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    Windows 10 Is possible to change path of USER?

    Hi! I managed few accounts on my fresh Windows 10.1909 install with not correctly entered account names. I want to change them - it is possible in case of name, but is possible to change also path to user folder and its content? Example: Incorrectly is created account C:\users\miiro Needs fix...
  2. DelicateFlower

    Windows 10 Faulty Update that causes getting no updates at all

    It seems that the entire key and its subkeys of : [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\wuauserv] has been deleted by a recent update somehow. I found a registry file to merg and it worked....HOWEVER, it found 2 updates, one is the security update for .netframe 3 and .NET 4...
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    Windows XP Boot problems with SP3

    Recently I installed (from a CD) Windows XP Professional on my computer. The installation went well. When I looked at "About Windows", the box said that Service Pack 1 was already present. Then I proceeded to install Service Packs 2 and 3. Number two installed OK, but Service Pack 3 gave...
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    Windows 8 How can I change SSD Disk1 to SSD Disk0

    On my laptop Asus HDD is Disk0. I have installed Windows on SSD but Recovery Partition is on HDD (Disk0), also EFI System Partition. My laptop has only one SATA port so I cannot change to other port SATA. In BIOS settings in SATA configuration I have only two options, AHCI and Intel RST Premium...
  5. O

    Windows 10 Help needed with making new system disk on new SSD

    I have bought a 500GB SSD to be the system disk on my old PC. The HDD that is now the C: drive will hold user files, not windows system files in future. I have read up on installing Windows on a new drive and I have one question: at what stage in the installation of Windows does the new SSD...
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    Windows 10 Recovery or backup?

    Confusion reigns.. I have had at least 5 power state failures since purchasing the Dell with win10 (which I purchased November 2018). Yesterday I had one and decided to go to the Dell website for help. I had a remote session which lasted about an hour. Tech ran the Dell diagnostics, increased...
  7. MikeHawthorne

    Windows 10 Finally Success, I was about to give up!

    Hi I posted about having issues doing a clean install on my old computer, that I'm going to pass on to my nephew. Neemobeer and nmsuk gave me some help getting around the issue with running the install do to a formatting conflict. Once I got past that the install went smoothly and Windows...
  8. Rahul Saini

    Windows 10 Need to fix boot loader. Can't boot into windows

    I installed Ubuntu 18.04 on my HDD and it asked me to format full drive. So, I backed up my data on my friend's drive and formatted mine and installed Ubuntu but then I came up to a point where I couldn't work on Ubuntu any more. So, I decided to reinstall Windows back. So, I booted in using my...
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    Windows 10 BSOD while gaming

    I'm almost certain it has something to do with my hardware but I can't make heads or tails of the information in the dump files. I've recently reinstalled Windows, clean install, because of the BSOD's to no avail My computer is approx. 3 years old & I recently upgraded my graphics card. If any...
  10. livix07

    Windows 10 insert drivers into ISO with MSMG toolkit

    Is it possible to insert drivers in .exe format into ISO with MSMG toolkit? Will they be actually installed during Windows installation? Does anyone have experience with that? I have never done this and there is someone who needs a customized Windows installation ISO. Unfortunately the...
  11. R

    BSOD on Windows PE

    Hi, Platform is AMD RX-421 CPU with 4GB DRAM. Our customer build Windows PE 32-bit image in USB drive, next boot AMD platform by this WinPE USB drive. However they get BSOD error when calling shutdown command. (WinPE command : wpeutil shutdown). If we test shutdown command in Windows PE 64-bit...
  12. sava2na

    Windows 10 How to Install Windows 10 on blank SSD

    Old hard drive was incredibly slow, so I had an SSD installed to replace it. (I still have the hard drive and have ordered a shell and USB cable combo for it if that helps.) I didn't want to pay for any other work, so I need to know what I do now to get Windows 10 back. I did write down my...
  13. Kevin Heath

    Windows 10 Can't reinstall Windows after using laptop as a Chromebook

    I have an old laptop that I thought I'd try and speed up by using it as a Chromebook, however, I want to go back to Windows. I created a bootable USB Windows 10 drive and booted from that. I have run Win10 on this laptop before. When I try to install, there are now 27 partitions on the drive...
  14. quaymat321234

    Windows 10 Hi everyone!

    i just want to ask for does who know everything about creating custom image and install to multiple laptops with same unit same model same specs with embedded product key from the motherboard. my question is, is this illegal? please help
  15. ragnarok1968

    Windows 10 Windows 10 Activation issues

    Hey guys, it has been a while since I posted. I was having some terrible issues with my Windows 10 install. I had some terrible issues with updates breaking my activation. I would go from 14393.1066 to 15063.0 or 15063.250 and my activation would tell me it either couldn't reach the activation...
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    Windows 7 Avoid "Press any key to boot from USB" after boot device selection?

    I installed windows on an USB flash drive. When I boot a computer with this USB flash drive inserted I press F8 to get into the boot device selection. I selected the USB flash drive as boot device and hit RETURN. But then I am always asked again: "Press any key to boot from USB" in white...
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    Windows 10 Windows Version Backup in drive C

    Hi, In my Hd, c:, I have the following folders $winre_backup_partition.marker, windows.old, windows, $windows-WS, $windows-BT. Can u please tell me which version of windows are they and how to use. Cannot recall when Microsoft created and for which Windows. ie Windows 7, windows 8, or windows...
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    Windows 7 My computer says the file or directory is corrupt or unreadable when installing windows

    Hey guys, When I switched on my computer yesterday I got the article logo with a couple of different options like press f2 or del to run BIOS setup. I searched a bit around the internet and I thought there was a problem with my windows. So, I went for a windows installation. But when it was at...
  19. Yomo

    Windows 7 Well.. black screen of death

    Hey guys, I turned on my pc and only got an black screen I got a dell (adel hello xd) anyway I use windows 7 professional I got 64 bits 4 ram. my dad looked on the pc and was doing so stuff and he said some long file is lost its called win.19838474829w99283838383 or something I dunno but I dont...
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    Windows 10 Windows 10 temporary files

    I keep getting a nagging pop up suggesting I remove temporary files and delete the old Windows installation. I am not sure why I would want to do this, particularly if I wanted to revert to Windows 7 within the 1 month allowed by Microsoft ?
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