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I wouldn't count on it staying that way, as I did a System Restore and the problem went away for a while, but now it's back. Anyway, I dislike 8.1 even more than 8, and I'd sooner switch to Windows 7 than update to 8.1.

Yeah I could, but this is just masking the problem. Still stumped at this point.

Neither of these did anything for me. :(

Well, this is pretty annoying. Since last night, I've had this Automatic Maintenance notification randomly pop up in Action Center which simply refuses to go away: I've already run the maintenance multiple times, and it seems to complete just fine, but the notification never goes away and it...

Exactly. StartIsBack is not crapware and I paid for it to vastly improve my Windows 8 UI and UX. I don't need no Windows 8 defenders/apologists jumping the gun here and telling me something that's not relevant to my problem. I have already contacted the developer of StartIsBack to find out if...

Just edited the OP; I was exaggerating. I have used it and I hate it, just like the rest of Modern UI. /offtopic

Whoa whoa whoa. Crapware? :sarc: If you're referring to StartIsBack, if I'm gonna get rid of that I might as well get rid of Windows 8 while I'm at it. No codec pack here. Watch the attitude man.

Explorer.exe crashes on me a few times a week after startup when I try to search for something in the Start Menu. This is the error report: I am using StartIsBack on Windows 8 Pro x64 and this happens when I am using its Start Menu search. I never use Windows 8's awful native search so I'm...

Just an update, Intel recently released a new version of RST and I updated. Have been BSOD-free for about a week. Hopefully this streak continues but I am optimistic so far. Thanks again for the help John!

Hi John. Thanks for the reply! I have installed all Important Windows Updates, but not the Recommended ones, so I will do that. SanDisk has not released any firmware updates for the SSD I'm using, and I'm using a storage controller driver (Intel RST) from this year. I purposely disabled the...

Bump. Anyone?

I'm currently in the midst of doing a reformat on my Lenovo IdeaPad Y500 laptop and was copying over my library of Steam games from an external hard drive. It was taking a while so I closed the lid and just let it do its thing while I left and did something else. After I assumed it had finished...

Yeah I saw that. A million problems but no official statement or fixes from Lenovo.

I wish I could do that but 310.90 is missing SLI profiles for a lot of recent games such as BioShock Infinite. When Nvidia releases a new driver I will definitely update and see if that does anything. Still, a "video hardware error" is not encouraging; the last time I saw this was on a dying...

I have a very serious issue with my brand new Lenovo IdeaPad Y500 GT 650M SLI system (specs at the bottom) . I can't play games at all because my system will lock up as soon as I enter the game, requiring a hard reset. My Windows Action Center is filled with Video Hardware Error reports. Is this...

Lo and behold, it shows up now. This is why I love EightForums (and SevenForums) so much. :D So many helpful experts like you guys on here.

Yeah it did. That's what the screen looked like when I went throgh that step and I installed Windows on Drive 0 Partition 4.

Yes GPT for sure. The * is there when I use list disk in diskpart. Also, checking the properties of the drive in Windows Disk Management says that it is GPT. I made certain I converted it to GPT before going through with the Windows 8 installation process. The reason I was confused and worried...

So you're saying there's nothing wrong with my Windows installation then? Whew, what a relief! I was worried that I would have to reinstall. I guess if an important system partition like that was missing in the first place, I would've already run into a lot of issues, but so far my experience...