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I was trying to eliminate the possibility of corrupt bootloader files. Laptop wont boot windows. I have a Lenovo laptop, I used the Bios NOVA button to access Lenovo One Key Recovery and re-install (?) windows back to the factory version. By doing this would you assume that I would have solved...

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Hello, We have right-click paste in windows 7 and this option appears wherever pasting is possible. But after pasting the clipboard contents remain in memory. It would be nice if we have another paste-wipe option wherein after pasting the clipboard content is wiped. How can we make it possible ...

I use my pc for gaming and I was looking to restart my pc in order to get rid of software problems I was having. Last night I was able to get through the process until it came to my pc restarting itself, no input was being received about 30 mins after it had restarted. So I then used the restart...

I am trying to start fresh on my work laptop. I am fine with starting completely over as well as buying a new OS. Just wondering if its possible and how to go about it. The skinny... I was planning on merging companies with a buddy and we purchased me a laptop for work. He handled all the tech...

I bought a computer couple years ago, and completely wiped it, i installed linux to try it and test it i bought the computer off amazon, as far as i remember, it came with windows 7 professional, it has one of the Microsoft stickers on it with the product key still on it, it also came with a...

Hello, I am having trouble logging into my Asus X551C Laptop Running Windows 10. I keep getting a "We can't sign into your account sign out and the sign back in" error. After a few attempts at signing in and rebooting the computer, I tried to wipe and reset the computer. After a few attempts at...

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...

I have had Windows 8.1 on my tower for about a 2 months now. Am just getting tired of how controlling it is. I made comments in the past as to how good it was. I was being optimistic. Just missing all the good stuff in Windows 7. I don't care if I have to do ALL those updates. I want...

So I my computer was really lagging one day so I restarted it like always. I turned it on, and it just has an infinite loop saying "Attempting repairs" and "Diagnosing your PC." I did get this one screen where it said "We need to restart your pc, click OK or click Advanced settings." I went to...

I want to trash all data on a secondhand pc which has vista I want to wipe the existing installation completely & install a clean Windows 7 Which version do I use fqc-00129 or fqc-00133

Looking for something that completely wipes all internet history using a non-recoverable method. Thanks.

First off, this is a final effort in my issue with not being able to access the internet as seen in this topic: http://windows8forums.com/windows-8-networking/14474-win8-shows-connected-internet-but-unable-load-any-webpage-app.html All the suggestions did not work so my final option was to do...

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You know a lot has been said regarding not wiping out production machines w/ a beta OS. There is a reason or another reason that I haven't seen mentioned that is maybe THE most important. Betas are unsupported! An End User running a beta OS, if, they were to ring MS Tech Support...

Hi, I have been searching this forum for a while and feel a bit more lost that originally. I have a old laptop that I installed w7 on. I was getting slow, so I wanted to get it so empty as possible. I have backed up all my files. Now I want everything to go, and start with a virgin windows 7...

Really tired and stressed from this computer. I feel it is nearly just time to take it to my local computer shop and get them to deal with it, Wipe, Fix - Whatever it takes. I have tried, System Restore, Chkdsk's and Repairs. irql_not_less_or_equal is the main BSOD showing up now...

How do I wipe clean my Windows 7 hard disk? My current installation had problems with viruses and I need to re-install Windows7. And what size should I make the partitions? I have a 500GB hard disk. I tried booting off a DVD, but when it says "Where do you want to install windows?" the Format...

Soon I will be switching from RC to Retail version of Windows 7 both 64 bit. Right now I am dual booting and all my software works in both. Is there any practical reason to keep Vista My PC it just went out of warrantee? I want to wipe 7 format it then resize partition for the new install. Joe

If I were to wipe and reinstall Windows 7 on a partition, is there a way to preserve configuration, particularly for installed applications? For example, I don't want to have to re-download and re-install all of my games on Steam. I figure exporting and importing the registry would be a bad idea...