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Hello, To begin, I am a registered member but have not been here in awhile - I have misplaced my login credentials and must post anonymously. I recently purchased a new laptop and am cleaning up my old one and giving it to a friend. This older laptop runs Windows …

hello my destop is gone half white and i cant see any icons on my destop ive tried different things but didnt work someone plz help me

Hello Anyone knows the URL or IP of the server from which the Media Creation Tool connects to download the ISO of Windows 10? I need this to add it to the exception list of my proxy as currently the latter is denying access to download the ISO file.

Please, help! I should restore very important file! My work depends on it. I use CorelDraw X3. Through it I can't correctly open the file, I see the unknown image instead my chart.

I have googled this and tried many fixes. Nothing works. I would like to roll back to Windows 7 and try to install 10 again. I have no control panel and no access to Safe Mode. What else can I do.

Hi i got a sheet in a work book that i am working on now with form control (dropdown). The code i made changes the color for the text in the entire row, or highlights it, works fine. But i would like to add code to change the cell value …

Hi, I hope I've posted this in the right place, please just tell me if not. I've been having an issue with connecting to a database from a website and have recieved this as an error message: *Array ( [0] => Array ( [0] => IMSSP [SQLSTATE] => IMSSP [1] …

I have a old PC running XP using Outlook Express as there email program. With there new Windows 7 PC they downloaded Windows Live Mail. How do I import/export old email and contacts/address book from the old PC's Outlook Express to the New PC's Windows Live Mail?

Hello :) I have several hundred RAR archives that I want to extract, but they each have a password which means I can't just select all of them and extract them at the same time, because it will ask me for the password for each archive - this is pretty …

My laptop screen goes off after 15-30 secs. When I connect to external screen, display is perfect. Is it video cable issue or screen? I bought new screen as well and no help. Any quick response approciated.

I currently own the following desktop: HP p6644y 4gb RAM 64-bit Pentium Dual Core CPU E5500 2.80 GHz I bought it in 2010 and it has served me well. However, in the past year, this PC has slowed down greatly. Even though I have plenty of memory, it takes forever …

I have window 7.

Hello, I was reading online that after some years you should add new thermal paste to your cooling and clean fan.. so since my laptop was from 2012 I decided to do that. I removed the backpanel and the copper cooling and noticed lots of black soot. (Probably cause we …

Hi I am new to this forum & I would like to ask few questions. Does anybody have commands for Disk Part which can allow to create partition, Select partition, Format partition & lot of features which a normal user cannot do within Windows UI enviroment.

guys please tell me with your expertise that which operating system(windows or ubuntu) gives a better interface for creating and executing child programs..#

I recently replaced a HDD with a SSD in a Laptop. Prior to replacing the HDD I did a full backup to an external drive; all was successful. I replaced the HDD with a new SSD. At first I was getting a non-system disk or disk error, and so I …

Hello, I've clean-installed a Windows 10 Home on a PC which had Windows 7 Home (with OEM key present), but now am unable to activate the Windows 10 with the OEM key available. I read that Microsoft is now allowing the use of existing OEM keys to activate Win 10, …

I'm using windows 10, but taking massive amount of ram. How will i solve?

Problem : Each time I power down and restart my PC the number lock on keyboard is turned off and the on light is switched off on the keyboard . Does not happen at simple restart . Numberlock is set to on in BIOS . I have posted this on …

is it possible to run quantum espresso in microsoft windows 10 ?? if possible, how ??

**Do you anybody know when the full version of Windows 10 will arrived**

i have 3 drives C E @ F. in drive C there was the low disk space.To prevent it i mistakenly deleted the drive E with all data and expand it to C. after this i came to know that i have deleted all my important data with drive. how …

I am trying to update the Windows 7 Home Premium on my laptop to Windows 10. I keep getting update error 8007007F. I can't find anything that tells me what the problem is, and I have cleaned and thoroughly checked the PC and cannot find any issues. Any ideas?

I am working with a customer to print out several 11x17 print jobs from Bentley Microstation v8i version 180 and version 443 (Series 2) have been tested. - Issues with the print output where the customer’s logo gets flaky and what looks to be the image gets corrupted.... One of …

Hey! Help me please!!! I downloaded and installed Flvto Youtube Converter, but my antivirus wanted to stop this because the app had viruses! But the support said that their app has no viruses and i can install it. Help me please, i like this and want to download playlists of …

What it says on the tin. Assume that every easily-googled effort to fix Windows 10 has failed and rollback attempts have failed. Assume I have access to a PE/LiveCD. Assume that Power -> Shift+Restart -> Troubleshoot ->??? is useless to me. (This is quite a unique situation!) Assume that I …

Have one laptop that has the correct password for wifi access. Is there anyway to reveal the password? Guidance sought

I can't create a junction from one sub-folder to another sub-folder without an error that the system cannot find the path specified ? For example; Source Path: "C:\Users\<username>\Appdata\Roaming\<folderA>\<folderB>" Target Path: "C:\Custom Program Settings\<folderA>\" In other words, I want the Source path specifically the sub-folder to belive that the Target path, …

Hi folks! Need urgent help please! I'm looking to replace my regular windows 7 boot HDD with a faster SSD and upgrading to windows 10. I also have three other drives striped in a raid0 configuration that hold a great deal of important data. So will replacing my current windows …

Computer is slow as molasis/

Hi guys, Vin here. I just like to ask if it is possible to dual boot two different operating system with different architecture(64 bit/32 bit)? My current os is windows 7 hp 64bit and I would like to dual boot it with windows xp 32 bit.... Here's my computer specs: …

Hey Everybody. I have been asked to create a spreadsheet that will create a list of matches, for example in Table 1. (Please see the tables attached). OK, fair enough, basic table so far. What I want to do is have three columns, that will return the results that match …

Hello, I've recently upgraded to Windows 10 and thought better of it. I used the 'revert back' tool. Since reverting back to windows 7, my machine has become sluggish and takes a lifetime to open anything. Every now and then it'll tell me there is a system32 file missing. Thanks …

I put W10 on my daughter's laptop, and everything was fine at first. Now when you click the window icon for the start menu, nothing happens, so she can't get to programs, or the shut down options.

Hi, I could import some numbers from notepad to excel 2010, and after right click the cells were converted to General from scientific format. However, when I drag the notepad file to Excel 2013 they cannot be converted to General format. I tried different ways to convert them from text …

Hey guys i need help with a problem i am currently having with IE. I recently downloaded a file and since after that my internet explorer randomly pop up often and it is very annoying.Is this a virus!? Please help!

I am trying to create a PDF file that has typeable text boxes, so I guess I'm trying to create a PDF form. I'm using MS Word 2010 to create the document then I select Save As and select PDF. After doing this the text box does not show up …

For I don't want to pay much for a blu-ray player, so is there any tools to convert blu-ray to other formats, which can play on my Mac Media Player?

Hello, guys. When I ran my PC running Windows 10, there was an error saying Windows 10’s ‘Start Menu and Cortana aren’t working’. Besides, before that, All of my files from D dish got lost. It was running windows 7 x64 and I did the free upgrade to 10. Any …

window 10 is good OR NOT

Hi, we have an issue where we edit the project file which is stored in a sharepoint document library and then when we try to save it comes up saying the file is locked and cannot be saved, we then have to save a copy, this issue is intermittent but …

I would like to know if MS office 2003 can be installed and run correctly on a 64bit PC running win7 . I couldn't find an answer in my search. Google search results were mixed. Thanks

Hello all! About a week ago I noticed that even though I'm connected to the Internet, I'm not able to open most websites (only my email, yahoo). There are two other computers in my house that are able to connect to the Internet and open webpages (from wifi), except for …

All of sudden my desktop icons are taking about 2 minutes too load after windows starts. Can anybody help me. I ran malwarebytes, norton antivirus, no adware, xofspy, spyware doctor, cleaned all spyware and adware off the system; cleaned up start up programs from msconfig, defrag the HD, I've done …

Is Windows 10 step to Microsoft Cloud OS?

I have a series of stand alone business computers that are not allowed to be connected to the internet but yet I have to keep up with MS updates. Downloading the Microsoft monthly Security updates on ISO is helpful, but installing them on 7 PC's , one at a time …

Yes.....we are sort of still on Novell. However, I am new to the Active Directory world and need to create my first Active directory Forest. My test server is built, but haven't installed/initiated Active Directory services, etc. Any resources as on how to plan and create?