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View Article[Outlook] Attempting to migrate Outlook messages to Thunderbird
I am setting up a new PC using LinuxMint 17.2 using Thunderbird for mail. I was hoping to migrate my emails, user accounts over to Thunderbird using a program from Stellar but that does not appear to...
View Article[WIN10] Upgrading from Win7 to Win10 Pro with BitLocker already enabled?
Hi, I am planning to upgrade my current Win7 Ultimate to Win10 Pro in the near future. The drive is encrypted with BitLocker. Will this cause any issues when upgrading to Win10? Or, will I have to...
View ArticleMicrosoft OneDrive Problem
Hello. I'm running Windows 10 x64. I have OneDrive installed. There is a file in OneDrive that I've tried to uninstall. The file is just numbers and it's a Windows Media Player file. When I try to...
View ArticleOffice 2016
Today is supposedly the day Office 2016 is to be released. I can get beyond version 15.0.4753.1003. Has anyone out there been able to upgrade their Office 365 subscription to 2016? I am very much...
View Article[WIN7] What's the latest on the updates?
Win 7 64 bit what is the story on them? good, bad, meh?
View ArticleWhich partions to remove ?
bought this Dell this time last year, it came with Win 8, upgraded to 8.1 soon after, upgraded to Win 10 few months back when MS made their offer. Had Dell send me a recovery disk(USB) which came with...
View Article[Word] Difficulty activating office 365
Decided to download the office 365 suite to my iPhone/iPad and buy the subscription through the in-app purchase function. I get an error saying your purchase was successful but unable to activate....
View Article[WIN10] Windows 10 - what to do now for a future clean install?
We have 4 PCs running Win7 Ultimate. I went through the whole process of registering for the Win10 upgrade in... what... June? Today, with no update on any of the machines I finally bit the bullet and...
View Article[WIN7] Slow internet
Hi all, We're having internet speed problems on a Win7 pro 64B desktop. We were told that the problem is pc related. It's connected to a Cisco dpc3010 modem via a cat5e ethernet cable. When I noticed...
View ArticleClean install of windows 10
Will this work. Can you take program that put zeros on the disk. I would do a clean install of windows 10. After this got done installing would Windows 10 be activated? -- Caddy
View ArticleCan not install a clean copy of windows 10
I tried to install a copy of windows 10. I done a upgrade to windows 10 from windows 7 home. I went back to do a fresh install of windows 10. When I got to the screen asking do you want to a upgrade or...
View Article[WIN10] Suddenly SLOW system
I have a Dell Vostro 470, i7-3770 @3.4 GHz, 8GB ram, Win 10 Enterprise. No hardware modifications from original configuration. Last Friday my system slowed down to the point that it is almost unusable....
View Article[WIN10] Upgrade fails repeatedly
Had to do a bit of work to even get Windows 10 to download via Windows Update, this basically involved running a repair of the update process. At the end of this I set the AllowOSUpgrade=1 as...
View ArticleI can't open powerpoint files. pptx
I've got a user on a Windows 8 laptop with Microsoft Office 2013 installed. Whenever he tries opening PPTX files, no actual content is displayed but instead, only what appears to be an icon...
View Article[WIN10] "Show desktop" button too small
The "Show desktop" button in Windows 10 is rather small. I can hardly see or click it at the far right end of the taskbar. Is there any way to change the size of this button?
View Article[WIN10] Just did a clean install.. I think..
I did an install from the desktop using the .iso image. I told it to save nothing.. i hope that meant a clean install? So I'm back here asking if it did.. Thanks
View ArticleSQL 2008 R2 - NULL for Date and how it is evaluated....
Have a waterfall that includes evaluation of date fields where a NULL is allowed. In the Where there is the following: ShipDate <= CurrentDate and the ShipDate IS NULL. How would this be evaluated?...
View Article[Word] WORD file recovery - MS Word 2003 corruption
I only have a WORD tmp file after losing a Word file. The file is full of funny characters. Is is possible to recover. I have tried to fix the problem by loading it into Word and used Open and Repair...
View Article[WIN10] Threshold2 coming early November
According to Mr. Thurrott: https://www.thurrott.com/windows/windows-10/7122/windows-10-fall-update-is-set-for-november-release. Here's a changelog: http://changewindows.org/build.php?id=93. The Verge...
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