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Hello KYHI! I apologize for my late reply; my employer sent me on a bunch of business trips before Christmas which barely left me a day at home, so all my private stuff hat to wait. I was lucky I had all my presents ready before. Thank you very much for your much appreciated help! I followed...

This thread has been moved. Please note that my issue is about native boot, not virtualization.

In an elevated command prompt I have just tried to fix the missing device/osdevice of #3and #5: bcdedit /set {d6bce695-d6d9-11e7-8499-ac220bc55fa4} device vhd=[G:]\VMs\Games.vhd bcdedit /set {d6bce695-d6d9-11e7-8499-ac220bc55fa4} osdevice vhd=[G:]\VMs\Games.vhd returned "The operation completed...

Hello everyone! A few years ago I setup my computer with Windows 8/8.1 on the local hard drive C:, just as usual. Then I added to VHDs to th menu, one Win 8.1 for games and one Windows Server 2012 R2 that I use from time to time for virtualization, where I run sort of my training environment...

You may have safe boot enabled. If your Laptop has a Windows 8 logo, you probably have. Your CD drive kicks in, cause the BIOS checks all drives, but then it finds that the XP installation CD has no valid signature to safe boot and does not offer it in UEFI/BIOS nor does it boot from it...

There may be illegal and invisible characters in the directory name, or a character encoded in a way explorer cannot handle (I have even seen filenames with an asterisk * on file servers). It may work if you delete from the command line using wildcards as in rd mydir* If nothing helps, try to...

Unfortunately I cannot be of much help here. :( It is just that I experienced this behaviour a few times in the past, too. Typing something like ESC ESC ESC ESC ESC SHIFT SHIFT SHIFT SHIFT SHIFT CTRL CTRL CTRL CTRL CTRL ALT ALT ALT ALT ALT ESC ESC ESC always helped me. I do not think that you...

It appears that your shift key is stuck, or at least interpreted such. I had this very few times in the past and could solve it by repeatedly striking ESC, SHIFT, CTRL, ALT -- each around 5 times. Also, you may access numbers by additionally pressing SHIFT (SHIFT-1 may result in 1, not ! then)...

For 2., you can try creating an explorer icon as shown below and pin that to the task bar. Once you have pinned it, you can even delete the original icon; the pinned one will still work. Not very convenient if you change them frequently, but if it is only for one, you don't need additional...

Are you talking about Event ID 4672? This one probably occurs next to your login event because your ID has adminstrator privilege? See Audit Sensitive Privilege Use

Hi! First of all I want to tell you that my computer is still running, so my issue is not urgent as some others may be. Yet I hope that someone may take his time to give me some hints. I am familiar with computers, but do not have deep knowledge about many parts of the operating system. I am...

Thank you for that detailed posts, genet! Does that mean I could store my Product Key in my computer's UEFI and then wouldn't need to type it in during installation? Or is this only for OEMs?

Thank you! I go and read now. :-)

So what does the "2" stand for then in Core 2 Duo? loveandpower, is "This" supposed to be a link? The description sounds interesting, but I cannot click it (well, I can click it, but nothing happens).