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My new PC had Windows 7 Home premium pre-installed and I upgraded to Windows 8. I want to revert back to Windows 7 - I have the product key on a label on my PC but not the disc - How can I do it? Thanks in advance! Ken View the thread

Imagine the Ultimate edition that never was. This hypothetical beast would have all the best stuff from Enterprise and Pro, nothing more. Everything would be bundled in. Of course, it would be incrementally more expensive to cover Microsoft's costs for proprietary codec licenses, etc. There are things in Enterprise I like, but the volume licensing model doesn't seem to suit me. Basically I have a need for one copy. Pro, even with a free Media Center, doesn't compel me to upgrade. So... Basic question for those still sitting on the fence (i.e., who haven't yet bought Windows 8): If a Windows 8 Ultimate upgrade became available, say for the same price Windows 7 Ultimate was a few years ago, would you buy it? Would having the best of all worlds be enough to push you off the fence? -Noel Detailed how-to in my eBooks: View the full article

I want to understand the mechanics of multiple-booting. Feel free to point me to Microsoft links which explain this. How does Windows know how many bootable OS are present? Does Windows query each partition at boot to see if an OS resides there? Or is a pointer added to the MBR as each OS is installed so Windows merely needs to check the MBR? Let me complicate the qustion slightly. Suppose multiple disks are involved, each with an OS or two. If Windows queries each partition at boot to see if an OS resides there, then multiple disks does not change anything. However, if Windows stores this information in the MBR, how does that work for multiple disks, each with its own MBR? Does Windows look at every MBR it can find at boot? One more question. If Windows adds a pointer for each OS to the MBR, then what happens if an OS is deleted, for example, when a partition is deleted or a disk containing an OS or two is physically removed? View the thread

I must be missing something. On the XBOX Music App, under &quotAll Music&quot from the xbox music store it shows a couple of store based playlists. For example &quotWho's Next&quot. When I select a playlist there doesn't seem to be any way to play it. It shows a random album cover that seems to be unrelated. If you click on any of the tracks XBOX Music will show the album that the track belongs to. Is this by design or am I missing a secret gesture. View the full article

I use an optical keyboard and mouse from Logitech. They sent me updated software for this device, in both 34- and 68-bit versions. (My OS is 68-bit.) I downloaded both but when I try to run either one I get an error message indicating "this is not a valid Win34 application." Also, I see that the files they sent me are empty. Logitech tech support reps tell me these programs are downloaded regularly by many users and work fine.Can anyone think of what's going wrong? View the thread

My computer is asking me to download the update from the Tags SA website, because Tags Protection has been blocked. There are two possible files to download. I don't know which is best for Windows 7 and i don't want to mess anything else up. The message I received from my computer was about a blocked driver. From there I found out about the blocked protection that may create issues the next time I start up my computer. View the thread

Everything was working properly in IE 8 until this update was installed automatically. Now I have to uninstall it before I can use the internet. I contacted MS support and did the Hotfix program as well as the Fix utility. When I open Google for example, it says the page cannot open and asks me to download a txt file to my hard-disk. View this thread

al agregar características a Windows 8 , me da mensaje de que no puede crear punto de restauracion View this thread

what can I do to stop the update that when I ture off the computer - it says installing update 1 of 2 over &amp over again? what is going on? then then sometimes I gat a single update then back to the other? View this thread

Hugo award winner, writer and current president of the SFWA John Scalzi received his new computer around December 14 and at the time was interested in the start screen and &quotWindows Store App&quot mode. You can read his initial thoughts at: http://whatever.scalzi.com/2012/12/14/tech-notes-on-the-xps-one-and-windows-8 One month later he is installing Stardock and writes &quotI’ve come to believe the Win 8 start screen, and the whole environment it propagates is just terrible UI for those of us who actually use their computers for work, rather than using them just to play games and get on Facebook.&quot He makes several good observations about his work-style and how the &quotWindows Store Apps&quot do not work well for him. Obviously everyone is different and their needs differ, but it makes for interesting reading. Check it out at: http://whatever.scalzi.com/2013/01/16/punting-the-start-screen/ View the full article

I remember reading the &quotSimplifying Printing in Windows 8&quot post ( View the full article

My IExplorer bar says I am currently running with add-ons disabled and I don't have ActiveX installed. There is no dropdown on the bar for it. View this thread

Original title : WINDOW 7 WON'T UPDATE I am running HP Pavilion p6740f Desktop with Windows 7, 64bit, Windows Home Premium. I have never had trouble with using Windows Update. But today I have attempted to install a Windows Update [actually two] and I am getting the same results...failed. I have done nothing that would account for this problem. I did repeat the attempt to download updates several times...failed. In the fail message it says ERROR 643. I also went online to see if anyone, in google, had this same problem. Several people did, but they don't have a solution. I need some help. Thanks, Joseph View the thread

I am running HP Pavilion p6740f Desktop with Windows 7, 64bit, Windows Home Premium. I have never had trouble with using Windows Update. But today I have attempted to install a Windows Update [actually two] and I am getting the same results...failed. I have done nothing that would account for this problem. I did repeat the attempt to download updates several times...failed. In the fail message it says ERROR 643. I also went online to see if anyone, in google, had this same problem. Several people did, but they don't have a solution. I need some help. Thanks, Joseph View this thread

Hi all, I've never actually posted on a forum before, yet here I find myself. My laptop died Christmas day, and I said goodbye to the world to laptops.. I longed for the days when I had XP on an old desktop and my life with productively using computers was simple, figuring a tower set up to display thru my nice shiny 47&quot would be more suitable to my life but put too much stress on a laptop running it as dual display. That's what I wanted.... being a broke ass student who cant afford a Mac and windows vista, and even 7 machines no longer being sold, what I got was Windows 8 Been giving it a chance for a few weeks but it's simply not there yet.... I am terribly depressed that the technology I so desperately need to use efficiently and with ease has let me down to this point. As a university student and paid researcher I need my desktop to function and multi-task seamlessly between multiple open windows, not apps! of each: pdf's, Excel and Word... yet that's not the case here. On paper I have the biggest and baddest computer I've ever owned...yet in reality I have a operating system on steroids that models its self after a game....just great! (so not!) And I'm not saying I hate what they've &quotdeveloped&quot I just wish Microsoft as a Brand had of created something original instead of layering the pre-existing x-box operations and app-centric-ness overtop of a cut to shreds version of windows 7. Its a great concept, but it's just that: a concept! I get that its to integrate touch technology and be more fluid in transition from tablet to pc to phone but none of the attributes (need for quick changes between apps and dinky icons required by the limited screen space available to those mediums) a tablet or phone or an x-box has so its really pointless. pretty sure everyone out there doesn't just dream of owning a touchscreen pc- I've distinctly made the choice not to many a times over the past few years for this very reason of touch integrated tech not being compatible with the basic function and ease of use for academic or business applications. This system does not function, there is NO ease of use for the more professional or business minded user. Microsoft you have successfully eliminated your core users in effort to appeal to children, the elderly and the social media obsessed...Id give you credit for appealing to the art crowd with your new approach to photos but lets face we all know Mac has long held that market...so really u had the business and education sector to appeal to with your networking computer concept and you blew it. thanks for nothing, Im now taking my brand new computer to see if a person who likely is your past employer can erase all traces of this near viral operating system and go back to one of your older operating systems. I wish I had of bought a Mac, and can now safely say I will never purchase a Microsoft product again. And worse I'm computer il-literate when it comes to code so the dream I have for windows 8 is unattainable- messing with registry is not a option for me- registry errors are usually the source of my issues not the solution. I've learned to avoid anything to do with it like the plague. View the full article

Obviously windows8 has an issue with shutting down the computers, my both desktop computers (both hp, one year old) and my Toshiba laptop ( 6 months old) had widows7 and never had a problem shutting down, after upgrading all of them to windows8, I am having problems, it does not happen everytime, rather every 2nd or 3rd time. Microsoft has to come up with an update for this issue, it seems that I am not the only one. any suggestions? Thanks View this thread

I downloaded Windows 8 upgrade from the Microsoft site as an upgrade for XP. Now that the upgrade is complete, I have no more Office 2007. I have the disc but the product key has already been used on three computers. This computer is the one that I use on a daily basis for work and school, what am I supposed to do?? View this thread

I have just done a full xp reinstall after some freezing issues (trojan?) On trying to update xp, I am getting messages and error codes which prevent me getting on with the job. Error 404 and &quotthe web cannot display the website. I was under the impression there was support till the end of the year. View this thread

HiI have made some hardware changes in my pc and tried to activate windows. I was told to do the telephonic activation so I dialed the given nos. after providing all the numbers (Installation ID) I am receiving the same answer that there is a technical problem, try later. This problem is there for couple of months. Please help me out. View the thread

The system gets to 80/90% load and then reverts to the previous version. Not sure what the updates are that will not load. I've tried the fixes that are listed here and they have not helped. I'm not getting any error messages, just not loading updates. Where do find what updates that are trying to load? Any ideas on how to correct the loading problem? View this thread

Ive had to reinstall windows on my laptop (it came preinstalled on the laptop when bought) due to problems which are now fixed, but i get a message saying my windows is not genuine? and i get a black background, before i reinstalled windows i found the windows code that was used to install it before and used it to install windows again. i dont get why im having these problems with something ive already paid for. its not installing security updates either. its asking me to get a genuine code? but the codes only been used with this laptop so it should still work. i shouldnt have to buy a new code and im not going to either. View the thread

Whether I attempt to run the scandisk utility from Windows or from the command prompt, I get the message that scandisk has been cancelled and can't get past it. View the thread

Keep receiving error code 80090006 View this thread

I have just run the system file checker and it is giving errors which haven't been fixed. What do I do now? View this thread

I have recently re-installed windows vista 32 bit. now I want to install service pack 2 so that i can update my browser but i keep getting message that i need to install service pack 1 in order to install service pack 2. (service pack 1 is already installed) View this thread