upgrade issues

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...

After upgrading to win 8, all of my videos were being played through x-box video app. I clicked one of my videos and changed the default to win media player and now this window appears when I try to open a video. Any reason this could be happening? Link Removed

I don't know if this is the appropriate forum for this topic but I could not find an answer for this anywhere: since upgrading from Windows Vista 64bit to Windows 7 64 bit, whenever I'm watching a video on YouTube I hear advertizements running in the background that have nothing to do with the...

If Windows Update is failing, especially if the Win8 install was an Upgrade from a prior Windows OS, do the following: Command Prompt, Run as Admin DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-Image /ScanHealth Hit ENTER After that finishes... DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth Hit...

GIGABYTE - Motherboard - Socket 1155 - GA-P61-S3 (rev. 2.0) Ive managed to update/flash (its the same thing?) my bios from F5 to F7 version within an utility provided by motherboard manufacturer called @BIOS ( you can find it on the same support and download section ). I had 3 options to...

I just upgraded to W8, from W7. so far so good. The only issue so far is that when I reach the Lock Screen (date, Wi-Fi, etc), I click enter, its says "please wait", then goes back to the Lock Screen. I enter, once again, "please wait" and back to Lock screen. the third time I click enter...

I have a bit of a problem with a messed up windows 7 install and looking for someone with enough knowledge who might have come across this. A coworker had a laptop running windows 7 home premium. Since Home Premium does not allow joining of a domain, he upgraded to professional. Problem came...

ok so i built this computer about a year and a half ago and i have been dealing with this same blue screen almost from the start. it used to only happen rarely when i played video games and i was also getting graphical artifacts so last christmas i upgraded my failing graphics card thinking this...

Hi, i recently upgraded from windows XP Professional, to windows 7 home professional x64. When i upgraded to service pack 3 on xp, it gave me some authentication issues. Now when i boot my computer it gives me 2 boot options being: Windows 7 Microsoft Windows XP Professional Setup I have tried...

I bought a new Dell Inspiron with Windows 7 pre-installed two years ago. Recently, my computer has acquired a computer virus which slows down my computer, redirects select google entries and on my C Drive there are folders with names like "df4f0569299e83f51098af913b749bc2" I have decided to...

I recently did a clean install of home premium from the original disk that I had purchased, the reason for doing so was to eliminate some problems I was having. I did this install on a different HD and still have the other HD with the earlier install. I did the install with no problems until I...

Hello all, I have been trying for the last several days to re-install an HUP Office 2010 Pro Plus (DVD) on a new install of Win 7 x64. I switched from XP where Office 2010 worked fine. When I first tried it I repeatedly received the error code 1920 (osppsvc). So, after searching numerous MS...

#1- Hi, really hope someone will be able to help. #2- Wasnt quite sure where to put this so i guess here will do (for now). Here are the problems. I think im currently stuck in a Win7x64 repair loop. Had a BSOD three nights ago and upon reboot it gave me the option to Launch Repairs or Start...

I just up graded to Win 7 and have had enough of my operating system telling me I either don't have access or I don't have permission or that I need to run something in Administrator mode. If I have logged in as an administrator (which I have) I don't want to see any of these rebuffs. I just...

You may receive error " " when run Windows Anytime Upgrade (WAU) from Windows 7. Link Removed