How I Made Bootable Flash Drive Windows 8.1.1
How To Create a Windows 8.1.1 Recovery Drive: These steps will create a bootable USB flash drive containing utilities for recovering the image made by the Windows "System Image Backup" feature found in...
View ArticleUser Profile Service service failed the logon
Can someone here please explain to me what might cause this sudden failure to logon to Windows (7) issue? I already know how to "fix" this problem, but I want to know why several people in my immediate...
View Article[XPHome] random compressed files question
With the ending of support for XP, I've had an increase lately of the number of upgrades to 7 / new computers, etc. and have had to do plenty of data transfers. Recently, I've noticed a lot of XP...
View Article[Outlook] Seach finds and displays two of everything
When I do a search in the standard search box, whenever it finds something, it always shows two of each find - they seem to be identical. I've verified that there is indeed only one. I'd like it to...
View Article[WIN7] IE 11 refuses to load even though updates "successful".
Have been trying to install IE 11 on Win7 Sp1, all updates current on a Lenovo ThinkPad W520, which is not affected by the video card glitch on some systems. Have installed and uninstalled several...
View ArticleWIN 7 Wireless
My friend brought me his daughter's Inspiron 14z whose wireless (WiFi) had stopped working.... Here is what I've found. Can anyone enlighten me as to what I should do to resolve this? I'm assuming the...
View ArticleIs there any Windows disk cloning/copy software that WORKS?
Hello, I am trying to copy an XP SP3 drive to a newer hard drive. (Yes, this is going to get upgraded to Windows 7, but only AFTER I make a clone of the drive, in case anything goes wrong, which it...
View Article[IE] Any idea why so much activity?
Dell Vostro 470, i7-3770 3.4Ghz, 8 GB ram, Win 8.1 Pro. In the attached screen shot, IE 32-bit (11) has three processes running at 14+% CPU cycles. IE is not open. I am not logged in with a Microsoft...
View ArticleFiles being accessed when they are not. **Windows Admin question**
I have a Server running Windows Server 2012 Foundations. It serves as AD/file server/DHCP/DNS. There are 6 machines. 4 Windows 7 Pro, 1 Windows 8 Pro, and one XP Pro that connect to this domain. I have...
View ArticleYes I do hate Microsoft
Why - because they treat me like a dummy. MS tells me what I - yes me - want. They go ahead and make changes without any respect for those who have been using the product for years - forced to by the...
View ArticleWord 2003
I know that I have hit some key on my keyboard that has caused a switch to give me a Function Output rather than a Data Output but for the life of me I can not find exactly what I have done. Does...
View Article[WIN7] Searcing for some WIN7 help
I have a friend whose laptop has locked up on her and I'll be damned if I can figure it out. She is computer illiterate so a fix needs to be done as simply as possible over a phone call as she is in...
View Article[IE] IE 10 annoyances
Hi - as I recall, I had basically had the same issue in IE 8 as well were I would go onto a webpage and whenever I press on the browser's back button it would still go to the same webpage. Then after...
View Article[WIN8] Change how Windows Explorer Opens?
Windows Explorer opens to "Melelina" directory in the left side of the tree. It opens expanded to all files in the directory. I NEVER HAVE EVER wanted to go there when I open Windows Explorer. In fact,...
View ArticleWindows 8 Blue screen, "critical process died"!!
I figured out how to fix it if GPT hard drive but can't make it work with a MBR hard drive. None of Microsoft's built in features work..NONE.. System restore=no restore points. Disk= invalid disc...
View ArticleBy user NIC access on Win8.1
Assuming a PC running Win8.1 has multiple NICs, is it possible to restrict the access to those NICs depending on the user? As an example, a PC has 2 NICs, one of them connected to the management LAN....
View ArticleDHCP Scope Issues
I'm running server 2008 R2 in a domain environment, and I have set up DHCP Scopes on this server before with no issues, but this has me stumped... I'm installing a set of IP-based security cameras to a...
View Article[WIN7] MBR slightly messed up by putting Linux Mint on an external drive
For more details look to the link; http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=166141&p=853808#p853808 He is familiar with Win 98 and I would like to be sure the command is the same. --...
View ArticleMassive bug in IE
Microsoft is rushing to fix a bug in IE v6 to 11 that will allow hackers to take over a PC. Although no Adobe Flash vulnerability appears to be at play here, the Internet Explorer vulnerability is used...
View Article[WIN7] Post install-> drivers and long shutdown
After running Win8 for a while I decided to downgrade to Win7 and does it all ways take so long to shutdown on a fresh install? It feels like it takes forever at the 'Shutting down...' screen and the...
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