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just wanted to share this with all you gamers here on windowsforum … seems arstechnica s'got a hat full of licenses … check it out … 48 hours and the clock is ticking (from this morning). Ars is teaming up with GOG and we’re giving away The Witcher to everyone

As far as I found out the rollup packages are cumulative. So if I want to apply all patches from November 2016 until now only the last rollup package is needed. Regarding the security packages its the opposite: Every single security package from Novemeber 2016 until now is needed if I want to...

Hello. So back at the very beginning of October I started getting blue screens. I've 7 since then (possibly 8, may have been one during the night but I'm unsure). It's always PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA and mentions MDFSYSNT.SYS. I never really took note of what I was actually doing when they...

Hi everyone! I stumbled upon your fine forum earlier today as I was looking for people who had the same problem and maybe a solution to my problem. I'm currently experiencing these two BSODs when my computer is left on but idle; as in, I'll leave my computer after a long session of a video...

What a mess. Took some time but I got a bunch of it cleaned up. The major problem is that the clock isn't showing in the taskbar. There's a blank space where it should be. If I mouse over the space, it will show time/date. If I click, the calendar will come up. I've done internet searches. Fun...

Initial OS Windows XP. 250Gb HDD, 1 Partition C:. 4/2014 upgrade to Windows 7 Home Premium. Still using single partition 250Gb C:. A year ago experienced various hangups and performance issues. Ran SeaTools by Seagate. Had HDD failures on long tests. Installed Samsung SSD 850 EVO 250Gb using...

Hi new here hoping for some help, my daughters laptop which is a year old but has only been turned on about 10 times hardly used just sits under the bed in its box, well she pressed power button and nothing happened just a black screen and an arrow that you can move nothing else no welcome no...

I installed the anniversary update and I have problem now. How It Is Appears. (The file's name) Link Removed How It Should Appear. (The file's name) Link Removed

Hi ! Windows forum is growing. We just reached 41,000 members today. That's a great! Nearly a 1000 sense I registered. Getting up there with the big dogs. It's a great place to learn new things and pass forward things you have learned to others. I hope we don't get to big and lose our friendly...

Me again, I have a new Win7 Pro machine. It appears it's only updated to SP-1. Yesterday I asked it to check for updates. It returned 'Checking for Updates'. It was still checking for updates when I went to bed with no result. Other machines would come back with the number and type of...

What bookmark extensions are ya'll using? I've been using Firefox forever. But after listening to Security Now episode 557, Steve and Leo convinced me to give Chrome a full time try again. But I really miss the sidebar in Firefox! Can I get some suggestions on good sidebar extensions for...

Hi Just wondering if anyone here loves Windows Forum as much as I do. I'm no stranger to help forums. I've been searching for this kind a help forum for 12 years. I really doubted that one existed until I found Windows Forum! Thanks @Mike You are appreciated my friend. Is there any way I can...

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Dear All, Windows Forum is really helpful esepcially kemical who is Windows Forum Admin. Please help to look this this 2 different Notebook with different Error code.

Hi! Does anyone here use this windows tool to troubleshoot. I think it's a great tool. Not wonderful, but it might help lead you to problems you may be having. I don't understand why more help forums don't at least call attention to it. To me it's the event viewer in a graft form, and a lot...

I've been trying to get SP1 installed on my computer for quite a while now.. Months actually. I've tried the system readiness tool, downloading and installing manually, I tried uninstalling all updates (198).. Ended up messing this up by forgetting to set windows update to not install anything...

I understand build 11099 was released to the fast ring but it's not showing on mine yet. Anybody else get it yet? The other Jan updates went OK. Joe

A Windows Forum user, ussnorway, posted the following curious statement: "Correct... did you know there are folders on a Windows 10 system that you as the owner of that computer don't have the legal right to look at... nevermind change (under US law)?" Would someone be kind enough to point me...

So I'm an avid Windows Debugger user, I'm on build 1151 (Version 10.0.10586, or as winver.exe likes to say 10586.14) I downloaded the Win 64 symbols from Microsoft, and set my _NT_SYMBOL_PATH environment variable to the normal shtick "SRV*H:\Symbols*http://msdl.microsoft.com/download/symbols"...

So I had win7 32 bit on my machine, then I installed the 64 bit version. I don't think the 32 bit install ever got removed, because after I upgraded to 10 it began taking me to the dual boot screen on startup. Now I can't delete the 20gb of windows 7 files off my ssd (it won't let me- says that...