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EDIT: I have "worked around" this problem by using Rufus to create a UEFI-only installation USB. Guess I'll have to rely on having 2 USBs instead of one. Well, not too bad considering I have more than enough USB sticks. Thanks everyone for your input! ___ Dear LTT forumers, I am struggling to create a bootable USB drive for the installation of Win8.1. "Wait a minute, Win8.1 is terrible and receives no support, don't install it!" - Thanks for worrying, but I have reasons which I can not disclose due to an NDA. I need to be able to install W8.1 on both UEFI and Legacy systems. Currently, I am struggling with creating it properly. I have been following this video, but my USB does not boot into UEFI mode, only in legacy. What am I doing wrong? Thanks a lot!
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An issue that plagues certain applications is how they keep using the Classic theme buttons and controls when the rest of Windows has completely abandoned them. They look completely wrong, and I hate it! How do I fix this? I would prefer to force these applications to support visual styles (to look right on Windows 8 and above) rather than using any mods or customization software just to restore the classic theme to Windows itself and make Windows look a certain way just so these applications can look right. This primarily affects Kega Fusion, an emulator with virtually no alternative. I had to create a virtual machine just to run it! If you all need screenshots to jog your memory as to what I am even complaining about, then just ask. Technically this has actually been an issue since Windows XP and the introduction of visual styles, but you were able to just switch back to the classic theme. Windows and the (badly designed) application would still look right. Windows 8 got rid of the classic theme. Attempts to bring it back always result in either a visual disaster with Windows itself now looking horribly broken (but at least those applications now look right) or Windows being completely broken, the main GUI being completely unusable.
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short version: Need help with WIndows 8 because old laptop running WIndows 10 slow and most of the drivers are made for Win8, laptop is Asus X450CC, need an in-depth guide cause its my first time whole story: I'm getting a new SSD soon for this laptop cause I'm still using X450CC slow as fuck HDD, so I'm gonna need reinstall everything anyway, so I might as well just revert this laptop back to Win8. The reason it was upgraded to WIn10 is because this laptop is my brother's old laptop and I recently started using it cause my old daily driver (Asus T100Chi) charging port finally reach its limit and isn't able to charge anymore, so I just yoink my brother's old laptop since he is not using it anymore, and man it's a massive upgrade, even tho it only got an i5-3337U, 8GB RAM & GT720M, but I have no idea why he upgrade it to WIn10. I also notice that when I play LoL my GPU is barely being use, so I search it up and I found this, and even though LoL is a CPU bound game, in a way it says that if the manufucturer has barely any drivers for WIn10 for this particular laptop, then it shouldn't be upgraded to Win10, in which the site has barely any. And since this is my first time doing these kind of stuff, I need a really step-by-step guide on how to do this Oh and since the site shows most of the drivers are for Win8-64bit, I'd want a guide to Win8-64bit UNLESS the drivers works fine in Win8.1, in which it should be but I'm not sure so I'm just gonna play it safe BONUS QUESTIONS: 1. Is there any Win8 debloater? All I've found is Win10 2. How do you unscrew a stripped screw? I've tried using rubber bands but the one I have are all not wide enough and are tiny-winny ones (Important because one of the screw is one of the screw of the HDD and I can't upgrade it if I can't take it out) 3. Once I get into Win8 is it fine to install the latest driver for a hardware? Or do I have to start from the first then work my way up to the latest because a lot of the site's driver say something like "oh make sure u have an older version first before installing this one m8"
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Hoping to find some experts on the matter... Basically i got this 4-7 years old Lenovo thinkpad e450 laptop with windows 8.1 on it, tried to backup some files that were saved on it and then reset it to factory settings. While messing around with it i noticed that even while the charger was connected for some moments the laptop wouldnt recognize the charger, thus no power was delivered. I shrugged it off since it happened only twice and just for couple minutes... later on i noticed that it happened again but this time more than just a couple of minutes passed and no power input was detected. Ive tried going to the device manager window and then deleting the battery devices under the "Batteries" section, the laptop's display went brighter (as it does when its connected to power) and thought thats probably it... restarted the laptop, again doesnt charge and again im deleting the battery from the devices manager. After a while the laptop turned off and i couldnt power it on anymore. Ive read about it and found out that this problem was quite common on windows 8 (also other versions) but couldnt find a defenetive answear. Does anybody know what to do at this kind of state? Thanks for your time...
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Ever since Windows Vista. Now I'm running windows 11 and I have to go in to settings every other day to sync the time. There is no issue with my CMOS, as two of my Ubuntu drives in the system run fine and keep the time without having me to sync them at all on the same system. How on earth do I fix the time for Windows 11?
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i took a backup of some of my games and put it in a SD card,now im unable to copy those files back in to my pc. it does not give me a error or show anything.when i hit paste after copying it just doesnt do anything.i tried copying another set of files in the same SD card to my pc and they copied without any issue. what could be the problem.
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Hello, wonderful people of Linus Tech Tips forums! I recently purchased a Nextbook 10.1 from a second-hand shop it was originally a display model from a Walmart. However, the issue I am encountering is due to it being a display model all admin abilities are locked behind an admin account that is password protected!Sadly they did not provide me with the password for said admin account.I do have access to a local account which gives me the abilities to do basic things, however, installing programs is out of the question on this account. So is there any way I can get into the admin account or possibly gain admin rights somehow? Tablet Model https://www.walmart.com/ip/Nextbook-10.1-Intel-Quad-Core-2-In-1-Detachable-Windows-8.1-Tablet/39092206?u1=j0iy82txmr000a170009i&oid=487159.1&wmlspartner=je6NUbpObpQ&sourceid=04222430713174261518&affillinktype=10&veh=aff
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So I found a 500gb drive in my old laptop, and i want to use it in my old pc. Is there a way I can wipe the hard drive without using my old computer?
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Hey Guys is it possible to run doom on windows 8? i have bought it on steam with dosbox and it runs fine on windows 10 but on windows 8 when i start it it freezes on the cover art no audio plays and than i have to manually shut the program some one please help also i have tried using virtual machines but its the normal resolution and than it shrinks and a single mouse movement is like dragging it across a whole desk By the way in windows 8 when it loads the game it says something about a no mouse swift support but i don`t think that has any thing to do about it please i need to kill some demons
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YOU WILL NEED A DESKTOP COMPUTER WITH TWO SATA CONNECTORS, A WINDOWS OS INSTALL DISK (Any one of your choice...) So I recently found my brothers old computer. It's an Acer Aspire 5551 if your curious. Sadly It was broken, and when I'd previously tried powering it on, It would crash at the login screen at create a Boot Dump log. Now If your in this case you might become stuck, especially before you can even get to the BIOS. If you cannot get to the BIOS: A) Get a new hard drive, especially if the computer is old... B) Use a old or present desktop computer that allows space for more than just one SATA connector. (If your hard drive dosen't connect VIA SATA, use any other appropriate connectors, or use a SATA adapter/extension/converter. Then after connection, go to My Computer, and you should see it mounted (If on Mac it should appear on Desktop, more on Macs later). If you do, your probably thinking just go to the bar at the top and click format. Well, you can't do that. especially if it's the C: drive, because the drive has encryption. To bypass this, go to "My Computer", if your still in My Computer skip opening it AGAIN. Click "Properties" (You can also go to the tab bar at the side and right-click on Computer and then on the right-click menu click Properties). On the left-hand side you'll probably see a bar/tab with some choices such as: - Device Manager - Remote Settings - System Protection - Advanced System Settings You'll need to click on System Protection (It should have the Yellow and Blue Windows Security Shield Icon by the side of the text). A bow should have now appeared, with a list of all of your drives. Below the box on mounted drives, is a 'Configure' button. BEFORE YOU CLICK - Click on the drive that is from the other computer, not your C: drive. If you disable protection on your C: your prove to having viruses edit your System Files. If you have clicked on your drive from your other computer (Broken/Old PC), now click the 'Configure' button. It should have some option boxes on a properties page. At the top it should have so called 'System Protection'. Well it should be by default on, well you want to turn it off, for now. Go back to 'My Computer', on Windows 8 it's called 'My PC'. Click on your old drive and now you can format it. Once done, insert your Windows install disk (Which ever one you pick, I suggest Windows 7 or higher, if that, Windows 8). Start with the x32 bit install disk, your PC will tell you if you need the x64 bit disk. If your confident, use the x64 bit disk, but if your unsure use my suggestion Insert the disk into your disk drive and copy the files from the disk over to the Hard Drive of the old computer. In the progress box, make sure it says Copying <> amount of files and NOT Moving <> amount of files. If so cancel. If its COPYING, don't worry. After it's done, but the hard drive in your computer and boot it up Good Luck!
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Hey guys, I am helping a friend with her laptop but it seems like the problem was a bit more complicated then I thought it would be. Specs are the following: CPU: AMD A8-6410, GPU: AMD Radeon R5, RAM: 8GB, HDD: Something with 1TB. I would be forever grateful if someone could help me fix this as fast as possible! Cheers! Problem: - Stuck in Windows repair when booting Stuff I've tried: - Resetting completely (Got the error "There was a problem resetting your computer") - Used CMD to try this
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Hey everyone! I'm going to build a PC and I don't know which version of Windows to run. Windows 7, 8.1, or 10? Also what do they come with, all I need is Excel, Microsoft Powerpoint, and Microsoft Word Also is Kinguin safe to buy keys? -Quantum
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Hey I'm going to build a new PC, so I was wondering what version of Windows I should get? Sorry if you've already seen this.
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I'm getting my PC ready for sale but I'm unsure how to go about clean installing windows on it. I have the windows 8.1 disk that I bought when I built my PC but my PC is now running windows 10 and doesn't have a disk drive... Can someone please help me, what do I need to do? Thanks in advance everyone, Hodge
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Hey guys, I've got a few questions about Windows 8.1, and a couple of odd ones, so bear with me for a second while i'm explaining the scenario. I own a 2013 laptop with an installation of windows 8.1, which i use for everything from school to gaming to photoshop-bumblefuckery. It's not especially powerful, but it suffices in most cases... Or at least it did. The SSHD i've got in my laptop is a 750gb, 5400rpm 2.5" drive, and it's sucking. Hard. I'm fairly certain my drive is going to die somewhere in the next 2 weeks, and i'm looking to re-install my version of Windows 8.1 on a new hard drive, a 1TB SSD. When i say "re-install", i mean a complete re-install of windows 8.1, no file transfers, no old caches that have to be copied, a fresh, new installation. I've backed up everything aside from the OS itself, just in case my HDD dies quicker than expected. The questions: - How do i install and activate a new version of windows 8.1 on a new drive, without cloning the old one, presumably using my existing licence? - Are there still any windows-10-upgrade items active on the latest version of windows 8.1? (I'm running a 2014 version of windows 8.1... I despise updates. -_-) I'm not really expecting a full guide running me through the process, but anything from a link to a pre-existing guide, a youtube video, or even just a shove in the general direction of what i'm looking for would be much-appreciated! Cheers guys, and thanks in advance!
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So I was at my friend's house he was having a problem with his PC and he was using PC at low resolution so I increase the resolution at max and first it gave black screen than it displays error "this video mode is not supported" or something like this, I try restarting the PC and pressing F8 at boot It didn't work. Now he can't even use his PC because of me. I very sad about it. If someone knows how to solve this problem please help.
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Hi! I have a problem when trying to install an application. I am able to download the installer from my browser, but I cant install them because of an error. Please help me.
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Dear LTT forum users, I recently got my hands on a new PC that i got from my late uncle. The machine is better equiped then mine with an X99 Chipset instead of a X97. My current machine holds a i7 4790K with a single GTX 780ti inside of it and 16 GB of ram all sitting on a Maximus VII hero board. (Windows 10) The other PC has 2 GTX 980's also 16GB of ram and is sitting on a Asus X99-A motherboard , i forgot what CPU it was exactly running but it was a pretty good one . (Windows 8.1) Now i'm having trouble and i'm a bit worried to change all the parts all of a sudden , like first of all i don't want to lose all my data , second of all i preferably wouldn't want to damage any parts of my computer. I searched a bit on the internet but didn't exactly know what to search for so i came here , sorry if this topic already exists like i sad i couldn't find anything. If somebody could explain me what to do , if it's even smart to start using the other pc i would be incredibly gratful. I would like to thank you already. sorry if my english isn't to good.
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Through my college I was able to get a copy of windows 8.1 embedded industry pro and I was wondering if that would run better than the full professional version on an old laptop. The laptop's specs are CPU: AMD C-50 dual core 1ghz with integrated graphics RAM: 4GB It shipped with windows 7 home and currently runs windows 10 home albeit slowly. would this version of windows be better for it?
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I switched my hard drive with my operating system (Windows 8) between systems and now when I try to enter the key in it comes up with the error above. I put the hard drive back into the old computer and deleted the key there, but I still get this error. I have also repeatedly uninstalled the key in the current computer, but I still have no luck. How do I make the computer register the key?
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I recently purchased a password reset key featured in the Linus Tech Tips video below. It works fine an most computers, but when I tested it on my Windows 8 laptop, it removed the live account and replaced it with a seemingly identical local account. Now, it requires a different password and I can't get back in. I can't reset the new account password with the key, as it does not appear in the list of accounts. It was the only account on the computer. Thanks for any advice. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_JIhn3vJVI
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Hi there, my girlfriend brought a Lenovo ideapad 320-14AST which came with windows 8 pre installed and I wanted to put windows 7 on it as windows 8 seems really slow. I installed windows 7 on a fresh HDD and it boots fine but I'm missing a ton of drivers such as wired lan, USB, touchpad and a few others. I have a general understanding as to how to install drivers from the manufactures sites and such but can't find any drivers for windows 7. I'm guessing it wasn't built for windows 7. I googled if it was possible to install the windows 8 drivers instead and pretty much said to just try and see. I installed the touchpad and lan drivers and said both had installed but to no luck they still don't work. Any help or info on a program to install the correct drivers offline or a way to fix this issue would be much appreciated ❤