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Memory card for Nokia Lumia 1520 smart phone.

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I currently have an 8GB,Micro SDHC, Class 4, Non-branded Memory Card in my phone, but it's full up. I have bought & tried a Kingston 64GB, Micro SDXC, Class 10; a SanDisk, 64GB, micro SDXC, Class 10; & a Samsung 64GB, micro SDXC, Class 4. None of them is recognized by my phone, although they work fine in my laptop. Do I need to reduce the size down to a 32GB, SDHC, or what can anybody recommend...

Google plug-ins -do i want them?

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Win. 8/64 bit Google is my browser, but do i want google's plug=in's ...i..e. Native Client and or PDFVIEWER ? advantages/disadvantages ? also any idea how to stop annoying ad popups that i have to 'x'-to close or the auto-runs at same time i'm on a site ? have disabled flash-player also..thanks in advance ALSO: i get popup notices to update Adobe Flash but thought Google updates...

Surface freezing when mouse touches corners in Windows 8

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I have a Surface Tablet running Windows 8. When I hover the mouse over the bottom left corner where the Windows button pops up to switch back and forth from desktop and tiles, the thing freezes for about 30 seconds and then unfreezes and then freezes again then starts working normally again. I have googled this already and not much came up. I did updated the drivers but windows said they...

How Find All Programs?

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How does one find all programs in Windows 8?

Is Windows 10 Good To Upgrade To?

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Is Windows 10 good to upgrade to? I have been offered the free update to Win10.

Very long time to boot windows 8.1 " Hope some one help"

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*Hi all, * My hp pavilion 15-e060se windows 8.1 (64 bit) notebook takes along time to boot also at *shutdown* Here is an in-depth description of the boot: When pressing the power button the windows 8 startup screen with the dots moving in a circle. This screen stays for a few seconds before the screen turns black. After about 15 seconds of black screen the monitor loses signal as if the...

DSIM unable to repair, unable to uninstall KB3022345

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Let's start with I'm a complete noob, but I'm smart and I know how to Google stuff... I've tried SO many threads and techniques to fix this, but I'm unable to, this has been a VERY deep rabbit hole I've traversed and can't find my way back out. Let's start at the beginning... I stopped auto installing updates because I had issues with doing so in the past, so my windows updates stacked...

Help reloading win 8 system fonts

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hi I have an asus x550L laptop running windows 8. My system fonts got corrupted somehow and now on the desktop and other areas I can only see boxes and symbols. I may have added in too many duplicate fonts, also I was doing a job for a client with supplied fonts and I may have mistakenly clicked on some file, think it was 'adobe font list.x something' In C>windows>fonts there are still...

Solved Please Suggest Me

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Friends, I have been searching for a utility, which can help me to identify that what process/service or application is using my internet data and how much data it has consumed......I tried windows resource monitor but I need something better than that.....please suggest me any free or paid program which better suits my purpose......

Rsync and Windows 8.1?

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I would like to use rsync to sync my android phone with my windows 8.1 pc. Can rsync run in Windows? Thank you.

Windows 8.1 Interrupt 7 DPC storm - ACPI

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Not used to this so please bear with me. I thought that this might help someone. I built a system with an i7 on a ASUS z97-p board with a Kingston SSD and Seagate harddrive. Loaded the correct drivers and Windows 8.1 downloaded from MS All ok except when lookig at the Performance Monitor it shows Interrupts and DPC sitting at 10-12% CPU hogging one core and forcing the clock frequency...

Can no longer boot past my BIOS

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Hi, I ran into this problem about a week ago and have not been able to find the solution to it, so I'm turning to you folks for help. Normally, when I turn it on, I get the Asus logo (it's an Asus laptop, obviously), then shortly thereafter I would get the Windows log in screen. When I now turn my laptop on, I get a black screen for about a minute, then I go directly to my BIOS screen. I...

How to open Shut down menu by pressing power button only

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Hi, Is it possible to open shut down menu by pressing power button only? Any work around? Attachment 66403 (http://www.eightforums.com/attachments/general-support/66403-how-open-shut-down-menu-pressing-power-button-only-shut-down-menu.png)

I have Windows 10, question lost recycle bin

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I did follow some instructions to put a check mark in the square and I still can't get it to show up on my Desktop. Plus, I must have clicked the wrong option. When I first got it the other day it just had the recycle bin icon on the Desktop. Now, I can't find the recycle bin and all that is on the Desktop is a bunch of tiles. Please help, if I keep trying things I'm afraid I'm going to make...

Software protection service is stealing window focus

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Checked the event viewer. It causes minimizations of 3d games.

dialog box opens up unnecessarily!

taskbar rollover information slow to appear (Windows 8.1)

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When I rollover a shortcut icon pinned to the taskbar, a box pops up showing the name of the application or folder linked to that icon. But it comes up so slowly as to be useless. Is there a way to speed these up? If you have the folder or application open and roll over it, the thumbnail comes up quickly. But if the application or folder is not open, then the popup box comes up...

How to enlarge the icons\text of interfaces of application

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How to enlarge the icons\text of interfaces of applications in windows 10, The icon size and texts of applications installed in windows 10 are smaller than those of windows. In windows 8, the “change the size of texts, apps, and other items” option used to solve the issue. In windows 10, setting the “change the size of texts, apps, and other items” to be 125% has no effects on the icons\texts...

I think something went wrong when I did a factory restore

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I had to do a factory restore to switch back to 8.1 and now theres a 50/50 chance that the computer becomes unresponsive when booting it up for the first time each day. I have to turn it off and on to fix the problem. I'll tap the desktop tile and itll freeze. I'll move the mouse around and the mouse pointer will be copied or something so theres mouse pointers all over the screen lol. Do I need...

Windows 8.1 permanent display "Reset Password" button

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Hi All, need some help here. Windows 8.1 possible to permanent display "Reset Password" button on logon screen? Current setting u need first enter an incorrect username/password, only the button will be displayed. Thank you.... :):)
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