and it's the result of a conversation I had with Erik Meijer just after the Link Removed Erik told me that he wanted to go around the company and meet everyday devs—the folks who first and foremost spend their time at work designing and writing code. The...

In this video, I bring you into the world of the elusive Blue Screen of Death, and the forensic level of study required to analyze such crashes. At Windows 7 Forums, we have an entire team of BSOD experts, many of whom are prolific, ingenious members that know their stuff. Although I am 7x...

I've heard this is a very common problem, and I do have an Nvidia chipset, but whilst installing Win7, my video will cut out during the "Expanding Files" stage, at 30%. I was part of another Win7 forum, but those people over there couldn't distinguish their ass from a hole in the ground, so I...

Recently shrunk my Vista partition on my laptop to created a new partition for a Win 7 install. All is working great, able to choose either partition on start up with no problems. Now here's where my problems lie: I want to get rid of my original Vista partition (C:) and add the free space...