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Hello! On Sept 2015 I upgraded my 2-years-old Samsung laptop to W10, but after some issues (including BSoD), I downgraded to W8.1, thinking that would solve the problems. Since then, a KERNEL_DATA_INPAGE_ERROR BSoD appears even several times a day (specially today). I saw the .dmp files using...

Please help...... Yesterday on startup, the Edge icon was missing from the taskbar as well as all my apps. Several system restores didn't have any effect on this problem, so I'm at a loss as to both the cause & more importantly, a solution. Oddly, Word also disappeared from my apps., but I've...

There are four desktop icons including the Start Menu (open) that will not move, do not function, I ran a scan, I believe it was scannow and that shows file corrupt I am able to use the laptop but these icons need to go, I created another Recycle Bin that functions and I am able to open...

Suddenly a white bar on the top of the desktop appeared as shown on the attached. It is a search bar & there is no way to delete it. Can you help to get rid of it please? .......thanx .......nick

Hi For those that don't like the W10 Apps, you can use this link from HTG. Might help if you are having issues with the Apps also?? As always move or delete this thread to the right section!;):) How to Uninstall Windows 10’s Built-in Apps (and How to Reinstall Them)

Hello all. Recently I'm having this problem with thumbnails using windows explorer, whenever I open a folder configured to use large or medium icons, all I see are blank squares instead of the thumbnails or icons. It seems like a refresh problem because just by going to the view tab and...

I am getting messages my P.C. screen each time I switch on, asking me to change to windows 10 I don't know what I have at the moment, but it works. I also have a laptop, which used to work, but now cannot and gives me a message that there is a connection problem, which is rubbish. I think this...

I installed the most recent version of Opera 36 late last night and need some help with it. I haven't used Opera in a few years, so I'm unaware of any changes they made to it. Where did they move the setting for tweaking network settings and for showing tab preview in it's icon on Windows 10's...

Hi! My hats off to everyone that helps members on Windows Forum with BSOD. I'm not trying to replace them, just help them in my small way! This is taken from HTG. Windows Forum has one of the best techs helping with BSOD. @kemical I hope this helps take a little load off @kemical ;);). I hope I...

Hi The safe mode is one of the best trouble shooters Windows has. Here's the way to get this windows feature back on W10. I have to have my safe mode! Hope this helps someone. Please move if needed. This will work when you can't boot into windows and get to safe mode. Give it a look. You might...

Hi all, I'm trying to combine my music collection into a single folder on my hard drive, which I've named "Music". The problem I am facing is that over the years I have used a variety of different music players and their associated music storage systems. This has resulted in music being saved in...

Hey guys! As the title says I cant access the advanced boot options in Windows 10. After Windows failed booting I tried the option to recover a previous version of Windows. After that failed it has gone into an infinite loop of reboots, trying to recover a previous version. The problem is that...

I just recently built a computer for myself, but for some reason I am plagued with constant BSODs, most of which have different error codes but all pointing to ntoskrnl.exe driver. I've tried to do some troubleshooting on my own by reinstalling Windows, running Memtest86 overnight with no issues...

I've had this problem for months now and I'm at a loss about what to do next. I've ran the Windows Diagnostic Tool- multiple times. No change. I've refreshed my PC. No change. I've just recently reset my laptop back to factory settings and still nothing has changed. Honestly, I don't know...

Ok, I have a windows 10 PC problem. Its either malware or a virus or whatever else there is. Antivirus didn't catch it. It wont let you open your start menu or search with cortana. After a while even the mouse stops working. I tried to press shift then restart from the login to do a system...

I need help guys, my pc always go blue screen whenever I do anything in desktop (ex: clicking icons or opening chrome) and same thing happens whenever I reboot the computer, so we decided to take it to a specialist and tested it there and surprisingly, the blue screen did not appear, so we went...

Hi, I decided that I wanted to remove certain built-in apps from my Windows 10 device by using commands in powershells. Now it appears, I entered the wrong command and ended up messing up all of my apps. Now I can barely use any of them. However, I only need 1 of them that is broken. I can't...

Greetings I've been occuring this BSOD everytime I run Photoshop and normally I can fix stuff myself but this time I can't. My laptop's been running photoshop cc 2014 fine before, I've got the warranty and got it fix for some other reasons. Now I installed the same photoshop and I get a BSOD...

This is more than trying my patience. I had Chinese relatives visit a couple of years ago and installed the Chinese language pack so they could use the computer. Before they left they turned it back to English as I could not read anything on the computer (Sony Viao Win 8.1). Now, I've...

I stupidly installed I-Cloud on my computer and now I have lost all my Favourites and my address book, any ideas how I can get them back please??