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Some users are experiencing a freeze around 40% of the way through installing Windows 10 Build 10586 and the fix is a quick and easy one. read more Continue reading...

Windows 10 is terrible i'm just going to come out and say that right away, I wish I had never upgraded. windows 7 worked just fine I have no Idea why I upgraded. I've been having a plethora of problems and Microsoft doesn't seem too keen on helping me unless I pay them ungodly sums of money (for...

After installing Windows 10 and using the Edge Browse I have recently starting getting pop up type warnings that my COX IP supplied security software, McAfee, will not work or protect using the Edge Browser and I need to revert back to an old Internet Explorer Browser to be protected by McAfee...

on your computer are incompatible Office products installed MS EXCEL opens only after this error message

I wanted to check on the status of my Win 10 updates so I looked in "settings" "update and security" and clicked on update. Nothing happened, all I get is the endless progression of dots which goes on forever. Stopping and restarting the Windows update services has no effect on this situation...

Hi. I've had no luck in Win10 forum so I'm asking here as the answer is probably the same... File History does not backup Desktop or any files on Desktop. Can somebody suggest why this should be? I have turned File History off, turned it back on, reset the backup drive and the only folder to...

I have not been able to load my cd's onto windows media player in windows 10. There is no "rip" feature. I also tried downloading music from me smartphone, and that does not work either. It seems like I have to buy an app in order to load cd's that I've already paid for. If this is true...

Screen flickers and explorer.exe crashes are being reported by some Windows 10 users. read more Continue reading...

I can't seem to change Windows Update settings in order to update my Windows 7 and later change to Windows 10, the Windows Update states that "Some settings are managed by your system administrator." But I am the only user on this computer that has the status of an Administrator.

A bug in the Windows 10 Store is keeping some users from getting automatic app updates. read more Continue reading...

When I log on as the second user on my windows 10 laptop nothing works. I cannot click the start menu. I cannot right click anywhere. The first user works fine. The second is an administrator also as standard users cannot log on at all. Any ideas?

I am sorry if I have previously used the wrong place to put my question. Most times after I have had the computer switched on and after 30 minutes approx. I click on a app and it just "hangs" with the blue circle going around and around and after a couple of minutes stops. You can click on the...

I have a problem in that Windows 10 is not working for me, and I am trying to roll back to Windows 7. One of the difficulties is a non functioning Start Menu. So how to I get to Settings and then Update and Security etc to begin the roll back process to Windows 7?

The situation is I can't add any item to the "start list', which is the list on the left of the start icons. As far as I've read, it's supposed to be as easy as dragging an icon, but it can't be done I get an "x" when I reach the destination at the left. Strange also, is that in my context menu...

The latest update for Microsoft's upcoming operating system is causing crashes for users when they perform certain tasks on their OS. read more Continue reading...

Hello, I have a problem with the icons of avi files, that looks for me like the basic ico.icon when no file is associated. The file itself is associated to Media Player Classic and doubleclicking it starts also the file with Media Player Classic I tried deleting iconcache.db and changing the...

Ok sorry if this is a double up. I realized I didn't include all the required files Since the recent July 2015 updates for Windows 8.1 I've been getting BSOD's intermittently, mainly: System Thread exception not handled Netio.sys' or an IRQL not equal or less than.... Any suggestions...

Hi all Recently figured out how to get the "Get Windows 10" app on my task bar but now the only problem is I can't get it to work, when I click on it starts up and says Please Wait but closes after a second of being open, any solutions? Cheers

I have a LAN comprised of two Win7 Ultimate 64bit (sp1) PC's and one or more XP PC's. They have been able to share files between them pretty well for many months, but with the latest Win7 updates, the XP PC is no longer able to access the Win7 shared files. They, however, have full access to...

I have been doing windows updates today but i got error 80070002. Have done all kinds of fixes and followed all the instructions to resolve and fix the error but to no avail. Everytime I do windows updates, just for today, i got different kinds of erros e.g. 8024402F 8024A000 Is there ANOTHER...