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Hi All, Thanks in advance for opinions! Tell me if you think this will work. I just bought an Intel NUC which I would like to have running Windows 10. I have an old, no longer in use, laptop running Vista and access to discounted Win 8.1 upgrade. Can I upgrade the Vista to 8.1, make the...

My PC keeps crashing, it happens seemingly at random. Only time I know its been happening over and over again is when I shutdown, my pc goes to the "Shutting down..." screen and then bluescreens. This has only been happening like maybe a month? Im gonna attach my minidumps to this

Hi when i purchased my computer quite a few years back it had Vista installed but came with a free upgrade for windows 7. I upgraded free online but have since had problems with my computer and had to factory restore it back to vista. i'm now wondering if the Vista key on the bottom of laptop...

Hi, specs: HP/Compac SR5233 PC, Windows Vista Home Premium, 32-bit, use 3 browsers: AOL software, I.E.9, Chrome (version might be: 49.0.2623.112 m) (Need any other info?) Suddenly, the updates are failing. The batch is from 4/12/16. There are about 14 updates. Never had problem...

I recently tried to power on my vista computer and the whole interface was messed up. Here is an image to show what I mean. /U0j7dVm <- on imgur, sorry the site won't let me post links since this is my first post I really do not know what to do, upon restarts it does the same thing or just...

Hi, I got Win Vista 7 on my DELL PC, and I'd love to upgrade the OS to Win 10. Is it possible to upgrade to Win 10 for free? or must I purchase a Win 10 license? Thank you.

Revision Note: V2.0 (February 10, 2016): For MS16-014, Bulletin Summary revised to announce the availability of update 3126041 for Microsoft Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 for Itanium-based Systems, Windows 8.1, and Windows Server 2012 R2. Customers should apply the...

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Ok, so I'm in a bit of a bind, and I'm hoping someone can give me some simple advice. I bought an old HP Pavilion a6400f PC for my 8-yo daughter just so she can play one of her favorite games. First obstacle, I needed to upgrade nearly everything except for the mobo. Ok, no big deal - still...

Hi guys, I am in dire need of some help/advice. My parents are on vacation and I thought I would finally upgrade my mother's PC. This PC was still running on Windows XP along with several old programs. Normally I would do a clean install, however she wanted to keep everything *sigh* So first...

November 2015 update I had an automatic Vista security update downloaded 11/12/15 . My PC now shuts down every time during startup process, with error message re BlueScreen. I have tried ( in SAFE mode ) going to control panel to uninstall the recent updates, but get a message that uninstall...

I recently installed Windows 7 Ultimate on a Dell Latitude XT that had Windows Vista before. While installing the drivers that I downloaded from the Official Dell website , I noticed that the mouse pointer was jittering and unresponsive after each restart, it was unresponsive until I entered...

I have had several failures to upgrade. I am running Windows 7 SP1 on a Dell XP8500. I have recently installed a SSD to use as my main drive with the original as data store. Bought ViewSonic touch screen monitor specially for Windows 10. The most recent attempt gave the most information. error...

I have a rather old computer which I bought shortly after Vista was introduced. I upgraded to Windows 8 a couple of years ago then took advantage of the free upgrade to Windows 8.1. Unfortunately I later encountered problems and needed to repair the computer. I had a repair disk for Windows 8...

I have a HP laptop,running vista, with a Pentium (R) dual-core processor, memory is 3.00 GB, 32 bit, base score of 3.4, would it be worth it to install windows 7 , then upgrade to windows 10 on this computer, windows adviser says it will work, or do you think the processor will be to slow,,I...

As you know when you run a 16 bit program such as Windows 3.1 games on Windows Vista,7 or 8, it does not display the icon. This is because support for 16 bit icon display has been removed from Windows Vista onwards. So you have to choose one of the icons in the "Shell32.dill" folder. But there...

Hi all, Looking to upgrade my Dell Inspiron 546 desktop from 32 bit Vista to 64 bit............? Which would you recommend, Win 7, 8.1 or neither? I have run the Upgrade advisor tool and both say they will work with some minor updates and adjustments to my current system (attached). I was...

Hello I have a problem with vista start up since more than 2 years. I try many different things with different software but nothing helped me. A two years ago i bought a pc with vista Professional already installed and when Windows 8 was released i download it from Windows website and...

on vista, started this morning after restart. I delete some files but within minutes it is back to zero. Cannot even uninstall program when this low. I've defragged and cleaned temp and unnecessary files. Any other suggestions

EDIT: I factory restored my computer to fix the problem but I would like to know why this would happen so im going to leave this up EDIT: Ive fixed my problem mostly but I still cant open my file explorer. Is their anyway to re install it? Thanks Hello, So ive had this problem twice and...