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Windows 8.1 Pro VM (on VirtualBox running on Ubuntu) won't boot [closed]
First and foremost, forgive me if any of the following command returns are too vague or missing; I'm typing this up partly from screenshots and partly from memory. Happy to run any or all of them ...
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Windows 8.1 installation fails returning a blue screen with internal_power_error [duplicate]
Today I was installing windows 8.1 and everything seemed to go smoothly until the second stage of the installation. My pc restarted and a bsod quickly flashed an error that I could not read at first, ...
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Keyboard not working in one user account
My friend have a strange problem. Few weeks ago, he just bought a new keyboard for his laptop, because it's internal keyboard is broken. But recently, his new keyboard suddenly not working in his ...
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Upgrading an older HP Pavilion laptop from Windows 8.1 to Windows 10
I'm updating someone's older HP Pavilion laptop from Windows 8.1 to Windows 10, using Microsoft's Media Creation Tool.
I've created a recovery partition and made a complete system backup, in case ...
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Windows Dism.exe /RestoreHealth /LimitAccess, no /Source, Where is the Features on Demand location and should I use it?
Regarding the command Dism.exe /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth /LimitAccess
Normally /RestoreHealth is used without /LimitAccess, which makes Dism use Windows Update to compare against the ...
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I want to remove some portion of video in regular intervals [duplicate]
I have 22 minutes and 21 second video. I want to remove some portion of video in regular intervals. Like for every 30 seconds I need to remove next 5 seconds and then after 30 seconds again I need to ...
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Convert another microsoft account to local account when logged as administrator
I'm logged as the "administrator" on the windows 8.1 machine.
Another account is "microsoft_user" (an Online Microsoft account).
There are similar questions:
Disconnect Microsoft ...
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Computer crashes frequently whenever I try to run a .exe file before the system asks permission to run
I have Windows 8.1 in my laptop which has an unusual problem of freezing or not responding when I try to run an .exe file.
As soon as I run it the screen returns to desktop and dims down a bit. Before ...
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The shift+W+spacebar not working, even replace the keyboard , but the keyboard works on another PC
I use Logitech K120 to play game, use i for 6 years and one day it cant press Shift + W + Spacebar for a sametime. So i think this is keyboard fault then i buy a new one recently.
But the issue still ...
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Photos' timestamps get changed (to when they're moved onto new phone, and their creation date gets set to 1969 - losing all order of images
Scenario:
New Android 11 cell phone. Moving 1000's of photos over from old Android 5 phone via a 64bit Win8.1 PC. Photos on new phone then all adopt creation a time stamp of 12.31.1969 (no clue why) ...
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Windows 8.1 to Windows 10 and back, playing with secure boot
On a Samsung NP900X3C, Windows 8.1 is installed. I would like to test Windows 10 on this machine and for that, I purchased a separate disk so that if it fails, I can just revert to the previous ...
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SSD not showing in Disk Management / File Explorer
I have an SSD which is not showing up as a drive in Windows (8.1)
It doesn't show up in Disk Management
It doesn't show up in File Explorer
It doesn't show up in Device Manager.
It does show in the ...
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Windows 8.1 100% Disk Usage after reboot
I recently refreshed my PC and newly installed Windows 8.1. After that I noticed the 100% Disk- and Memory-Usage. Then with the following commands I fixed the problem:
SFC /scannow
DISM /Online /...
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Is there a way to mount an NTFS partition read-only on Windows without Diskpart?
I have searched for a while and haven't found anything. Other than using diskpart to set a readonly volume bit. Which is persistent and modifies the partition table, which is not an option for me. And ...
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Regarding Windows update [duplicate]
I recently activated Windows 8.1 on a secondary laptop potato PC with 2GB of RAM and I want to prevent it from being updated to Windows 10, as that situation would be pathetic:
In Windows Updates, I ...
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boot menu two windows 10 and 8.1, move boot settings from 10 to 8.1
I have two windows from two separated Storage Drives,
1-new 240GB SSD disk, win 8.1(new OS, installed last week)
2- win 10(old OS, installed 2 years ago and used before, and now I need it some times)
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How to create or is there a shortcut to mute the sound of the current window/program?
What I want to do is mute the sound of the current program/window in Windows.
How I would normally go about this, is RMB on Sound Icon in taskbar (or through Control Panel -> Sound) -> Open ...
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Windows 8.1 Basic theme?
Is there a good way to enable the real 8.1 Basic theme? Not the "Aero Lite" theme, it's pretty ugly, and not a 3rd party theme since they still resemble normal Aero. The only partially ...
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Is there a way to make my Windows account password unresettable using non-official Windows methods?
I found this thread that discusses different ways of resetting the admin password without actually knowing the password Reset windows 8.1 administrator password. I tried it myself and after no less ...
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Add file mime type in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT with script
I have a few Win8 VMs that don't include .xlsx in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT, so it's not recognized by the OS, and to add it manually for each VM would be inconvenient.
Is it possible to add such type via a ...
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I deleted dllhost.exe. How can I get it back?
I was curious about COM Surrogate in my task manager. I looked up the file, I saw and saw the word virus repeated multiple times which caused me to quickly permanently remove dllhost.exe from my PC. ...
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HP Pavilion G6 administrator password problems [duplicate]
My Aunt passed away and I got her laptop but don't know the passwords to get into it. What can I do? Can it be factory reset without them?
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Window 8 cd . Product key prompt not appearing [closed]
I bought windows 8 cd . After that When I put in my laptop the screen come with select language and time after that . Window say the product key does not match but I haven't enter the product key the ...
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Trying to install a new OS on an HP Pavilion a6400f using a Cruzer flash drive with a Windows 8.1 iso file on it
Every time I try to install it, I open up the boot menu and it tells me which to boot from. The USB Flash Drive appears in the list, but when I press enter, it just blinks a white underscore over a ...
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How to reinstall applications from Window.old after refreshing PC?
I recently refreshed my Windows 8.1 PC (without affecting my files). All my programs and applications were removed and are in Windows.old folder.
I don't want to download and install each single ...
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Windows cannot search my external hard drive whilst it is indexing it
Windows cannot search my external hard drive whilst it is indexing it. If I want my hard drive to be indexed on Windows, I can only search it after it has been indexed.
I don't want to remove my ...
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Is there any way to open a specific file using a universal Keyboard shortcut?
Is there any way to assign a keyboard shortcut to a specific file like a .txt, .bat or .exe(user created) or its shortcut, so that it can be accessed universally?
P.S. - I tried adding Shortcut key in ...
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DISM is taking over 24 hours
I'm having problems installing Windows Updates so I thought that if I use DISM and then SFC, that it might fix the problem.
When I run
DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /Restorehealth
It takes over 24 ...
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When downloading windows updates on Windows 8.1 the progress is stuck on 0% downloading
When downloading windows updates on Windows 8.1 the progress stays on 0%.
I have ran the Windows Update troubleshooter and restarted the Windows Update service. However TiWorker.exe is running.
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How can I stop my keyboard from ignoring duplicate key presses?
I recently reinstalled Windows 8.1 on my notebook computer. Prior to the reinstall, the keyboard was working fine. After reinstalling, the keyboard omits key strokes when the same key is pressed in ...
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From cmd/PS terminal, how do we show the EXEs associated with startup services?
PS C:\Users\ally> net start
These Windows services are started:
Application Information
Background Intelligent Transfer Service
Background Tasks Infrastructure Service
Base Filtering ...
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Audio bitrate changes when converting from mkv to mp4 in ffmpeg
Whenever I convert mkv x264 to mp4, the audio bitrate changes to 128kbps aac when the original bitrate is 265kbps.
I did the -c:a copy to just copy the audio but it changes the bitrate.
And when I set ...
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C drive full after reinstalling Windows
So i've used the windows 7 usb/dvd download tool and added a windows 8.1 iso to it, it downloaded the things to the usb and I booted the computer, went to the bios configured the booting, and after ...
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Is there a way to make Windows always start browsing for files starting from the current directory?
Question should be straightforward enough.
I'm sure every Windows user has had it, is there a way to make Windows always start browsing starting from the current directory, be that using either ...
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Asus computer gets stuck at “Checking for Updates”
When I try to startup this computer, it won’t go past Checking For Updates. I’m pretty sure it’s Windows 8.1 but this computer was given to me from a family member. I can’t go to files or anything ...
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Can I upgrade my windows 10 home N edition to windows 10 pro without N edition?
I have windows 10 home N currently installed and activated. It says to upgrade your windows to pro N edition. I want to upgrade my computer from windows 10 home N to windows 10 pro but without N ...
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Why 2 1600MHz Makes 1333MHz & How to fix it?
I have 4GB DDR3 1600MHz Ram in my laptop(Dell Vostro). I bought another 4GB DDR3 1600MHz Ram and put it to my laptop.
Now my laptop shows 8GB Ram as expected. But it show 1333MHz. Why is that? How to ...
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How to Startup Windows 8.1 without laptop screen [Only using external monitor]
I am using Windows 8.1. I do not use my laptop’s screen cause it is broken, so I use a monitor instead. So what happened was,
I ran to “msconfig”,
and went to the “boot” tab,
then I checked “safe ...
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How do I upgrade from Windows 8.1 to 10 using my key?
I have spent an hour trying to find an answer to this, but I can only find "UPGRADE FREE HERES HOW"-guides.
I actually bought a key, and now I want to activate Windows 10 from my Windows 8.1 Pro OS. ...
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How to Stop windows stop code with blue screen?
I have problem in my laptop every time i start laptop it shows me blue screen with windows stop code.
also every time i see different windows stop code error.
in starting i have windows 8 os in my ...
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High CPU system usage caused by ntoskrnl.exe obdereferenceobjectdeferdeletewithtag+0x5c
Hi so this past July I had done a clean install of Windows 8.1 on an SSD in a ASUS ROG G750JM laptop and ever since then I have noticed random CPU spikes caused by ntoskrnl.exe. I have been trying to ...
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Can a file be partially copied on Windows?
I was in the middle of copying a lot of files on my Windows 8.1 system when suddenly the explorer process was terminated and restarted by itself. Afterwards I went to copy all the files again. Some ...
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Windows 8.1 standalone updater hangs searching for updates on computer
There are some similar threads but I am quite certain this is not quite a duplicate of any of them.
I have a machine at home with dual boot openSuse Linux and Windows 8.1. I don’t use Windows that ...
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How to upgrade Windows 7 Ultimate to Windows 8.1 while keeping data in D and E drives?
I downloaded a Windows 8.1 .iso file and made a virtual drive using Virtual CloneDrive and mounted it. I want to upgrade my Windows 7 Ultimate to Windows 8.1 while keeping the data in D and E ...
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Outlook 2016 shows an empty inbox after sending emails
We have a shared inbox that we use. There are two users that access this and both are reporting that after writing/sending a new email, the inbox shows no emails in it. They have to go to another ...
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Is any tools can check my network card?
My network no stable. Sometimes slower (ex. speed test result 10 ~ 30 Mbps) than normal, i try speed test, is really slower, page loading take time.
I try Reset TCP/IP (Internet Protocol) and ...
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wbadmin crashes via command line
I'm trying to take system backup on Windows 8.1 Pro (EFI system partition + C:\ drive). It works perfectly well via Control panel however such command in command prompt fails:
wbadmin start backup -...
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Restore from last hibernation state on reboot
I restored my PC from hibernation earlier today. 10 minutes after booting, there was a power cut. These things happen.
Is there any way to tell my PC on next boot to use the previous hibernation ...
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All firefox add-ons got disabled and can't download any from Mozilla web page [duplicate]
I have a notebook with Windows 8.1 and Firefox 66.0.3; all the add-ons got suddenly disabled.
So I uninstalled them and tried to reinstall them from Mozilla web page but I get a red label that says ...
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How to make windows automatically close windows error dialogs?
I've followed the tutorial from here but I still get these:
Any ideas how to make the program auto close?
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