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I have just found out that my ASUS laptop came pre-installed with a fake copy of Windows 7 x64 Pro. (Finding the original retailer is not an option.) So, I now want to get rid of it and replace it with a genuine version. I am not sure how to …

Hi I'm trying to back up my Windows 7 Pro 64bit onto an external hard drive but every time I try to backup I get an error. The error code says: **The backup application could not start due to an internal error: The service cannot be started, either because it …

I currently only have access to a this older laptop because my new one crashed do to an update by microsoft. (And yes, it was caused by an update) The laptop was a dell venue 11 pro. Which is one of those 2 in 1 computers which is better then …

My computer can't work normally now. A few days ago, I logged in my PC and enterred the desktop, the blue screen suddenly happened. I tried to restart the PC several times, but I failed. I enterred the safe mode and scanned the system, the result reported that the PC …

All of a sudden Windows 8 is unresponsve upon entering the desktop and on bringing up the Task Manager Disc usage is showing 100% for 5-10mins then returns to normal. Really want to sort this as I need to use the Laptop for work: HP Pavilion g6-2265sa Windows 8 (Home) …

Hi Dw I bought a laptop 2 years back and in the past few weeks it freezed and i was so frastrated and i just rebooted it with the disc that I was issued from the store when i was purchasing it now the problem I'm having is that it …

Comuter reboots itself 2-3 times each time at start up(at booting time) ,after giving a blue screen. Checked the error with blue screen viewer and it says problem with Hardware abstract layer,none page fault in none page area. Really annoing ,each time i start,need to wait this circle to pass.Any …

hi, Please help how to solve my problem about how to limit 11 digit number inside excel cell. i want to enter values like mobile number starting 0########## and deletes the excess numbers. thanks in advance

Hi, I've had to replace my hard drive due to a fault. Managed to get windows etc. back on. My problem is with IE. I get script errors or the page will load but with errors or the page will not load fully. I've loaded adobe flash. not sure what …

Okay guys, I am having a tough time tryin to figure out this one and I hope some of you can lead me to a right direction .. My friend who has windows 7 as operating system, usually on boot up he has 3 options to choose inbetween and a …

Hi there guys! Good day. I just want to ask assistance from you because I am really not an IT expert. I noticed something after I update my machine to Windows August Update 2. I noticed this on my network options everytime I click on the signal symbol on my …

what did I've done wrong with this code? =IF(OR(ISBLANK(C9),ISBLANK(B9)),"",IF(ISBLANK(C9),D9-TODAY(), "Reactivated")) I want to make an event that if b9 and c9 is empty, the value would be empty. if only c9 is empty, then the output would be the remaining days left between the two dates, and if the two …

Hi. When I try to open the windows 8 app store via metro, It gets stuck on the splash 'loading' screen, with the logo and the rotating dots. I can leave it for an hour, and it will still stay on that splash screen. I'll post my system specs later …

I am trying a long distance help session with a friend who lost the file edit etc line in Outlook Express and now Windows Live has same problem. Any suggestions? IE 8, Win XP Home. Thanks

Hi, i'm in a pickle. I'm on a Samsung Notebook with Windows 7 installed about 2 years ago. A couple of days a go my power adaptor stoped working, so I replaced and it all goes well. One day later, I tried to play CS GO and I noticed that …

Hey guys, this is my first post here. I'm in a bind, because my computer crashed about a week ago and I'm trying to get all of my old data on my new machine. Thankfully most of my info was on a seperate server, and a friend was able to …

I am running a windiws command prompt. When my build is done sys out sometimes It does alow me to Scroll all the way back to the beginning Of the out put. Is something that can be done to fix this?

I have a hard drive that is meant to have Win7 installed. It cancels the installation by itself, right at the beginning, error code 0x80070017. This drive has partitions c: d: and x: I tried formatting x: from cmd and it says it's write protected. Tried with d: and I'm …

Hello Anyone can pls help me, whereby I need to prevent the users from being able to delete a specific folder in Windows 7, but still have read/write/execute permissions on that folder? Also I would like to restrict the user's options in terms of software he/she wants to install, with …

I have written a program using Visual Basic within Visual Studio 2008 which occasionally needs to load data from two MS Access database files into datatables for selection purposes. This all works perfectly on the built 'release' version but when I publish to Public_HTML via CPanel to my website and …

Hi all, just a quick ? for you, can you recomend a good data revovery program please. A free one would be nice, My sisters chap re set windows7 back to factory settings without saving the pictures of there Kids (you can imagine the atmosfear at there house) so I …

I have a valid Window 7 Pro OEM license sticker with the product key but lose the CD. Now that I need to format the computer but I don't have the CD. I just want to find out how to obtain a CD since I got a valid Window 7 …

I have a question for you experts! :) I tried to install iis8 on my laptop and when i lounched the defoult page a window appeard in internet explorer asking me username and password for my rooter. What will happen if i place username and password for my rooter and …

The company have the original license for MS Office 2010 Home and Business license product key but somehow it couldn't activate as show in the attahcement. It just show product not activated. I have try uninstall and reinstall again but fail. I have also try repair and change the product …

I've downloaded Visual Studio Express 2013 ISO. I have 7-zip tool and I've extracted the ISO's content on my hard drive. But I can't find any setup/autorun file. Does anybody know what file should I launch? Thanks beforehand.

Hey there I just finished downgrading from windows 8 to windows 7. I need to redownload my wifi driver, but the only options they have on the dell site are windows 8.1 64 bit, windows 8 64 bit, and windows 7 64 bit. Neither my windows 8 or my windows …

Hey guys, how do i logout of the onedrive account from the windows 8.1 app? I am planning on using a new account and I can't seem to find the logout for the app... is there any solution?

So earlier today I found a course in wireshark, downloaded a .bin image and decided to install powerISO to run the file and see what is inside. As soon as I installed powerISO, I noticed a new software program "Seach project" was installed as well, my immediate action was to …

Hey, I've got kind of a weird problem. I've set up a local network at home using a Netgear WNDR3700v3 router, which works flawlessly. And I've set it up so that connected computers get all the IP-information from the router (DHCP), including using the router as the dns. But every …

Am worry about my desktop computer. I shutdown properly but to boot it on and is no more display. Please i need your help

Problem: [b]Windows Vista/ Windows 7 User Account password corrupt / Forgot password.[/b] IMPORTANT: “DO NOT PERFORM SYSTEM RESTORE FOR THE FOLLOWING ISSUE, BECAUSE IF THIS ISSUE CAUSED AFTER WINDOWS UPDATE THEN THIS ISSUE WILL REOCCUR” SNIP Solution: 1. Boot from the windows vista DVD 2. Get into Windows Recovery Console …

Do the like the design of windows 8 or windows 7. Tell me the honest answer.

Hi friends! I installed Windows Server 2008 Standard and then activated it successfully. I has been running for over 2 months now with no problem. But, it has now started to ask me for Activation. "My Computer -->Properties" says "You must activate windows now" and I see the "product ID …

Hi All, I have a Dell PC for which I am attempting to install Windows 7 onto a new HDD I bought. However, I am having issues with not being able to Boot the disk that has the Windows 7 iso. What I've done: 1. Seated the new HDD 2. …

I just installed windows 8.1 and wanted to have a performance widget on the side but noticed that I don't have any inbuilt .. just google and found [this](http://www.myfavoritegadgets.info/monitors/SystemMonitorII/systemmonitorII.html) . It seems incredable? Does any1 have any experience with it?

I am having a problem with sharing appointments in my calendar using Outlook 2010 with an Exchange server. This is a small office of only two computers. The Exchange server is being used from GoDaddy to keep the computer and cell phone synced up. The person that recieves the phone …

I know it is ancient but I have client that is still using Window 98SE due to certain accounting software which he refuse to upgrade. So the Window 98SE got corrupted and he want me to recover the data. All my Window 98SE and ME utilities software are all gone. …

Hey there. I am from group of people. That are getting heavily irritated by unexpected smash of sound above 12kHz. Is there way to limit it, up to this? I mean, I don't have problem if I am expecting it. But when I am playing games, watching films or listen …

[Click Here](http://postimg.org/image/luqbf8bbd/) I have a small pond in the yard and I set up a web camera from my notebook to see whether it's a dog or a cat that bothered my fishes every single night, so I can find a way to stop it. I camcorder or any high …

hi! everybody I'm a newbie to this site i accidentally came through this site and found it really helpful for IT students thus thought of sharing my view and asking you guys for some help in my project I'm an engineering final year student of comp science. Igot to do …

When booting into Windows 8 I repeatedly receive a message on the home screen that I have files waiting to be burned. I do NOT. Going to my burning drive there is nothing listed, nor is there anything anywhere else. How can I get rid of this annoying message?

hi , i got this werid problem , when i open a folder and click on a letter name (example : f) it go directly to the search menu instead of going to a file or a folder that start with the letter f  any solution to this …

Hello, I've had this problem before but the solution (removing and then re-installing my printer and driver) isn't working this time. When I start up, I get the message: "Error in C:\WINDOWS\System32\spool\DRIVERS\W32X86\3\DLCJtime.dll Missing entry:RunDLLEntry". My printer still prints, but before it does, it informs me that I'm missing a colour …

I have a clone computer with the following specification, Intel i5, 4GB RAM, 250GB hadr disk, ATI Radeon graphic card, PCI-E network adapter running on Window 7 Pro 32bit. The problem is the computer unable to shutdown. When I shutdown it will go off and after a second or so …

Hello, I am running windows 8.1 with Anus A55NM-A motherboard, 8 gig memory,400 gig harddrive. I am replacing a second harddrive since my other second drive crashed. CMO see the harddrive,device Manager. But will not show up in Explorer. I am wondering what is causing this problem? Thanks For the …

Hi i followed a tutorial on how to make folders unacessible and undelitable using cacls command everything works fine until today i was unable to access a folder in D drive , D:\mouad " C:\Windows\system32>cacls D:\mouad /e /c /g %username%:D Arguments non valides. REMARQUE : Cacls étant désapprouvé, utilisez Icacls. " …

I'm at a loss...leave work on Friday, everything is working fine. Some time over this last weekend, a problem develops...none of our XP Pro Workstations can connect to our domain network when they restart on Monday, and our Server 2003 with Exchange 2003 can't either. All of these systems cannot …

This may be a bit more complex situation than someone wants to take on. I am not looking for the simple solution of reinstalling. There is something simple I am overlooking. The system boots to the point of selecting the OS. The only one is Windows 7. Win 7 was …

I can't send out any mail from my hotmail account for some reason! I do get incoming mail but when I try to reply it gives me an error. Please help!!

Hi As we know we can make image of HD and Clone Hard Disks and Partitions with dd.exe(http://www.chrysocome.net/dd) but How can I re-create a bootable disk from a raw image dd format to a bootable and executable HD installation?which commands I have to use? I appreciate your help