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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...

ussnorway submitted a new resource: Crucial (2014) - handy tool to scan a laptop ram slots or hdd Read more about this resource...

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...

hi guys i am new here and not too smart about these things. i have 2 laptops, i just put 10 in this one and i want to keep 7 on the other one. well i was looking for hardware driver updates for 7, and i used the common updaters (not bad). but now i see windows 10 has found some very good...

Till now I keept many pc with the same Active directory username. Now I need to give any user it's proper profile... But I would keep all the pc local profile, like email, desktop configuration etc.. I ve been trying an googling without answer. Any help? Inviato dal mio LG-D802 utilizzando...

I have a simple but annoying issue which is that the program I'm trying to open Is not recognised as a program or executable file. Note; I need to start the program while only using it's executable file name, because I'm trying to find Target Commands which I was told you can do by using...

Recently, I have been getting an error dialog window that says: "There was a problem starting saPlugin.dll The specified module could not be found." This error message occurs when I have opened a gmail account from a desktop icon for gmail, however it only occurs the first time gmail...

Hello! It's been over a month now, since the release of Windows 10. I reserved a couple of days later, but I still don't have the upgrade. How much longer do I have to wait? I started to think that the reservation failed. Is there anybody out there with the same problem? Greetz, 2 in 1 men