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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...- msnarayanan
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- boot issues coloured lines dell inspiron laptop product code reinstall troubleshooting windows 10 windows 8
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- Forum: Windows Upgrade and Installation
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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...- iOftheStorm
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- computer safety device security file sharing hacking home network laptop lenovo network privacy recovery usb remote desktop security smb tech support troubleshooting update user guide vpn windows 10 windows 8
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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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...- Overtonwindows
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- atom issues clean install clover trail cpu compatibility creators update factory reset legacy hardware reinstall windows reset process support issues tablet tech support upgrade limitations upgrade troubleshooting user experience windows 10 windows 8
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- Forum: Windows Upgrade and Installation
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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...- Spruce67
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- channel connection internet laptop mbps netgear network performance router settings speed support technology troubleshooting update wifi windows 10 windows 8 wireless wow
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- Forum: Windows Networking
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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...- danwfs
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- connectivity custom build devices ethernet file server home network hp laptop manual address network network issues network settings network sharing officejet printer troubleshooting wifi windows 10 windows 8 windows 8.1
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- Forum: Windows Networking
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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...- skrambam
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- backup boot clone diagnostics disk image external drive fat32 gparted ntfs partition restore tuxboot usb issues wd passport windows 10 windows 7 windows 8 windows 8.1 windows vista windows xp
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- Forum: Windows Hardware
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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- kemical
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- 32-bit driver support driver update freebsd linux nvidia release 390 security fixes windows 10 windows 7 windows 8 windows 8.1
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- Forum: Windows Graphics and Gaming
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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...- TechBud
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- cortana disk check driver issues freezing hard drive installation issues lenovo memory test older systems refresh safe mode setup troubleshooting upgrade user help windows 10 windows 8 windows recovery wipe files
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- Forum: Windows Software
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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...- mrJoeBlack
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- freezes not working rdp windows 8
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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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...- Krishnakumar
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- bsod page fault windows 8
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- Forum: Windows Blue Screen of Death (BSOD)
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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...- Solid Snake
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- 2016 model bug captcha common occurrence computer issues forum infinite lenovo notebook reboot so change tech support user experience windows 10 windows 8 windows bugs windows update
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- Forum: General Computing
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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...- Fr13ndly
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- 0xc000007b dll error kb2919355 windows 8 windows 8.1
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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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...- Jswisher21
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- disk usage high usage issues laptop performance task manager troubleshooting upgrade windows 10 windows 8
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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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- Ravi Teja M
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- command high cpu netbackup performance process monitoring server load steps troubleshooting utilization windows 8
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- Forum: Windows Software
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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...- yusufks
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- access issues computer name file sharing firewall ip address lan manager local policy ms17-010 network network security printer sharing ransomware smb troubleshooting update windows 7 windows 8 windows update windows xp
- Replies: 13
- Forum: Windows Networking
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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...- kemical
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- automatic updates customer guidance download microsoft patch security software update uninstall update vulnerabilities wannacrypt windows 10 windows 7 windows 8 windows 8.1 windows server windows server 2016 windows vista windows xp
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- Forum: Windows Software
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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...- News
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- antivirus custom support cybersecurity defense strategies malware malware protection center microsoft patch management phishing ransomware security system protection update vulnerability wannacrypt windows 2003 windows 8 windows defender windows xp
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- Forum: Security Alerts
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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...- 1max2
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- 32-bit bios boot issues computer issues dell dvd boot error free space hardware installation iso loading issues product key setup temporary files update upgrade user request windows 8 windows vista
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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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...- Imran Bhatti
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- debugging error error handling forum path regedit registry system compatibility tech support user experience user query vba windows 10 windows 8 windows 8.1 windows update
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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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- desmav27
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- mouse issues windows 8
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support