[WIN10] Before you do a Windows 10 upgrade, LISTEN!
Make a image of your disk!! You can use seagate or WD free versions of Acronis. Back up your C: drive and the system partition if you have one....
View ArticleDual boot options? Win 8.1 (oem) Win 10 upgrade
Could someone tell how I would go about creating a duel boot of my Win 8.1 OEM and the soon to be upgrade of 8.1 to Win 10? Is it possible? -- Wibbly Wobbly Timey Wimey...Stuff
View Article[WIN10] DVD Player App to "Replace" MCE
Uhm... However, back in May, instead of letting whatever small number of users Media Center had hung in limbo, Microsoft promised that theyÂ’ll offer some sort of alternative that users can employ. That...
View ArticleDVD Burner vansihed.
My DVD burner no longer shows up in Device manager or My Computer. What happened was......I was going to burn an ISO.....and then.....I double clicked on the ISO.....and then.....It created a Virtual...
View Article[WIN10] Remote upgrade using Team Viewer to go from Windows 7 to Windows 10
Here are my findings on a Team Viewer remote upgrade of PC from Windows 7 to Windows 10 with out anyone at the remote site needing to do anything but leave the keyboard and mouse alone. In the past I...
View Article[WIN10] Product key not working for upgrade
I can't get past the product key screen to do the upgrade to Windows 10. I have tried both the key on the bottom of the machine, and I also ran a program to grab the OEM key from the registry. Neither...
View ArticleWindows 10 Won't Install
Hi. I am running Windows 7 64. I have tried several times to install Windows 10. Each time the install stops with a message that my hard drive is locked, please unlock your hard drive. I don't...
View Article[IE] Unable to upgrade from IE7 to IE9
First of all, I use the TWC webmail...they state that they don't recognize(whatever) IE7 anymore and to upgrade. Went to the website for downloading IE9...did that, went thru all of wait time...finally...
View Article[WIN7] Resolving hosts issue.
I am getting constant resolving host / dns lookup failures across Chrome, Firefox and IE from my Win7 machine. I have flushed the cache in chrome and the IP stack, but it still comes up. It happens...
View ArticleAnon Microsoft staff, 67 million Windows 10 users
http://www.windowscentral.com/report-windows-10-now-installed-67-million-pcs Pretty impressive. 15 Terabytes a second!
View Article[WIN10] MS Office 2007 will work with Win10?
I am very happy with Office 2007 and I do not need those super extra features that are in Office 2013. So will Office 2007 work with Windows 10? Can anyone confirm this? Thanks
View Article[WIN10] Win 10, better than WIN 8 but still not "better"
Tried to do something simple, and I mean SIMPLE. Edit a short text file in Notepad. What a convoluted mess. And NO I don't want to d/l an APP just to do Notepad. Sorry Microsoft but you are not listening!
View Article[Tip] Windows 10 Upgrade - Disk Cleanup
[att=2] [att=1] Related: http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r29583505-Tip-Windows-10-TP-Upgrade-Disk-Cleanup?search=Disk%20Cleanup...
View Article[WIN10] Several failed WIN10 Upgrade attempts
My update log shows six failed attempts at installing Win 10, going back to Tuesday evening. I do see a new hidden directory named $Windows.~BT with a size of slightly more than 3GB that seems to have...
View ArticleWindows 10 and Quicken 2011?
I installed Windows 10 last night and attempted to open Quicken ver. 2011 and ended up with the error message shown in the attached photo. I am wondering if this Quicken version is to old to function...
View ArticleWINDOWS 10 Change volume plays a tone
How do you turn off the sound effects on changing volume using the volume career on the taskbar?
View Article[WIN10] Win10 Guinea Pig - Upgrade won't install.
So, like everyone else, Windows Update downloaded and attempted to install the Win10 upgrade over my Win 7 installation. However, it failed spectacularly so I tried the "manual method, which also...
View ArticleSurface 3 Win 10 battery fix
I found a bug today in the Surface 3 power management under Windows 10. If your battery is draining faster when sleeping than it does when in use turn off WiFi while in sleep mode. It's under the power...
View ArticleIcon Files
On Windows 8 the default icon file seems to be Imageres.dll, but when changing an icon you can browse and select Shell32.dll for a different selection of icons. Is it possible to combine the icons from...
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