upgrade issues

I ditched Windows 10 TP 10049 lasr night for good. It's really beginning to appear to me that Microsoft has lost it's focus, since 2015 got here. The 2 builds of Windows 10 have both had bug's that really shouldn't be there. Mail, Calendar & People haven't worked on either without the end user...

I just reset my windows 8.1 using the reset feature that wipes out your files and re installs the OS. now i'm back to Windows 8, but it says my product key is invalid, and that i have windows 8 pro. I got my computer from best buy and i think they just had a core windows 8 edition installed. so...

I am trying to update newly installed Win. 8 so I can install Win 8.1. Up[grade will not take, upon rebooting it has a failure to update and reverting changes(takes forever). I have had this problem before and usually doing a "troubleshoot updates" and a clean boot worked, even did a...

I originally had Windows 10 installed in Oracle Virtual Box on my Gateway Laptop (Windows 7 Home Premium, 4GB RAM, Intel i5 Processor 2.2GHz, 300 GB Hard Drive. I was unable to update one of the recent builds as I was getting an error that I did not have enough disk space. I could not see any...

I have an MSi Ge70 0ND UK. This is a gaming laptop and therefore has a Turbo boost that activates when I open a game - it clocks the processor up to 2.4 Ghz I believe. The problem I have here that Windows 8.1 completely breaks this and if I launch a game for example Minecraft, it runs at 30...

Hi, I recently lost my win key , which used to open the start menu, so I upgraded to 8.1. thinking that may fix it, wrong! Now it still don't work , but I'm not sure if it is suppose to in 8.1 seeing they put the logo back on. Any way after upgrading now none of the keys work except the number...

Straight from store with Win 8 Installed. 2 months of Blue Screens of Death every day or 2. After a couple of months it finally gets somewhat stable. 8.1 upgrade.. no problems. Win 10 on ORACLE VMWARE .. Oracle only has Guest Systems up to 8.1. Obvious is to go to Windows 64 bit Other. No...

I have read most of this thread & really, tried to keep tabs on it as it continues to have additions. W/out bothering w/ whether an original Key is lost or replaced, whether an original Recovery partition is lost or replaced when a production OS is overwritten by a beta OS, I'm going to suggest...

Hi Because I can't install Photoshop CS3 in Windows 10 without removing it from my Windows 8 install, I decided to install Photoshop 6 in Windows 10. All of these programs are upgrades from my original version of Photoshop 2.5. When I put the install disk in one of my CD, DVD drives my...

Hello guys. I'm new here. I have problem with my Sony Vaio VPCEH3M1E FN keys. On Win7 it works perfectly but when i upgrade to 8.1, my FN keys stopped working. I can only use FN keys for mute, volume and NumLK / ScrLK. What about brightness and Display change (Expand to second monitor etc.)...

Hi I want to upgrade to Windows 8.1 but I've had problems with it. As long as I'm running Windows 8 and my sound is fine. When I upgraded to Windows 8.1, Windows installed new sound drivers and my sound is distorted especially computer generated speech, and sound in computer games. After a...

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...

Since upgrading from Windows 8 to Windows 8.1 the computer is not always waking up from sleep and hangs The only solution I have found is to turn off the power and reboot The wait cursor shows and the computer will not respond to any keys such as Ctrl Alt Delete or the Windows Key Any...

I I`m having problems with my Epson Stylus Office BX300F all in one printer since upgrading from win 8pro to win 8.1pro it says Check all connections and make sure all devices are on. To cancel printing, click the [Cancel] button. It does not now display ink levels either. I do believe that...

Just a heads up regarding the Windows 8.1 upgrade for those who may be attempting it on a Windows Surface RT device SOURCE LINK A bit of a pain but a step by step guide to getting through this obstacle is contained here SOURCE LINK

I am now on my 4th time downloading this upgrade. When I ran it, it told me "Something went wrong..." and an error number 0x80004005. So I turned off virus scanning. I removed my dual booting and linux partitions. I made a bootable usb stick and rewrote the MBR, just in case. No change. I...

Madame, Monsieur, Tout d'abord, je tiens à remercier toutes les personnes qui prennent le temps d'aider les autres sur diverses questions, permettant d'avoir une vraie communauté active. Je me permets de vous contacter car depuis moins d'un mois, j'ai un problème avec un ordinateur Asus X53S...

Hi All: One of my Clients is claiming that an older version of Adobe Reader (v9 or v10) was able to Edit pdf documents. I was wondering if this was true? Last month she experienced problems with her Reader when she tried to upgrade to v11; and we had to make a paid support call to Adobe...

Since Microsoft is removing the Backup utility from Windows 8.1, I have been exploring alternatives to that very useful utility. I know there are third party utilities that will work fine, but I would rather stay with a native version, if possible. It seems the utility WBADMIN is capable of...

I am using window 7 and I tried to upgrade my microsoft office 2007 to 2013. Dont know why since I installed Microsoft office 2013, my PC only can turned on in safe mode, I cant turn on in normal boot anymore.When I tried to run or uninstall Microsoft office, the error message showedBlockquote...