Archive for November 2011

Failed to validate product key problem strikes again

Hello I have done many Win 10 upgrades without any problems but my current problem has taken 2 days out of my life!! without a solution. H...

Can I Clone A System Config From an Old Win 10 HDD

I have a pretty shoddy old eMachines PC running Win 10 Home edition 32-bit. I had decided to replace it with something newer and quicker but...

New install - formatting questions

Does Windows 10 give me the option of doing a full format at the time of installation? I see lots of conflicting information about quick vs ...

was win 7 upgraded to win 10 but on RESTART win 10 Problem!!!!

I upgraded win 7 home to win 10... a dell notebook i5 processor 4GB RAM but PC starts OK - shuts downs OK but on RESTART win 10 Problem!!!! ...

Cloning HDD to SSD in a different computer?

Hey everyone, Just wanted to get a feel on this before i dig into it. I have a dell laptop (school) that i got a SSD for. I also have a clev...

Windows 10 pro installation

When i go to put windows on a usb i cannot find windows 10 pro anywhere. Would selecting "windows 10" in the menu work and would i...

How do I install windows 10 without harming my windows 7?

I only have ONE computer...a desktop...yes, it will run windows 10. I want to play around with Windows 10 before giving up Windows 7. Here...

Win 10 installed on new SSD, still boots from old drive.

Ill try and be short and specific: -I installed win 10 on a spanking new SSD. -I did not unistall or do any changes to my win 7 installation...

Important Step In Preparing for Win10 on Main Machine

This morning I pulled out one of my old USB 2.0 external HDD's, and formatted it, to not only make a system image from my system disk, b...

System image to thumb drive not working

So overall, I was having a issue with creating a system image. It would state that "The specified backup storage location has the shado...

Metered wifi and bluetooth

What is the connection between metered wifi and bluetooth. When my wifi is metered, I get message as shown in pic below. I also get sometim...

Upgrading from 7 Pro using Techbench ISO - Product Key Required

Hi, I'm trying to upgrade a desktop Windows 7 Pro 64bit OEM, activated SP1, to Windows 10. I will have several machines to upgrade, and ...

What does Create a Recovery Drive do?

Hi I'm not sure from the description what the create a recovery drive option does. Does this make a bootable repair disk, or USB drive, ...

treesize

Hello I upgraded from Win 10 1511 to the the Anniversary and it runs well. I just removed the win.old with disc cleanup and remove system fi...

Critical Process Died on windows 10 setup

Hi all I recently installed a new ssd into my laptop and installed a fresh installation of windows 10 onto it. When it started up after the ...

Does the ISO they provide on the website work the same?

Is there any difference if I just download and make a USB stick instead of waiting ? How does the product key work ( I am on 8.1 Pro ) once ...

W10 insider doesn't remember my wifi password

Hello I've just installed Wiondows 10 Insider Preview Build 14279 and I've noticed a problem. It's unable to save my WiFi passwo...

DISM and SFC

I posted in the Win 8 forum but saw I should have posted here. I read the corrective material in Win 8 as to how to fix this missing or corr...

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