windows compatibility

In the age of digital downloads, wanting to squeeze a new game or app onto your device should be as easy as pie, right? Unfortunately, many users have found that this shiny, simplified process sometimes hits a snag. If you’ve been pulling your hair out because you can’t seem to push that app or...

AMD recently launched its Ryzen 9000-series processors, marking the introduction of the Zen 5 CPU architecture designed for desktop computing. Anticipation for these new processors was high, but the inaugural reviews were mixed, revealing notable performance issues that prevented the CPUs from...

Hello all, I recently got a new Lenovo Y50-70 for Visual Effects and animation with Windows 10 as OS. I never used Windows 10. As far as I know, all the software I installed are windows 10 compatible. However everything that isn't "windows" is facing scaling issues within the application that...

Jasc Paint shop pro 9.1 in Windows 8.1- ERROR MSG. "there was a problem sending this command to program" I checked to make sure that Administrator permission was not required. I also tried to run it as in Windows XP3 with no success. The selected image will come up along with the error...

If I enter a URL or click a link in an IE8 window, the requested page will come i an existing or newly created Firefox window. I decided to try changing my default browser from Firefox to IE8 to see if it would help, but couldn't figure out how. Is anyone familiar with either of these problems?

Hi, i have just bought a sandisk 64gb extreme pro sdxc memory card for my camera, it works fine in the camera and saves pics to it, but every time i open it in windows it tells me i have to format the card, when i do format it, it goes through the whole process and then tells me the operation...

Hi guys I really like playing my old style games (from years 1999) and what I find is that every year or so I have to re-install, or freshly install my OS (right now I have win 8.1). I have many games which then need to be installed again (300Gb+) so doing so each time takes hours - if not...

Hey guys, New to the forums here. I've got an issue with a Mac os running 10.8. Basically this person uses Mac with a remote connection to server 2012. (They use programs that can only be run in windows) So when the remote connection tool goes into the windows server, its supposed to also...

Hello all, I have been using an arduino ethernet for a few days and everything worked well. While uploading a sketch (arduino code) i received an error stating that the arduino was no longer connected to COM 4. I opened up the device manager, the arduino wasn't connected was there even though...

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It's here! Well, sort of. Any version of Microsoft Windows can theoretically be accessed from your Android cell phone using the free TeamViewer for Control App. Using virtualization, you could go so far as to access Windows 95 on your cell phone. Find out why Windows just doesn't seem to play...

hello guys, can someone help me work my sound blaster live the model is SB0100 on my windows 7. i want to make it work but no matter drivers for win 7. the windows isnt digitally signing my soundcard. any help and suggestion are welcomed! hoping to get some reply from you guys!

Hi, I've successfully installed a 100GB IDE drive that was successfully being used as a secondary 'slave' drive in an older Win98SE system (it had to be partitioned into 4 25GB partitions, to deal with 98's inability to handle large HDDs). I want to preserve the data in the drive (it's just...

Gov Maharaj is a developer on the Windows Compatibility team. You know Gov from the popular C9 show, Link Removed. He spends most of his time solving problems reported by customers over the phone, in email, or via automated telemetry data. Gov is one of those people who makes work-a-holics feel...

OK i have read other post and what i did i can see the files on XP compter belonging to win 7 but not able to find printer which are connected to xp on the win 7. First off, I had all printers connected to win7 which also has the router still. DO I need to remove the printers on win 7? My...

I am using a Sony Vaio VGN-SZ650N notebook model. I upgraded the OS to Windows 7 Professional 32-bit recently and got the dreaded "fn key malfunctioning" issue, which I was able to quickly fix by reinstalling drivers from Sony's website in a certain order. Changing the display brightness with...

Hi, My office is using SBS 2003 R2. I routinely connect to my office computer by VPN (IPaddress/remote). I changed to a new computer with Win 7 Pro 32 bits last week and I can't connect. I connect to the server, select my computer and click connect. After a while, I receive a message that the...

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First of ive installed the fully legal version of the game. My problem then is when a race has finished and it says "Saving Replay" - The game crashes "F1 ..... has stopped responding" - Then i searched google - first few looks on several forums was the comp. solution. Some said AS FAR back...

I have an old Microtek scannmaker X6EL that refused to work "twain error" the driver appeared to be fine just refused to scan through any programs. I found this program VueScan that worked prefectly. This program is not free but beats buying a new scanner. You can use the program to test for...