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 recently purchased a budget business PC with Windows XP installed for the main purpose of hobbying, specifically learning how to take a more technical approach using Windows from the console.
Would anyone be able to highlight any books/media that offer good insight into the command-driven...
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I currently have Windoes 8.1 installed. I want to add Windows XP and be able to choose between the two at boot up. How should I go about installing Windows XP?
I recently moved into a new place; it's a roommate situation, and our wifi is in my roommate's name. But my roommate has been threatening to change things so that only he has access to the wifi, and then I'll have to make some other arrangements if I want internet. This is because he's...
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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...
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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 a good one for ya! Everything about my system is working fine except... video files. I accidentally deleted 4 or 5 files dealing with playing .avi videos.from the registry. So what I'm looking for is a way to find exactly what files are missing from what KEY, and to restore that KEY...
I'm trying to add an entry to the AutoPlay dialog that shows up when a USB device is connected to the computer. The problem is that this entry is not displayed in the AutoPlay dialog.
Autorun.inf
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action=Backup now
icon=backupicon.ico
label=Drive for backup
open=backupnow.bat...
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I have a friend who bought a retail Win 7 Home Premium "upgrade", and used it to go to Win 7 from XP a couple of years back.
He asked me if he qualified for the free Win 10 upgrade, and I said yes (but then I'd not seen anything that says one way or the other regarding Win 7 upgrades...
So...
I have a LAN comprised of two Win7 Ultimate 64bit (sp1) PC's and one or more XP PC's. They have been able to share files between them pretty well for many months, but with the latest Win7 updates, the XP PC is no longer able to access the Win7 shared files. They, however, have full access to...
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Good morning.
Back in 2009 I purchased a dell laptop with XP. I upgraded it to 7home premium. Now being almost 9 years old there is almost no space at all left,even after using duplicate fingers and such. So I copied its entire contents to a external hard drive and am planning to wipe out...
A new SSD benchmarking tool is available. AS SSD Benchmark is a small, free application avalable to download here:
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Hey all I have an older gateway here that was just full of viruses and whatnot after some cleanup it was still just buggy so I restored it to day one but I realize windows xp support has ended, is there anyway to bring it up to date manually easily?
We have a small "workgroup" network - 3 users, 3 computers running XP and MS Office 2003, 1 Buffalo TeraStation NAS, no servers
On each PC, there is a U: drive mapped to the user's personal folder on NAS
One of the users intermittently got an error when opening his Outlook
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Could anyone please help me find the registry key locations for the PC username, and the PC hostname on Windows XP?
Is
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
DefaultDomainName
Correct? Also what is the syntax for these keys?
Thanks so much in advance.
Hi there!
I got a Windows XP update two weeks ago, left my computer finishing updating process and left to work.
When I got back home, the computer had completed the updating process (?) and had automatically shut itself down.
Next morning I opened my computer and it doesn't recognize the...
Greetings Microsoft, Since Windows largely dominates the OS most gamers, even regular Windows users own, I highly recommend the size of the OS you will be creating to be much smaller, I started gaming on Windows 98SE and it took up about 2GB of storage space, my performance with my games was...
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I purchased a Windows XP desktop because my old XP desktop motherboard died. I wanted to be able to put my old hard drive (SATA100 7200RPM 160GB) in it and keep on using it. The new desktop has a smaller (looks like 80GB) hard drive that I would like to make a slave out of. I think it is an...
Hi guys
I hav an activation loop issue on my win xp for quite a time now and was using the method below that is going into safe mode and run cmd and using this
regsvr32 regwizc.dll
regsvr32 licdll.dll
rundll32.exe syssetup,SetupOobeBnk
And that worked great for 3 or 4 times, now my...
Microsoft Small Basic 1.1 is upgraded to .NET Framework 4.5 to enable new objects and features. It also fixes the Flickr object bug. It doesn't work on Windows XP or earlier operating systems. Small Basic is the only text-based programming language designed to teach kids and adults how to...