Black screen then restart is ok
Hi, i'm on windows 8.1 preview, every time i turn my pc for the first time it gives me only a black screen with the cursor on it, and then when i turn it off and on again it boots normally, i reboot...
View ArticleWindows 8 Partition "SYSTEM" / Disk Management Help
Hi, I had Windows 8.1 installed for quite some time and wanted to go back to 8 today until the real update rolled out. I had a system image stored with everything I wanted setup correctly....
View ArticleWin7 formatted 3TB HD showing as Unallocated on Win8 machi
I'm having a slight problem. My Win7 system crashed and killed two of the 4 drives in it, including the C: drive. I purchased a new Win8 system with a Gigabyte Z77-HD3 motherboard. One of the drives...
View ArticleWindows 8 file explorer acting strange
Hi my windows 8 file explorer for the last few days has been acting very strange, One min it will be blank with just a few things in it and at another time be normal, if i log off and log back in its...
View ArticleSolved Brightness Option for Monitor is Greyed Out
I have a new HP Pavilion Slimline 400-034PC with a HP Pavilion 23bw monitor. I need to dim the monitor screen because it is too bright but the brightness control in the Windows 8 settings is greyed...
View ArticleWindows 8 PC settings window dark??
I recently bought a new laptop (Toshiba Satellite P50) used it for a day and the settings came up like this the next day. Is there a way to fix this or should I just return the laptop and get something...
View Article64 bit or 32 bit?
I have a HP pavilion dv6 3017TU Laptop and I am just curious about windows 8 and if I could install the 64bit version! Will there be any stability problem with only 3gb ram? please help..
View Articlefile copy problem
I have a Lenovo Thinkpad 2 Tablet. But I am having trouble with copying to my microSD drive. I have a Sandisk 64GB microSD card with exFAT formatting. When I write to it from the desktop, the files do...
View ArticleBlurry text problem has not been fixed in Win 8.1 RTM
I can confirm that M$ did NOT fix the blurry text problem. This is absolutely UNACCEPTABLE for an OS to be released with a bug that was known long before RTM. There could be legitimate reasons for...
View ArticleWindows 8 won't start, freezes during troubleshoot
-Windows 8 will not boot. -shows bad system config info -attempts to auto correct -Goes to screen where I can choose option to troubleshoot. - I choose troubleshoot - I click on advanced options and...
View ArticleWin 8 Daily Random Freezes
Guys i thought this is the best place to post this thread in the forum The situation is that i have these annoying freezes happening almost everyday to my system, first the Mouse freezes and then it...
View ArticleWindows 8 Metro Right Click Is Gone
So i know windows 8 should have an icon that should replace the place that kind of like square bracket in this photoAttachment 27156...
View ArticleScreen brightness
Hi I have a HP envy m6 notebook and when im viewing websites the brightness will keep randomly changing. why is this and how do I stop it? ive gone into the settings and turned off the 'enable adaptive...
View ArticleCannot Write Files after Resuming from Sleep w/o Lock
I have two Windows 8 UltraBooks: a Sony Vaio SVT13126CXS, and a Samsung NP540U3C-A01UB. Both were setup fairly simply in December 2012, except that they both had the Intel/McAfee anti-theft software...
View ArticleCan't Drag / Resize on Desktop
On start up (although not exclusively) I seem to have trouble when I try to move/resize my browsers (or any apps) on my desktop. I touch the top part of my apps and attempt to move and they stay...
View ArticleWindows 8 icons fuzzy with black edges
I'm using Windows 8.1 with the latest Nvidia beta driver r326.80 (not sure if that matters) but I'm seeing icons with black edges all over in sub-menu items (like in 'send to') and in most dialog...
View ArticleAero Peek not working for some windows in a specific case
There's a case where aero peek doesn't work properly with windows like it should. If a window is completely hidden behind another window, using aero peek doesn't show the outline of the hidden window,...
View ArticleScreen jumps between desktop & metro right after login
Hi, Right out of the blue, windows 8 loaded up painfully slow so i restarted my HP g6 laptop. After restarting the laptop the user login screen appeared fine fine but as soon as i login the metro tile...
View ArticleFreezing Mouse Pointer
The following is a copy/paste from the Windows 7 forum: ---Quote (Originally by cheezit)--- Not really sure where this goes but.... I am running Windows 7 Home Premium. In the last couple of days, my...
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