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Today I tried to install the Windows 10 Fall Creator's Update. It failed with the message  I found this peculiar because I don't have that application installed. I **do** have Macrium Reflect (Free) version 6 but certainly not Drive Image 7 (Powerquest). As usual, clicking the Support link …

My brother has a Windows 10 laptop. I use Linux so I'm a little out of the loop when it comes to Windows. He's having problems and wants me to wipe it out and re-install it. Will I need to load the OS onto a USB drive first? If so …

My laptop shows cpu usage 100 percent and all programs stop responding i am feed up of it

From Stardock's newsletter I read "Handles are killing your PC" and checked in on the apps and handles to discover the stock Killer Network app was way out there at over 906,000 (906 THOUSAND) handles. This was a pretty interesting find and had me off to the maker for latest …

A while ago I had a file on my windows desktop with a lot of my email accounts that I use for very specific purposes like online forums or shopping, and each one's password. I don't know what on earth has happened but I can't find that file anywhere. I …

Hi, Please excuse my knowledge as I am new to most of this. I have a small office and mostly we work in the office, but due to health problem, one of the staff now need to work from home, I have heard of Remote Desktop and Terminal Servers but …

I have a client who can not download her attachments throught the windows mail app. Their mail server is gmail and they do not have a windows account. If they go into the desktop and go to their gmail they can download the attachments with no problem. Is the issue …

I have a USB token that uses UDF 2.0 format, I want to format FAT32 or NTFS in win7. How do I format the USB formatted FAT32 ?

I recently came back from a Europe trip for five months, and when I arrived home I took my computer system from out of the garage from which it was stored and tried booting it back up. For some reason my hard drive died. It wasnt detecting it on my …

Does anyone know how to stop this process? It sits in Windows8_OS/Windows/System32/SleepStudy and builds multiple .ETL files in a ScreenOn sub folder The files can be deleted but the folders cannot.

Why Everytime After Few Days Google Hindi Input Setup Currupt Or Not Work In Hindi Fonts. I Facing This Issue Again & Again Same Day. Please Any Idea For Reinstall Google Input because I M Install again not install successfully. generate errors already installed.

For some reason, when I open Microsoft Word the top and bottom margins are non-existent. When I go to File>Page Setup, it says the top and bottom margins are set to 1 inch. I've tried changing them to a variety of different numbers, and they don't change at all. Any …

cd x4 64 bit is not running on windows 10 its shows error of loading

Does anyone know the function and origin of the wireless profile, bungle4? I've been cleaning up my numerous vbScript files and when I tidied, then tested Metered.vbs, it produced the following: D:\>metered Profiles on interface Wi-Fi: All User Profile : bungle4 All User Profile : mynet Metered.vbs is a script …

So I was roaming around my computer, trying to merge my D and C drive since C drive is the main drive and D drive isn't, the D drive had 8 times as much space as the C drive so I wanted to merge them I went into disk settings …

In order to resolve a problem whereby Microsoft keeps updating my video driver (which works) with a newer version that is crippled, I installed the Windows 10 Creator's Update. So far it - Reset driver update back to auto (I had disabled it) - Re-enabled OneDrive (I had disabled that …

(Mod: if this is not the appropriate area for this post, please move. Thanks.) I am attempting to Find and Replace text in an Excel 2016 spreadsheet. For example, I'm searching for the following URL in the spreadsheet: https://sample.com/user Upon located this URL in the spreadsheet, I want to replace …

Yesterday I followed a thread trying to learn to lock file folders using the cacls in the command window. I thought I'd use the temp file folder as my target, thinking that it was the most innocent folder I had. I was able to lock it, but now I can't …

It seems Microsoft new update ruined my pc.once I click on start some error appears everytime

A relative had a pretty beat up qualifying Windows laptop so I took a chance that this deal was still working. Read https://www.cnet.com/how-to/microsoft-windows-10-free-upgrade-offer-assistive-features/ but the new expiry date is now Jan 16, 2018. Direct Link at www.microsoft.com/en-us/accessibility/windows10upgrade

I have an Asus laptop running Windows 10. Windows updated and took unusally long to do so. After the update, my screen just keeps flickering. I uninstalled the updates, and that did not solve the flickering. Now I receive this message on my screen, "explorer.exe. application error". I also did …

I am trying to fix problems on Windows XP Home edition SP2 accessing CD or DVD discs. The system doesn't seem to recognize discs inserted into the drive. I installed a new drive, a LITEON DVD/CD re-writer, to replace an older drive that seemed to stop working. Yet, the new …

Writing article in Microsoft Word i forgot to save my materials...How to give back all i’d wrote?

DEll PC Windows 10 Outlook 2007 One user has no items listed in the Sent folder. This incident happened after the local eletric supply blacked us out three times a couple of days ago. The user was in Outlook 2007 and was about to send an email. The email is …

Lady and gentlemen I want to ask you. I have the document in OneNote 2007, but there is a problem, I can't open it cause of - This file does not appear to be a OneNote file. This message has appeared today at opening it. Yesterday the document was valid.

My problem with excel document. I made a lot of actions in excel file and forgot to save file and shut computer down.

Hi Everyone I am trying to achieve a cell that is dependent on two different cells. Basically what I want to do is: *Item 1* If the contents of Cell U20 equals the contents of W12 or W13 the cell will equal a certain value. *Item 2*Depending on the date …

My Windows Vista computer was freezing up a lot, so I wanted to perform a system restore. In a tutorial, it said that it would be best to do this in safe mode (which, it said, could be attained by hitting F8). Well, I tried, and F8 didn't do anything; …

well, i'm quite sure my modem is physically okey. but i guess it's the modem software what's disturbing. programme is stuck in "initializing" loop forever. i've tried reinstalling the software, updating the driver, rolling back the driver, reinstalling the driver, checked network driver, even resetting the windows. but nothing worked. …

Ok so I have a Toshiba A105 s4284 that I just bought from a friend that bought it in january and it was working fine until just recently, all of a sudden the screen just goes completly black when I'm in the middle of something, I mean the computer doesn't …

I'm having difficulty using Robocopy. There are two things to which I want to do with Robocopy and I'm unsure whether it is possible. First create a symbolic link which links the source to the new target and second exclude a sub-folder from the source from being included in the …

Many Windows Vista users are experiencing problems with slow file transfers. In this guide we will learn a quick tip to improve transfer times. There are two ways we can fix this problem: by disabling Remote Differential Compression and Disable TCP/IP “Receive Window Auto-Tuning” and/or “Receive Side Scaling” in Windows …

This is puzzling. We have a small organization running our own Exchange 2003 server for about 25 users. We hired a new employee recently, and I created a new user in Active Directory by copying an existing account, same as I have done for over 10 years. That all went …

I just did the latest updates to Microsoft Office 2016. But after updates I cannot open one very important .RTF document. I click the file to open, the following message came: 'Check the file permissions for the document or drive.' So i uninstalled it and reinstalled Office and same thing. …

Here's a question for you: I often use remote desktop to connect to my office pc. Often times, I'm writing a document on the office pc and I need to include a screenshot of an application etc. Over RDP, how do I make the office pc take a screen shot …

hi, yesterday the modem on my other computer could not be detected and I can't get on the inernet using it. I have a dial up modem 56k and I could get on the net fine for a long time, but something happened to my network connection and it isn't …

This past summer I was "treated" to an automatic update by my Win 10 OS (updated for free from Win 7). Ever since then my computer has been an unending source of operational frustrations: 1. My Logitech webcam (C260) has become non-operational. 2. My DVD drive stopped reading disks. 3. …

How can I connect my new Win 10 PC and my old Win 8 PC together to 1 monitor, all to my Direct Tv router that I use to connect my wireless gadgets?

ALL of it. <rude words>. Linux, here I come. .

It's just awful... I saved the document 20 minutes ago. Just my CorelDraw X4 took off leaving me no hope of saving. Opened a backup, it was even stupidly empty. Opened the file itself and the worst expectations were met, I returned with my mountain project on several levels ago. …

I still can work on my laptop (HP Pavilion) because I had a window open and I can access all my docs this way, but the background screen is black, there is no 'Start' button, no desktop and the 'right click' does nothing. Totally emptiness, but I still see the …

Hello, Need some suggestions on how to combine 2 Windows 7 ISO files (one is x86 and other is x64), into one single bootable ISO file which can then be burnt on a DVD-R or Dual Layer DVD, and even on USB afterwards. Thanks.

Hi, I am currently facing an issue after upgrading a Windows 7 Pro (OEM Edition) to Windows 10 Pro following updates provided by Microsoft, whereby while checking my activation status, I found the following message: "Connect to the internet to activate Windows" I tried to activate it manually from the …

I cannot access my Toshiba External HDD. When I use chkdsk, It complains [B][COLOR="Red"] "Unable to determine volume version and state, chkdsk aborted"[/COLOR][/B]. I cannot think of any other way to restore it. I don't have access to buy recovery software so, freeware is preferrable. Thanks all

Hello there :), i have bunch of pictures which the title is like this `Name-LastName-year-category-....` what i want to do is sort them all in folders which will have only their `Name-LastName` and all pics with that name go in that folder. Is there some tool for this job to …

I have Vista Premium on an ACER T180 machine. I recently noticed the exclamation point next to the WPD FileSystem Volume Driver under Device Manager. When I double click on it, the error code is: [I]This device cannot start. (Code 10) Click 'Check for solutions' to send data about this …

So I have had this old windows vista desktop computer for a while and just recently when I turned it off the next morning it wouldnt turn back on until 4 days later. now 1 week later i turned it off again and i havent been able to turn it …

Hi, Due to my laptop having a strange COM port problem I decided to try and fix it by doing a 'repair' with my Windows 2000 Professional disk. When I put the disk in, it asked if I wanted to 'upgrade' and keep all my existing software or 'full install' …