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Posting this here, although I'm not sure it is a network problem per-se, but it is network related. The problem is that some applications will not open files on a networked PC via the list of recent files that appears when starting the app fromthe Start Menu. I get The item you selected is...

I bought a used Surface Pro 3 with Windows 10 Pro English version installed. I have installed the Chinese language package. I am planning to change my English Surface Pro 3 to Chinese Surface Pro 3. I have the following questions: Q1: I am wondering what are the differences between these two...

How can I investigate possible cause/s for 'Not enough memory'? I frequently encounter this but when I check the task manager, used virtual and physical memory didn't even reach half of the available memory. thank you.

I have a normal desktop PC with following specifications: Intel Pentium G630 with 2.7GHz speed 6 GB (5.71 GB usable) RAM I want a lightweight Anti-Virus for my PC and want it to run without any problems. Any suggestions will be appreciated! Thanks for taking your time to read the post! :)

can someone please let me know what this means or what i have to do. the game i am attempting to play is fortnite. my computer is not the best but i was just wandering what this means. my pc is the hp pavilion 500-314 w/ 8gb ram. (note i’m not the best with computers) Sent from my iPhone using...

It seems to me that the well known command sfc /scannow ..... appends all logmessages to a possibly already existing CBS.LOG file rather than create a new logfile. Is this correct? So if I want to have a fresh logfile just with the results from the last sfc run I have to manually delete the...

Something is suddenly changing my files to Read Only. It seems to be affecting Office 2016 files. What's causing this and how do I stop it?

I see a RAID 5 option in the disk manager in my Windows 10 pro 64bit os but it's greyed out , but I also see if could do a Parity RAID in storage space which it will allow me to do. So I'm curious why RAID 5 is greyed out and is there an advantage to getting RAID 5 to work vs Parity, which I...

Hi, I have 2 copies of Windows 10, 1 Home, 1 Pro. I have Home installed on one machine and the other is not yet installed. I want to upgrade the Home to Pro and use the Home on another machine. Can I use my pro license key to upgrade the Home (so that I don't have to reinstall everything)...

Hello, I have a pc I had rarely used with Windows 8, which I just updated to 8.1 When I checked for updates, I have 175 updates that I needed to download and install. Couple questions... 1) do I need to dl and install all updates? (Some are updates that have the year 2012 on it). Can I pick and...

Anyone know why, in Win10 Network & Internet, I can't turn off Airplane Mode? When I try, it just pops right back on.

Hello, Something strange happening : I run Windows 7 entreprise_x64, when i install Office standard 2010 or 2016, when i check for updates, MicrosoftUpdate provide me some updates( for example after installing the 2010version, i 've got 52 updates, when the insatalltions is finished, i check...

After inserting a hot swap drive, Windows Anti-Virus turns itself off. What causes this?

If I create a system restore disk or create a system image whilst backing up, do both take the current system image including all updates installed to the point of time I did the back-up ?

I heard that windows 10 is free for one year then you have to pay is this true. or is the case you get to keep it forever for free. what i mean by free forever is that you get to keep the last update of windows 10 and keep it for 4 years until outdated. or is it really free Thanks EJOE

how to check recently copied files on my computer? can anyone help me? I just want to find out whether someone has copied files from my laptop...

Hello, I use a single PST file as my main information store between home and office. The file is 100MB and has recently been compacted. At the office, we have an Exchange Server, and at home I interface with my POP. Ultimately evertything gets filed in this PST file which I carry on...

I recently got COMODO and every time my windows 7 OS loads up it promts me if i want to run the snz.exe executable. I dont know if prior to me getting comodo SNZ.exe was executed or not, but my point is that from reading online about this executable i dontr know if it malware or not. Some...

I have an external hard drive which I have been using to do System Image Backup once a week on my Windows 7 computer. The backup goes to WindowsImageBackup folder. Now, I have another computer with Windows 8 Pro. I did a system image backup to the same ext. hdd. It went to the same folder...

first of all, thanks for all those who have aided me in getting to my virtual pc xp mode now please, a couple of NEW queries: query 1 I have installed a 16 bit DOS based application in the C: of the virtual XP Mode (it is a DOS based application, so there is no installing procedure) An icon...