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I have been searching for a solution to allow boot up only if a third party hardware is connected. For the new tech people. A similar solution was possible during the days of Windows 95 up to Win Me by using Dos. The idea is to disable all the HDD from booting and enabling USB and once the boot...

Severity Rating: Critical Revision Note: V1.3 (May 12, 2017): Updated FAQ to clarify the update that needs to be installed: “the current cumulative update”. This is an informational change only. Summary: Microsoft is releasing this security advisory to provide information related to an uncommon...

What is exact difference between modern standby and connected standby ? Does all computer components support modern standby? Does all windows support modern standby?

An elderly neighboor has a HP laptop that was managed mostly by her deceased husband. It has one Local account on it and she /we have the password full access to all their documents etc. She says the unit has become very slow, not sure why an i am starting to help her clean it up, backup all...

Hello all, I have several issues with Windows 10, but I shall try to keep each question limited to one topic. A quick history: I bought a new HP Pavilion Desktop PC 570-p027 computer in November of 2017. The only "original" problem I had was video-related, and I won't go into that here. I...

I haven't contacted an actual technician, but i've contacted windows support 4 times, and none of their ways worked. I really dont want to reset my system. -Symptoms- Every time I click it randomly takes me to a click tracker page, and if i hit alt tab I can see tons of ads opened, and its...

I been having issues with removing user folders I go the users directory and I right click and want to remove one folder which I deleted the user account from control panel. I get this message which I attached. I been searching for a solution though none so far. Thanks Dave

I inadvertently saved a file to the wrong folder. When I did that the new file replaced the document of the same name in the folder that was still active on my save button. Is there anyway I can restore that file? Please advise Thank you

I woke up this morning, and booted up my PC, then I got an alert from Virus & Threat Protection, saying that I have Trojan:Win32/Detplock on my Pc. I deleted it, but it kept reappearing, regardless of how many times I got rid of it. After some research, I decided to see if there was a system...

I reinstalled my windows from a Recovery Cd, and i ran sfc /scannow But it fails and i am worried something is wrong with my windows, It says "Windows Resource Protection found corrupt files but was unable to fix some of them Details are included in the CBS.Log windir/Logs/CBS/CBS.log. For...

Hello, When I install Office 2010 an I start Outlook for the first time i define two Gmail accounts. Outlook defines them automatically and everything runs well. Today I have need to define one more Gmail account. I create the account in Gmail and in Settings I define POP. When I start Outlook...

Hello, When in any File Explorer window i click in an empty place of the screen, i get some options. One of them is "NEW". when i put the cursor on it i have two options. "Folder" and "Shortcut". As you can see in the file that i upload i have also a lot of entries that i do not use. How can i...

Recently released builds were not supposed to be for release... A note about the unintentional release of builds today By Dona Sarkar / Software Engineer, Windows and Devices Group Hello Windows Insiders! Many of you discovered that earlier this afternoon, builds from some of our internal...

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I am seeing the following in the event viewer after a random crash..... The computer has rebooted from a bugcheck. The bugcheck was: 0x00000124 (0x0000000000000000, 0xffffe0017acd4028, 0x00000000bf800000, 0x0000000000000124). A dump was saved in: C:\Windows\MEMORY.DMP. Report Id...

Hi I just realized that since I updated to Windows Anniversary I can't create a new folder? If I right click on the desktop, there is no "New" option. The same applies to Windows File Explorer, if I right click on a directory there is no "New" option to create a new folder. If I go to the...

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I've recently got a new computer without an OS, I bought a windows 7 disc, install went fine but I've got a problem, I can't update. When ever I try the update windows it just keeps checking for updates, the OS is Windows 7 Premium 64bit SP1. I've tried updating the update agent. Tried...