As Windows 10 approaches its impending end of support, the countdown has begun. Microsoft set the date for October 14, 2025, and it’s a clock that won’t be unwound, sending a ripple of concern among Windows users and organizations alike. With talks of a potential mass obsolescence of devices...
When upgrading nb from Win10 to 11Home, sharing stopped working at 100%.
I can get to the desktop pc as before, but not to the nb. It is a home network, nb is on wifi, pc on cable to router. Is it in some os setting that I'm not familiar with, or something similar? Sharing is set to all drives...
I have a 2 year old computer that is running Windows 10. I made a new partition to dual boot Windows 11 about a year ago, installed Win11, tried it for a few days, and removed it because it was extremely slow. I figured I would give it another try a few weeks ago. It would install, and put...
Several years ago I gave my sister a T500 which I had previously owned and had upgraded from Windows 7 to Windows 10.
She no longer needs or desires it, but I have use for it.
All of the programs and default new paths are currently set up in:
C:\Users\Sisters Name\Folder
How do I change all...
So I recently did a fresh install of windows, did NOT keep any files, wiped every drive. Upon installing Windows 10 version 1803, I installed all my drivers, and all was normal. In device manager I saw under system showing the proper things, including an Intel 300 series controller with (Z370)...
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I installed Windows 10 (upgrading a Windows 7 Toshiba Laptop) several weeks ago and everything seemed to be working fine. A few days ago I started to see that when I went to close down the laptop "Task Host stopping background tasks" If I cancelled the shutdown (thinking something was still...
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I have recently upgraded to Windows 10 and I am suffering with this Wifi problem...
Whenever I go to other room just to chill out, my Wifi name doesn't come in the list of available Wifi(s) and even if it appears and connects, it just stays for 5-10 seconds and disappears again. There are...
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I upgraded in-place from Win7 to Win10, and now my computer will only recognize devices that are plugged in to the USB 2.0 ports.
I already tried going into Device Manager, uninstalling the drivers under "Universal Serial Bus Controllers," and restarting.
I'm using a Sager NP8130 laptop.
I've recently upgraded my computer with a new motherboard, cpu and ram and chose to install windows 8 over the old windows 7. Then I deleted the old windows files. I used to be able to run many applications at the same time on my old system, for example itunes, firefox and a game, but in Windows...
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As Microsoft enters the final 40 days before the public release of Windows 10 they are providing instructions to their intrepid Windows Insiders for the process to reach RTM builds on all of their machines.
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I recently upgraded to windows 8.1 from 7. Whenever I connect my D-Link dongle, windows thinks that it is a read only storage drive. I uninstalled and re-installed the D-Link software but it doesnt work.
When I start the "D-Link Connection Manager" it shows the loading screen and then...
I'm thinking of upgrading my laptop that came with Windows 8 x64 O.E.M. and has been upgraded to 8.1 x64 to 8.1 Pro x64 over the weekend.Can I do a clean install of 8.1 Pro with the product key that Microsoft give's me with the 8.1 Pro upgrade. I already have 8.1 Pro on a usb flash drive that...
My old vista laptop died so I upgraded to a new laptop pre-loaded with 8.1. I tried to load some files including photos from my Seagate hard drive but I get a message to the effect that they are not supported. How can I download the other files?
Ten days ago, I upgraded Windows 7 to Windows 8 ("What are you waiting for"-email from Microsoft).
Within 6 days, I needed to refresh Windows 8 twice because of some crashes. After the second time "refresh", and reinstalling numerous updates for Win8, I turned the computer off. Next morning...
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I just installed a clean installation of windows 7 ultimate 64Bit,
because i recently upgraded my RAM to 6GB ;I had to install 64Bit windows.
I bought a different brand RAM (2x2 Kingston) to my old pair (1x2 corsair) ,but everything else is the...
I have an E6550 Intel 2.33 Gig dual core (Windows &7) - 4 Gigs of 6400 RAM - 1 TB Sata 3 (6 Gb) Hard drive
The other is a AMD 955 3.2 Gig Quad core (Windows 7) - 60 GB SSD Hard drive and 2 USB3 Hard Drives - 1333 Gigs of RAM
The AMD does a virus check at 3 times the speed using the same...
Wondering if anyone had any ideas on how to fix a new issue my NAS drive has thrown up.
My NAS is used only for storage of files, most of them being media files in various formats (DVD, avi, MPEG etc). We basically have this instead of a massive DVD shelving unit! The media is streamed...
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