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Cant play any games

Get this message when i try to play Wasteland 2 directors cut: "Failed to initialize Direct3D. Make sure you have at least DirectX 9.0c installed, have drivers for your graphics card and have not disabled 3D acceleration in display settings. …

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Cryptolocker virus

applications not working on windows 10 and some documents crypted. how can applications be retrieved

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Anonymous

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How to upgrade from windows 8 to 10

I'm having windows 8.How can I upgrade to windows 10.Is it necessary of upgrade to windows 8.1 and for upgrade is back up necessary? and how to backup if necessary.

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Anonymous

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Films & TV app stopped in the middle of playing a downloaded movie

I recently downloaded a movie using the Films & TV app. The movie played fine until the 38th minute then stopped. I tried removing it and re-downloading, running sfc and dism but all to no avail, the movie will not play. How can I get the movie to…

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Windows can't find Office2013\OFFICEICON.vbs while installing AMD driver

I've just bought this Lenovo Laptop, i7, 1T, and GPU AMD HD8500, I'm trying to install some AMD update drivers and Always appears this error: Windows can't find c:\ProgramData\Office2013\OFFICEICON.vbs . I also can't launch Adobe Premere CC, I don't…

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Append one file to another file without actually reading it into memory.

Hi, I want to append one file to another file without actually reading the first file into the memory and writing it to the end of other file. I mean there need to be a way (in Windows of course) to do this from a CPP code. Just as the CreateLinkFile()…

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Visual Studio Redistributable 2013 does not install correctly

After installing our program on a users laptop and attempting to run the application, we see this error message: "The procedure entry point ??Bios_base@std@@QBE_NXZ could not be located in the dynamic link library MSVCP120.dll" For the…

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Windows Media Player fails to play wav files on Windows 10

Original title: Media Player I am running Win 10 and Windows Media Player will not run my wav files. **Post moved by the moderator to the appropriate forum category.**

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Using file history feature via internet on a NAS

Hi, I am using Windows 8.1. I have a d-link dns-321 NAS. I set up Windows File History feature, saving to the NAS. Works fine on my LAN. Is there any way to get it to work remotely, from outside my LAN. Is it just a matter of port forwarding on my …

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Renaming ProgramData OR Program Files

this question applies to Win 10 as well (but with 2 directories). Windows 8.1 has 3 directories: "Program<space>Files", and "Program<space>Files<space>(x86)", and "Program<nospace>Data" This bothers…

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Anonymous

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Unable to send photos via email

I have been unable to send photos from my computer...i get error messages. micro tech said it is an old version of Outlook and it is not supported anymore?? [Original title: I have OLDER Vista]

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Anonymous

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Norton vs Windows Defender

I was wonder the difference between Norton Security and Windows Defender is. I have Norton Security installed but my subscription is about to expire and i wanted to know if Windows Defender will do the same thing. Thanks

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My ntoskrnl.exe might be infected, which means my PC has been RATED. What should I do?

About two months ago my PC suffered from an unknown failure and some of my system files were missing. However, after a while the system was running just like normal and the known virus/malware were deleted thanks to the Avast and Malwarebyte. Until one…

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There is a blue and yellow shield flashing in the task bar that is preventing use of the task bar. How do I get rid of it from the task bar

I want to be able to use icons in the task bar but the flashing shield is preventing me from doing so. This shield icon showed up on the task bar 2 days ago. HOW DO I GET RID OF IT?

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Undeletable Virus makes (my removable desk.lnk) shortcut

Hi, I use windows 7 ultimate x64 bit first you must know that i tried everything before i ask you. When I connect a removable USB Drive, system makes a shortcut with (flash name.lnk) that take me to my files. my files and folders inside the (flash…

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Win7 SP1: Win Update fails with 80080005; Always "Preparing to configure new updates" on restart; Can't run sfc /scannow

Hi all, I have a perplexing problem, or series of problems, which appears to have started about a week ago. The summary of the issue is that Windows Update will not run, reporting error 80080005. As well as breaking new updates, more urgently it's…

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Anonymous

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pinging localhost results in general failure error, but only when not in administrator mode

pinging localhost results in transmit failed, general failure. If I run cmd.exe in administrator mode, the ping works If I boot in safe mode with networking, the pings works, both in normal and administrator mode I don't know when this problem started…

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Windows Live Mail authorising problem

I have been moving my Live Mail account from an old windows 7 pc to a new windows 10 pc. Everything seemed to have gone v well until I discovered I could no longer send emails. My account seems constantly to be authorizing and my emails get stuck in my…

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WARNING: Failed to synchronize, error = 0x8007000E

Win 7 Pro windows update won't work. The windows Update log shows WARNING: Failed to synchronize, error = 0x8007000E Anybody know how to fix this? I have cleared the cashe. run Fix It , Fails to fix 0x8007000e run Windows6.1-KB947821-v34-x86 - run…

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Windows 7: Error 80072EE2

After installing Windows 10 Pro on my PC, I was having no problems up until around Nov 1 when my computer could no longer connect to the Windows Update servers and continuously gives the 80072EE2 error message. I then reinstalled Windows 7 and still had…

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1,057,409 questions

Cant play any games

Cryptolocker virus

How to upgrade from windows 8 to 10

Films & TV app stopped in the middle of playing a downloaded movie

Windows can't find Office2013\OFFICEICON.vbs while installing AMD driver

Append one file to another file without actually reading it into memory.

Visual Studio Redistributable 2013 does not install correctly

Windows Media Player fails to play wav files on Windows 10

Using file history feature via internet on a NAS

Renaming ProgramData OR Program Files

Unable to send photos via email

Norton vs Windows Defender

My ntoskrnl.exe might be infected, which means my PC has been RATED. What should I do?

There is a blue and yellow shield flashing in the task bar that is preventing use of the task bar. How do I get rid of it from the task bar

Undeletable Virus makes (my removable desk.lnk) shortcut

Win7 SP1: Win Update fails with 80080005; Always "Preparing to configure new updates" on restart; Can't run sfc /scannow

pinging localhost results in general failure error, but only when not in administrator mode

Windows Live Mail authorising problem

WARNING: Failed to synchronize, error = 0x8007000E

Windows 7: Error 80072EE2