without going in to gory details.....I have an older laptop with windows vista on it. I need to put windows 98 on it. if I download windows 98 will it override the windows vista? will windows vista, even, allow me to try and do this?
I need this done to help my grandson who has an older...
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OK. I just built a new computer last month. Did the usuals. SSD for boot drive. 4TB worth of storage so little more than Win 7 on the boot drive. If the Win 10 upgrade hoses the boot drive it's no big deal to start again. Everything important is already on other drives.
Now on to my stupid...
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I was just reading about Windows 10 upgrade policy and it seems to indicate that users of Windows Vista (already screwed once, LOL) will not have the free upgrade offer even though the previous and post versions of Windows are eligible.
If that's true it seems like a very strange option...
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However, Windows Vista and Windows XP users as well as some other types, have been left out in the cold – until today, we all assumed you’d need to buy a full copy, with Windows 10 Home starting at $119. Today, though, Maximum PC spotted that in its Windows blog, Microsoft has dropped a...
I found this interesting post over on this forum on how to run MSN Gaming Zone. That's the
Internet games,Internet Reversi, Internet Hearts and other games that comes with Windows XP on Windows 7.
Source:Last post on the thread.
How Do I Enable Windows XP Internet Games in Windows 8.1
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It seems that Microsoft bring out a new operating system every 3 years or so. It is getting impossible to keep up with it.
The recent new version of Windows is Windows 10 which I have tried one of the builds a few months ago. While I found that all of the software that I used on Windows 8 works...
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I have an old CM1630-05 PC that had Vista Ultimate installed. The computer is pretty old but works fine and is plenty fast for me. The HD was starting to die so I got a new one and copied the old HD to the new one. I upgraded to SP1 and it seemed to work fine. It starts up fine but when I try to...
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Hi, I have been locked out of my laptop for no apparent reason!
It says:
The User profile service service failed the logon
user profile cannot be loaded
There are two profiles, mine and my partners, but she has never used my laptop and has no idea what the password is (it is possible that the...