windows 8.1

Our daughter has a Laptop with OS 8.1 64 bit. She passed away a few weeks ago and we want give that Laptop to a person who used to help her in daily routine. The laptop has password and finger print security. How do I remove those security prior to given that Laptop? Any help will be highly...

Hi! I have another PC that needs reinstall because of bunch of bugs with Windows 10, Now, I need Windows 8.1 Pro 64-bit ISO but the media creation tool keep saying "The Parameter is incorrect" I cannot use the USB option on media creation tool because the USB were used by rufus and may not work...

Credit for Video: ZealPlex Steps 1.Download uxstyle and install it -- www.uxstyle.com 2.Find a theme you like NOTE: MAKE SURE YOUR THEME IS MADE FOR THE VERSION YOU HAVE OR IF YOU GET IT FOR SOME OTHER VERSION, IT WILL BREAK YOUR SYSTEM! 3. Drag the theme's windows theme file and the folder...

Hello there. I'm trying to get a retail version of an old game running. The game runs, but I have a problem. I've searched around a bit, and the solution seems to be turning directplay on. I go to control panel, and to my surprise directplay isn't there, nor the legacy folder it's contained in...

Hi, New here but not new to Windows. I have a software requirement that I am surprised I can't seem to find an answer for. I have written a Windows Service. I have created an installer for this service. This installer (when run as Administrator) creates a new user, provides the user with...

Soo I brought this laptop few years ago that is "Dell Inspiron 15R 5521" Well I have reinstalled windows several times in this laptop and as far as I remember, the games had a lot more fps than what I have now. Maybe I installed wrong drivers or what idk but I again thought to make a clean...

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...

Our domain is at the Windows Server 2008 R2 Forest level. Our servers are running Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise and Windows 2012 R2 Standard Our workstations are running a mix of operating systems including Windows 7, Windows 8.1, and Windows 10. I have created a scheduled task in Group...

I followed lots of instructions, none work, I saved the image files to a external hard drive, I see no way to choose that anywhere in the restore settings, ive tried all of them. One suggests a driver then gives a massive list of folders of which none seem to have a driver. I don't seem to have...

Specifics: I use a Dell core i3 laptop (10 months old). The operating system is windows 8.1. There are two users: myself being primary (admin), and my daughter being secondary. I switch the laptop on, then enter the password, what the laptop refuses to accept. Though, my daughter (as secondary...

Hi, my computer keeps crashing after turning it on, and it keeps giving me The Blue Screen of Death. It's been like this for an entire week and a half, and I reset it around 3 weeks ago since it had the same problem before, and I thought it may have fixed it...but it didn't. I can't open an app...

i recently got a new laptop and im trying to get my windows store on there, before i got a laptop my previous computer had windows store on it and ive gone into my windows store account to add my laptop as a new device but i cant seem to do it. please help. if its any help ive got windows 8.1...

Hello guys, I have a Windows 8.1 laptop and yesterday uninstall corel but then my laptop becomes error after that, like keyboard sometimes does not work, right click sometimes also does not work, and move file with drag file also can not .. Maybe you have solution to this problem

My Windows folder in C drive is occupying 50gb of disk space. But the total space used by individual files in that folder adds up to 20gb. Please help me to remove that 30gb

I did something stupid two days ago and because of that I have problem download file. I have my own account and I was admin but I have a guest account as well, I was stupid enough to let the guest account be admin and now I can not change it. I want my account to be admin just like before but...

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...

Guys, I recently uploaded my SO from Windows 8.1 to 10 and I'm loving it, but something is bothering me: the lack of tiles in my start menu. Here is how I wanted to my start screen to look like: Link Removed But here is what I got: Link Removed An enpty tile. Why is that? Just mentioning that...

New vulnerabilities have recently been discovered with modern cpu's: It would seem Intel are more prone to attack than AMD: Meltdown and Spectre Microsoft have released patches which will be available via Windows update. If like me yours hasn't arrived then download the standalone...

Hi everyone, Recently while i was playing a game my laptop crashed with a blue screen with the message " your pc ran into a problem and needs to restart... with the stop code DPC WATCHDOG VIOLATION. I then factory reset my laptop back to windows 8.1 as that was the only recovery back up I had...

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