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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...

i barely have anything installed on this machine. mostly windows updates and drivers. i counted 7 applications that i installed myself. i was hoping for a headache free experience on a fresh OS but i just got my first blue screen after a few days of loading windows. i usually just ignore them...

Revision Note: V1.0 (March 24, 2015): Advisory published. Summary: Microsoft is aware of improperly issued digital certificates coming from the subordinate CA, MCS Holdings, which could be used in attempts to spoof content, perform phishing attacks, or perform man-in-the-middle attacks. The...

Suddenly every application I open has huge menus, ribbons and title bars. Yes, I've checked my display settings. Yes, I've rebooted. Yes, I've checked my control panel display settings for any changes (I didn't make any and nobody else uses this laptop). No, I haven't installed anything...

Hi, I'm Jenn, also new to these forums. I stumbled upon a problem when switching from Windows 7 x64 to Windows 8.1 Pro x64. I have the EXACT same setup, same laptop, same hardware, same programs, same configuration, everything. Windows 7 never did anything like the problem I now have in Win 8.1...

Hi I have been asking about this before but now the situation has changed. My problem is a known problem for other people aswell. Here it goes: I am using IE 11 ( the latest updated ) and before the update i used IE 8 due the text on ect youtube or other sites that used IE text for standart...

A thing or 2 that puzzles me : 1. During installing Win 10 to my VMware Player ( host os is Win 7 ), I was never asked for product key. After install. it was activated automatically. So, what is that generic product key used for ? 2. MS has set Windows Updates as Auto. I hate Bing and have...

Message from device manager: Windows encountered a problem installing the driver software for your device Windows found driver software for your device but encountered an error while attempting to install it. NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M Message from NVIDIA Installer: NVIDIA Installer failed...

Hi, I am having a strange problem on Windows 8 as of late. Just in the middle of work the mouse pointer freezes in its tracks and there is nothing doing, but to restart. And then all goes on well as if nothing' happened. Today, I had the same problem, but this time the the mouse seems to revive...

After installing Ag. 12th updates, my View Installed Updates window shows only Aug 12th items. All the previous updates are gone. Is that normal ? Correction I should say...... " my view update history shows only Aug 12th items."

Do I understand correctly that .............. 1. That optional KB2975719 is also included in the 14 or 15 updates we received on August 12th. 2. It is primarily meant for IT Developers who would use it to do " tests ". I hid it based on the above understandings. Am I wrong ...

Hi all, I've been having some problems with my laptop recently. I have Windows 8 installed on an Acer V3-571g and about a week ago I started to get BSOD with two errors KERNEL_DATA_INPAGE_ERROR and CRITICAL_PROCESS DIED. After playing around with sfc/scannow etc, I decided to completed reset...

This update addresses the vulnerability discussed in Microsoft Security Bulletin MS14-037. To find out if other security updates are available for you, see the Additional Information section at the bottom of this page. Link Removed

Is it possible to switch off all windows updates temporarily, and work offline. I have a CD-ROM, that successive windows updates have rendered inoperative. I can run this disk on an old machine, but it will not run on my main machine. I could go through the many updates, and with great...

I've been having this problem for a while now, and I stopped using my Windows desktop and started using my Chromebook instead. I just got back into using my desktop again, and I restarted it factory fresh. After installing all possible Windows updates, installing the latest graphics drivers...

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I updated to the update 1 last night and now i have noticed a big problem with my dual monitor setup. I was able to move my mouse across the monitors easily and smoothly before, now since the update you have to move the mouse with a decent amount of force or it will not move to the other monitor...

So today I went ahead and installed some windows updates, and while they were installing I went downstairs to eat dinner and came back to my computer not being able to start up at all. http://imgur.com/a/iJM0r The computer starts up but flashes a blue screen and just restarts, I went ahead...

So today I went ahead and installed some windows updates, and while they were installing I went downstairs to eat dinner and came back to my computer not being able to start up at all. http://imgur.com/a/iJM0r The computer starts up but flashes a blue screen and just restarts, I went ahead...