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Windows 7 goes End of Life on Tuesday 14JAN2020. No more updates and patches unless you've paid for the corporate extension. I take it everyone is prepared?

A really useful link to 16 tips about how to fix windows 10 http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2018/01/28/16-windows-10-tricks-youll-wish-knew-sooner.html

Have read several articles......none gave any compelling reason (or much of any really) to "upgrade." Anyone?

I just "reserved" a copy for a free upgrade (from Windows 7). Did I just make a huge mistake?

Windows 10 to be free upgrade for users of Win 7, Win 8.0 & Win 8.1 for 1year from the release date.

We're several months into the post XPocalypse era, or so I thought. Still I am getting fairly regular updates; and I haven't used the register hack Microsoft warns against. Just today I got another one. Has some nefarious malware managed to take over the Windows update mechanism to do God knows...

Yesterday I assisted a friend clean up yet another infestation of malware / adware on her computer. Somehow--she has no idea how--within the space of a few minutes the following software installed itself on her computer: Conduit Search Bar (no idea where this came from) Internet Updater (via...

I just got a new computer. As is to be expected it came with Windows 8. And boy do I hate it. I mean my reaction can be summed up as: why did they change this? Why did they do that? Have they not heard of multitasking? Did they think everyone just loved the clunky interfaces of smart phones...

Can I put my Windows 98 hard drive in an XP slot? I've looked around for the answer but it didn't quite answer my question. I just want to take the hard drive from my 98 and put it in a slot in my XP where another hard drive used to be, and then use that to run Windows 98. I.E. I want it so I...

With the desktop PC getting replaced by tablets, and smart-phones, one thing has become abundantly clear - the near absence of Microsoft Windows in this exploding sector. Even Apple is losing ground in the tablet market, mostly to Android(a form of Linux) tablets. Android is already on over 50%...

What is with the Windoze updates last couple of days? I've had 21, 4, 2, 2, 1, and 3 updates on Win 7, and 27, 3,2,1,1 on Win Vista just over the weekend!

Not being much of an Apple user, I was wondering how it stacked up to Microsoft. Thoughts?

I'm having a problem I think is due to a faulty graphics card. The card frequently crashes while playing games, and sometimes even when I'm not playing games I get an error of "graphics driver has stopped working and has recovered" after getting a black screen for a second or so. I also have...

Does someone of my fellow JREF computer geeks know how to get a program to be the very, very first [third-party] software to autostart during the boot sequence in Windows [XP]? I want my Software-Firewall to be the first software to be active before any other software is being loaded - to...

Hello all! I have a problem that perhaps some of you smart, kind people can help out with. I work at a large engineering firm and one of my jobs is to make sure that all of the engineering software runs smoothly. Anyway, now there is a serious move to change all of our PC Operating Systems...

We've been having some rather strange network problems where I work. Its a small IT company (about a dozen users). We've got one main file server and authentication server. For some reason, when one particular user copies files to the file server, it brings down the entire network. (Seems to...

This looks pretty cool:

This thread won't stay on topic, so I started this one.

I've been running Ubuntu 9.04 on a laptop, while my trusty desktop still has XP for a few needed apps. While watching some hulu videos on the laptop, I've noticed some gadgets either don't work, or aren't as responsive as on the desktop. For example, it is like the system ignores my 'click to...

I get a weekly email from PC Advisor magazine. It just included the following notification about some Windows patches. Not sure what to make of it really. http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/news/index.cfm?newsid=112487

Ok, I installed a new hard drive today and it sort of works. As far as I know I've connected everything that needs to be connected and now I have to run the windows gauntlet. BIOS says that there is a hard drive there, but windows only says that there is a hard drive but I can't use it. Is...

Just out of curiosity, is anyone else experiencing this little glitch? My "Network and Sharing Center", under Windows Vista has an "X" icon between my house icon (which represents the local network), and the globe (representing the Internet). The globe icon, itself, is faded gray. My network...

Ok, so here's my situation. I just bought a computer at a trade show that came with Windows XP installed & has a legit product key. It's hard drive (new drive) is smaller than the drive I have now (old drive). I have a old copy of windows 98 on the old drive. The old drive is also...

If anyone can tell me in somewhat simple terms what is wrong with my machine since it has a couple of these, and if there's a way to fix it, it'd be mighty appreciated.

Ubuntu, a Linux OS, will not open EXE files. Where can I find a BIOS upgrade for my computer written in a format that Ubuntu can open? I understand there's a program called Wine that can open EXE files, but to use it you have to write libraries and such in the system first and I'd rather not do...

An article by Barry Fox in PCW (UK magazine) says that XP will get security updates until 2019 and bug fixes until 2014. Also SP3 out this year. XP sales to end soon though.

Hey All I have a friend you who is having difficulty converting files. I'm an idiot when it comes to this kind of thing. I know you Mac lovers out there may be able to help. Any ideas? Thanks! "I was not told abt the difficulty of reading/converting "msg" files when making the conversion...

A couple days ago, for no good reason, I decided to update my computer's BIOS. Horrible mistake. The update went fine, but immediately afterward, Windows wouldn't boot. On the boot screen, right after "Verifying DMI," etc., I got a message: "A Disk Read Error Occurred: Press CTRL ALT DEL to...

It's embarrassing to have to ask such a basic question, but it is literally years since I did anything meaningful at the Windows command line, and I've forgotten a lot of even the most basic stuff. What I want is to be able to run a command in a batch file, send selected parts of its output to...

I've tossed Windows and moved to a Mac. Where has this been all my life? I think I'm in love.