windows upgrade

Bought a new laptop and desktop for my parents this Christmas... they absolutely hate Windows 8.1. Took them long enough to master the classic earlier versions of Windows let alone this mess called 8.1. Does anyone have a link, instructions, or a safe program to download to bring there...

No idea where to post this. My apology if this is the wrong forum. I have been itching to buy a touch screen Windows operated tablet. My roadblock is budget. I have found this which kind of fits my budget....... Microsoft Surface Windows RT 10.6" Tablet 64GB P5T-00002 (Mfg. Refurbished)...

Hi, This explanation is pretty long, so get comfortable. Before the error I had Windows 8.1. After installing a conversion skin wrong(getting a version for Windows 8 instead of Windows 8.1), I was forced to refresh my computer. It was downgraded back to Windows 8. Afterwards, i went to Windows...

I've tried about a dozen times. It will download but won't install. The error message keeps changing. I've used the DISM tool and most of the time it crashes and claims it can't find a source. The few times its worked, it hasn't helped. I even chatted with the Microsoft answer desk, but they...

Hi all, The heading says it all. I have a legitimate new Win8Pro Upgrade dvd with serial. Can I clean install Win8Pro with this from scratch, or do I have to upgrade over my existing Win7 Home Premium x64 Laptop? After reading some posts on the forum I see that a clean install of Win8 would be...

Search is not properly working after upgrading to Windows 8.1. To get the search effectively working, I have to manually run the indexing option. The indexing takes for long time but this is not the issue. The issue is that the entire indexing results disappears when I turn my PC off!!

I had trouble booting from certain rescue disks. I have Win8.1 upgrade from Win8 now. Since then I have had several issues to work out. I thought my backups were working properly, but they are not. I looked at event viewer for File History. Come to find out I had a problem come up there. It...

My PC ignores all power settings and hibernates after approx 5 minutes of user inactivity. It is a Dell Vostro 200, which I had been running successfully on Windows 8 Pro. The problem appears to have been the result of upgrading to Windows 8.1. Regardless of the power scheme settings, the PC...

After a Windows 7 Update of an optional hardware driver earlier this week I've been having Windows Genuine Validation problems. I did a System Restore to prior to the update installation and now I keep getting Windows Validation errors. When I run the WindowsActivationUpdate.exe I get the...

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 After seeing a reference to it in another post I looked at and installed the trial of "Modern Mix" on my PC. This program is pretty much invisible, that is you probably will forget you have it installed but what it does is change the way things open from the Metro screen. For instance I...

[SOLVED] My Windows 8 Upgrade Odyssey Greetings. I am journaling my Windows 8 upgrade experience here in hopes that others can learn from the experience. If I am able to resolve the problem here in these forums, I would consider that a plus. But most of all, I am hoping to create some...

Card: GeForce 8400 GS, Dual Monitor Solution 59 pin socket (DMS-59) to 2 VGA adapter cable (tried two of these cables) Driver: 306.97 October 2012 - latest driver and clean reset install Nvidia driver 285.62 from Oct 2011 is the latest driver to dual display. And all previous drivers back to...

i have an acer aspire one netbook 11.6 does my netbook pass the requirements and do you recomend upgradeing to windows 8 my specs- INTEL CELERON CPU 877 @ 1.40GHZ (2 CPUS) MEMORY 2048MB RAM DIRECT X 11 WINDOWS 7 HOME ACER ASPIRE ONE 320 GB INTEL HD GRAPHICS 814 MB RES. 1360x768 DO...

A wee anecdote (w/ a moral): Now, to approach this in my own way & maybe, hopefully put a message across... People often ask me, what's so special about Windows8. OR, "I can't see any reason to want it over what I have" OR "that damned UI & those blasted APPs" OR why is it any better...

Hi all, I upgraded form Windows Vista 64-bit to Windows 7 Pro 64-bit. It must have not been a clean install bc i had several Windows.old folders. I deleted some of them but still have windows.old and some of windows.old.000. I want to keep windows.old, but wish to delete all of windows.old.000...

I have been googling about this problem that I have been having for over 2 hours, but to no avail. Ever since I upgraded my previously windows vista computer up to windows 7, I have been having severe problems connecting to my home internet. Now, I cannot change any of my routers settings since...

I have a Dell Inspiron 530 with Win 7 32bit, GeForce 9800GT graphics card and upgraded my power supply to Silencer 500W PC Power. My power settings are set never to shut monitor or hard drive. When I play some videos my computer goes into power saver mode and I can't get out of it unless I...

Hi Forums, I am getting this error all the time with Windows 7. I open a text file I want to edit, then go to save my changes and I get this error: "The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process" I have full admin rights, running Win7 Ultimate x64 SP1. From...

I have a dell inspiron 1521 originally running Vista home premium. Laptop was acting bad, not running properly etc. so I backed up my files and did a factory reset of Vista. All was working well, I had access to nearly all of my 600GB HD. I installed Windows 7 upgrade and downloaded...