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Windows 8 Automatic Repair Loop Issue

Hi, I seem to be having some problems with my Windows 8 installation and was wondering if anyone might be able to help? A couple of days ago, I cut the power to the base station suddenly (by accident),...

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Solved Win 8 to 8.1 refresh question

I upgraded win 8 to 8.1 from the metro store. Do i need to make a new recovery disk or will my previous 8.0 pro cd work? I tried a refresh with my 8.0 cd and got error saying invalid media.

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Windows 8.1 START button not working on Windows 7 desktop

I have a Lennovo 580 laptop with windows 8.1. Months ago I installed the Windows 7 desktop. The START button has suddenly stop working - i.e., nothing happens when I click on it. I have shut down and...

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Windows 8.1 BSOD - igdkmd64.sys - Please help!

Every time I play a game I keep getting a low memory error massage then my computer crashes :/ Please help! (Btw, this only happened when I'm playing League of Legends, not any other game) I'm running...

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Restoring factory setting for Windows 8

A month ago, I bought an XPS 7800 with windows 8 and a 2 TB drive. On the same day I received it, the drive was partitioned into ca 200 GB (for Win 8) and ca 1700 GB (for data) partitions. Computer ran...

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Computer will not reboot after windows updates.

I'm fairly tech savvy but this problem is bugging me. Anytime windows updates, it's supposed to turn off, then turn back on to finish. Well anytime it turns off, it won't turn back on. The last time it...

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plain win 8 to win 7 ultimate

my grandma has a new laptop that has the plain version of windows 8 on it and i have a windows 7 disc and key code that i would like to downgrade for her she really likes win 7 and hates windows 8. im...

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Need help about making desktop like this

I have installed windows 8.1 on my machine Can any one told me that how to make desktop like this

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Windows Metro - Resolution Looks to low

Hi All, I am new here but recently setup a dual boot of Windows 8.1 to test and learn how to use it. I have everything setup and quite liking it so far apart from the lack of a start menu. The new...

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Circle appearing next to pointer constantly

Internet Explorer 11 top bar flashes continually also. Since I upgraded my new computer from Win 8 to 8.1, it no longer goes to sleep on its own, wakes up after put to sleep. Thought that it might just...

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Solved Fresh install and product key confusion

Hi everybody, I will soon replace my HDD with an SSD and make a fresh install of windows. Here's my problem: I bought Windows 8 and received a Windows 8 product key but am now running Win8.1. Microsoft...

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Task manager process name

Is task manager process name different in different languages? I keep hearing this but I don't really see why it would be

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Windows 8 black screen of death?

Well, the other day I found a game that I used to love from 2001 and I put it in my computer, and it starts up fine. But while it was loading I tried to alt+tab out of it to do other things while...

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38 character product code

Where do i find the 38 character windows8 product code (for microsoftFixit program) ? Thank you in advance

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Solved Show Drive Letter First in Windows 8.1

I've done many searches to get this accomplished in Windows Explorer. Even the registry hack, to no avail. I'm out of ideas. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

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default font

I am using a Lenovo Yoga, i have set "default" to Calibri font multible times and it reverts to Times Roman. Thank you for you help.

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Any way to make text larger under ALL PROGRAMS?

Any way to make text larger under ALL PROGRAMS? I am using Start8 which has no option for hits. I could try Classic Shell instead and get cascading list of All Programs which I may do for the heck of...

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blank black page with a bin in the top left hand corner

I have a blue screen problem. Don't know if I should post it here or not but here is my problem. I have windows 8. I updated to 8.1. So far so good. That is until this morning. I don't know if this is...

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After upgrade to Win 8.1 from 8, takes 5 min to restart

After upgrading a Dell XPS One using both Intel HD 4000 and nVidia 640M graphics, the computer takes 5 minutes to restart. The restart screen immediately shows up after hitting the restart button. Then...

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Ram issue

I am having problems with my acer g predator series AG3620-UR308 windows 8.1 12 gig ram installed only 8.3 available and I am running 64 bit I was wondering if any one knows how to fix this issue its...

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