Recent content by duane2410

For whatever reason, making a new admin account and erasing the old one seems to have solved all the problems. I hope this solution is permanent! Thanks for your help.

And Capt. Jack, On a side note, my Guest account works just fine. So, I am now looking to repair my main user account, I think...

Interesting thing happened. The refresh PC/restart PC decided that it couldn't repair my Windows 8 OR reinstall it because a partition is missing, when in fact, there is no partition missing. I will have to continue searching...

Hi there Capt. Jack, I seem to agree with you. I logged off and an error flashed (something to do with my Catalyst Control Center), though I couldn't print screen it fast enough, and it did not occur after I logged out of the account again. I ran the sfc/scannow and it came up with errors...

Gazz, Thanks for the advice. For whatever reason, the settings are all grayed out, and I cannot refresh pc or do any of the other settings. I am hoping not to have to reformat... If you have any other suggestions, let me know. If you know of another way to get to the refresh pc menu, that...

Windows 8 has been running fantastically until yesterday. This is what happened: I had an update to do, so I did it, and it required a restart. The update was: Definition Update for Windows Defender - KB2267602 (Definition 1.139.2352.0)Installation date: ‎11/‎19/‎2012 10:09 AM Installation...