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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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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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Here's a handy tip I haven't seen documented anywhere. If you have an Explorer window open, do the following 1. Click in the address bar to the right of the address so that the entire address is highlighted/selected 1. Type `cmd` in the address bar so that it replaces the …

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About two months ago, the icon for one of my external USB hard drives (that I have been using for over a year) turned from the drive icon to a document icon. I can access the drive and it behaves like a hard drive in all situations. My hard disk …

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I recently bought a new Dell XPS 8900 with a 1TB drive and only 8GB of RAM. It was loaded with Windows 7 but came witha Windows 10 disk and license. My intention was to put in an SSD to install Windows 7 then upgrade the original HDD to Windows …

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Hello, I am running MS Windows 10 and usually use Chrome as my browser on my HP Envy Laptop. Currently there is an icon that is planted in the upper right of my screen that is always on top. It appears as an alien looking green cyclops wearing a tuxedo. …

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I am currently living in California and I periodically RDP to my home computer in NY. I'm not quite sure how this happened, but from the last time I logged in a few days ago, to today, my user account has been mysteriously deleted?! Perhaps Windows Update did something flaky? …

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On my wife's laptop I'm trying to stop it using Windows Update by switching on metered connection. But there doesn't appear to be that option. When I go to Settings - Network & Internet - Wi-Fi, there is no advanced settings to click on and find metered connection. Here is …

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I thought this was only me, but apparently there are other users who have noticed that somewhere in the last few Microsoft Updates, the option to set a wi-fi connection as metered has been removed. Fortunately, you can still set/unset this option from the command line. For details, and a …

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I am not able to log in my window store after upgreading my pc to window 10. Its showing the message "The error code is 0x80072EFD, in case you need it. CV: svBVRTg6X0yZuMag"

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Been having problems when taking HDD's from dead win 10 systems and transferring data via USB adaptor to new Win 10 system. Folders (with files) copy across to their relevant locations, but when trying to look at the files, only the folders show with no files present in them. Pretty …

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Since Windows 10 updated a couple of days ago I now get a message saying the above will not work and suggests I download the latest driver for my Lenovo AIO but I can't find out where from or how. Any help would be appreciated

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Hi all I recently installed Windows 10 as a clean install using the ISO DVD I downloaded and burned before the free offer ended in July. I also downloaded and installed the anniversary edition (1607). However when I boot up the system will pass the POST stage and start to …

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I have developed an x86 application using Visual Studio 2008 with Visual Basic as the programming language. It uses .NET Framework 3.5. My databases are created in MS Access 2007. I have deployed my software on Windows XP all the way through Windows 10 with no problems up until now. …

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Hi. When I startup my windows 10 and log into my account, my desktop doesn't seem to be visible. It's just a black screen. There are no icons and no taskbar. When I try to open task manager, I can see it cursor loading for a split second meaning something …

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Hi guys! It's been a while since I last posted here. I'm having an issue with not being able to remove non-installed fonts. Meaning, the fonts are not installed in the Windows/Fonts folder and cannot be uninstalled the proper way. These fonts came with some kind of hidden-object game that …

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Hello, a few days ago at my business I everyone lost the ability to drop/copy and paste files to the server's Desktop folder from the other computers in the network. They can do so to each other, except for the server. In that case, we need to drop the files …

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Hello. I've recently upgraded a Windows 8.1 Pro (OEM) to Windows 10 using the Media Creation tool since I was not getting the GWX icon. Activation has been successful from the OEM key. However, there were some registry issues from the Win 8.1 install itself, and these are still present …

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all, a few months back, I did the free upgrade to Windows 10 from windows 7. I tried it for three months and decided I did not like it, I thien reinstalled windows 7. Now in setting up my outlook, I notice that my address book and email folders are …

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Earlier last year, I bought the Acer Aspire E-16 START with a windows 8 operating system, I was using the lastest Kapersky 2015 which worked perfectly with the OS, Ever since I upgraded to windows 10 OS via the internet , Old files of Kapersky application were not executable, Luckily, …

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Is it possible to remove the downgrade option in Windows 10 ? I have upgraded from Windows 7 Pro and now I want to stay with Windows 10.

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Is there any program for boosting my headphones i have searched on internet but all i get is the same steps (right click on volume>Playback Devices > Properties>Enhacements> Enable Sound Equalizer)

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Hi. I'm wondering if someone would be kind enough to answer a question that I have. Recently, I added a new piece of hardware to my gaming PC that was running Windows 7. All of a sudden, Microsoft comes back telling me that my operating system was not valid. I …

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Hey guys, does anyone know how to do this? Here is my current code that will not work. I have tried everything that I know how to make this work to no avail. This is under form1_load. Any help would be awesome. Thanks in advance.

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There's a lot of chatter about W10 but just tripped over this due a complaint about network speed fluctuations. Here's a google about what I turned off. https://www.google.com/#q=disable+windows+10+sharing+updates

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I have a Toshiba Satellite P55W-C running 64-bit Windows 10 Home. I bought it new less than a year ago. I am the only user. It has an Intel Core i7 CPU, 8 Gigs of RAM, 2.4 GHz. I'm generally surfing the web and streaming audio/video. I'm not a gamer …

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HI, We used to have a Win 7 Pro pc running as a file server in our small office - 4 or 5 client PC's attached, all running Windows variants. This was fine, but after 5 years I decided to replace the file server before problems started developing. This is …

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In order to further (artificially) inflate the number of Windows 10 installations, Microsoft is now showing the following pop-up on some users' computers: ![Screenshot-2015-12-16-at-12.53_.29-1200x755_.png](/attachments/large/3/3839d95fb85c8dd55d9a5e7126ccd09c.png "align-center") And even more heavy-handed, some users are getting the following: ![CWPDV8CUwAEhcpT-1.png](/attachments/large/3/c264f5f5dd97ed178e5f669d8e56459d.png "align-center") Smart users will realize that they can always click **X** and just close …

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