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If you came here looking for a seemingly magical Windows 11 Pro “All-In-One” download, promising freedom from Microsoft accounts and sprinkled with the mysterious label “Yify,” allow me to save you several gigabytes and a visit from your company’s compliance officer: that page is more absent...

October 2025 is approaching, and if you’re one of the millions of Windows 10 devotees refusing to budge from your tried-and-true PC—either due to a healthy distrust of new things, a wallet that still hasn’t recovered from the last hardware craze, or just sheer inertia—there’s a looming deadline...

Tariffs and Tech Prices: Why Windows 11 Pro Upgrade is Your Best Bet in 2024 In a world where technology is evolving at lightning speed, the cost of keeping up with the latest and greatest is becoming a growing concern, especially amidst escalating tariffs on imported tech goods. With new import...

Copilot Update: Enhanced Ads & Piracy Controls Microsoft is doubling down on its AI assistant, Copilot, with a pair of transformative updates that signal a shift in both user engagement and product security. On one side, the integration of dynamic ad features is set to redefine the browsing...

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We have bought laptops with windows 10 Home SL , I would like to upgrade to Pro what is the cost involved in india.

Hi everyone, I find myself in a bit of a bind. I'm fixing a PC for a family friend - the motherboard died. Anyway, it was running Windows 8.1 - (I believe it was a cracked version - dunno, didn't build it). So anyway, the motherboard died, so I swapped like for like - A Gigabyte SKT-AM3...

Just wanted to share some information for anyone else having a certain boot problem related to atipcie.sys. Pauli pointed me in the right direction in another thread. Apparently, this problem is not uncommon. Atipcie.sys is one of the drivers associated with ATI video hardware. Symptoms: In...

Preface: I'm building my own computer from scratch after having headaches with my current one (a Dell) for about 4 years. Seeing since it's come from Dell, they've saved me the pain of installing Windows 7 myself, and have also handily provided me with a sticker that displays Proof of License...

Hey guys, I currently have Microsoft Windows 7 Professional 6.1.7601 Service Pack 1 Build 7601 installed and I have to reinstall Win7 due to a dying hard drive. Because of this I plan on buying some new RAM and a new hard drive (an SSD if it matters.) My only concern is that I would be forced...

As you may know that Microsoft is making its own "Surface" tablet as well as its own smartphone. And it seems their intention is to make everything like notebooks, desktops, ultrabooks themselves, just like Apple does and this has already created tension between MS and the OEMs. May be MS...

I have Win 7 Pro bought online during last winter's college student sale. No original CD, but I burned two copies of the download. I'm trying to reinstall Win 7 on a new processor and motherboard. Backed up the old system drive and have been trying a clean install with no success. During file...