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Intro: I am Almario and I would like to discuss windows installation especially and more specifically out of the box installations. Why it should be partitioned to at least two drives. Body: A drive is volatile to a user and easily damagable. A drive when given super user access to … | |
Hello, I have a PC at the office, which was by default a Windows 8 Pro OEM licensed one (not 8.1), but for some unknown reasons, it was downgraded to Windows 7 Pro, which is again showing "OEM" in the activation Product ID. I would like to format and perform … | |
According to Dell's website the Windows licence is specifoc to each particular machine and its details are burned into the BIOS. Is it possible that the original OS was Home edition (in which case the licence is not valid for Pro)? Have you tried installing a Home edition? | |
Hello all, So last night I decided to add an older HDD into my new desktop to... well add more storage since games now-a-days are HUGE, and I was running out on my current 2 drives (main SSD with Windows 10, and an HDD). I didn't realize that the older … | |
Petya loves lucky numbers. Everybody knows that lucky numbers are positive integers whose decimal representation contains only the lucky digits 4 and 7. For example, numbers 47, 744, 4 are lucky and 5, 17, 467 are not. Petya has a number consisting of n digits without leading zeroes. He represented … | |
I was trying to upgrade to windows 10 from windows 7 ultimate. But when the setup completes installing windows 10 and it restarts nothing happens and my previous window 7 starts again. Like nothing happened. Neither any drive space is eaten up after the install. I know if i clean … | |
Hello, I have my "old" windows 7 machine that I would like to maintain as much data and programs as possible. I bought a new Windows 10 machine and noticed that Windows Easy Transfer is not there. I have seen various post online about upgrading to the same machine but … | |
Hi all, I have a dual-boot laptop with Windows 10 64 bit and Windows 8 32 bit. I think i don't need that windows 8 any more. I want to delete it from laptop and add that empty hard drive space to the drive where windows10 located. How can i … | |
While trying to log in to my BBC Store account on my wife's PC, somehow I ended up replacing my wife's name as User at login (the only account and therefore admin) with my own name and Hotmail address. The named Documents folder has also changed to my name. I … | |
Hi all I recently installed Windows 10 as a clean install using the ISO DVD I downloaded and burned before the free offer ended in July. I also downloaded and installed the anniversary edition (1607). However when I boot up the system will pass the POST stage and start to … | |
Hello I've deployed a 32-bit Windows 8.1 on VirtualBox on Windows 10, yet when I am logging in on the VM, a few seconds after the desktop appears, it starts flickering like a looping refresh, and I am unable to see any icons. Any fix for this, without having to … | |
all, a few months back, I did the free upgrade to Windows 10 from windows 7. I tried it for three months and decided I did not like it, I thien reinstalled windows 7. Now in setting up my outlook, I notice that my address book and email folders are … | |
So, I've read Microsoft's documentation, and it ends up being a lot of words that don't explain anything. I've seen other places of people using DISM commands, but it doesn't explain what they do. I know DISM is used for working with images before deployment, but people are using it … | |
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 … | |
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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 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? | |
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 … | |
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 … | |
Our dear Windows XP died some time, there's quite an amount of applications that don't work on it anymore. That's because it is Windows NT 5.2, many relying libraries are not supported anymore, et cetera. But now, I'm wondering, what will happen with Windows 7? So far, it's the best … |