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If you've tried installing/recovering Windows from a usb boot drive before (rather than an optical drive) then you might be aware that, sometimes, the boot drive stops working. Windows refuses to boot from it anymore, and you have to recreate the drive for it to work. Is there a way …

I've never seen this error message myself, but try re-downloading the file, maybe from a different source, tweaking compatibility options, running it as administrator, or even taking ownership of the installer file.

0xc000000f is the error code for "boot selection failed". The reason your Windows boot CD isn't working is because you didn't tell your system to boot from it. During boot, press whatever Function button (F1-12) that takes you to the boot order, and move CD/Optical Drive to the top of …

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On Windows 7, open the start menu and type diskmgmt.msc and click enter. This will open the Disk Management console. Find your SSD, right click on the 450GB partition and click Delete Volume. This will make you lose everything on that partition. It's generally not advisable (for a number of …

Download [Speccy](http://www.piriform.com/speccy/download/standard) to view all your specs.

Are you logged in with an administrator account ? Are you logged in with the same Windows/Hotmail/Outlook account that you were using before updating ? Did you install Windows 8.1 on top of the old system, on another partition or did you update normally through the Windows Store, etc ?

Since you installed MPC (which comes with K-Lite Codec) you no longer need to use Windows Media Player (which is a joke). Set MPC as the default player for all audio and video files then try opening it. However, as far as I know, VOB is not normally viewable on …

Stop using IE.

Recently used documents/files ? That's accessable by right-clicking the program's icon on your taskbar (when open or if pinned). Or by clicking File (from the program's menu bar) and most recently used files should either be listed there or under History/Recent Recently used programs ? Yeah, that no longer exists …

Under Windows, right click on My Computer and click Properties. On Windows Vista/7/8, click on Advanced System Settings from the left pane. Click the 3rd Settings button (under Startup and Recovery) and choose your operating system from there and uncheck the wait time checkbox.

Go to the acer website, the driver section, specify which device you have and it will give you a list of all the drivers and softwares that come pre-installed with your laptop or on any discs that came with it. It may not have 64bit versions of the software though, …

As far as I know, VPN/proxies only affect the device they're running on, which in this case is your PC.

You should be able to. Try start-up repair, if that doesn't work then just reinstall Windows on top of the current Windows, using the System Recovery DVD.

Not all 64bit processors come with 64bit OS's. My i3 came with Windows 7 Home Premium 32bit and I'm now running Windows 8.1 Pro 64bit on it, 3 years later. Maur.stape, there's no way to upgrade your infrastructure. Your computer either supports a 64bit system or not. If not, you …

Most computers I've worked on come with BIOS tools that test your HDD and RAM. Try those as well. And regardless of the results, if you have another hard drive around, replace it and see if that works. If it does, connect the faulty hard drive as a slave and …

I'm not sure what you've done to your computer, but normally, when it says bootmgr is missing, what you need to do is boot from a recovery disk/drive, open up command prompt and enter the following three commands. Bootrec.exe/bootfix Bootrec.exe/fixmbr Bootrec.exe/rebuildmbr If it's still not working, enter "diskpart" (also in …

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Try refreshing your computer (from PC Settings, accessable from the Charms menu). If that doesn't work then reset it completely, but make sure to backup your files (pictures, music, documents) before resetting.

I've had a similar issue before. It is most likely, like you said, a BIOS virus/failure which you cannot fix on your own. That was the only time I had to take my laptop to the shop and had the guy update my BIOS, which he claimed to be an …

Why don't you try making your own mp3 player script ?

You have to either adapt your script to work on all devices (which is entirely too much work and really not worth the hassle) or make an alternative version of the content (or the entire webpage) for mobile viewers.

Remove all the visual parameters of the player, except for the navigation buttons you want to keep.

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32bit (x86) and 64bit (x64) are different system infrastructures. You can only have one or the other. Having the former usually doesn't cause any of these issues, since most software is designed for 32bit by default. However if you're running 64bit infrastructure, some 32bit software will not work on your …

Handbrake is best, in my experience. Try lowering audio quality (channels as well as bitrate) along with video quality and resolution, for most size-efficient compression results.