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Our readers are smart and they suss out the Windows 10/driver conflicts like nobody's business. Read about the risks of Microsoft KB 3119147 / Adobe Flash Player here. read more Continue reading...

Hello guys, Today i started to experience a bizzare problem. Suddenly i could not connect to Origin, Steam, Guild Wars 2, and some programs like that. I also cant do the microsoft updates, it gives error 80072efd. I cannot surf the internet with Internet Explorer while i can do it with chrome...

Assume I have prepared some Win8.1 ISOs backups from my original system with slipstreamed update 1 and eventually update 2. Now I fetched out such an ISO archive. How can I find out now if such a ISO already contains update 1 or even update 2? Is there somewhere a files with history/changelog...

Revision Note: V1.0 (September 24, 2015): Advisory published. Summary: Microsoft is aware of four digital certificates that were inadvertently disclosed by D-Link Corporation that could be used in attempts to spoof content. The disclosed end-entity certificates cannot be used to issue other...

In this final video in the Windows 10 Isolated User mode series Dave takes us through several engineering aspects associated with trustlets. First he describes how lsass.exe (the Local Security Authority Subsystem Service responsible for enforcing security on Windows) now can have a companion...

Let me tell you the terrifying (Not really) tale of the ghost of Windows 7. It started on a wednesday, just like this one (or a Thursday in another time zone) A man had upgraded to the latest windows 10 and for the last week has been enjoying it for the most part. But then update KB3081424 came...

After updating my OS from Windows 8 to 8.1, I have started to expierience wierd keyboard lag. I mostly notice this when gaming. When I am pressing a key for a longer time, it gets "stuck" for a few seconds, and all other keys become unresponsive. I had this issue last time when I upgraded to...

So firstly, apologies if this is in the wrong section. I recently purchased a Toshiba Radius L10W-B and it has windows 8 on it. It was purchased on 25.07.15, four days prior to the release date here in NZ. Firstly, am I aliagble for a free upgrade? I am running the standard version of Windows...

An update for Windows 10, KB3074683, has been pushed to Windows 10 Insiders to remedy the crashing issue that was being experienced after an update this past weekend. read more Continue reading...

I was wondering something... I have bought a new 1TB SATA hard drive to use in my desktop computer and to replace my old 80GB IDE hard drive currently sitting in there now. I have not long reinstalled Windows on it and installed all the updates. When the new hard drive comes, I want to be able...

Hi, I am having the same problem with a couple of Acer Z1-601. Have any of these things worked for anyone. I am losing the will to live with each cycle of updates and failures taking hours to complete! It would be good to know if anyone has had success. Also, is it likely that the windows 10...

More and more of our users are storing their files in more and more places. Whether that’s in cloud locations like OneDrive and Dropbox at home, or across network shares, OneDrive for Business, and SharePoint at work, the problems introduced are the same – it gets harder to access those files...

I have been doing windows updates today but i got error 80070002. Have done all kinds of fixes and followed all the instructions to resolve and fix the error but to no avail. Everytime I do windows updates, just for today, i got different kinds of erros e.g. 8024402F 8024A000 Is there ANOTHER...

In the Control Panel Action Center I have Opted out of participating in the CEIP program (don't ever remember opting in). Here's what I see: Task scheduler Customer Experience Improvement Program (3 tasks) Consolidator (%SystemRoot%\System32\wsqmcons.exe) KernelCeipTask (Custom Handler)...

Hi, Three weeks ago I started my PC as normal and got a black screen after I logged in. A program update box suddenly appeared so clearly nothing wrong with the graphics or screen, just Windows not working. After a lot of messing around (yeah, thanks for hiding 'safe mode', Microsoft) and...

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Yesterday after downloading the recent updates and restarting, my task bar was white and running in safe mode with a pop-up telling me the laptop had failed to connect to a windows service. I had to restore to an earlier point but I kept getting the automatic update and each time the same...

The newer builds have the option to download Apps and Windows updates either from other computers on your network, or other PCs on the internet. Has anyone tried it or know of some procedure necessary to set that up, beyond enabling it in the Advanced Options-choose how to download updates...

I tried reading through the threads for the answer to my question...obvously either I'm blind and can't find it or by some obscure reason, it has never been asked. (the latter I DOUBT) I am getting a laptop from a charity auction. It has NO operating system on it at all. My question is, do I...

I do not have much hope left but I'll try some more. So here's the situation: I'm currently trying to repair my father's laptop and loosing hope. What happened was that he had a free version of Panda when it shot all its clients' laptops to shit. Their next update repaired many but not all. My...