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I have Windows 8.1 and a Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit ISO, will it mess it up like will aero still work? I TRIED VirtualBox with it but had to choose 32 bit (it was the only OPTION) and aero didn't work!
Can I just put it on a CD or USB and install it like that, my dad did the ISO to his laptop and it messed it up so bad the most all drivers were not install with it. I found the official ISO but I haven't tried it at all on VirtualBox or reseting a PC. I rather just downgrade my PC than reset because I can't reset it because I accidentally formatted the Recovery DRIVE. So can I downgrade?!?!?!The ISO isn't what matters, you NEED a valid licence for Windows 7. If you have Windows 8 Pro then that gives you downgrade rights to Windows 7 Pro however if you are RUNNING regular Windows 8 you will need to purchase a full Windows 7 licence.

I have a problem where, whilst i watch a video, my computer locks down completely and won't let me do anything at all. Currently it has happened three times for me all on different locations (Windows Media player, YOUTUBE and Another Website) so I doubt that being the problem. It only happens after a while and I'm afraid it will happen while i work on something more important than a video.

More Info:

- I RUN Windows 8.1
- I have CHECKED the drivers in "DEVICE Manager" without much luck
- Currently its only happened during a video
- The videos have all been different
- The only solution I've found is to choke my computer (Hold the ON button til it shuts down)

Please respond if you know anything, Anything at all. Even a comment with "Yeah it happens to me too" is helpful

Thank you for your attention
Did you try running a video in Safe Mode?Quote from: SuperDave on January 04, 2015, 12:44:02 PM

Did you try running a video in Safe Mode?

I have a problem where, whilst i watch a video, my computer locks down completely and won't let me do anything at all. Currently it has happened three times for me all on different locations (Windows Media player, YouTube and Another Website) so I doubt that being the problem. It only happens after a while and I'm afraid it will happen while i work on something more important than a video.

More Info:

- I run Windows 8.1
- I have checked the drivers in "Device Manager" without much luck
- Currently its only happened during a video
- The videos have all been different
- The only solution I've found is to choke my computer (Hold the ON button til it shuts down)

Please respond if you know anything, Anything at all. Even a comment with "Yeah it happens to me too" is helpful

Thank you for your attention

1) What is new or different since the last time everything worked properly (ie, new hw, new sw, virus, error, etc)?

2) What do you mean you checked drivers in device manager without much luck?

3) Please go to the website of the manufacturer of your display adapter and download and install the latest driver (if this is a laptop, get the driver from the website of the computer manufacturer)

Quote from: BC_Programmer on December 29, 2014, 04:46:51 AM

That is what can happen when it cannot read the disk.

thank you all. I took my laptop to a repair shop where I sometimes take it, and all he did was open the DVD R drive and the pictures appeared. There was nothing wrong with my drive. When I got back home, I too, was able to open it. Strange, indeed.

Thanks. There is one thing he did do. He blew on the drive. Still weird to me. Thanks all. Anna Ruth

Thanks. There is one thing he did do. He blew on the drive. Still weird to me. Thanks all. Anna Ruth

having moved to Win8 and using an old Lexmark INKJET X4550 PRINTER, the print progress popup window fails to appear. printer works fine otherwise any ideas?http://www.justanswer.com/printers/7rear-just-moved-win8-loaded-lexmark-x4550-inkjet-ok-when.html

As with other older printers, scanners, sound cards, etc, your lucky if the mfr actually makes a newer driver to be able to print at all, and if there is a feature that is broken under new OS, that once worked under older OS, the mfr likely does not invest the time and money into making it functional.

For example my REALTEK Audio chip in my (2008 model) Biostar MCP6PB M2+ motherboard came with a driver with a nice pop up that would appear when plugging in devices into the audio jacks. It gave you options to specify if you want it to be configured as a headset or sound system as well as it would detect a microphone and give options for that. This was back when I was running Windows XP Pro.

I made the upgrade to Windows 7 Home Premium and thought all was well since the sound was working, but this pop up feature that use to give options was now gone. BUT the biggest problem was that when i went to use my microphone for online gaming with groups of friends my MIC was not working.

In the end I found out that Realtek updated the audio driver, but this chipset with the most up to date audio driver for Windows 7, the sound worked, but the MIC was non-functional. My solution to this was to have to buy a USB audio adapter for $10 and that allowed me to get my MIC back so I could communicate with others.

The motherboard manufacturer ended its support for drivers at Windows XP, but digging into the chipmakers I was able to find a Windows 7 driver, but they failed to test this driver with microphone, probably because the driver update PROJECT was handed off to the cheapest bidder in a 3rd world country.

Looking on google, I dont see a solution to bringing this pop up back for your printer. many thanks for responding, I suspected as much. I suppose I'm lucky everything else works with printer. sad, it was a very useful indicator of print progress and inkjet cartridge condition.New printers that just print are now very cheap.
But you knew that.
Lexmark still offers some support.
http://support.lexmark.com/

This is a stoopid question - I am aware of that, but it is DRIVING me nuts

My wife has a laptop with Windows 8 and the Outlook.com e mail app that COMES with it. She left it at home for 2 weeks and now MS is protecting her against the EVILS of Internet.
Question:How does she get onto the page that prompts her to fill in username and password?

They will then offer to send a "code" by e mail. She can then access her Inbox on my pc via her Webmail and fill the code in on her laptop. I'd start here with the " Cant Access Your Account " .... https://account.live.com/ResetPassword.aspx?wreply=https://login.live.com/login.srf%3fwa%3dwsignin1.0%26ct%3d1420221420%26rver%3d6.1.6206.0%26sa%3d1%26ntprob%3d-1%26wp%3dMBI_SSL_SHARED%26wreply%3dhttps:%252F%252Fmail.live.com%252F%253Fowa%253D1%2526owasuffix%253Dowa%25252f%26id%3d64855%26snsc%3d1%26cbcxt%3dmail%26bk%3d1420221421&id=64855&uiflavor=web&uaid=f8ad8f247e4f4ea78a8b9b817111d0f7&mkt=EN-US&lc=1033&bk=1420221421

which is found at here:
https://login.live.com/login.srf?wa=wsignin1.0&ct=1420221420&rver=6.1.6206.0&sa=1&ntprob=-1&wp=MBI_SSL_SHARED&wreply=https:%2F%2Fmail.live.com%2F%3Fowa%3D1%26owasuffix%3Dowa%252f&id=64855&snsc=1&cbcxt=mail
Enter outlook.com in your web browser and go from there.

Hi,
Could someone help with an excel query? I want to find the most recent date for each person and then choose the value two cells over for each ID?

The following does not work as the MAX() range includes a mixture of dates and values:
=HLOOKUP(MAX(A1,E1,I1),A1:L1,2,0)

The database is organised as such:

ID Date1 Value1 Value2 Date2 Value1 Value2 Date3 Value1 Value2........
1
2
3
4
.
.
.

One person (ID) may have two date/value ENTRIES and ANOTHER may have TEN so the reference cell (most recent date) will differ for each person, and this will change overtime as more dates/values are entered.

Could someone provide me with a SOLUTION to find Value2 for the most recent date for each person?

KIND regards,

Maria

My computer skills are average at best. My problem is this. In my manage ADD on,s I have Google search and BING. My home page is DuckDuckGo search. I had no option to REMOVE Google, maybe because I STILL have gmail.
I disabled Google Search, I had that option, and it,s fine.
I had option to remove Bing, so I did, at times Bing appears on add on list enabled. Can I get rid of Bing?
Thanks ChuckWe need to know what web browser you use.

Hi all, I need help, I've got windows 8 on my asus laptop, but recently I keep getting dpc watchdog violation blue screens and it restarts my laptop? WHATS the cause of this? And how do I stop it? Need some help pleaseCAN SOMEONE PLEASE HELP ME WITH THIS? IM GETTING THIS BLUE SCREEN FREQUENTLY NOW ITS RESTARTING A LOT AND DOING MY HEAD IN, NEED SOME ADVICE ON HOW TO STOP THIS HAPPENINGDownload BlueScreenView:
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/blue_screen_view.html
unzip downloaded file and double click on BlueScreenView.exe to run the program.
when scanning is done, go to EDIT - Select All
Go to FILE - SAVE Selected Items, and save the report as BSOD.txt
Open BSOD.txt in Notepad, copy all of the content, and paste it into your next replyYour capslock key is broken...

In Internet EXPLORER 11, every time I type my LAST name the program REDUCES the first LETTER of the name to lower case. I then have to reset it. How do I fix this?Where can you type your name in IE?

I got an Asus Transformer Book T-100 a week and a half ago and have been pretty pleased with it. However, yesterday I booted up the Comixology to finish up a COMIC, and noticed I could access my archived books because I was logged out. I tried entering my login information but was told the app couldn't reach Comixology. Trying to connect to the Windows 8 app store throws up a similar issue.

Anyone know what might be wrong? It's super infuriating.This might not be a Windows 8 problem.
Are you able to connect to other Internet sites? Like Google, MSN or Yahoo?
Does your modem or router indicate a valid connection? Has this ever happlended before with you older computer?

If you can not resolve this problem with reasonable effort, you inform the vendor or store that you are having trouble.
Here is why I say this. Once in awhile new computers fail after several hours of use. It just happens. It is too to expensive to do 100% quality control. That is why stores have return policies. You may have to return the item and get a full refund.

Some advice. Never admit that you might have done something wrong.You didn't . Computer systems SOLD to consumers are almost fool-proof. It is not your fault.

Hope you get it resolved.



This may be caused by the error of computer errors.
You can DOWNLOAD the latest driver() from official website according the infoemation of your computer. Drivers on its official website is free and safe. If you van not find the drivers on official website, you can try DriverTuner which can download all computer drivers automatically. DriverTuner can scan your computer and find out which driver you need to UPDATE and do that for you within 2 MINUTES if you need.Mentioned it once already...stop referring driver finder sites...it's not what we do here.

Next instance will be a Ban

patio.

Hello,

Yesterday, there came a Bios Update on my laptop, after the update, my Wifi won't work.
I've search it on the internet but I can't find anyone with the same PROBLEM like mine.
I press to search and SOLVE the problem.
It says that my wifi adapter has a problem. I press: solve this problem, (with a Ethernet) CABLE to solve the problem.
But it isn't doing anything to solve my problem. I've tried to update the Drivers, but it has the newest driver.

Can someone help me?

Thanks!

(The attachment is in Dutch)

My laptop: HP Pavilion 15-p047nb

[attachment deleted by admin to conserve space]Right-click on My COMPUTER, select Manage and click on Device Manager. Tell us if there are any yellow warning icons.I saw a yellow warning icon on Network Adapter but now it's GONE. I've tried to uninstall the driver and install again but didn't help. It may caused by the error of some drivers on your computer such as wireless driver. You can try to download the wireless driver according the information of your computer on official website. You can also try DriverTuner([_______________________][/url]) which can download all computer drivers.

Note: We do not recommend Driver finder utilities here...Where did the BIOS update come from?

I have auto updates turned off and yet I keep getting pop-ups to update to 8.1. Now I've finally gotten the one that doesn't give me an option to say no. How do I stop 8.1 from being forced on me?

And for those who think I'm out of my mind for not wanting 8.1, I can't upgrade to it because it causes problems that no one seems to know how to fix (unexplained low resolution in certain places and significant speed decrease). I'm stuck with 8.Quote

I'm stuck with 8.

Windows 8 is also no longer available at retail from Microsoft, as the Redmond-based giant just wants it to go away at this point

If you are a MSN member, you might get a free 90 days version of 8.1 and maybe install it again after the 90 days are up. That would get you into the next year and maybe then MS will have some kind of special offer.

I have auto updates turned off and yet I keep getting pop-ups to update to 8.1.

And for those who think I'm out of my mind for not wanting 8.1, I can't upgrade to it because it causes problems that no one seems to know how to fix (unexplained low resolution in certain places and significant speed decrease). I'm stuck with 8.

Update: Microsoft has announced that it has over 1.5m active testers using the Windows 10 preview and as a result has fixed over 1,300 bugs

What does Win 10 beta's have to do with the Topic ? ?

As a backstory, I recently bought this laptop new from HP, and for quite awhile, all was well and things worked fine...but some time during the end of August, things started to go a little haywire. A group of problems that seemed entirely unrelated from each other all popped up at once. These include:
Starting Google Chrome will create an instance of chrome.exe, but it will take nearly 10 minutes for the actual browser to appear. Firefox works fine.
Right clicking on files/folders in the File Explorer will cause Explorer.exe to hang (with a nice blue turning circle) with the only remedy being to restart explorer.
After entering my password to unlock my computer after putting it to sleep, the computer will sit at the "Welcome" screen seemingly forever. As in, won't ever go to the Desktop. Closing the laptop lid and reopening either doesn't fix anything or leads to an occurrence of the below issue.
Seemingly randomly, I will try and wake up the laptop after it has gone to sleep and it will not wake up. As in, I have clicked every button on the keyboard, clicked every button on my mouse and touchpad, opened and closed the laptop, and the screen remains stubbornly black. The fan will make noise and the Caps Lock button will light up along with the backlit keyboard, but there is otherwise no response. Clicking the Airplane Mode hotkey will occasionally but rarely wake up the computer. The only solution is to force the computer to shutdown using the Power button and restart.

My friend and I were able to temporarily fix all of the problems at once by reinstalling Google Chrome and cleaning out the registry. However, all the above problems have come back along with a mysterious appearance inetpub directory at the root drive which I understand to be a component of IIS. However, IIS is turned off in the Programs and Features window...funnily enough, even though this folder is quite new, it has a creation date of April-2014-something...which is before this computer was even ASSEMBLED.

I am a computer science major, and have quite a bit of experience with computers and troubleshooting, but I have NEVER seen a group of problems quite like this before.

Any help would be greatly APPRECIATED; laptop specs below:
HP 17t Envy Laptop
Intel i7-4510U
Nvidia GeForce GTX 850M
1 TB Hybrid Hard Drive
16 GB RAM
Beats Audio
Fingerprint SensorYou may wish to look in the event log.I have done so, and noted a startling number of errors generated by "Bonjour Service" so I believe my next step will be to uninstall that. However, I am not convinced that it is the issue..I was wondering whether anyone had any better ideas.

The question was raised on the Google Support forums that one should make sure chrome is not blocked in Windows Firewall. However, clicking on Firewall in the Control Panel causes Control Panel to freeze...Bonjour' is an apple service addon and it likely is the cause of the issues...even if it seems they are deeper issues...
It's a pain to remove...but make sure you get it all and give us an update after...I did remove it and after a restart, the problems seem to have at LEAST temporarily gone away. We'll see if it stays that way and I'll give an update a week or so from now if it worked, sooner if it doesn't Fair enuff...Welcome Aboard !Aaaaaand it's back again...still not sure what's causing it but once again, Chrome takes 10 minutes to start up and once again, Control Panel hangs when I click on Windows Firewall, and once again, Windows explorer is hanging on right click. I'm not sure what's going wrong with it, but clearly, Bonjour service was not the culprit...any ideas?It could be related to an Explorer Shell Extension. You can use ShellExView to examine the Extensions installed. The best advice would be to simply uncheck any from third-party programs.

It may also be worth mentioning that programs like iTunes actually setup a SCHEDULED task which will reinstall the service you removed if it is not found, and iTunes will install the service itself if it is disabled or deleted, So you might want to double-check that it is still disabled/uninstalled.SOOOOOOO, BC_Programmer, after reading your post and realizing how great an idea it was, I went to ShellExView and checked out all the shell extensions installed. Most of them were from Microsoft or Avast, BUT I noticed that for some reason, HP (which had installed 7-zip be default) had for whatever crackpot reason, installed 9.22 BETA on my machine!! I immediately switched it out for 9.20, and am about to reboot. We'll see if that fixes the problem and I'll check back in in a week to update the final verdict!!There were no Bonjour' or apple shell item remnants ? ?
What METHOD did you use to remove it ? ?...cause it will re-spawn.Not that I discovered; I removed it straight through the Uninstaller in the control panel.See Here...Okay...I did follow the first piece of advice which is just to remove it via Control Panel. mDnsResponder is not running either. It's also not generating any errors in the event log anymore.I'd still follow that removal procedure...Okaaaaaaay....and after months of it coming on and off, the problems have returned, and this time, there are no simple errors in the event log to pin the blame on. Just mountains and mountains of info and the occasional warnings/errors that shouldn't be causing an issue. There are no processes or services running that look very suspicious and nothing installed that shouldn't be. Just stuff not working the way it's supposed to. A couple other issues I've hit that I think are related:

Fifa 15 will start, but will not appear on the screen or taskbar until I start the Windows Task Manager.
Attempting to restart will leave the computer hung at "Restarting..." forever until I use the big bad power button
The Windows Update service will not start: "The service did not respond to the request to start/control in a timely fashion."

This is getting really out of hand. I will be running a boot time scan with avast tonight to see if it picks up anything but I have my doubts. I have no indication that the problem is anything malicious. Just something is conflicting with something else or something stupid like that. It's something that FADES in and out because restarting can fix it for awhile.

I have (in a demonstration of faith) attached lists of all of the Processes, Services, and Network connections present on my computer. Maybe something will ring a bell for someone.

Any help would be GREATLY appreciated. I'm getting a little desperate, and to be honest, a little humbled. I've always considered myself a very proficient computer user and a hacker and yet this seemingly simple issue has entirely stumped me.

Absolutely dumbfounded....

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how do I get a specific service to run in SAFE MODE so i can install a program? The service is print spooler.Why do you want to install a program in Safe Mode? Print spooler should not affect your installation.the error says os not supported but i continued with installation. then the error attatched says start the print spooler service which i cannot in safe mode. do you know how to do so in safe mode. fix does not work.

[attachment deleted by admin to conserve space]Answer Dave's question...why are you installing in safemode ? ?Because i was not able to install the program in normal mode.thought that safe mode would work. If the print spooler error did not SHOW up then the program would have installed.
Right click on My Computer, select Manage and double click on Services. Find Print Spooler and start the service. It should be set to start AUTOMATICALLY. You do realise it's a printer app your trying to install here...correct ? ?yesThen i give up...When a program does a crash, it may throw a RANDOM error message.
It might help if the OP would specify exactly what program caused the error
I had a similar bogus print spool error that had almost nothing to do with the printer. It may be a third party app that found some wired compatibility thing that the publisher did not starch.
Just trying to help.

RKill



First of all my computer skills are just average at best. Iam very curious about this. I have this program from Bleeping Computers called ( RKill.exe ) You can run it first if your antimalware wont run, then you can run your antimalware tool. How this all works. I don't know. I got this new folder I named ( computer things ) I KEEP this on my desktop. I keep my programs in it like Malwarebytes, Super ANTI Spyware, Ccleaner, AdWcleaner, SSD Tweaker and RKill.exe well every time I boot my laptop RKill.exe is ALLWAYS gone from this folder, never nothing else. I renamed RKill.exe to just ( RKill) not the exe. Computer shows its clean. I just don't why it allways gone. THANKS, Chuck Hello. Ill try to help you.

So, through a GOOD amount of research ive done, it tells me that RKill isnt a great anti malware. From what ive seen, it tries to terminate malware but doesnt suceed most of the time. I recommend uninstalling it & keeping your current anti malware.
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it tells me that RKill isnt a great anti malware

Thank you Tiffinay on your well written response to the Helpers...

Perhaps i was a bit harsh and judgemental in my response...for that i apologise.

I hope you find a quick resolution to your issue...

patio.And, thanks much patio, for your understanding. Tiffany - I'm GOING to delete the post with the logs - they take up a lot of space and I really didn't want to see them. Please go ahead and run the memory & hd diagnostics as described in my post above.Hi Allan,

Yes, of course, no worries. I wasn't SURE if you wanted to see that or not and thought it best to err on the side of TMI.

Mem test DONE. Attached should be a screenshot of the results. Tests passed 100%.

Will get you the other test soon.

Thanks much,

~ T

[attachment deleted by admin to conserve space]How much free space is on this HDD ? ?Hey there,

My APOLOGIES for letting this drop off. I'm afraid I was quite ill for several weeks and couldn't even think about using a computer, much less dig around and try and fix this issue. Though I'm on the mend now, I am handing the investigation of my computer's quirkiness off to someone else for now and will not be troubling you all by pursuing it further here.

I truly appreciate all you've done for me here and in the past. Thank you to all the volunteer Helpers, and I wish you all a wonderful new year and the very best of health, always.

~ TSame to you...

Get better...and Enjoy the Holidays...

For the last three MONTHS or so I have not been abe to run my windows updates except for the definitions for defender. That is the only update that will run. I also cannot run the update to windows 8.1. Any help WOULD be greatly appreciated.

I am RUNNING windows 8 with windows FIREWALL and defender running. I also have Iobit running. My errors codes have been:

0x80070490

problem with checking or updated code 8024A000

Thanks for any help!

Can anyone HELP me? I've uploaded about 20 video files straight from my iphone 5 to my computer. When i look at them in the folder the folder starts going weird and just automatically closes. I've tried opening them in windows movie maker and it MAKES the movie maker stop responding. I don't UNDERSTAND! I am fairly new to computers, i have a windows 8 operating system.Try VLC Player...Free.

SHOWING MESSAGE ON DESKTOP AFTER START THE PC . MESSAGE : EXPLORER.EXE1) No NEED to double post. I removed the duplicate thread.

2) Please explain your problem in more DETAIL. EXACTLY what HAPPENS and what led up to it? And HOW does the message appear?

I have to attend live seminars for my online computer COURSES. The seminars contain a live chat, audio from the professor, and a power point presentation. After a few seconds or minutes of being in the seminar, I lose audio and the chat freezes. When I type into the chat, I RECEIVE an error message that says: Connection closed v.1.1.16 the body of the message says "connection closed by server". the internet connection stays connected. it is WIRELESS. please help. I have to write an essay for each seminar I miss. im tired of writing essays all week.Quote

it is wireless.

hi
My computer is Windows 8 fitted
When I use the proxy regiment after restart
Help me see the error IMAGE


[recovering disk space, attachment DELETED by admin]What were you doing when this or these crash(es) happened?
Is this the first time this has popped up or is it reoccurring?
If it is reoccurring, is there a specific action that causes it to happen or is it a random crash?

What make/model is the computer if one that was bought as a complete system -or- what are the system specs of the system if it is one that was built by yourself or someone ELSE as a non-name brand system?

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Information Systems

cpu = amd athlom(tm) 64 x2 dual core processor 4400+ 2.30ghz
ram =2G
system type = 32- bit operting system x64-based processor
vga = geforce 8500 GT


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What were you doing when this or these crash(es) happened?
Is this the first time this has popped up or is it reoccurring?
If it is reoccurring, is there a specific action that causes it to happen or is it a random crash?

Hello

I have a Win 7 PC and Windows is unable to see my CD/DVD drive (please see attached).

The only application I have recently installed is an Adobe video editor.

What causes the drive to disappear in the way, please, and how do I get it back?

Thanks!

High1

[recovering disk space, attachment deleted by admin]Here are some things you can try - one of them will probably work:

1. Uninstall the drive through Device Manager.
Restart computer. The drive will be automatically reinstalled.
or…

2. Delete Upper & Lower Filters
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/982116
Restart computer.
or…

3. Download, and run Restore Missing CD Drive patch
Double click on cdgone.zip to unzip it.
Right click on cdgone.reg, click Merge.
Accept REGISTRY merge.
Restart computer.
or…

4. Go to Device Manager, click a "+" sign next to IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers.
You'll see two items:
- ATA Channel0 (or Primary Channel)
- ATA Channel1 (or Secondary Channel)
Right click on each of them, and click Uninstall. Confirm.
Restart Windows. They'll be automatically reinstalled.Hello Allan

Thanks for your reply.

I have TRIED your solutions (1) and (4).

It LOOKS like it might be a driver issue (screenshot), but Windows tells me that I have the latest drivers.

I will try your other solutions.

Thanks again.

High1

[recovering disk space, attachment deleted by admin]Optical drives don't require 3rd party drivers.The cdgone file seems to have resolved the problem, Allan.

Many thanks for your help.

High1You're very WELCOME - happy to be able to help.

I would like a link for the windows 8 iso. I have the product key so it's not necessary to post a product key. If you want you may but its your risk. Please use dropbox or mediafire links. With only adshortenrs such as, adfly and tinyurl.This will be your only warning. Only legitimate business on this site.Here's the best way to get Windows 8: http://tinyurl.com/ozqqonpAllen what do you mean (legit) I have payed for the software I am not asking for a product key.Then if your key is genuine, it surely would have either included a DVD or you would have been given instructions on how to download the ISO from Microsoft directly.Quote from: camerongray on December 05, 2014, 06:51:36 AM

Then if your key is genuine, it surely would have either included a DVD or you would have been given instructions on how to download the ISO from Microsoft directly.

...
1. Th free free offers are really evaluation versions and you only get the those versions. The whole range of Windows systems is not available as evaluation.
2. Presently I am trying out both the 8.1 and the 10 preview free trails. So far, they seem to be very good and flexible. There are things I do not like, but there are ways to work around the things the annoy me...

Hello!

I found this awesome free alarm clock app in the Windows 8 store, that I have started to use as my actual alarm clock to wake up in the morning. The only problem is, the alarm clock app is not able to wake up Windows from a sleep or hybernating state, and has to be running in the foreground. So basically, I have to leave my computer running on full power all night, to be able to utilize this alarm clock.

The obvious solution to this is to use the Event Scheduler to schedule the Alarm clock PROGRAM to run, a few minutes before the alarm is set! That way it will wake up Windows from the sleep state, and run the alarm app in the front! PERFECT, right?

Except.. the Alarm clock is ONE of these new Windows 8 style of app that is full SCREEN, it's not a normal desktop application. How are these types of program started? You click on the icon and it starts it, obviously, but the program has no clear executable file that you can run!

What prompted this question is my interest in the alarm clock app, but above and beyond that, I would also love to know generally how does one go about running the new Windows 8 style of App, using either a batch file or command-line?

There must be a way! Or if it hasn't been integrated into that level of functionality yet, well, it should be!

Are you with me? If the program is an EXE, the shortcut will show it.
http://www.howtogeek.com/190897/how-can-you-open-and-edit-windows-.lnk-shortcut-files/
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While most people will never need to open a .lnk file to edit it, there may be rare occasions when it is necessary or desired. But how do you open and edit a shortcut file? Today’s SuperUser Q&A post has the answers.

I hope that I can explain this properly. I recently built a new desktop and installed Windows 8. I then used Windows Easy Transfer to try and bring my documents and so forth over the the new machine. I have an SSD that I intend to use mostly for my operating system and an HDD which I hope to keep most of my other files and programs on.

To accomplish this I tried to change the location of my user folders (documents, pictures etc to the new drive. It's labelled E:

However, what happened, either by my action or by the transfer process is that all of the files are on the E: drive but not in folders. They are all in one very long list directly under E: The folders do exist, but any one that I open yields the same long list. So if I click on "Documents" or on "Pictures" I get the same long list of everything.

I've been scouring the internet looking for some direction on this, but I've found nothing. I'm sure that I could eventually MANUALLY sort all of this out, but I want it to be right since I'm hopefully going to be using this system for a long time.

BTW - I don't have folders labelled "My Documents" or "My Pictures" etc. just plain "Documents" or "Pictures"

Also I tried to attach a screen shot, but it seems to be linked back to my directory. Blame that on Win 8 also I guess.

[recovering disk space, attachment deleted by admin]I think you have to chart over again.
Somehow you told the program to put nit on on E:\ instead of letting the program distribute the files into their receptive locations.

In both Windows 7 and Windows 8 there are ways to organize files and folders without specific drive letters. With the huge space Windows can now manage, on huge HDDs, the reasons for having drive partitions are fewer. Earlier it was to help with the problems related to cluster size and related issues.
There are a number of articles on "how to use MS file transfer wizard in Windows 8
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2735227

An earlier ITEM is for Windows XP, which not altogether the same.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/306186

Some users will find this article better.
http://www.petri.co.il/windows-easy-transfer-to-migrate-windows-8-pc.htm
(Skip the advertisements, it you like.)

I believe starting over is better that trying to sort it out by manual labor. Some new features of Windows 8 make file transfer easier than before.
Are you saying that I should do a clean install. This is what I've been dreading. I just tried a system restore back to the original installation point but that accomplished nothing HELPFUL so I undid that. I'll have to SERIOUSLY think about it, before I go that route. I do seem to have all of my files they are just not organized and do not seem organizable.

Here is what I think that I did to get into this mess: I took each of the library files (documents, pictures, music etc.) and opened "properties" and then changed the location.

However, it seems that I just changed the location to E: and did not keep the path. That is I went from C:users/me/documents to just E: with no path. That is what I think that I did and it seems to simple but I cannot figure out how to reverse it without making it worse. I did this after a very long session of hooking up this machine for the first time and installing Win 8 then trying to set it up. If you open Windows Explorer and right clik a library there is a Restore Option...
Try that and let us know what happens.Oh yes - I've tried that several times - nothing changes nor improves. Notice from the screen shot in "Libraries" that under each category where there should be a folder labelled "My Documents" or My Pictures" etc. there is instead the same item namely- Data (E:) If I open any of those folders I will get the same thing which is a list of all the files, pictures, docs and whatnot all in one list.

So to summarize, I have all of my files and they are on my second hard drive E: and that is where I want them to be, but I do not have the proper library structure and thus cannot properly sort and organize these items. I need some kind of library repair advice.

LOL -- I keep thinking that if I could properly define the problem, I would be on the way to solving it, but it's hard to explain.Restore Default Libraries doesn't work?

You could create New Libraries with the proper locations.I was also curious as to why Restore didn't work as well..I'm not sure why the restore function didn't solve the problem, but then I'm still not exactly sure what the problem is. Now I'm thinking that it isn't the library per se.

Instead it is either a "path" problem or a "user" problem. It appears to me that the only folders that let you change location (through Properties) are the "My Documents, My Pictures series of folders. It also seems that this action is irreversible.

Check out the weird screen shot attached which is of my user file folder from the desktop.

Where the "My xxxx" should be is the second disk icon. (E:) I tried to reverse this but I can't because it would be turning a parent into a child.

I may be onto a solution. I just tried creating a new user profile and that profile has the correct library structure, but of course there is nothing in it. I might be able to somehow rebuild the new profile to the way I want it and then delete the old profile. I would still rather correct the problem in the original profile because I have everything else set up to my satisfaction. Unfortunately, I have to wait a couple of days because I need to work on other things.



[recovering disk space, attachment deleted by admin]Convoluted i'll say...
Do me a favor when you get a chance...post a pic of how all this shows up in Disk Management. Attached .....................

[recovering disk space, attachment deleted by admin]Oh, I see, you added E:\ to each library.

You should be able to remove it by right-clicking each Library (such as Pictures, Documents, etc) choose Properties, and you should be able to remove the appropriate entries.I appreciate all of the replies, but so far none of these suggestions has really been helpful for my particular problem. As it stands there longer is a folder titled "My Documents" or My Pictures" anywhere on my system (as far as I can tell).

In the Library there are folders labelled "Documents" and Pictures" and there are "Public Documents" etc. , but these are located on the C: drive and the location cannot be changed.

Just to restate what happened: When I first loaded Win 8 on my system, I went to the properties for each of these files (My Documents etc.) and I clicked on Location. What I should have done next was to change the location from C:\users\nnnn\My Documents to be E:\users\nnn\My Documents.

However, what I did instead was to simply change the location to E:. I failed to leave the path in the change. The result of this ERROR is that these folders have totally disappeared.

This leaves me with no way to make the default save location be on my second hard drive and of course no way to organize my files correctly. They are all on the directly on the drive under E:\

It seems like such a simple error but there is not an obvious way to reverse. At least I haven't found it yet.

I should add that I have tried to create a folder labelled "My Documents" but I get a message saying the folder already exists. If I do a search for it, nothing comes up.Problem Solved - I don't see a way to tag this topic, but I have solved this issue.

Should anyone ever stumble across this same problem. I made a new user account and then deleted the old one. Then I changed the file locations the proper way. Next I deleted all of the files that had come from my old machine and and ran Easy Transfer again. A bit of a hassle but things are how they should be.

This caused a few other problems, but now my files are where I want them and are well organized, just like they were on my old machine.

Apparently - I could have accomplished part of this by fiddling with the registry, but that's a bit dicey. I tried and it didn't totally work for me.

I have the free trial of Windows 8 and have 90 days to learn it.
I have very low VISION. I need high contrast, but I can not fatter the high contrast options. So I try to improve the contrast on the desktop icons., I try to make the letters black on a while bar. In Windows 7 and Windows XP I can do this. But I have not found how to do in in Windows 8
Do you know what I mean? For anybody with bad vision, the Icon titles are very hard to read.

Any ideas? And don't say stick with Windows XP. Please don't day that. I want to live longer than Windows XP.
use Search on the start screen. Search for "High contrast".

Choose the "High contrast Settings" Result.

Change them as you see fit.

If you need to find something, use the Search."High contrast" yields no results on my Windows 8 computer.

Another way to ACTIVATE it directly is Control+Shift+Print Screen.



Control+Shift+Print Screen does nothing on my laptop. SORRY Alt+Shift+Print Scr.

Also, for Windows 8 (rather than 8.1, as I have) you would need to search in Settings, rather than Apps (I assume)Right-click ANYWHERE on you desktop. You should be able to select the contrast there.I'd like to see getting the spell-check fixed 1st...Still working on it Update: Here is a composite image.
It show s two desktops, XP and Win 8

The images were cropped to fit here. The resolution is low.
Artifacts are from image compression. Ignore that. Look at the Icon Titles. In XP I can make them stand out. But Win 8 can not give a black font on a light bar. Windows 8 thinks Icons tittles should be cloudy. I can not see well cloudy objects. I need black and white, but I do not want the whole desktop black and white. Just ion titles.

Ann I asking too much? Please.If your Windows 7 desktop icons keep rearranging, there are various ways you can try to fix the issue. This is a problem which many people are now reporting on their Windows 7 machines, and can be caused by a number of issues inside the Windows 7 system. Fortunately, there's a simple method you can use to fix the problem for good. Here's what you need to do..Right click on the Desktop > Personalize > Choose high contrast setting.

Remember that Microsoft is moving away from the traditional Desktop so some of the visual settings we are used to are no longer available in Windows 8.

List of features removed in Windows 8

Quote

The Windows Classic theme is removed. High-contrast themes (which previously used the Classic appearance) have been modified to use visual styles.

It is no longer possible to change the color of window backgrounds and other elements via the "Advanced Appearance Settings..." option, but colors can still be CHANGED under "personalize" after a high contrast theme is set, or editing the Registry.

I have a BIT of an issue. For a few days now, my PC will randomly play a warble sound. It doesn't seem connected to any programs or anything I do, it's just random.

It's kind of hard to explain the sound, but it's just kind of like a warble sound that lasts 1-2 seconds. Any idea what it might be and a way to fix it?

I'm on W8.1 and I haven't really installed anything recently except Dropbox, but I removed that anyway and don't remember Dropbox having that sound.Check Control Panel /Sounds/events...you'll have to play all on the drop down list to find the culprit...Quote from: patio on December 10, 2014, 10:38:02 AM

Check Control Panel /Sounds/events...you'll have to play all on the drop down list to find the culprit...

If system sounds are muted you shouldn't hear it at all...
That being stated i'll bet it's Skype...

You can find the Skype sounds in the Options dialog, under sounds. You can play them there. I don't think they have actual files on disk, and are either part of the program's resources or inside one of it's data files. Not sure where Steam stores it's Client sound files.

Also: it's worth noting that even if you have system sounds muted, that would only prevent sounds played by the system, and not those by applications- applications can play system sounds. So if you mute system sounds, you would still get say notification sounds from outlook or thunderbird, even though the mail message event sound is in the system sound control panel.

I've purchased the Acer Aspire E1 571 laptop, with Windows8 on board. Last night I had the laptop open a check disc and repair for this morning, and has for 5 hours been hung on 27%. I'm not to sure what is so special about this NUMBER, but a LOT of people that have opened a check disc are hung at 27% or 28% or 29%. I really need my laptop to spring into ACTION soon, so I can finish some work I have started on it. PLEASE, any advice on what I should do here will be really appreciated. I'm not sure though why on earth that you can just cancel it when it has started. Why have Windows taken this out of the hands of people. I've read on other web sites that you should give the is 24 hours to complete its scanning and repair which , to me is utterly ridiculous, if a person is reliant on that computer.Is your computer under WARRANTY? If so, have you tried contacting Acer?

Hi
Im trying to root my samsung GALAXY epic touch 2 to mu asus laptop which has windows 8 and it WONT RECOGNIZE the usb or phone I have downloaded the drivers and took out the battery..still nothing...im going nuts !! any help is appreciated.

Thank You
dennySorry, I don;t know anything about that.
But did you see this video? (Ignore the ADVERTISEMENT.)
How to Root the Samsung Epic
Does that help any?

Note to moderator.
This should have been posted in the Android section. But it still does not exist.In order for the PC to recognise the Samsung you need to install the latest software for it...have you done this yet ? ?
You should have gotten a CD with the phone...if not it's a Free DLoad from the manuf. site.

Geek::
DROP it already about an Android section..

I have a laptop with Windows 8 and do not know the password to get onto the laptop. It is an email address. I tried Windows NT offline password and REGISTRY editor and I can see the users, I tell it to blank the password, RESTART the machine and the password still exists. I have another PROGRAM that is supposed to remove or change passwords but it says it can't see the operating system. Is there a way to remove the password so I can access the laptop? If you're TALKING about the Windows password, see here: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/what-do-forget-windows-password#1TC=windows-7

If you're talking about the bios password we can't help you.

how we install the window insatallits very easyits very simple FOLLOW the on SCREEN instructions after INSERTING windows 8 dvd in to disk drive

Bought a new Lenovo ideacenter last month. Aside from the fact that windows 8 blows, the free trial of word, excell, powerpoint et all is up and now I have to actually BUY the product key? *censored*

Say it isn't so or tell me theres a way around it. I mean c'mon gates, pay for notebook?


frustrated in Georgia......................Nope...sorry.
You have to pay...Yep. If you don't like the price, buy something else.
Or, try a free package.
Best free Microsoft Office alternativesQuote from: nyernga on May 31, 2013, 07:43:07 PM

the free trial of word, excell, powerpoint et all is up and now I have to actually BUY the product key? *censored*
Say it isn't so or tell me theres a way around it. I mean c'mon gates, pay for notebook?

This is probably my 6th system since I bought my first used desktop back in 96 and the first time I've had no access to ANY type of document writing software without paying.

There was always a "product key" to activate windows software.

I've already called Lenovo and let them know what I think of this scam so today I will go to best buy and let them know as well. In the meantime, I will try the alternatives.

DLoad and install Libre' Office and you will never moan about MS Office again...
I think we mentioned it's Free...

Ms office is not a problem ther are many many free alterinavtes such as open office or leibra office

Hi,

Try running LCD BIST Test. Press F12 at HP logo and go into system diagnostics.

Started to download Zonealarm firewall yesterday but when it got to 80% installed it just stayed there and eventually I closed it. Since then and it could just be a coincidence, if I try CLICKING on the browser icon or any other icons, nothing happens and I haven't been able to turn the computer off other than by the power button. Gave up trying last night and have been trying again this morning - a small blank box popped up earlier this morning and the blue circle icon is going round and round - an earlier box said the programme is not responding but I don't know what programme it means cos I have'nt been able to click on anything to start a programme. Have thought of trying Recovery and System Restore but when I click on them nothing happens. Help!!My suggestion is to start in Safe Mode and see whether Zonealarm shows up in Features and PROGRAMS (in Control Panel). If so, then try uninstalling it. And then, try restoring to a Restore Point before the attempted installation of Zonealarm. If Zonealarm does not show up in Features and Programs, proceed with restoring to a Restore Point.

Reference: How To Boot Into Windows 8 Safe ModeHi,
Thanks for REPLYING. I've tried starting in safe mode (F8) but safe mode appears not to start as usual in Windows 8.It's Shift + F8 in Win8...
Hold down Shift and tap F8 repeatedly...before you see the Win logo.Have tried shift + F8 several times but it won't take me to Safe Mode just to the sign in page and now I've got the blue circle going round and round again and I'm unable to click on anything and had to turn the computer off by the power button again.Please re-visit Soybeans link...it has pics of how to get there...it's like 5 steps.
Why they buried it that deep i have no idea.Tried the link again - I can get as far as typing msconfig in the box, click ok, box disappears then nothing happens and I'm left with the blue circle going round and round.Use Method # 2...Have tried the shift and F8 key 8/9 times but nothing happens, it doesn't go to safe mode it just goes to the hp screen then on to the sign on screen.Then your waiting too long...you need to do it before thw Win Logo appears...or it's too late.I'm doing it as soon as I press the power button but no Windows logo appears it just goes straight to the hp screen then the sign on page. Then you may have to run the Repair that HP includes with the PC...been awhile since i have done 1 so i don't remember what it's CALLED...Can you get to your login screen? On it, you should see a power button on the lower right CORNER of your screen. If you click it to bring up the choices (Shutdown, Restart, and Sleep), and then hold down your Shift key while you click Restart, it should restart in a troubleshooting mode. You should see a screen titled "Choose an option". One of the options is Troubleshoot. If you click it, you'll see more choices; one of those is "Advanced options". If you click it, one of options on the next screen is System Restore (restore to a Restore Point).

Hi. I just upgraded a really old Toshiba laptop from Windows Vista Home Basic to Windows 8, and every once in a while, on a shutdown, it just BOOTS up again and gives me a crash error about some minidump, sysdata, and memory.dmp files. For every restart though, it gives me the error. Whenever the error comes, I can continue using the laptop normally again. Other than a very few number of drivers that I couldn't find for a Windows 8 laptop of my type, it's been handling Windows 8 very well. Some information about my laptop:

Toshiba Satellite L305
Windows 8 Pro 32-bit
2 GB RAM
Intel Celeron CPU 900 @ 2.20GHz 2.19GHz
Mobile Intel 4 Series Express Chipset Family Graphics Card 1 GB

So, can anyone please help me in fixing this? I attached the minidump and the other files created by the crash error as a .zip file, incase it can help in solving the problem. Thank you all sooo much in advance!

[recovering disk space, attachment deleted by admin]this one is the second part of the files

[recovering disk space, attachment deleted by admin]Download BlueScreenView:
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/blue_screen_view.html
unzip downloaded file and double click on BlueScreenView.exe to run the program.
when scanning is done, go to EDIT - Select All
Go to FILE - SAVE Selected Items, and save the report as BSOD.txt
Open BSOD.txt in Notepad, copy all of the content, and paste it into your next replyAllan, thank you for replying!


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Dump File : 070213-45801-01.dmp
Crash Time : 7/2/2013 10:57:59 PM
Bug Check String : DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE
Bug Check Code : 0x0000009f
Parameter 1 : 0x00000004
Parameter 2 : 0x0000012c
Parameter 3 : 0x84a0e240
Parameter 4 : 0x80e33b14
Caused By DRIVER : halmacpi.dll
Caused By Address : halmacpi.dll+f796
File Description : HARDWARE Abstraction Layer DLL
Product Name : Microsoft® Windows® Operating System
Company : Microsoft Corporation
File Version : 6.2.9200.16442 (win8_gdr.121023-1503)
Processor : 32-bit
Crash Address : ntoskrnl.exe+15c379
Stack Address 1 : ntoskrnl.exe+218f2
Stack Address 2 : ndis.sys+1a28a
Stack Address 3 : ndis.sys+61670
Computer Name :
Full Path : C:\WINDOWS\Minidump\070213-45801-01.dmp
Processors Count : 1
Major Version : 15
Minor Version : 9200
Dump File Size : 363,056
Dump File Time : 7/2/2013 10:59:44 PM
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Dump File : 070213-48843-01.dmp
Crash Time : 7/2/2013 7:26:00 PM
Bug Check String : DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE
Bug Check Code : 0x0000009f
Parameter 1 : 0x00000004
Parameter 2 : 0x0000012c
Parameter 3 : 0x862898c0
Parameter 4 : 0x80a53b14
Caused By Driver : ntoskrnl.exe
Caused By Address : ntoskrnl.exe+15c379
File Description : NT Kernel & System
Product Name : Microsoft® Windows® Operating System
Company : Microsoft Corporation
File Version : 6.2.9200.16604 (win8_gdr.130503-1646)
Processor : 32-bit
Crash Address : ntoskrnl.exe+15c379
Stack Address 1 : ntoskrnl.exe+218f2
Stack Address 2 : ndis.sys+600cf
Stack Address 3 : vwififlt.sys+55d5
Computer Name :
Full Path : C:\WINDOWS\Minidump\070213-48843-01.dmp
Processors Count : 1
Major Version : 15
Minor Version : 9200
Dump File Size : 267,232
Dump File Time : 7/2/2013 7:27:49 PM
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Dump File : 063013-73960-01.dmp
Crash Time : 6/30/2013 2:41:24 PM
Bug Check String : PROCESS_HAS_LOCKED_PAGES
Bug Check Code : 0x00000076
Parameter 1 : 0x00000000
Parameter 2 : 0x83f95280
Parameter 3 : 0x00000002
Parameter 4 : 0x00000000
Caused By Driver : ntoskrnl.exe
Caused By Address : ntoskrnl.exe+e1c08
File Description : NT Kernel & System
Product Name : Microsoft® Windows® Operating System
Company : Microsoft Corporation
File Version : 6.2.9200.16604 (win8_gdr.130503-1646)
Processor : 32-bit
Crash Address : ntoskrnl.exe+e1c08
Stack Address 1 : ntoskrnl.exe+24435d
Stack Address 2 : ntoskrnl.exe+46cb6
Stack Address 3 : ntoskrnl.exe+28a048
Computer Name :
Full Path : C:\WINDOWS\Minidump\063013-73960-01.dmp
Processors Count : 1
Major Version : 15
Minor Version : 9200
Dump File Size : 150,360
Dump File Time : 6/30/2013 2:46:08 PM
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Dump File : 062713-68858-01.dmp
Crash Time : 6/27/2013 3:34:17 PM
Bug Check String : DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE
Bug Check Code : 0x0000009f
Parameter 1 : 0x00000003
Parameter 2 : 0x84342030
Parameter 3 : 0x804f3b00
Parameter 4 : 0x83cbb4b8
Caused By Driver : ntoskrnl.exe
Caused By Address : ntoskrnl.exe+e1c08
File Description : NT Kernel & System
Product Name : Microsoft® Windows® Operating System
Company : Microsoft Corporation
File Version : 6.2.9200.16604 (win8_gdr.130503-1646)
Processor : 32-bit
Crash Address : ntoskrnl.exe+e1c08
Stack Address 1 : ntoskrnl.exe+124f27
Stack Address 2 : ntoskrnl.exe+6ebc3
Stack Address 3 : ntoskrnl.exe+6e7fe
Computer Name :
Full Path : C:\WINDOWS\Minidump\062713-68858-01.dmp
Processors Count : 1
Major Version : 15
Minor Version : 9200
Dump File Size : 257,888
Dump File Time : 6/27/2013 3:48:00 PM
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Dump File : 062613-41262-01.dmp
Crash Time : 6/26/2013 6:24:17 PM
Bug Check String : DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE
Bug Check Code : 0x0000009f
Parameter 1 : 0x00000004
Parameter 2 : 0x0000012c
Parameter 3 : 0x8374e3c0
Parameter 4 : 0x80419b14
Caused By Driver : ntoskrnl.exe
Caused By Address : ntoskrnl.exe+15c379
File Description : NT Kernel & System
Product Name : Microsoft® Windows® Operating System
Company : Microsoft Corporation
File Version : 6.2.9200.16604 (win8_gdr.130503-1646)
Processor : 32-bit
Crash Address : ntoskrnl.exe+15c379
Stack Address 1 : ntoskrnl.exe+218f2
Stack Address 2 : ndis.sys+600cf
Stack Address 3 : vwififlt.sys+55d5
Computer Name :
Full Path : C:\WINDOWS\Minidump\062613-41262-01.dmp
Processors Count : 1
Major Version : 15
Minor Version : 9200
Dump File Size : 264,520
Dump File Time : 6/26/2013 6:26:12 PM
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Dump File : 062513-45957-01.dmp
Crash Time : 6/25/2013 2:02:06 AM
Bug Check String : DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE
Bug Check Code : 0x0000009f
Parameter 1 : 0x00000004
Parameter 2 : 0x0000012c
Parameter 3 : 0x86e1b6c0
Parameter 4 : 0x81133b14
Caused By Driver : ntoskrnl.exe
Caused By Address : ntoskrnl.exe+15c379
File Description : NT Kernel & System
Product Name : Microsoft® Windows® Operating System
Company : Microsoft Corporation
File Version : 6.2.9200.16604 (win8_gdr.130503-1646)
Processor : 32-bit
Crash Address : ntoskrnl.exe+15c379
Stack Address 1 : ntoskrnl.exe+218f2
Stack Address 2 : ndis.sys+600cf
Stack Address 3 : vwififlt.sys+55d5
Computer Name :
Full Path : C:\WINDOWS\Minidump\062513-45957-01.dmp
Processors Count : 1
Major Version : 15
Minor Version : 9200
Dump File Size : 262,936
Dump File Time : 6/25/2013 2:03:43 AM
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Dump File : 062413-54803-01.dmp
Crash Time : 6/24/2013 6:13:36 PM
Bug Check String : DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE
Bug Check Code : 0x0000009f
Parameter 1 : 0x00000003
Parameter 2 : 0x84b55a50
Parameter 3 : 0x80d14b00
Parameter 4 : 0x85cbdc80
Caused By Driver : ntoskrnl.exe
Caused By Address : ntoskrnl.exe+e1c08
File Description : NT Kernel & System
Product Name : Microsoft® Windows® Operating System
Company : Microsoft Corporation
File Version : 6.2.9200.16604 (win8_gdr.130503-1646)
Processor : 32-bit
Crash Address : ntoskrnl.exe+e1c08
Stack Address 1 : ntoskrnl.exe+124f27
Stack Address 2 : ntoskrnl.exe+6ebc3
Stack Address 3 : ntoskrnl.exe+6e7fe
Computer Name :
Full Path : C:\WINDOWS\Minidump\062413-54803-01.dmp
Processors Count : 1
Major Version : 15
Minor Version : 9200
Dump File Size : 257,224
Dump File Time : 6/24/2013 10:41:05 PM
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Dump File : 062213-66128-01.dmp
Crash Time : 6/22/2013 3:45:15 PM
Bug Check String : DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE
Bug Check Code : 0x0000009f
Parameter 1 : 0x00000004
Parameter 2 : 0x0000012c
Parameter 3 : 0x84313d40
Parameter 4 : 0x812b9b14
Caused By Driver : ntoskrnl.exe
Caused By Address : ntoskrnl.exe+15c379
File Description : NT Kernel & System
Product Name : Microsoft® Windows® Operating System
Company : Microsoft Corporation
File Version : 6.2.9200.16604 (win8_gdr.130503-1646)
Processor : 32-bit
Crash Address : ntoskrnl.exe+15c379
Stack Address 1 : ntoskrnl.exe+218f2
Stack Address 2 : ntoskrnl.exe+d7a53
Stack Address 3 : ntoskrnl.exe+2d7cb6
Computer Name :
Full Path : C:\WINDOWS\Minidump\062213-66128-01.dmp
Processors Count : 1
Major Version : 15
Minor Version : 9200
Dump File Size : 260,296
Dump File Time : 6/22/2013 3:47:07 PM
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It looks like when you upgraded to Windows 8 you did not download and install Windows 8 drivers. You need to do that for all hardware components and for your chipset.Ok, thanks alot Allan!SURE thing

This is not a question, just a comment. I just read an article critiquing Windows 8 and I noticed flaws in it. The article is at http://www.forbes.com/sites/tonybradley/2013/05/22/five-ways-microsoft-can-fix-windows-8/

The paragraphs in it are numbered. I found par. #2 to be partially erroneous. Aero Snap does work in Windows 8 IF you are working with programs on the desktop, not Windows 8 apps that appear on the Start screen. For example, a browser window and a Word window can be assigned exactly half of the desktop by using Snap. The 75/25 split mentioned in the article applies when displaying a Desktop program and a Win 8 app on the screen at the same time. And, I agree that the user should be able to CONTROL the proportions of that screen split.

I thought paragraph #4 was also a bit deficient by not mentioning that Control Panel can be opened by moving the mouse pointer all the way to the lower left corner of the screen and right clicking and selecting Control Panel from the right-click menu. This sort of summarizes one of the reasons I tend to avoid "tech journalism", personally. Often there is very little RESEARCH and where there is research it's clear the author knows what they are saying is stretching the truth or only applicable in a specific context. The core PROBLEM is that they aren't writing to provide factual, accurate statements and writing; they are typically writing to match a attention catching headline that will garner clicks.I couldn't agree more...well stated.

I own a HP pavilion G6 laptop (would have chose something else but it was a gift so I am not complaining)

IT runs windows 8
4GB ram and 500gb HD

Well what happened is that there is this button on my laptop that turns the internet on and off. It is the f12 key and every time I press it without HOLDING the FN key it shuts off the internet, but I just press the button again and it will turn on the internet. It has a small light on it, blue means it will connect to the internet, red means it will not. What happened was I accidentally hit a couple of keys (f12 being one) and now the red light stays on no matter how much I press it witch means I will not be able to connect to the internet no matter what. Even if I go to Networks and turn off airplane mode it still will not connect me to the internet. I do not know how to fix that so any help will be appreciated.

If you have any questions please do not hesitate to ask.After talking to my brothers Wilbur and ORVILLE, we'all think this may help.

Does it? Why is he sig-spamming EVILFANTASY's blog from 2008? (or someone of that name that peddles, among other things, this complete BS: "Defragment the Registry"?)

Topic Closed...
Post PRIVILEDGES under review.

Topic re-opened upon review and request...Quote from: Sidewinder on July 09, 2013, 03:32:05 PM

After talking to my brothers Wilbur and Orville, we'all think this may help.

Does it?

Hello,

When starting my laptop the packard bell LOGO hangs for at least 10/15 minutes i then get the message "your pc needs repairing" and also"boot device not found"

So i TRIED to load my installation cd but again no SUCCESS the cd will not load.
i have now made a bootable usb and tried booting from that and again no success.

What options do i now have to repair this.

Thanks for any suggestions.
The laptop is a packard bell easy note te running windows 8 64 bit.Check in the bios to make sure the optical drive is the first device in the boot order and the hard drive is the second device. Save the settings, exit, reboot. What HAPPENS? If you still can't boot to the hd you should at least be able to boot to the bootable cd/dvd now.Hello Allan,

Thanks for the reply and apologies for my late reply.

I have tried all the different boot orders in the bios.
with the installation disc the windows 8 symbol COMES up and just hangs and thats it.
nothing else happens.How old is the Laptop?
With Windows 8, it must be fairly new. Is it still under warranty?
What sort of USB boot program did you try?
Do you have another PC, or can you gt a friend to help you?

F8 key


I don't know if this applies to other computers, but do check.
When I got this computer not long ago. It had Windows 8. I had changed the safe mode startup according to You TUBE in command prompt to boot up by using the F8 key and it worked fine.
When I did the FREE upgrade to Windows 8.1 for 8 users. I thought I better check to see if I can get in safe mode with the F8 key. To my surprise it went back to the Windows 8 method ( maybe by default, IAM not sure ) to get into safe mode. I changed it again and it WORKS fine, I did check this out. Thanks ( rookie with a computer ) ChuckWhen you update your OS (Operating System) it changes system settings back to default when it was in the assembly line. In Win 8 it's Shift + F8 for safemode...

Either way i wouldn't suggest using F8 as a hotkey....you may need it someday.

How do I get sounds my computer plays to play through my microphone with no third-party SOFTWARE?

Can anyone help me out a bit with this? I've got a soundboard program that has sound files binded to keys so that whenever I press a key a sound files plays. I'm not sure what to change on my Microphone and Stereo Mix so that the sounds play through the microphone.
I tried WATCHING a video, but he had more devices than me. I only have Speakers and Realtek Digital Output for Playback, and Microphone and Stereo Mix for Recording.Quote from: Wuai Bel Ree on November 15, 2014, 02:31:57 PM

How do I get sounds my computer plays to play through my microphone with no third-party software?

I had just bought and received this computer on Saturday and I am already experiencing issues where I cannot operate effectively at all. I was hoping someone COULD help me diagnose and fix the problem. Here's the notes:
Runs properly in safe mode
Began occuring after AVG recommended a C: repair
IDT PC Audio is using 600+ mb of memory and 2+ mb of disk
Spoiler subsystem app is using 11.4% CPU, 200+ mb memory, 1+ mb disk
Several system conponents are making up the rest

System specs:
Dell Inspiron 17r 5720
Windows 8
Intel i7-3632qm 2.2 ghz 3rd gen
8 gb ram
Gt630m 1gb nvidia
1 tb had 5400 rpm

I was running AVG but I read that could have been the problem. I am now using avast!

Thank you in advance for your helpIf you've just bought the PC and are already having issues, I would suggest using your warranty and returning it for repair.Quote from: matter92 on July 23, 2013, 10:41:10 PM

Spoiler subsystem app ...

Happy Thanksgiving!

Problems below:

1. Internet not working on Win 8 Desktop Mode

2. Tried to install Ubuntu on boot disc but it wouldn't let me (tried to adjust the BIOS SETTINGS)

3. Computer RUNNING very slow and ALWAYS freezing apps/ losing work

4. HP Elite, iCore 7 2.7gh processor, 8gb RAM, came with Win 7 pre-installed but I RECEIVED it with Win 8 installed

Whatever I can do to get this machine running fast and correctly would be hugely appreciated!

All the best,

1st step i would take is visit the MBoard /laptop manuf. site and DLoad and re-install all the drivers...

And M$ said people don't use the Start Menu from previous versions of Windows enough to justify keeping it in Windows 8. Even 8.1's faux start menu is ludicrous.

Here is just one example of how fast and easy it is to use the Start Menu in Windows 7. I have suggested in Window Blogs that Microsoft create a Windows 7.5 edition for PC's only (non-touch screens).

Windows Start MenuThat doesn't particularly demonstrate the Start menu's capabilities, nor how fast and easy it may be to use.
I would ask you to kindly tone down the anti-Windows 8 agenda you have going on here. I understand it's your opinion, and you're certainly entitled to that, but in all honesty it's getting a little tiresome when almost everything you post is something to do with Windows 8 or the Start menu.Quote from: SuperTweaker on July 20, 2013, 08:14:23 AM

Here is just one example of how fast and easy it is to use the Start Menu in Windows 7.

Some feel having no paging file results in better performance, but in general, having a paging file means Windows can write pages on the modified list (which represent pages that aren’t being accessed actively but have not been saved to disk) out to the paging file, thus making that memory available for more useful purposes (processes or file cache). So while there may be some workloads that perform better with no paging file, in general having one will mean more usable memory being available to the system (never mind that Windows won’t be able to write kernel crash dumps without a paging file sized large enough to hold them).

I installed it in a Win 7 VM I had, which to my recollection is pretty much a 100% pure clean install from the MSDN Win7 SP1 install disc.

using the recommended method with One-click maintenance, the utility found 19 issues.

"Issues"

Now, what constitutes an "issue" in it's eyes?

Let's see:
-some registry keys that contain no data, including a Typelib registration that has the important data in the key itself.
-Some uninstall entries that "have no information necessary to uninstall it"
-Some registry keys that point to 'non-existent files'

The last one is my favourite. Here are the files it lists as non-existent:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\MSDASC\DefaultIcon
- "This Registry key points to the missing icon file %CommonProgramFiles%\System\Ole DB\oledb32.dll,0"
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Html Help Value IMTCTC.CHM
- "the entry %SystemRoot%\IME\IMETC10\HELP\IMTCTC.CHM points to the missing help file"
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\HTML Help\IMTCEN.CHM
- "The entry %SystemRoot%\IME\IMETC10\HELP\IMTCEN.CHM Points to a missing help file"


This might seem reasonable in some sense. If the files don't exist, why not delete the registry entries. I can see the logic behind that. The Problem here is that these files do exist!. Every single one of them. It didn't find them because it's not programmed to recognize environment variables, and figures it looks like a path so it should exist. performing this "routine cleaning" on a pretty much clean install corrupts your Windows Help CONFIGURATION as well as corrupting some File Association data for Data Access stuffs. Wow. That is totally worth the 2KB of Data I might save on my hard disk! Deleting the typelib key actually prevented any applications from showing Help, Bravo. And ironically these are exactly the types of problems- as a result of that particular registry cleaner, at least- that people attribute to a "corrupt registry" - a never-ending cycle, like a dishwasher stuck on rinse.

Is your only objective on this forum to spread the fact that you don't like Windows 8?

Some people like you don't like Windows 8 for your own reasons, that's fine. Others like me like Windows 8, that's also fine but it seems to offend you in some way.

I really hate this Windows 8 64bit as apps I've used for year don't install or work.

Recently WENT into task manager. Under startup tab was something new I had not seen before called simply "program". NEEDLESS to say I disabled it immediately. Concerned about what it is. I have tried to search about what it is via right click and then the search online option but of COURSE that turns up nothing. I want to find out what it is and to GET rid of it if neccessary.

I got this error just yesterday after I accidentally DROPPED my laptop

Your PC needs to be repaired
A required device isn't connected or can't be accessed
Error code 0xc0000185
You'll need to USE the recovery tools on your installation media.....

What causes this and how can it been fixed
I would try the following:

Remove the battery...
Remove and re-seat the HDD...
Do the same for the RAM.

Then with battery out hold in power button for 30 seconds...replace battery and give it a full charge overnite...

Best of Luck...let US KNOW.

Dual boot windows seven and windows eight trial. Works good!

I just went down to MSN and got a free copy of windows a enterprise trial that is good for the next 90 days. Of course, it cannot be updated or extended . The IDEA is to give myself three months to decide if I really want windows eight. I had to use my MSN account. To my surprise, I'm thinking I do want Windows 8, maybe even buy it. it. And no, I am not a big Microsoft fan. In fact, I think Microsoft badly treated me with their aggressive business practices. But that is not the purpose of this post. All I can say is windows eight works good and the install was clean right from the start. All I had to do was to make sure at the proper BIOS settings to boot from the DVD that was created by the program I downloaded.
What really surprised me is somehow, someway it picked up a program I had in Windows XP and saved it for me. Let me explain. The partition I use for the windows eight install was already occupied by Windows XP, and there was a program in windows XP I like to run in windows seven. The strange thing is after installing windows eight on top of that windows XP, the program was STILL there. I'm not sure exactly what happened. But apparently windows a just allowed windows XP files to stay there. Well, since it's only a trial operation, I guess that is to be expected. The implication is that I could somehow reverse the process and go back to using the windows XP. But I'm not going to worry about that, in fact the windows XP had stopped functioning properly anyway. But it's just funny that somehow it left a program that I actually use inside of windows seven. Don't ask, it is something that somebody else did so I wanted to do it too cuz I liked it. In the end, I'm impressed. It also asked for my e-mail address and hooked me into windows live, I guess. By itself it did manage to find my avatar and posted it on my desktop. Not sure how did that. But anyhow, I was impressed about how smooth and easy the windows eight installation went on my dell optiplex dx 520. Just want everyone to know, I like windows eight.
What program ? ?You had to ask. Free Cell. You can call it from Windows 7. It is system32 on Windows XP. I don't like the way the Windows 7 version looks. So I found taht somebody else had found you can run it from Windows 7 without install. Just the shortcut.
So, you old geekster, you just instinctively knew you had to use Windows 8's Charms bar to get to the Shutdown command, right? And right off the bat, you just had a feel for Windows 8 and you just opened and closed Windows 8 apps with ease and found the Desktop right away and effortlessly moved back and forth between the Windows 8 Start screen and the Desktop. Is that right? Yes, but I had already read here that you have to look for the power off.
So that took about twenty seconds the first time.l it was well within my short attention span.
Also liked the way it did a dual boot for windows 7 and Windows 8. Very elegant.
Quote from: soybean on August 22, 2013, 08:11:16 AM

So, you old geekster, you just instinctively knew you had to use Windows 8's Charms bar to get to the Shutdown command, right? And right off the bat, you just had a feel for Windows 8 and you just opened and closed Windows 8 apps with ease and found the Desktop right away and effortlessly moved back and forth between the Windows 8 Start screen and the Desktop. Is that right?

Nice post, BC.
As for me, fi I have something I want to do often I make a shortcut and put in on the desktop. Better yet, I make a folder and put the shortcuts there. Because I snake them, I know what they are. And if I forget, I look at my notes. By the way., where are the sticky notes in Windows 8?

I wouldn't think this would be hard, but it has me BEFUDDLED. I have a website, and I would like to find every example of some antiquated code (embeds, to be SPECIFIC), so I can replace them. The easiest way to do this, I suppose, would be Windows search (the WHOLE site in on my computer, of course. But searching for the word "embed" or anything that's part of the html code - as opposed to text - GIVES me no results. It doesn't seem to search the source code. Is there some way that I can search a whole lot of html FILES for a certain piece of code so I can change them all easily?

If anybody has the answer to this, that would be great.

When setting up my new laptop for the first time I hadn't notice I had only typed in the first three LETTERS of my name(joy) and its causing a lot of hassle when it comes to authorisation at TIMES. I know how to edit it however it will not let me. Comes up with the MESSAGE "cannot edit registered OWNER. Error writing the values new contents. Is there any way around this.
If you know the name you typed in, why not use that one?It can be edited...however you would have to login under ADMIN priviledges and do so...
I'd login as joy since that's what you started with,,,

I don't know if this applies to other computers, but do check.

When I got this computer not long ago. It had Windows 8. I had CHANGED the safe mode startup according to You Tube in command prompt to boot up by using the F8 key and it worked FINE.

When I did the free upgrade to Windows 8.1 for 8 users. I thought I BETTER check to SEE if I can get in safe mode with the F8 key. To my surprise it went back to the Windows 8 method ( maybe by default, iam not sure ) to get into safe mode. I changed it again and it works fine, I did check this out. Thanks ( rookie with a computer ) Chuck