I had bought a Acer desktop computer that had Windows 11 installed from the factory a month ago. I do not like Windows 11, so I made that creation disc media etc and went back to Windows 10. All...
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I had bought a Acer desktop computer that had Windows 11 installed from the factory a month ago. I do not like Windows 11, so I made that creation disc media etc and went back to Windows 10. All...
I just downloaded and installed Office 2021 on my computer. The SAVE button on Excel and Word are not working. I can hit it two or three times, but if I hit the UNDO arrow at the top (which is dark...
Thanks Reverend for the reply. I just made the adjustment you mentioned. I will see what happens, and post back. Any suggestions on why the other items do not open. I just noticed that when this...
Sometimes I have a problem opening, File Explorer, Updates and Security, and the DVD player won’t start when I put a DVD in it. If I click on File Explorer, it will eventually open maybe in a minute...
My friends computer crashed and I am setting everything up for him again. I was able to reimage Windows 8.1 and that works OK. I am setting up his email using Outlook 2007 and an IMAP account which I...
OK, Thanks. will wait and see. Mike
Thanks Reverend for the reply. The upgrade assistant did not work.
If the Windows 8.1 Update is available on the regular Update site in spring, will I be able to go from Windows 8, which I have...
Yes, I do. Thanks
Will Win 8.1 ever be listed as an update on the Windows Update site, versus using the STORE. I can't seem to get the update to appear on the STORE, I have tried all the suggestions that are offered....
Update, well I did that Recovery to original state thing. After about 4 hours I was surprised to see I still had those 5 partitions. I thought the computer would be RESET to the way I got it out of...
I tried to resize an existing partition on my new Win 8 computer. I just made everything worse. Now I have about 4 partitions if I look at MY COMPUTER, and I see even more partitions if I look at...
Reverend---Thank you for the links. I printed them, and now I have all the info. I need, both to do an image, and also to copy the image back to my computer if ever needed. Many thanks, Mike
I am new to this clone, image, restore processes, so be patient if I jump around. I have a Dell Vostro with Win 7, which I just upgraded to Win 8 Pro for about $16.00 I just got a Seagate 1 TB...
Hi Reverend, Thanks for the reply. Windows Defender does update daily. It also does a quick scan shortly after I start the computer. I was trying to deceide between keeping Windows Defender or...
What is the opinion here about Windows Defender that comes along with Windows 8 Pro. I recently upgraded to Windows 8 Pro and was wondering how it compares to other FREE antiviruses like, AVG,...
Thanks Dehcbad25 and Reverend for the replies. I sent her that microsoft link that did the Fix automatically for you. To my surprise it worked. Things usually are NOT that simple. I thought for...
My friend just email me that she removed Chrome from her computer, (she was no using it, her daughter was).
Anyway, now when she tries to open an attachment in Outlook 2007 she gets this message...
Is it OK to have two anti-viruses on the same computer as long as only one is active, and the other is NOT active or enabled. I like to have the second one just to manually double scan some programs...
Hi Reverend. I Googled what I wanted to do, and it gave me a few instructions. I was able to STOP Avira from loading and MSE did load. However when I went to the download site, I got a popup from...
I was using MSE as my anti-virus but recently purchased and installed Avira Internet Security 2012 because it was ranked very high by av-comparatives.org I would like to do some download...
Reverend--Success. I went into the Dell site with my service tag number and it said I needed the 530-1018. I downloaded it to my desktop and followed your directions. All seems well. I do not see...
Reverend----Thanks for the reply. The Dell computer has bios version 1.0.12
on it now, so I guess it is pretty outdated. I printed out the instructions you furnished, and will give it a try....
I am working on a friends Dell Inspiron 530, that is about 3-4 years old. I see there is a bios update on the Dell site for this computer. Is there anything confusing about downloading and installing...
efc--Thanks for the reply, but the HD really has nothing on it to save. I usually wipe the drive, and install a fresh OS on it before I retire the computer for parts.
The recipiant computer does...
I get a message that the system process WINDOWS/SYSTEM32/SERVICES.EXE terminated unexpectantly, and will sutdown and restart. status code 1073741819