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I specced my new PC with Win 7 Pro x64 on a 120GB SSD with a 1TB WD HDD for data. It's a nice system but I also wanted access to Win 8.1. and have been attempting that in VMware. Win 8 installed and activated in the VM just fine and after all Win 8 updates had been installed it duly...

This has me utterly mystified! My laptop is running Win 8.1 x64. On the same home network my PC (Win 7 Pro) is running a new Win 8 x86 install in a VM (VMware Player). Both were set up using the same Microsoft account rather than local accounts. What is sending me apoplectic is that if I...

When Win 8.1 Preview was first released it installed without issue in a second partition on my Win 7 Pro Lenovo Edge E335 and created a standard dual boot setup. A week ago something or other started causing chaos in Win 7 though 8.1 still ran normally, but as 7 is my day-to-day system I needed...

When I'm booted to Win 7 the TV finds the media server no problem, but in Win 8 on same machine it's Server Not Found. All the connections are Ethernet and the TV shows as connected in the router, so the problem is with Win 8. It's probably irrelevant but I have installed the Win 8 Media...

I use fixed IPs on my home network, all in the 192.168.1.X range, so was a bit surprised - and concerned - when Teamviewer on a 'connected to' system was reporting a connection from 192.168.216.1. As all machines on the LAN have Teamviewer set to accept only LAN connections, and as...

System has a Creatix SAA7131 triple capture device (Freeview, Sat, Cable, I'm using Freeview). TV works fine in other systems on same machine (XP and 7) but not in 8. A driver has been installed automatically and I am unable to change it - system insists that best driver is already installed...