HP notebook with GPT partition table
I need you help guys, i brought an HP Pavilion G6 and it comes with an GUID partition table (GPT), EFI and Secure Boot. However i need an MBR partition table, so i tried disk managerment but the option...
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When I boot up my Win 8 pc it will load up Bing. It will ask me if I want Bing on my homepage, and I always select no. Any ideas on what causes this? Jim
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Windows 8 Pro w/Media Center 1. Firefox will freeze if you try to display anything that requires Flash- I tried to reinstall Flash but when I try to install, literally nothing happens. The cursor loads...
View ArticleFile explorer not working properly.
Sorry to be one of "those" guys who makes an account just to ask for help, but my windows file viewer has an annoying bug. When I double click a folder it opens in a new tab, every time. I've tried...
View Articlewindows goes to sleep DESPITE having been DISABLED
Hello, I've been using Windows 8 for almost a month now and it's been great. But, since around 4am today (ICT), this popped out of nowhere: Windows goes to sleep despite the Power Options being set to...
View ArticleSolved Windows 8 is installed on D drive, how to change to C?
Hi, I installed Windows 8 on a separate hard disk plugged into a Windows 7 machine, ultimately of course resulting in a dual boot machine - with 7 on C: and 8 on D:. I added BOOTMGR to the Windows 8...
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I am getting a wrong ("compacted") resolution for a 1280x1024 monitor when booting. Anyway to repair that? Thanks.
View ArticleBoot Change Help
I've searched the forum and haven't seen anything like this. I have a win 8 /win 7 system. the win 8 is the default boot os. Unfortunately I installed win 8 with the win 7 drive in the system and the...
View ArticleWin 8 installed on 2 drives
I did a clean install of win 8 on the main drive C; I alsohave another (partitioned) hard drive which I use for storage etc. The OSinstalled with no problems but I did notice that the 1st partitionon...
View ArticleSolved Is there any way of opening charms bar programmatically?
Hi Is there any way of opening the charms bar programmatically? I've got a simple vbs script that uses the GUID tor searching apps, which then uses "send keys" to find a specific app and open it. The...
View ArticleEnough Is Enough!
Just spent the day yesterday building my machine back up to Win7 Ultimate from scratch. I'm done with "8" for the duration. Latest problem: hard crashing when more than one Metro app open with busy...
View ArticleI need help desperately! My laptop has crashed.
I have recently installed win 8 on my laptop. It has crashed after installing MS Office Home & Student 2007. It will not repair automatically or any other way. I have spent hours on line and...
View ArticleQuestion on personal message
I attempted to send a message to a member but a notation popped up saying, "BB code not allowed". All I tried to send was just plain text. What was the meaning of the notation? Thanks--Frank
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hello I have a system with about 50 users on it I need to be able to message them all a warning when im going to reboot and other things but the new task manager don't seem to allow me to select more...
View ArticleShow of hands, who hasn't and isn't buying the $40 upgrade
Just curious, how many of you have used Windows 8, have tried the various free preview options and have decided to simply NOT purchase the product by the end of the day tomorrow when the $40 upgrade...
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