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I am running Windows 7 Pro. I went to the Task Scheduler to see - and possibly change - when the creation of a System Restore point is scheduled for. Upon opening the Task Scheduler an error message came up indicating that the Task Dropbox Update was corrupt or tampered with. When I tired to...

Get an error message when I try to use System Restore. It tells me to check to check Volume Shadow Copy Service. Those settings seem to be OK, except in the process of getting there I get a Script Error message. Can you please help me resolve these issues. Thanks. I have uploaded these two...

Assume I enabled auto-update resp. search manually for updates of my 64bit Win 7 Pro system. How can I exclude certain updates (e.g. KB3035583 as one example) forever from being installed? Is there an exclusion list file which is accepted by built-in Windows Update Service? Peter

Hello, I have a peculiar problem which I would like to solve with the help of software geniuses like u'll on such forums. HP dc7700 Small form factor desktop PC (about 6 yrs old) OS: Win XP Pro SP2 Bios version 02.10 C2D, 2Gigs RAM, Q045 963/965 board, E6600 processor, eSATA 80 GB Hitachi HDD...

Hi, unfortunately my Lenovo e530 laptop run into a little issue recently and i was looking for a way to reinstall windows but without having to do a whole factory reset, as with the built in setup files, there only appears to be the option to restore to factory default and no 'repair only'...

Alright, so one day i was being dumb, and decided it would be a good idea to follow one of those YouTube videos that lets you upgrade from Windows 8 to Windows 8 pro for free. I entered their given code, Windows told me it was acceptable so i went through with it. Later, it's constantly telling...

Hi, My trusty netbook needs to be retired after 5 years of hard graft, and I'm looking to replace it with a Windows-based tablet. My current preference is the Surface 2 (not the surface pro 2, for the avoidance of doubt). Battery life is key for me as I use it primarily in court, where I...

Win 8.1 Pro The system allows system image backup done on either external hard drive ( which I do every week ), or on DVDs. Why it does not allow USB flash drive ? I tried to use a 32 GB flash and it refuses to do backup on it.

I have a strange problem in Windows 8.1 Pro w/Media Center x64. The Music folder show's all generic icons for each folder in it. The Pictures folder show 7/8 of the folder's with the generic looking icon and the other 1/8 normally. The Videos folder shows them all correctl

We are in the process of rolling out Windows 7 Pro machines, into a brand new network. All users have an S: drive and are supposed to be saving all their data there for server based backup. How do I make Win 7 save to S: by default, move the Libraries to S: and therefore protect the users...

I have 32bit Win7 Pro on a Toshiba Satellite laptop purchased in December, 2009. The DVD player is set to Windows Media Player When trying to play a movie on DVD (borrowed from local library), I get this msg: "Windows Media Player cannot play this DVD because it is not possible to turn on...

Hi Background: I bought Windows 7 Home Edition disc but then upgraded online to Pro so I don't have a disc for Pro Edition. When I got an error message about hal.dll not working, and could neither restore to an earlier point nor get the OS to fix itself, someone in another Forum told me to...

Hi, I've just tried to replace an XP Pro computer used as a P2P server for a 10 workstation network with a Win7 64bit computer. XP's connection device limit is 10 and in Win7 EULA it states 20 devices. But that doesn't seem to be true !! I have one program on each workstations which accesses 3...

I have big problems with 8.1, software for DVD and Blu-ray discs will not work because my Blu-ray optical drive "disappears" from the operating system. When checking the listed devices at boot-up hopefully the drive is shown there. But when I launch a program (that used to work with XP and...

One of the four basic Libraries is Music. I found thousands (yes!) files in that Library, most of them I have no idea about and have absolutely nothing to do with music. Windows said they are references and deleting them will not remove the actual file from the PC. I found that incorrect, I...

is there a work around to update windows home premium to windows professional. We have a full install key and would prefer not to do a clean install as we don't want to lose all of our programs.

I know it's nearly Christmas but a reminder that,if you are still using Windows 8 Release Preview,it is due to expire on 15th January 2013. Also if you have still got Windows 8 Consumer Preview, or Windows 8 Developers Preview,those two Beta version will also expire on the same day. So...

I have a new Dell with windows 7 and I have three external hard drives which I use on three other machines with xp pro one them. This machine will not open these drives and demands a format. They work perfect on my other machines

Good morning, folks! Running XP Pro apps on older system disk with Windows 8 on new system On my previous desktop computer, one of my IDE hard disks was partitoned into Drive C and Drive D. Each of the partitions had an installation of XP Pro so it was a dual-boot system. My desktop...

Hi everyone, I once again have a question...before I upgraded to windows 8 pro, I was using the free version of AVAST antivirus. But it seems to be interfering with my computer being able to run windows updates with it turned on. Can someone direct me to a good free AV program that runs well on...