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In a recent article from PCWorld titled How to Get Windows 11 Cheap (or Even for Free), author Alaina Yee dives into the murky waters of Windows licensing to unveil some savvy strategies for snagging Microsoft's latest operating system at a fraction of its retail cost—or even free...
In a critical announcement, Microsoft has unveiled that its Windows 11 versions 21H2 and 22H2 will cease to receive security updates starting October 8, 2024. This change, coinciding with the onset of fall, serves to remind users of the importance of maintaining up-to-date software for security...
I have Windows 10 Pro (just shy of licensed) installed on a 970 Plus M.2 drive (see all specs in signature). The PC is not running at the speed I would have expected (for instance my Random Read/Write values are pitiful (see attachment). I either have my BIOS incorrectly set up, too much junk...
Originally updated Win 7 to 10 successfully as soon as available with many updates installed .subsequently without any hassle.
Recently this changed. Last successful update 1803, but then failed right up to recent 1909, error code 0xc004f075. This error code is meaningless - does not produce...
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Hi, Everyone, a friend of mine has had trouble with his laptop recently, he had upgraded it from windows 8 to windows 10 a long time ago and says it has been buggy and running slow ever since, after much messing about I did a factory reset which has taken his system back to windows 8. I am just...
I am currently trying to overwrite my old PC to hand it to my girlfriend with a clean slate.
It's currently a win7 home premium.
I changed boot priority to DVD over HDD, insert Win10 disc, start PC. When prompted to press any key the win10 logo comes up and after a few minutes I am told that a...
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This is my opinion and may have some merit. The two desktop PC's I have and the wife with her Dell laptop have been upgraded to Windows 10... One of mine is with WIN 10 Pro. There's not a day go by that we have some type of issues with the new upgrade. If it's not security issues...
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hello,
In an effort to renew my wifes desktop, I bought a SSD and installed Win10 on it. Everything is fine.
Her factory HDD still has her factory winxp on it. I created a 25Gig partition and moved music etc to the storage partition of the winxp hdd.
How do I remove winxp ?
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Has anyone else experienced this? I was unable to update from Windows 8.1 Pro to Windows 10 Pro via Windows update as the download/ install kept failing. I then downloaded the 64-bit Win 10 installer from the MS website and ran it.
Everything went fine until I was presented with three options...
I upgraded to windows 10, but for some reason a large amount of my ram is being used as well. I start up my pc at 70% some times. I have 8gb of ram.
Also, if i were to downgrade back to 8.1, would the ram still get consumed as much?
Regedit, going to NDU and then to start and changing it to 4...
I'm running a genuine copy of Windows 7 SP1 on my laptop, and it fills all the requirements for the free upgrade. Still, i cannot for my life get the "Reserve Windows 10" icon to appear in the taskbar! I've updated Windows, uninstalled the updates and reinstalled them again. I tried all the...
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I have Windows 7 pro on my desktop PC and I didn't get the message to upgrade to Windows 10. My desktop is running slow and I need to do a fresh install but I don't have the disk . The disk was an upgrade for my system a few years back.
I found the location on Microsoft website on how download...
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Hello everyone,
I am currently looking for computer parts for a custom built computer that I will make over the summer. I was wondering if I take the hard drive (1TB) from my current computer and put it into my new computer could I still use the free windows 10 upgrade? WIll I have to reset the...
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Microsoft has confirmed that Windows 10 will be free for Insiders, even if the machine did not have Windows 7/8/8.1 on it beforehand. Testers will be able to do a fresh installation.
"As long as you are running an Insider Preview build and connected with the MSA you used to register, you will...
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I currently have Windows 8.1 and I have a issue with some updates that are required for the Windows 10 Upgrade. At the moment i can't install KB3035583 as it seems that I already it installed due to that I have the files when Microsoft releashed a update to upgrade to Windows 10 Technical...
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Just a quick one. When 10 finaly becomes available are we going to be able to install on top of the TP or are we going to be required go back to win 8/7 then update from there again?
The reason I ask is I have just broke my win 8 disc and would need to download the iso again just in case I need...
Fudzilla are running article about the rumours concerning update 8.2 scheduled for the Autumn.
Full article:
http://www.fudzilla.com/home/item/34558-windows-82-likely-in-autumn
Okay so as an outsider to windows it seems that Microsofts move to come out with a new version of windows is both a laugh riot and a sad sight.
I think Microsoft done goofed once more and maybe its time to see how it can undo its mistake.
The key to the failure is Microsofts need to do a mobile...
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