[WIN7] Windows Update... just cannot get it to work
Toshiba Satellite T-135-S1310 laptop, Win 7 Home Premium 64-bit. Helping out a friend. Constant messages about the hard drive failing so I cloned the drive to a new one using Macrium Reflect free. The...
View Article[WIN7] The best head-scratcher login problem ever....
Greetings! Ready for the worlds best head-scratcher??! Read on! A customer at a site I support is running a winXP laptop, and is due (overdue) to receive a Win7 Laptop. All machines are a member of an...
View ArticleWindows 8/8.1/10 wallpaper compression?
I made a thread similar to this about 2 years ago and I am wondering if this is still the case? I once installed Windows 8 and reverted back to Windows 7 just because of the wallpaper issue. I like...
View Articlehow to give very restrictive access?
so my girlfiend will need to use my Win 7 laptop for a day she is somewhat computer savvy .. how could i hide all my 5 years of pictures ? or put some child like restriction layer .. admin software ?...
View Article[WIN8] How to use a bought window key for bootleg windows 8
A young friend of mine took is laptop to a friend of his because he was having trouble with it. This is a 2 year old laptop. I did not know how to fix it. I asked him did he have the back ups disks and...
View Articlemsn website says it's 49 degrees F in Hawaii
How do I get msn.com to give an accurate temperature for where I live? The weather page there is ok but the main page is way, way off in what it claims is the current temperature here. (The screenshot...
View Article[Vista] data recovery
Trying to recover data from a corrupt (?) drive Removed the drive and triedto access it from an external USB dock Image 1 (error2) shows Explorer returning the disk with 0 used and 0 free and Disk...
View Article[WIN7] BOOTMGR is missing
After a recent meltdown ( http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r29595390-Vista-data-recovery ),a Vista, Win7 dual boot config reports bootmgr as missing and will not boot. I have tried all the options...
View Article[WIN7] no network discovery
Mod, please move to a more suitable forum, if necessary. Situation: I haven't done this in years, so I'm sure I'm missing a small, but significant step. New Win 7 lappy, wireless indicator is lit, can...
View Article[Excel] Excel - chart data labels
We've been asked to produce a quarterly revenue chart going back to 2009. Across the top the sample has labels that give the annual revenue (ie the sum of all four quarters for each year). I can...
View Article[WIN10] Change Lockscreen picture?
Why is Login Screen called 'Lockscreen" on Win 10 Preview? I thought "lockscreen" was unique to laptops. I am on a desktop. (On my Win 8.0 Pro host machine I don't use a password so I have no...
View ArticleMaximizing 10gbe (iperf) speeds without disabling services
We're doing some testing with 10gbe cards and two directly connected machines. What we've found is regardless of settings for the drivers, if Windows Firewall and Base Filtering Engine services are...
View ArticleMy Review of Windows 10
I hate to have to link back to article on my blog but because of this site's inability to resize images into something resembling small for display sake, I have to do it. Windows 10 everything that...
View Article[WIN8] KB3005628 keeps installing
http://www.eightforums.com/windows-updates-activation/55455-kb3005628-keeps-installing.html Having the same exact problem there. It keeps on reappearing after saying its been installed. And it is...
View Article[Other] Server 2012 install
Hi - i'm trying to run an older program on an AWS instance of server 2012 and need to install .net framework 3.5. Have looked at install recs on the web - use the roles and features tool, etc. All...
View ArticleAD domain name
Good day, I'm managing a multi-site business, with 5 DC. Actually, we are using "compagny.local" as our internal AD name. I will need to change the domain. So I plan to build another AD, with the new...
View ArticleWindows failed install with error 0x800f0922
In this months updates, I have found I am now amongst the users out there with this error. Initial logs as per this link in the security forum monthly update topic by uid://258532....
View ArticleCan we get Windows 7?
Gracie's going nuts and I promised her I'd try to help., and I know you guys here know almost everything! She's doing a big presentation and has a PowerPoint slideshow to support it. The slideshow...
View Article[Excel] What is the best formula to use in this situation?
Which one formula can I use to take the difference between 2 numbers that would work in the following 4 situations: 1) A1 negative but B2 positive 2) B1 negative but A2 positive 3) A1 negative and B2...
View Articlescanreg/fix is awesome!
I think this rewrites the registry file..... I just did it again yesterday and my 'system.dat' file went from 1024k to 991k Now if you could KEEP IT @ THAT SIZE!! -- Everyday usage adds stuff to...
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