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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 ❤
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My laptop (Samsung NT305V5A-S4PB) was turned off while updating to Windows 10 during battery power and need help fixing it. The laptop was running Windows 7 Home Premium K OA and I decided to update to Windows 10 on the Microsoft Windows 10 installation tool. Which I had to delete my graphics driver in order to proceed the installation. And while doing it, it turned off because the battery was low. So I made a usb installation boot drive which it is stuck on a black background with Windows 10 logo and a spinning circle. Please help me to fix this 8 year old laptop. Thanks!
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I’ve been having choppy gameplay on everything from GTA V to CSGO, I was getting immensely annoyed. I had no idea what it was until I checked my memory. I had anywhere from 4-8GB just in standby. What do I do?
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Hello there, to make it short; Recently i've bought a new HDD, because my old one was dying, i've installed windows etc already on it, and i am currently writing this on said HDD. (Seagate 2TB) But now comes the problem, i wanted to connect my older 1TB HDD to the mainboard, i did so, but when i turned it on, it booted to that 1TB drive, which i don't want to happen. I've changed in the BIOS the settings already to boot from the 2TB one, but as i do so, the 1TB HDD doesn't get shown in Windows, it does however in the BIOS. (Also the new 2TB doesn't get shown when i boot from the old 1TB HDD) There are some important files on that old HDD, any ideas on how to get them over to the new one?
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Hello, I have bought an SSD in order to upgrade my mother's 5 years old laptop which is struggling with a HDD. I want to install windows 10 to this SSD. However, the windows 8 product code that came with the laptop is nowhere to be found, so I can't install w8 first than upgrade it to w10 and activate it. My mother upgraded this w8 laptop to w10 at some point in the past without being aware of it. And it's already activated original windows 10 on HDD. If I run a software to get the currently activated code, can I use that code to directly install w10 and activate it? If not, what are my options? Appreciate any ideas.
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So basically I have a GPU (GT 730 from ZOTAC) [2GB, GDDR5] which suffers frequent driver crashes even on the desktop, and the strange thing is that the driver crashes only on Windows 7, 8, 8.1 (not on windows 10). Initially, I overclocked it a little, but now I have stopped doing that, but the problem still persists. The GPU runs on 2506MHz Memory clock rather than 5000, the most probable reason being the PCIe 16x slot of my PC. (Gen 2; old PC; used) After thorough checking and testing, I came to the conclusion that the GPU doesn't run hot, nor does its memory become full (at least on the desktop) Oh yeah, by saying "it doesn't crash on windows 10", I meant that its frequency of crashing is really low, only when its really doing something. And that makes sense, but its a different story for Win7, 8, 8.1. It crashes even on opening Chrome tabs, file explorer windows, applications, Youtube, casual games (CS:GO, BF4,etc.).The frequency of crashes is noticebly higher than Windows 10. [I Know that this card isn't meant for Gaming and all but c'mon, the driver crashes where it really should not.][the card performs satisfactorily for me atleast.]. I've already cleaned the card thoroughly several times, just to be on the safer side, no luck. Driver version used: 399.07 (and some immediate previous ones) What I didn't try: --> using very old drivers --> disabling the Windows Aero (Win7) Please I want you guys and gals to suggest the next logical step I should try. Thanks!
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I am building a new Gaming Rig. Some Linux flavor will be my main OS but as I still like to play LoL from time to time and ill probably also run some other windows only games. I'm wondering if there is much consensus on how each version of windows with the same hardware performs. I have gotten Windows 7 running on Ryzen 5's before so I'm not worried about the effort of getting "Unsupported" OS working. As I'm spending a lot (for me) on hardware it would be a shame to go for a system that performs worse than others.
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I have an old lenovo mixx 2 tablet computer that I want to tart using again.It was originally used for drawing and making notes which it worked well with using off the windows store apps. However since it has now expired and these tools are no longer available. I've looked around and have bee nunable to find any sort of applications that run on windows 8 as good as the original apps (autodesk sketchbook and papyrus). These apps are available on android however, would it be possible to run android 7 on the tablet? Ican't find much help anywhere else besides bluestacks but it does not use the touchscreen properly.
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One day my cousin was using pc but suddenly there was a power cut . After that everytime he used his pc it used to auto turn off while running and used to lag a lot. So without any knowledge he thought that changing the windows version would solve . So he tried installing windows 7 (from windows 8). Boot Priority 1.CD 2.HDD = After turning on the pc it shows windows logo and under it , it show preparing automatic repair then black screen with some sentences and then the pc restarts and same thing happens. {Attached video(don't mind the monitor)} Boot priority 1.HDD = It says no operating system was found . Please help. received_344742756880967.mp4
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Ok i searched google for more than 3 hours and i couldn't find the original windows 8 32 bit, Not 8.1 not windows 8 pro or something like that. The reason is that, i have this retarded samsung tablet that wont let me boot from a usb devices. It can only boot from usb after it boot up to the system through windows 8. I refreshed the tabled but somehow it failed and now its unable to enter windows. The original OS is windows 8 32-bit. And the son of a gun is SAMSUNG 500T model XE500T1C. and believe me i already tried every single solution i found on the net and none of them work. My only solution is to reset the devices through windows 8 recovery option and it required the original windows 8 32-bit, i have tried windows 8 pro 32 bit/windows 8.1 32 bit,windows 10,and so on and none of them work. So if someone has the original windows 8 32 bit.iso..please help for god sake. *scream internally
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Hello. I'd like to know if there's any difference between Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 in terms of performance. Say the hardware's exactly the same, will I get more fps on 8.1? Or will it boot faster? Will it utilize SSD read/write speeds more efficiently? Thanks.
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Hi, i have a windows 8 laptop (sorry guys) ive tried to connect to a wireless printer, an epson 312 xp. when i downloaded the driver its aid it wasnt compatible with this windows system. How can i connect to it ? thanks x
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So I got my old laptop running again and freshly installed a windows 8.1 os in it. The problem now is I don't have the drivers that it came with when I first bought it. And Sony isnt much of a help. (Sony Asia specifically) My model number is SVE15136CAB (or SVE151G13W). I have come articles that it says it needs Vaio Care and install drivers from there. But I cant find even the software itself in the Asia Pacific server. Help please. Open for any suggestions.
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Hello So Few second Ago i Was on My Laptop And It runs Windows 8.1 Since i don`t Like windows 10 So i install A app and Show a grey Screen and it crash So i trun off the laptop And trun it Back on And Keep Getting a Blue Screen I have not try the auto repair Feed Back will be nice thanks ;-)
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Is there anyway to run Windows 8 applications, like new Chrome and League of Legends, on a computer with Windows XP? I'm wondering for a prank to do on a friend.
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Hey guys, i am currently planning to install windows 10 on my new pc using usb flash drive(media creation tool). At the point where it ask to enter product key, will it be fine if i put my windows 8 cd key instead; will it work? i currently have one lying around and i don't want it to go waste. also i heard windows 10 will only be free till this December.
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So i bought my Acer Aspire V3-772G with Windows 8 Pre-installed but i had a person downgrade it for me to windows 7, and i want to do a factory reset now, will it reset to Windows 8 or what? And also will i need a license key? If so i don't have one..
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Hi everyone. I think I got rootkited. It all started when I torrent something fishy (I know it was dumb to trust but I needed it that time, so yeah). Anyways, I noticed my system slowed down. And from time to time hangs on me and go BSOD. I tried a few things to get my laptop back to it's former stat. 1.) Doing a full scan with windows defender. (And yeah, windows defender is my only anti virus) but cant finish coz it always hangs up and goes BSOD. Maybe because of the virus. 2.) Doing system restore inside desktop. But cant open the the window for system restore. Waited for an hour after clicking, still didnt run. a.) Cant do it also in safe mode, still cant access system restore. b.) Troubleshooting before startup, when I acessed the restore point there too system says I dont have a restore point. But I have 5 restore points, as far as I can remember. Also tried the Refresh option. It said it needs a boot up media. Before it doesnt need it right? Correct me if Im wrong. 3.) And I also have dual boot linux. But when I adjust the boot priorities again so that the GRUB will start first, the GRUB doesnt appear. I dont know why. Side questions: Gonna try doctor web live usb scanning, is it advisable? I cant run the installation in my pc. Need another one for this. Maybe again because of the virus. Heres some processes in my task manager that wasnt there before.
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Here is situation I'm in trying to get this darn computer to boot into Windows. Each time I start up this 2013 ASUS VivoBook now I get a "reboot and select proper boot device or insert boot media in selected boot device and press a key" message. Everything was fine up until a few days ago. The BIOS only has an option for boot priority as Windows Boot Manager followed by string of numbers. I had been finding guides and tutorials and some tell me that the issue is a partition issue or EUFI issue? When I go to see a roster of disks and volumes, cmd prompt on my Windows 8 install image can see it, but I somehow can't fix it or is "hidden". The refresh option on the installation tools starts but eventually says there was a problem. Restore starts, and can view the last time my system was online but said I had to repair the disk. I repair the disk and it completes the progress bar, but I try to proceed with restore and a dialog pops up saying there still needs to repair the disk. I can't continue. Tried repairing through cmd prompt and got to stage 4 of chkdsk when it I guess froze. There appeared to be a huge number however, so I could just wait overnight... The chkdsk process did however say there were a small number of bad sectors. There are semi-important files I'd like to get off incase my HDD is failing. How could I try to get into Windows again to safely get the files off?
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Hello. MY pc randomly frozen and when i rebooted it gives me a "LogonUI.exe - Application Error" and it reads "The instruction at 0x00007FFE62FF37B6 referenced memory at 0x00007FFE5E9958E0. The required data was not placed into memory because of an I/O error status of 0xc0000185. Click ok to terminate the program." This by my knowledge is an amd graphics card driver error. I have read that i need to boot up my pc into safe mode with networking but i have tried that and it still gives me the same error. Please help. This is the link to the thread I was referring to: http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-2735833/logonui-exe-application-error-windows.html
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hello i have recently build a new pc i was wondering is it better to get win 10 or win 8 for it? which would be better to support it? thank you for your help and cooperation
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Hey guys, I have yet another question... So... I wanted to buy a new computer, but forgot to buy a new OS. This year I updated ly Laptop's windows 8.1 to windows 10. Will I be able to use any of these, to run simultaneously on my laptop and a new desktop? Thanks! Sailer
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Hello. Don't know if this is the right place to ask this question, but i try anyway. Today i tryed to factory reset my computer. It said that i would reset the computer back to windows version it came with, and that was windows 8, so i decided to to chose the option keep my files and then just remove my files. When i came to 45 % a blue screen came up with a message that said it dident work. I choose to press continue to use windows 10. Then when i pressed and the pc was loading, a black screen came up and said "No bootable partition in table". What does that mean? Is everything on my computer deleted? What can i do. Everything was pre-install, so i dont have the installation cd.
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So today I was having some issues activating my windows 7 key after reinstalling the os, after contacting microsoft and getting my key activated, the representative asked if I wanted windows 10. Kinda confused, I asked if it was going to cost me- but they replied with "No, its a one time offer for a free upgrade". They took me to a webpage which basically just installed the windows 10 upgrade program (the same one that was used when that annoying little badge was in the bottom right), and currently W10 is the os running on that system. Dont really know why im posting this, but just thought it was good to throw out there.