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    Using a recovery disk with a different language

    I have an Acer V3-772G that originally came with Windows 8 64-bit in French. I made a recovery USB as soon as I got the laptop 3 years ago and I'm now planning to sell it to CEX UK. What I didn't know was that the Recovery Environment/WindowsRE was broken (I don't know how since the computer was...
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    Solved Very bad Driver_Power_State_Failure BSoD. No Safe Mode.

    I did something very stupid. I used Driver Booster by iObit. Never had any problems with it before, but something bad was bound to happen so I take full responsibility for what's happening. These were chipset level drivers which is why my Driver_Power_State_Failure (DPSF) is so bad I guess...
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    Solved Cannot transfer Windows 8 Pro license to new computer

    I have a laptop with Windows 8 pre-installed (currently running 8.1 64-bit). I also purchased Windows 8 Pro a while ago. It was installed on another laptop, but has since been removed. I decided to upgrade my current laptop to Pro in the add features menu. It worked fine, but the license is not...
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    Solved Remove external USB drive from casing to use as internal

    Hi, I have question: Could I use my external hard drive (removed from it's casing obviously) and replace my internal hard drive with it? Here's more context: I recently bought a Kingston V300 120GB SSD to replace my old HDD in my laptop and give it a boost. Performance is noticeably faster...
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    Solved Fresh install and product key confusion

    Hi everybody, I will soon replace my HDD with an SSD and make a fresh install of windows. Here's my problem: I bought Windows 8 and received a Windows 8 product key but am now running Win8.1. Microsoft clearly states that a windows 8 product key CAN NOT be used with Win8.1. Here are the...
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    Solved Metro problems and Refresh fails

    Hi all, I have Windosws 8 Pro on my ASUS K70IJ. The pc was originally shipped with Windows 7 and I upgraded to Windows 8 about half a year ago and haven't had any major problems since. That was until yesterday. It seemed like a simple problem, the Metro apps won't open and some tiles...
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