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    Windows 8 Reinstalling windows 8

    Dear sirs Some years back I bought a Dell Inspiron and they have installed windows 8.1. Then I took the opportunity to upgrade it to windows 10. Till February, it was working fine. Now it is behaving funny, produces coloured lines till it reaches certain point before enabling me work with...
  2. iOftheStorm

    Windows 10 Securing My Laptop: Disabling Remote Access and Creating a Recovery USB

    Hi guys. Unfortunately I have lovely neighbours who keep hacking me and have done on my windows laptop for the last 7 months. I want to switch off any facilities that allow them to make any changes to the laptop that will cause it to have problems. So I would like network sharing off. Remote...
  3. O

    Windows 10 Reinstalling Windows 10 on Clover Trail Processor: Seeking Pre-Creator Update Solution

    I have a Windows tablet with a Clover Trail processor that came with 8 Pro. Back in the days of the free upgrade I switched to Windows 10. Wanting to clean things up I did a reset to factory settings. Now trying to reinstall Windows 10 I get an error saying my processor isn't supported. Doing...
  4. S

    Windows 10 Wi-Fi speed half or less of what I am supposed to get??

    I'm paying for 60mbps through WOW. I have 2 laptops and when hard wired I get 70mbps on each one. I'm using an 18 month old Netgear R6100 router that is 15-20 feet from my PC. - Laptop 1 is running Windows 10 and gets roughly 25-30mbps via wi-fi - Laptop 2 is running Windows 8 and gets roughly...
  5. danwfs

    Windows 8 Unusual windows networking issue between Windows 8 and 10 computers

    Hi, I'm Dan. This is my first post on the forum. I'm hoping other members may be able to assist me with a frustrating issue I'm facing on my home network. On my network, I have: HP Laptop with Windows 8.1 Pro using Wifi Custom build Desktop PC being used as a file server with Windows 8.1 Pro...
  6. S

    booting to external drive

    For years I’ve used Clonezilla on external drives to create and manipulate drive image backups like this: First, using Gparted I make two partitions on an external drive, first partition 300MB fat32 for Clonezilla live boot, and the balance ntsf partition to store the images. Next I use...
  7. kemical

    Windows 10 End of NVIDIA Driver Support for 32-bit Operating Systems

    Nvidia is to end support for the 32bit platform: Ref: End of NVIDIA Driver Support for 32-bit Operating Systems | NVIDIA
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    Windows 10 Refresh failing

    I bout a used laptop and am doing a refresh on it to wipe the files, seemed as though the refresh went smoothly. I gets to the point I'm doing the first set up stuff, cortona comes on and asking you to set up the time and your user name. It keeps freezing when trying to finish the set up...
  9. mrJoeBlack

    Windows 8 Windows 8.1 DRP 8.1 problem

    RDP ofcorse ;-) Faster fingers than thoughts. I have a problem. On my computer from Windows 8.1 I am trying to connect to a remote desktop (Windows 10). I succeed, but I can not do anything. As if it was frozen. I see the desktop and that's it. I turned off the antivirus. I shut down the...
  10. Krishnakumar

    Windows 8 Windows bsod before completing personalisation process after installation

    I use a Dell inspiron n5110 laptop with 500gb hard disk space and 4 GB of ram. Recently I thought of changing my os from windows 7 home basic to windows 8 . I used a USB drive to install it on my laptop via custom installation procedure. The installation was complete and the laptop restarted. I...
  11. S

    Computer changed it's SO

    Here is the thing, guys. I have a Lenovo notebook (it was bought in January 2016). It came with Windows 10. It worked fine. There was just one problem: those captcha pages (where you had to write the words in the box) were "bugged". By "bugged" I mean that no matter if you wrote exacly like the...
  12. Fr13ndly

    Windows 8 Trouble Installing PUBG: Error 0xc000007b and Windows Update Issues on Win 8.1

    So yesterday I installed pubg and when i wanted to run it, it would say that i am playing it for 10 seconds and then it would go back to being online. So I browsed local files and run .exe as administrator and error 0xc000007b poped out. So investigated since this is the first time i got this...
  13. J

    Windows 10 Windows 10 disk usage 100

    I upgraded from Windows 8 to Windows 10 when the upgrade was free and it ran fine for a few months. Over the last three or four months the disk usage would be at 100 every time I turned my laptop on, and would be like that for like two hours. Im not sure how to fix this and am wonder should i go...
  14. Ravi Teja M

    Windows 7 Can we identify processes that causes High CPU usage?

    Hi, Currently we are facing an issue in NetBackup server(Windows8) . We found that there is a huge load on that server. Can we find out which process is using more utilization on netbackup server (Windows8). Please help me if you have the steps or commands for finding the process. Thanks
  15. yusufks

    Windows 7 Cannot Access XP from Windows 7/8 after updating windows update MS17-010

    Hello guys...! We use various OS such as Windows XP, Windows 7, Windows 8 in our office. In the beginning there's no networking problem, Windows XP can access to higher Windows, and Windows 7/8 can access Windows XP. Everything's fine until installing windows update MS17-010 on last Monday for...
  16. kemical

    Windows 8 KB4012598 Security Update Windows 8 and Vista (wannacrypt)

    If you haven't run the WU unit or been visiting the moon recently then these updates will help with the current nasties out there in the ether.. 'Users who are running supported versions of the operating system (Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows 8.1...
  17. News

    Customer Guidance for WannaCrypt attacks

    Microsoft solution available to protect additional products Today many of our customers around the world and the critical systems they depend on were victims of malicious “WannaCrypt” software. Seeing businesses and individuals affected by cyberattacks, such as the ones reported today, was...
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    Windows 8 Cannot install win 8 iso

    I downloaded win 8 iso and burnt it to a dvd, went into bios and selected boot from cd/dvd. It starts (loading files......) loads twice, then screen goes blank. Left it for 3+ hours screen still blank. Re-started pc, (I have Vista Home Premium) inserted iso disc, run setup.exe, hit install now...
  19. Imran Bhatti

    Windows 8 Registry names and paths

    Hello Its the very first time I am posting here as I just registered. So please redirect me to the correct forum section of the forum if it is not appropriate for this query. My question is: "Do the names and paths of the registry keys changed from windows version to version and PC to PC?" I...
  20. desmav27

    Windows 8 Help my mouse will not move when I hold down a key!

    I have tried every piece of advice from every site, NOTHING WORKS! I need help because whenever i hold down any number or letter key, my mouse will not respond to moving. I have a touchpad and I tried to move around when I noticed my hand was on a letter key and it was not moving. PLEASE HELP
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