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My brother has a Windows 10 laptop. I use Linux so I'm a little out of the loop when it comes to Windows. He's having problems and wants me to wipe it out and re-install it. Will I need to load the OS onto a USB drive first? If so …

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From Stardock's newsletter I read "Handles are killing your PC" and checked in on the apps and handles to discover the stock Killer Network app was way out there at over 906,000 (906 THOUSAND) handles. This was a pretty interesting find and had me off to the maker for latest …

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Hi, I run a VB6 programm that open Excel.xlsm I close the VB6 programm Excel.xlsm is always open I run a VB6 programm How can I work on the already ope n Excel.xlsm and not open an other Excel.xlsm? My OS = Windows 10 Thanks in advance for your help …

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I have been trying to install IBM bluemix CLI and getting this error message while trying to push my php file to the server: C:\xampp\htdocs\bluemix>bluemix app push index Invoking 'cf push index'... FAILED fork/exec C:\Program Files\IBM\Bluemix\bin\cfcli\cf.exe: %1 is not a valid Win32 application. C:\xampp\htdocs\bluemix> I cannot understand understand. I am …

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I have a question. Whenever I try to open youtube up, it shows up like this(except instead of facebook it's youtube and instead of "it took too long to respond, mine says www.youtube.com refused to connect). Pls tell me how to fix it. [Click Here](https://blog.yoocare.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/facebook-this-site-can-not-be-reached.png)

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I'm trying to install an Iomega Zip 100 MB Drive on an Asus Z97 64bit motherboard running Windows 10 with a PCI express ide connector to substitute for the lack of connector that the 64bit motherboards now are usually leaving the legacy ide connector disk drives out that could be …

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Hey how do you install pyHook with pip? pip installs everything for me but pyHook, when trying to install pyHook it says: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement pyhook (from versions: ) No matching distribution found for pyhook How can i fix this? i have got windows …

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hello i hope you are all doing well! so i have my coputer that i build one year ago with 240GB ssd for the OS and 500GB HDD for data, i have set document pictures videos and download default location the HDD but and installed all software on SSD too, …

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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 …

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It seems Microsoft new update ruined my pc.once I click on start some error appears everytime

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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 …

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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

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Hello everyone, I will take this chance to reintroduce myself to the community. I was a member on the Daniweb forums back in 2006 and 2007. I can see a lot has changed on the site since then, and its great to see that the community is still alive. In …

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Windows 10 has a nice date and time display in his taskbar, it is becoming more difficult for me to see , unless I open it. Becoming older and older my eyes are not that ‘fresh’ as they used to be, so I decided to make a bigger time display …

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So I have a little vague question and I don't know what to even google to get right answer. I am trying to setup email client on friend's computer remotely. I tried outlook, native windows 10 client and thunderbird, they all fail to connect server in anyway with all settings. …

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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 …

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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. …

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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 …

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IT Friends, Let me start by saying I am not an IT professional. Our company recently changed to a cloud based environment. We are seeing substantial efficiency loss in the calculation times of our templates (mostly excel based). It's typically only seconds per calculation, but adds up throughout the day. …

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Hi, I'm trying to make a program that sets up the hight dpi compatibility mode programatically on Windows 10, so that I don't have to set up manually the properties of every legacy *.exe program I use, there are hundreds. When you set up that on a local drive, Windows …

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Anyone else experiencing this? I have a large number of folders that use a file extension as part of the name. For some inexplicable reason, when Windows updated recently, all of those extensions are not showing. Mind you, they are still there in the property sheet, but not in the …

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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 …

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I haven't found much information on this on the web, and I have been searching extensively. Literally every time I try to download the Eclipse IDE via the installer software, it pauses mid download, and a message appears showing something akin to "artifact is progressing slowly from mirror: www.somemirrorurlhere.edu" (not …

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Hello to all group members, Im having a problem with my assembler. I have installed MASM 6.11 and i have 'Windows 10'. Everything works out just fine, the compiler and all and even my programs are accurate as they get. The problem is that when im trying to go to …

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I have a ASP.net Web API, that I am trying to host on IIS 10 (Windows 10 Pro). If I access this Web API form Angular 2 app, I get the following error XMLHttpRequest cannot load http://172.26.50.17:8085/api/library. Response to preflight request doesn't pass access control check: No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is …

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I have changed from a previous 1TB disk from Toshiba to a 500 MB SSD from SAMSUNG. I have generated a full image backup, and after with a bootable pen I have tryed to restore the new 500 disk with it. Immediatly at the begining systems generats an error and …

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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 …

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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 …

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I have spent a wonderful time exploring the handsome final update of windows 10 home pro a full version that may not be valuable to all but a proffessional productive tool for vip

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So I realise my title may be rather vague but I honestly don't know how else to word it. Essentially what happened was I was having difficulty installing Ubuntu onto my new server rig I built, so I plugged the HDD into a dock on my Win10 rig and installed …

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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 …

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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 …

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I tried to update Windows 10 but I didn't have enough storage so it made me use a flash drive to complete the update. I restarted the computer when it was done, and now it's stuck on a "Please insert external storage media and press OK" error message. I press …

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I have been having a problem for a few months with the video driver for my Dell laptop. The hardware/driver are from Intel. The driver from 2016-09-29 works just fine. It has a feature that I use regularly to rotate the display via hotkeys - very convenient for document reading. …

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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 …

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I've had this networking problem for a while and it's interfearing with another networking problem. I can share a folder on Computer(A) running Windows10 and have Computer(B) running Windows10 access the shared folder; although I can't share a folder on Computer(B) and have Computer(A) access the shared folder, or any …

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A few weeks ago my laptop browsing and windows apps error. When i am on my facebook account i can watch youtube videos posted on feeds but other videos pos unable to watch and play just black screen and keep on loading. Even some FB games is not working properly. …

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Hello I have a Windows 10 Pro (v.1511 - x64) PC, whereby in the "Update & Security" window it shows that updates are available, for example "Definition update for Windows Defender", "Security update for ASP.NET..." and so on, but it does not download the update at any point in time. …

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Good morning Recently I put an excell files on my desktop. This file wu4.xlsx was draged from a secure vautl (cryptainer). I did some draggring of file into a CD-R . Because of some limitation this file and 1 other could not be moved. When I go back to the …

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I'm at the cottage for the summer. Out here I have a metered connection and I try to keep under 3 gig per month (or I have to pay extra). Until this year that hasn't been a problem. This year, however, I have Windows 10. With Windows 7 I could …

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Hi, Does anyone know of a tool that I can download to run on pc's and laptop's to check that they are compatible with Windows 10? I know I could just compare the specs but I've been asked to find out if there is software that I can just run. …

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Hello. I am a newcomer to Daniweb and need some advice. I've been using Ubuntu regularily on several PCs and note books installing without problems until now. I have just purchased an Acer Aspire ES 11 (ES1-132-CONU) that is using an Intel Celeron Quad Core 3450 processor launced Q3'16 possibly …

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Machine runs Microsoft Windows 10 (Home) and Microsoft Word 2016 (Home and Student). Recently it began turning on Tracking on new documents. I go in and disable it, it stays off for a day, then comes back on. Since I don't want to use that, it can be annoying. All …

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Hello, I have a small form factor gaming PC with the following hardware. MSI X170I Gaming Pro AC mini iTX MB Intel i7 6700K CPU 32GBs GSkil DDR4 ram Nvidia GeForce 1080 Founders edition GPU OS Windows 10 Pro I subscribe to Frontier FIOS (formaly was Verizon) for my hi …

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I've been asked many times how to play Video DVD and Blu-Ray (BR) on Windows for years. Until now I've always lamented the lack of free BR player software. But last week the CNET Cheapskate published a freebie player. I'll try it in a few days. Link -> https://www.cnet.com/how-to/how-to-watch-dvds-for-free-in-windows-10/ Most …

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When I quit for the day on my PC I always used "sleep" instead of shutdown. The monitor would go black and after a few seconds the power would shut down. That was normal. Now when I tell it to sleep the monitor goes black, the PC never powers down …

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Trigger Warning: Old specs are old. This has been a persisent problem for more than a year. Bold items are original parts when issue first noticed. Unbold have been added afterward with no change. CPU: **AMD FX-6300 Six-Core AM3+** FAN: After-market MB: **MSI 970A-G46** RAM: **2x Samsung PC3-8500F**, 2x Hyundai …

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