Recent content by Geeky

Well, talking to myself as usual. I decided to splash out on the GT 730 but it was a mistake to think it would be plain sailing. The card was recognised by the system and delivered VGA output but still with the same small selection of 4:3 resolutions. I had a lot of difficulty trying to download...

I just came across this old thread and thought it worthy of updating. My wife is still using this PC daily and I have upgraded it further to Windows 10 Pro (32-bit). This is a great improvement over 8.1 Pro and now provides full functionality, including the 'Sleep' option. We recently decided to...

Thanks Brink. I appreciate your intervention. As I said, I never received any reply to any of the three messages I sent. The first one mentioned the fact that I never received the activation e-mail so there was nothing I could do. At least I'm pleased to hear that this step did work.

I signed up to TenForums several days ago with new credentials. The login works fine and I am shown as a visitor but I cannot post a reply nor start a new thread. I've used the 'Contact us' tag to query this three times but I've had no answers. I recently installed Win 10 TP on a mini laptop...

I haven't yet seen any deficiencies in graphics functionality so there's no reason to spend more money on a graphics card. The only 'problem' is the lack of the 'sleep' function but 'hibernate' seems to do the same thing so there's no real difficulty up to now. Probably no-one wants to put...

Many thanks for the suggestion. I tried it and it returned "Your computer does not conform to the minimum requirements to install this software".

Thanks for your comments. Only a few days so far but it is a fantastic improvement over XP Pro in terms of speed and has shown no signs of any problems, graphics or otherwise. I was just concerned to know if there might be some issue that I've overlooked. Soldier on, I suppose, with my fingers...

As my wife's PC was recently attacked by a virus, I decided to upgrade it from the OEM XP to retail Win 8 Pro and then 8.1 Pro. To avoid any risks with viral remnants, I purchased a new 500GB hard drive with the aim of doing a clean install - all essential data being backed up on an external HD...

Except that it also has functional defects.

Not quite. When signing in to User2 and clicking the FF icon, FF opens with a new tab, no toolbars and no left-click response on the menu button. To get things moving, Tap F10, click View, click Toolbars, click Menu bar (whether it is ticked or not). The bookmarks toolbar then appears, with any...

I really do appreciate your efforts on my behalf. This does seem to be a difficult nut to crack so it may well be that the only answer is an OS reinstall. However, that's a lot of work and, as I have no problem with the primary user profile, I would be reluctant to follow that path just for the...

I think so. As soon as I installed Windows 8.0 Pro Upgrade, I was invited to upgrade to Win 8.1 Pro.

Thanks for checking. I guess '_User25' is a legitimate registry item then. However, the 'User2' entries should presumably be deleted. Firefox was not obtained through the App Store. It came direct from the main FF download site.

I've made a further attempt to clean out the Win 8.1 user profiles, firstly by deleting User2 and choosing the 'Delete files and folders' option. However, I again found that the empty folders remain in 'C:\Users' and the only way I have found to get rid of them is to delete step-by-step from the...

No, I've kept well away from things I don't understand. Further to earlier advice, I did try 'Run as admin' but that did nothing. That why I was so surprised that the 'Troubleshooting' routine did at least give me access to the User1 copy of FF. There seem to be several tick boxes for 'Run as...