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Hi I am trying to download a video file off of a cell phone camcorder. When I transfer it to my computer and run it in media player (Win 8.1) all I get is the video. It plays off the phone audio/video but only video on my computer. The phone is a 3gp file. I think that it ran off of my old...

Severity Rating: Critical Revision Note: V1.0 (January 13, 2015): V1.0 (January 13, 2015): Bulletin published. Summary: This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in Microsoft Windows. The vulnerability could allow remote code execution if an attacker sends specially...

My cousin brought me his Acer Aspire running Vista for me to clean up. I have done this, but he has no icons on his desktop. He does have a desktop background picture. Furthermore, I attempted to add 2 new icons and they don't appear as well. there a setting somewhere to fix this? Thank you

My Vista OS on Dell 1525 cycles to "Windows Error Recovery" no matter what changes or selections are made; in Boot selection or Set Up. I cannot get to the reinstalling disk. It's dead in the water. HELP Underwire

I have a Toshiba satellite laptop, and I had been having trouble with my laptop.When I load up my laptop it stuck at preparing automatic repair, and this is really getting annoying. I was wondering if anyone could help me thanks :) Things I tried: Using window 8 disc to fix, it doesn't work...

The October 15, 2014 Windows update to my 64 _bit Vista home premium changed the desktop, removing folders. It also seemed to have affected installed programs (wanting me to re-register them), or removing them from All Programs. For example microsoft access is installed but the icon was...

I have a laptop used to run Vista. Bought a retail Win 8 Pro upgrade version and installed over the Vista. Then upgraded to Win 8.1 Pro. That is what the laptop is running now. Question : If I install Win 10 TP over the Win 8.1 Pro, does it free up my Win 8 Pro product key so that I can use it...

I see no need for Tiles w/ the start menu I prefer having to bother w/ a start menu as little as possible IF there can be more direct access. W/ certain things, anything, frequent things, able to be Pinned to Taskbar start isn't needed as much or as often. I have it down to PC Setting, its...

Microsft have released an update for both flavours of Vista citing: The update is available via Windows Update or the links below: 32Bit: Link Removed 64Bit: Link Removed

Afternoon i was trying to install windows 7 onto my cruzer glide 64GB flash drive so that i could have another os to use without updating laptop hard drive however im having trouble installing it onto the flash even though i have formatted the flash into a ntfs as i saw on a different tutorial...

Hi, I have a Compac laptop with 2core processor & runs Vista. I have a full win 8 64bit cd I used to install 8 on my PC. All of a sudden, in Vista, IE will not connect to my BBand, it gives a blank screen. Managed to install Firefox now. Can I upgrate the laptop from vista to win8? I...

Hey guys I hope someone can shed some light on this for me as I am at a complete loss. I have a HP pavilion dv6-1129tx laptop it still has the genuine battery in it which is about 4yrs old but I assume it is still alright as it holds charge for over an hour running in battery alone. OS is...

Hi guys. I have a Mac. I have a Vista PC. How can I connect from Mac to vista PC and use it at the same time someone is sitting at it using it? Sent from my iPod touch using WindowsForum

Hi guys. I have an old 2001 HP laptop that came with vista. I've made recovery discs. I installed windows 7 home premium. Worked ok for day and a half. Then it wouldn't start. It just said its being prevented from starting. Goes into text boot with option to try to fix windows boot or run...

So consider this to be a bit of self indulgence as I give my own eulogy at windows XP's funeral. Windows XP was my first full time operating system, and as it ends its support cycle its time for me to do some fun looking back on one of the computing worlds biggest successes and how it all went...

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I'm having trouble I replaced my motherboard installed windows vista basic everything worked fine until I attempted to install windows 7 home 32 from a usb. It installed more than once and would only boot from the recovery partion and it worked fine then I tried to reinstall it to the c partion...

Windows 8 isn't quite the next Vista after all. Microsoft announced that it has sold 200 million Windows 8 licenses in about 15 months. Continue reading...

I purchased software/download and then burned to DVD disc. I installed the software on my Vista(64) system OK, but when I loaded the DVD into my Win 8.1 all the drive does is spin. It's been over 10 minutes and still spins away. I do get win explorer window with files shown normally with the...

Greetings. I have my backup running automatically, doing a backup every 7 days. Yesterday I noticed the back up kept running, until it racked up 73 folders totaling 12.2GB. Whereas the last backup was 172MB in one folder. The 1-5-14 backup was: 94KB and 180,416KB in two folders. 12-22-13...