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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' …

After outlook rebooting my password has failed. What have happened and what should i do ih this case...Any advice please!

How to convert files called OST to the files PST??

How to restore the corrupted *.xlsx file? At me installed Office 2007. I created the file in Excel. And then saved its as usually. Everything was normal, but now the file don't want to open. error: not found.

I have my suspicions on how to fix this, I just want to make sure I'm right. `dism /image:C:\ /cleanup-image /restorehealth /scratchdir:C:\Scratch /Source:WIM:C:\Source\Install.wim:2` From my DISM log. (p) CSI Manifest Corrupt x86_microsoft-windows-c..dtc-runtime-cluster_31bf3856ad364e35_10.0.14393.953_none_7434ed91724916c9 Repair failed: Missing replacement manifest. (p) CSI Payload Corrupt amd64_microsoft-windows-c..sktop.appxmain.root_31bf3856ad364e35_10.0.14393.1358_none_50bc92cd091f5c0a\Cortana.LocalSearch.dll Repair failed: Missing replacement payload. (p) CSI Payload …

I have a serious problem with my new laptop i have installed clean copy of windows 7 on in and it runs okay but now i cannot connect it to the internet without drivers i tried so many things but no help please if you have any method how i …

Dear all, using Windows 10, I insert a USB stick in a PC, create a Word document and save it onto the USB stick. Later I edit many times the document at different times and in different days but always working on the USB stick. Eventually is there any possibility …

I have 2 sheets in same Excel. First excel sheet contains the following fields No Material 10th july 11th july 1 DATUM DCP ESD Black 2 DATUM DCP ESD Blue My second worksheet contains the following fields No Date Material Stock size+Wastage 1 10th july DATUM DCP ESD Black 283.47 …

Trying to pipe data into FINDSTR, but I'm getting whole lines and not the matching substrings. Have I asked this one before? Let's say the data takes the form of BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH "GOOD UNIQUE DATA" BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH "SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT GOOD UNIQUE DATA" …

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Help! I don't know what I did! I was in the process of helping to fix a friends HDD by plugging it into my system to then chkdsk, get updates, etc, little did I realize I left some sort of bootloader on the flash drive that I was using and …

My computer was working fine until today I opened it up and clicked the power button then I realized that it was not working. I then proceeded to hold it after a while I can hear the fan start up but nothing else when I let go of the power …

Accidentally downloaded an update for adobe flash. Moments later, Bytefence installed itself onto my laptop, as well as an app called 'weatherbuddy'. My browser was also hijacked by Palikan. Finally, I was able to restore my default browser and I installed Malwarebytes and ESET. Both had found and deleted files …

One can do this in the registry for normal pics and I have NO idea what it isn't standard. Is it possible to modify it for Windows Picture Viewer. Using 10. Hate the new picture viwer app also. Why does Windows suck so much??

I forgot my password on my Toshiba Windows 10 laptop. Now every time I turn it on it has a black screen with a white box that says 'enter password' but I don't know the password.. I need to somehow reset my whole laptop. I've tried EVERYTHING, INCLUDING calling tech …

I have a folder in one of my partitions with this name; 6a004149b189707931f3b5 Windows won't let me delete this folder as it claims I need permission from **Network Service**; what is this folder ?