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Windows 8 After 158 updates - the computer is restarting... forever!
My daughter has had her new computer for a month, running Windows 8. It seems no one set up the automatic update (it's all in Turkish so someone has to do it for me) so now, when we couldn't download windows 10 we realised this was because we needed to first update 158 updates to windows 8...- Grant Kempton
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- automatic updates computer configuration error installation issues new computer performance restart software support system crash tech help timeout troubleshooting turkish update upgrade user help windows 10 windows 8
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 10 Can I multiboot?
Hey, so recently I wanted to play some older games that did not work on any windows 7+ so I wanted to install windows vista as a multiboot system, now I saw that there was this warning: Warning You must install the older operating system first, and then install the more recent operating...- ToxicAngel
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- backup bootloader compatibility configuration disk management dual boot gaming installation legacy systems multi-boot old games pc corruption system restore user help virtual machine warning windows 10 windows vista
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Crash Nsf Files
My Thinkpad crashed and luckily I had backed up 2 days before using Rescue and Recovery. All my files have been retrieved including the Lotus Notes archives etc....except for my contacts (address book) which are a file called names.nsf. I can go into R&R and when I retrieve an individual file, I...- erickyim2132
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- access issues administrative error backup bad sectors contacts crash data loss data retrieval error external drive file recovery lotus notes nsf files recovery rescue technology help thinkpad uncompress user help
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- Forum: General Computing
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Windows 10 Backing Up WLM 2012 Prior To Clean Installation Of Windows 10 Pro
I did the upgrade from Windows 7 Ultimate to Windows 10 Pro. Privacy concerns aside, I like Windows 10. I haven't had any problems with software and hardware compatibility. I use 27 different email accounts within WLM 2012, for a variety of reasons. Many of these email accounts have additional...- Sichuan
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- account settings backup clean install d drive dell email accounts email import email management hardware compatibility internal drive migration multiple accounts online backup privacy saved emails software compatibility user help windows 10 windows upgrade wlm
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 8.1 Corrupt microsoft office documents
the word documents icon shows properly, but when I tried to open it, it gave me a message: â¬SFile conversion⬠Select the encoding that makes your document readable. Text encoding: (then I have 3 choices with the circles beside them to select ) (1st choice) Windows (Default) (2nd...- shotgun
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- compatibility corruption data loss document formats encoding error file conversion file recovery microsoft office microsoft word preview readability settings support symbol issues troubleshooting user help windows
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- Forum: Microsoft Products and Community
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Windows 10 Script Error
Why suddenly " Script Error " appears continuously when I try to close an IE page? asking to choose "use script Yes or NO". & either clicked gives an blank page & have difficulty closing it. I tried Tools>Advanced & "disable script errors" is ticked. I cleared it, reopened IE, re-ticked it with...- nichos
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- browser internet explorer script error settings troubleshooting user help
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 7 Frequent BSOD Issues on Windows 7: Help Needed for Diagnosis and Solutions
Hello everyone, So here is my predicament, every day my machine blue screens with many different errors. I've tried to reformat and start over and that did not work. I have tried to upgrade to windows 10 that installation just completely failed so I kept windows 7. Not sure whether to just...- ckarras11
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- blue screen bsod community support debugging dmp files error error codes hardware installation machine issues msinfo reformat repair system crash troubleshooting upgrade user help windows 10 windows 7
- Replies: 14
- Forum: Windows Blue Screen of Death (BSOD)
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Windows 10 80004005-2004 error and drop back
I am helping a friend. Right now I am not at his place and have not all information in front of me, sorry for that. At some later time I will continue there, but now I am collecting all help and information I can get. It goes about this: The download of W10 completes, Preparing for Install...- bochane
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- av software comodo configuration error 80004005 installation guide installation issues partition reboot loop recovery partition tech support troubleshooting upgrade upgrade process user help windows 10 windows defender
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- Forum: Windows Upgrade and Installation
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User's OST file keeps growing
We have a user who has an OST file that is 35 GB in size on a system that uses Outlook 2010. They only have 3 GB of free space left on their hard drive and we have cleared the system up as much as possible. They are now having other problems associated with a Windows 7 system on a network that...- jackparish
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- disk cleanup disk space email profiles file growth network issues ost files outlook repair tools user help windows 7
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- Forum: General Computing
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Windows 10 Prevent the photo app from launching when plugging iphone
Everytime I plug my iphone in my pc windows 10 launches the photo app and I can't seem to find the setting to turn it off, anyone figured this out yet? thanks!- Billsk8
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- application behavior auto-launch best practices community device connectivity disconnect feedback iphone pc configuration photos app settings software system tech support troubleshooting update usb settings user guide user help windows 10
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 10 After the recent upgrade for win 10, snipping tool fails
My snipping tool was OK until a fairly major update on Win10 a few days ago. It will only work on my console background, for everything else it appears as if the film which occurs when active is too thick to see thro. If you guess and try to snip all you get is black. I've used the disk...- Nigel Garnett
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- bug fixes console error checking issues screen capture snipping tool update upgrade user help windows 10
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- Forum: Windows Upgrade and Installation
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Windows 10 Services windows 10
Windows 10x64//G1.Sniper Z87//i5_4670K//GTX 750Ti//RAM_8GB// Hello, please explain in the language of the user, for what these Services are necessary? Search Google and Yahoo results have not yielded, or it is described not clearly for the user. Unfortunately I do not know English, I ask an...- dllwind
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- appreadiness cdpsvc core messaging datacollectionpublishingservice enterprise software explanation mapsbroker msmq services systemeventsbroker tech support timebroker troubleshooting user guide user help walletservice windows 10
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 10 problem ejecting mass storage device
Problem ejecting mass storage device,this device is currently in use Close any programs or windows that might be using the device. Changed removal options in device manager with no difference? Hoping someone has the solution,as my efforts searching the internet have failed. Cheers dark...- darkgohan
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- device eject device manager eject microsoft support problem solving storage storage devices troubleshooting user help windows issues
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 10 (Solved)I Have Only One Power Plan
I just upgraded to Win 10 on my Surface Pro 3. I had two problems one of which has been solved. The one that is solved was that my Samsung SDXC card was not recognized. It didn't appear in Device Manager or in Computer Management > Disk Management. I "fixed" the problem by re-installing Windows...- hawkeye62
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- balanced plan computer issues configuration control panel device manager disk management fix hyper-v power plan reinstall sdxc card settings surface pro tech support troubleshooting upgrade user help windows 10
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 10 Can't Copy and Paste in Win 10
I am trying to migrate Win 10 from a 1tb partition on internal drive C: to a 128gb internal SSD. I am using EaseUS Total Backup Ver. 8.2 to do this task. EaseUS suggests that you back up your documents, music, video, & pictures folders to a separate drive then erase all of the files in those...- EdAWood
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- backup ctrl+c ctrl+v data loss documents easeus error file transfer internal drive migration music partition paste pictures ssd tech support troubleshooting user help video windows 10
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 10 Help with update
I have Windows 10 reserved but not installed. Today I went to windows update to get the updates for 8.1. It has windows 10 update ready to download. I unchecked the windows 10 update but it won't give me the windows 8.1 ones without downloading 10 first. We don't want to download 10 until...- suebat
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- backup download installation reserved update upgrade user help windows 10 windows 8.1 windows update
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 10 Losing internet connection, and Taskbar not respoding.
Ok here is my problem, my internet connection works for a certain amount of time then without warning the connection dies showing the yellow triangle with a ! on it, showing no connection when I try to use shortcut keys nothing works I can get Run to work but when I try to load like cmd, it does...- Pumaoblivion
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- cmd computer issues connection drivers error ethernet internet network issues pc troubleshooting reset rollback task manager troubleshooting user help windows windows 10 yellow triangle
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 10 Drives showing this folder is empty error
My PC showing some wierd error "this folder is empty" for C , D and F drives. My PC ran into this problem when the OS was Windows 8.1 and I recently updated to windows 10 still the issue is haunting . Please help me out , below I have attached screen shots of the issue.- prathapsv
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- c drive computer issues d drive data recovery disk management drive empty folders error f drive file system os issues screenshots storage system error troubleshooting update user help windows 10 windows 8.1
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 10 Help! Web site has Edge is being held hostage by a web site
I was using the new Edge browser on my laptop today to try to find a solution to a problem and now I have a new problem. I got onto a website that put up a prompt to install some software that I don't want. The prompt only has an option to install the software and when the prompt went up on...- Moondoggy
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- browser extensions browser issues browser recovery edge settings gray screen malicious software microsoft edge open tabs pop-up blocker privacy software installation tab management task manager tech support troubleshooting user experience user help user interface web security windows laptops
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 7 Windows Script Host: Can not find script file ?
Hello & Thanks , win7 x64 Starting yesterday , I keep getting the following message: Windows Script Host Can not find script file "C:\ProgramData\{95137DD0-C591-AC56-7417-DCD4A4950F5A}\2.0.1.9\lare.txt". Any idea why and how to fix it ? Thanks/ ...Vern- taobatbai
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- configuration error file not found fix issues logs maintenance path programdata scripting software support system troubleshooting update user help windows windows 7 windows script host x64
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support