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Hey guys, thanks for clicking on the thread, I'm going to try make this as short as possible without missing out on important detail. Ok, so I've been having some problematic issues with my PC for some time now, I've decided that It's time I do a fresh install of Windows 7 on my Gaming Rig, and at the same time install a fresh new Solid State Drive, so I plan to have the OS installed on that. I have two hard drives, a 1 TB WD Blue, and another 500 GB hard drive, which of I'm not too sure the manufacturer of. So here's what I plan on doing, I just want someone to tell me if any of these steps are wrong, or should be done in a different order because I'm not too good with this type of stuff, and still relevantly new. Step 1: Remove both HDD's from computer, place them aside for later, afterwards replace the SSD with my main C: Drive, ( 1 TB WD Blue ). Step 2: Turn on PC, place in the copy of Windows 7 and boot the PC from the disc, download Windows 7 and install all updates, and drivers. Step 3: Turn off PC and place in the other HDD's, boot from the SSD and move over all necessary/important files over to SSD, and format old drive. I'm a little worried I may be doing something wrong, and I'm also clueless on how to name the drives to what I want them to be, all in all though, should this give me the conclusion that I want? ( Windows 7 installed on my ssd with all my important files included, and a formatted WD Drive). I'm sorry, I could not find anywhere better to place this, I just wanted to be safe than sorry later onwards! Thanks all, I appreciate all the help.
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Hello guys recently I have noticed that my system is hanging for no reason what I mean is everything on the screen will just freeze. For example I am using the computer and it will randomly hang but I can hear the audio just before it completely freezes where I am then unable to do anything. I have tried the sfc /scannow command and it returns with corrupted files that cannot be repaired I have attached some details of the log below. Could this be hardware related or is it just Windows 7 being damaged because I never really suffered from system hangs until now and everything seems to be operating fine.
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Hello all, Just wondering, if I purchase a Windows 7/8/8.1 licence key at present, will I be able to use it to get Windows 10 for free as an upgrade? The reason I ask is that it seems very cheap to buy a Windows 7/8/8.1 licence key, so would it actually work and save me money? Many thanks, -Cameron
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The internet, including Microsoft's website, has been telling me non-genuine window users can still upgrade to windows 10 but I don't know how. Please help! I know that even if non-genuine window users get windows 10, they will still be non-genuine but still... Thanks -
So I have completely lost all audio on my Windows 7 machine after installing the Nvidia Geforce Experience and additional drivers. The version of Nvidia Geforce Experience is: 2.5.12.11 The version of the Nvidia HD Audio is: 1.3.34.3 Things I have done to fix this: -Uninstall Geforce Experience and all the drivers (including the HD audio one) -Checked AVG's virus vault for any files that may have not been downloaded for protection (no files here) -Double checked my Logitech Z506 speakers are all correctly plugged in and working (these are brand new too) -Restarted computer -Checked my speakers are the default audio output -Disabled other audio outputs other than my speakers -Attempted to rollback driver version (option greyed out and couldn't be done) and update driver (which resulted in an alert saying the best driver option is already installed) UPDATE: After installing Realtek audio I have managed to gain audio back but only if i plug my headphones in. It should be noted that there was sound before this download and install earlier today. This is why I highly doubt that it is anything A Driver issue. Could anybody help me out?
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I love using speakers and headphone combo so I can just go into the sound settings and change which device is default that I want to use. But since switching to headphones that require a 3.5mm jack windows does not recognize both devices (speakers and the headphones plugged in at the same time). I have a soundcard and the only device that works is the one that is plugged into the soundcard at the time. In other words, when I plug in my speakers to the card they work, but if I plug my headphones into the on board audio they do not vice versa. Can anyone help me out with this? Here is a photo of what it looks like when both are plugged in. http://imgur.com/sJv2Pc5%C2'> As you can see my 5.1 speakers are plugged in but win7 fails to recognize that there are also headphones.
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Hello! If i delete the two partitions used to Macintosh install, will it wreck my Windows 7 install? I am not sure and it is a class computer, so i am afraid to do it...but it is so slow, so this might just help! :-) - Thanks in advance!
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Looking to upgrade my motherboard, all other parts will still the same (current specs are in the footer) New motherboard: http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130790 I understand the OS will be looking for a whole new set of drivers etc. so: Will my Windows 7 Pro 64-bit start conflicting/not be genuine because of the hardware change? -
Hey there! So a couple of months ago I installed a new corsair h80i into my system after my old h60 began to die(my case fell over in transit and messed it up). The install went fine, and the cooler works great, except for when I go to shut down, my computer freezes at the part were there's the spinning loop with the "shutting down" written. Once it freezes I just manually shut it off, and this counts as a proper shut down for the computer as there is no "windows has shut down unexpectedly" prompt on start up. So it seems the computer just can't turn itself off. Now this is something I'm used to as my computer's used to do this before i moved it into a new case, but that resolved the issue. I've tried many different things to fix it including updating drivers, and a clean start up (I think that's what it's called, I booted it without the drivers for everything and it still didn't shut down lol). I really have no idea what the deal with it is, and while I've dealt with this for a while now I still want it fixed, so maybe someone here can help me out. Here are my specs Gigabyte Z68A-D3M-B3 MB MSI n560 GTX M2DIGD5 gpu Ripjaw 8gig blue ram (one stick) Corsair H80i cooler Intel i5-2310 cpu Rosewel wireless card Thanks in advance! -
Hey I've palemoon, foobar, skype icons in my taskbar attached. But when I use mouse 2 on them they show like "Palemoon (2) I don't know why cuz there's only 1 icon there? Is it possible that there's some sort of ghost icons?
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I recently got a Samsung 850 evo ssd and i installed windows on it. i currently have two drives and if i select my boot priorities to the original hdd i get a separate windows profile. i want to get rid of this but can not format the drive because i don't have a way to save my steam files. how can i get rid of the old windows profile and all windows files attached to it?
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Hello guys HERE is my rig hope it helps you somehow Short version: boot was fine taking around 13 seconds from bios screen to desktop then: Windows loads and takes 5 minutes to show logon screen asking for user pw started after installing nvidia graphics driver and realtek drivers uninstalling these drivers didnt solve the problem went nuclear and reinstalled windows which solved the problem just to find that it appeared again when i installed the same drivers again and again uninstalling these drivers even with revo uninstaller and cleaning registry didnt solve it. Long Version The problem is when we go from the windows loading screen to the windows welcome screen the part where is asks for your user password. The windows loading screen loads almost instantly takes like 5 seconds tops and then it goes black to make the transition to the welcome screen to log into your user, nothing wrong here except this blank period went from taking 1 second before installing drivers to take up to 5 minutes when I started installing the hardware drivers. Im going to walk you through how it exactly happened: I installed the latest Nvidia Graphic drivers 347.09 downloaded them from the nvidia website, then restarted the machine as suggested by the installer, when the pc turned back on the logon screen took 1 minute to appear after windows was obviously already done loading the screen was just blank for a minute, I didnt pay attention to this and logged into my user account to continue installing the remaining hardware drivers realtek audio was next, so i proceeded with this installation and restarted the pc again as suggested by the realtek audio driver installer, but this time windows loaded and then the screen went blank and stayed blank for 5 and a half minutes after which my logon screen appeared asking for my user password. I found this disturbingly long so i proceeded to uninstall the realtek driver and download a newone from the asus website I restarted before reinstalling but it was still taking over 5 minutes AFTER windows finished loading but BEFORE the logon screen I reinstalled the realtek driver and restarted but the problem persisted, I uninstalled the Nvidia drivers because well I didnt know what else to do it looked like for some reason when windows finishes loading its sending the video feed elsewhere instead of my screen, and 5 minutes later it realises thats not the screen and turns it back on so I thought it had something to do with my Nvidia Drivers, that and besides it went from 1 second to 1 minute after the nvidia installation so i figured that was the root of the problem, after reinstalling the nvidia drivers I restarted and it went back to 1 second delay, so I went to bed happy. The next day I turned on my pc just to find out it was again taking 5 minutes before the logon screen. I was incredibly frustrated so I went nuclear and reinstalled windows, completelly clean isntall, just to find out that it happened again exactly after isntalling the same drivers. I didnt know how else to proceed so i came here to see if anyone could help me out Any help is greatly appreciated. Edit: Already Tried This, Didnt solve it.
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I was trying to do a few recordings of a game yesterday after installing the latest driver updates (347.09) for my 670 when I ran into a few perculiar issues. I was unable to record any gameplay footage from quite a few games in both desktop and full screen mode (Divekick, Mass Effect, and Nidhogg to name a few). One of few things would happen when recording gameplay footage. When turning on shadowplay, it would flash a black screen as if it were changing resolution, or it would indicate as recording when I turned recording on and not creating a file, or it would give me a red slash through my recording indicator and not record at all. Assuming it was just some random issue, I decided to wipe all the NVidia files from my computer and perform a clean install. This did not work. Someone suggested that gamestream being off solved a similar issue they had, so I gave it a shot. This did not solve the issue either, so I ended up rolling back the drivers to previous drivers (344.75). This solved most of my issues with shadowplay recording. It fixed my issues with full screen and desktop recording with all, but one game, Nidhogg. Nidhogg exhibits some weird stuff. When I turn off desktop recording and try to record Nidhogg, it shows the recording indicator, but it does not create a file when recording has ended. With desktop recording on, it creates a file, but it just shows the desktop and the in-game audio. This has been a frustrating issue and I honestly don't know if its shadowplay thats unable to record certain games, or if its an issue with the game itself. Does anyone know why shadowplay would react this way with shadowplay? Thanks
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I got a new hard drive so i re installed windows and i caked up all of my steam download files and game saves. when i first installed steam i did it on my new ssd and i could get steam to recognize the downloads ( I don't know about the game saves though). i uninstalled then re installed steam to my mass storage drive and when i try to move my game saves to the steam common folder it doesn't recognize them. i have tried installing a game moving the files there and that didn't work. when i select a new steam download destination it says it has to be empty. can anyone help me?
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Hey guys I have a question. I have a Dell XPS 17 with a Windows 7 Home OEM key. Can i use this product key if i decide to install the fresh version of Windows 7 Home? Would there be any problems or anything i need to do before I do it?
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I bought an OEM PC but have changed the case, PSU and CPU cooler. I have also added a graphics card and case fans. I want to now change the motherboard and in the future change the RAM, am I at risk of loosing my copy of Windows if I do this? I have heard so many different opinions but I need an answer now. If I need to keep the RAM then I will but I have to change the motherboard. Thanks Grant -
Hello everyone! I've got a laptop with office 2013 installed. This was fine until this morning when the owner of the laptop installed a Genband Personal Communicator which integrates with outlook.He seems to have installed the wrong version, then uninstalled it and on its way out has destroyed outlook. Now his outlook won't open and gives me the following message : "Cannot start Microsoft outlook" I have tried running: outlook.exe /resetnavpane outlook.exe /safe outlook.exe /safe:1 outlook.exe /safe:2 outlook.exe /safe:3 outlook.exe /firstrun outlook.exe /noextensions I have uninstalled the whole office package, removed all the registry keys left behind and cleared the appdata and temp files out. re-installed and still no luck I've tried microsofts fix it tool to uninstall, then re-installed and no joy either! When I try to go control panel > mail it comes up with "your system needs more memory, close down a few windows and try again" The laptop has 4gb ram and is running windows 64 bit, it's using around 1gb of that whilst I tinker away so I know it isn't ram, the hdd has got around 300 gig free so it isn't a disk space issue either Any ideas? I'm about to give up and rebuild the laptop....
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i recently bought a samsung 850 evo and have not set it up it is a brand new drive. i would like to set it up as a boot drive. i would prefer to not have to plug in my optical drive and use my physical copy of windows. how do i do this?
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Hey My newly built custom PC keeps displaying the error message, display driver stopped working and has recovered. This is VERY annoying as it closes games and firefox all the time. I use a GTX 760 Twin Frozr 2GB and connect it to my monitor via VGA using a DVI adapted where the VGA meets the GPU. I believe the reason for the display driver continuously stopping is the fact that the VGA signal takes longer than expected. Any ideas? Also how do I fix this? Thanks My OS is Windows 7 64bit.
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OK so whilst browsing the web one day i notice my ram at 50% (i have 16gb) so i make sure that i don't have any unnecessary programs running in the background (as you do). After that task man read 49% -_______- is this a bug or a vires or me being stupid?? sorry for the bad English dyslexia is a bitch...
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Hi all, This is my first post, so forgive me if it's in the wrong place. I'm looking to write a batch file to automatically restart a windows 7 machine multiple times (50 or so times), I basically use this for testing hardware at work. I am completely new to scripting, but I've tried this: shutdown.exe /r /t 00 And that restarts the machine fine, now I just need to learn how to make this happen again after restart, and again, and again etc. Any help with this will be much appreciated. Thanks. -
Hey guys, first post, greetings from the UK.... I'm doing a clean install of Windows7 on my home machine which I use as a media server, backup server and for VM's etc etc for my home. Its been running for years with no major problems, however recently I decided to try and give it a new lease of life with some more ram, better cooling, a BIG cleanup and move the OS onto a SSD Raid0 setup Intel i5 2500 Asus P8P67 Pro - (Link) 12 GB Ram 2 x AOC-SASLP-MV8 Sata Controllers, (Link) each with 8 x 1TB Drives. 2 x Samsung 840 EVO ssd setup in Raid0 ((Basic graphics card ASUS I think, 1200w PSU, H80i cooling, noctua fans, setup in an original LianLi P343B .. in'case' your interested)) So issue I have is. I have plugged the two SSD's into the Intel® P67(B3) chipset sockets and set them up as Raid0 by selecting Raid in the bios and Ctrl&I during boot and setting up the raid. What I did then is unplug every drive (So I didn't wipe anything by mistake) apart from my two ssd's in Raid0 and everything installed fine. After updating and doing the usual stuff I plugged in my SATA controllers and other Sata drives and I got a Grub Rescue screen. (I did have linux installed for 4 or 5 years..) So I then went through every concievable boot practice and could not get Windows 7 to boot up from the Raid set. (Changing boot order in bios, using repair on the install disk etc) So next I wiped my raid so it was like new, set it up again as above but this time left all my drives plugged and tried to install Windows. Now, when it comes to choosing the install location it says windows can't be installed to this disk. If I take out the raid set and set the drives to singular, change Raid to AHCI or the other one.. (sorry forgot) in the BIOS it does the same thing. So it seems to be my Sata controllers causing a problem when installing Windows even though I am not trying to install to drives plugged into the controllers ?!?! BTW I have installed the latest 3 Bios versions for my MB each giving the same result. Am I missing something here, (I've been at it for a while now and searched many forum posts)?? I am not massively computer literate btw, so be gentle on the geek lingo Many Thanks in advance.. -
I was following steps to change / customize my windows 7 lock screen one of the steps was to temporarily rename the authui.dll file found in C/WIndows/System32 unfortunately i got sidetracked by something else and didnt get around to pasting in the new authui.dll for the theme i wanted to install, and i shut down my laptop before i completed the process now my laptop boots into windows. but instead of the lock screen it now just shows me a blank black screen with the mouse cursor, I typed in my password into the blank screen anyways just in case that would boot me into my desktop but it didnt.... I messed up, Im freaking out Please help me LTTC Thanks * *** ** * * * * SOLVED * * * * ** * * * * * * * SOLVED! I plugged in my laptop's harddrive into my desktop and was able to go into the Windows/System32 folder and rename the file back to its original name and now it works once again *phew*
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Hi, I'm currently in the process of buying a new PSU for my system as my current one is caput. I was wondering if 650w was enough to surport my system as I have upgraded my PC since I last bought a PSU. My specs- CPU-AMD Phenom II X4 955 3.20GHz RAM-2x4GB DDR3 Hard Drives-Samsung SSD 840 EVO 120GB (used for Applications and OS) -Western Digital Blue 1TB (used for game and file storage) GPU-Sapphire HD 7850 2048MB GDDR5 Motherboard-ASUS M4N68T-M V2 OS-Windows Home Premium 64-bit Also if anyone has any suggestions of a good and not too expensive PSU that would help! Cheers,
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Right now i have a single 2TB mechanical HDD with all of my data and my OS (windows 7). When I get a SDD that i wish to use as a boot drive, how do i move only my OS to the new drive, and then turn my HDD into mass storage? I have found plenty of material online about simply cloning drives, but none that seem to cover what i want to do. I would think that what i am trying to do would be something that a lot of people whould want to do, so I am surprised i have not found more information on it. Or maybe I am just blind and/or dumb. Any push in the right direction would be great. Thanks all.
