Recent content by MamaBear2017

I went back to the Amazon sale page and found this: When you purchase the computer it comes with a free upgrade to Windows 10. When you start up the computer you will be prompted for the upgrade. If for some strange reason you are not prompted for the upgrade all Windows 8 users are entitled to...

Can I refresh Windows 8.1 online from Microsoft? Or what if I just update it online?... OK, I updated it, with very few folders left from me - all empty. Now I want to upgrade to Windows 10. It says to enter a product code. Back serial label?

Thanks, will try that. ... Oops. "Could not find recovery environment, insert installation or recovery media. This is crazy, I found an Acronis rescue disk in the drawer here, but I cant even get the PC to boot from the DVD drive. Oh wait, it's from 2013. I got nothing...

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I think I'd need a system disk for that. WHAT IF I just run the free upgrade to Windows 10? Will that wipe everything but the OS?

Nope - everything, for many years, has been coming on PC only. Is there a way to generate a Windows DVD from the HD?

I got one last night, from M32BC - Support and it seems to work. I went and uninstalled all my software and emptied the recycle bin. Now all that remains are some random folders, which don't seem to have any of my data in them - some of which cant be deleted. Cleanup doesn't apparently cover...

I went and deleted all the programs and oops - now I don't even have the wireless internet drivers.... Now I need to download Windows 8.1 wireless internet drivers to a thumb drive on my Windows 10 PC, then get them reinstalled on the AMD 8310 Windows 8.1 PC.

Ahhh! I created a new user - just User with no password, and it installed all my old programs in it!

I don't know how to do this, which was why I asked if there was a simple way. Used to be, I could just say Format: C:

I want to sell my older Windows 8.1 PC, and need a quick easy way to format the HD and erase all files, making just a C drive. It didn't come with a Windows install disk.

Both the old and new PC are connected to our home wifi router wirelessly now. I just need to configure both, so they can see each other in my 2 pane file manager, and I can transfer data files to the new PC, then install new Windows 10 programs on the new PC for them. Please? ( I tried hooking...

Oh, I think I just remembered this. It happened maybe a year ago. I think when Malwarebytes updates sometimes, then I start getting this RAM hogging problem. It was just up to 2GB. But I recalled that they told me, way back, to turn on the setting that tells Malwarebytes to register with Windows...

I don't know whether to be concerned or not. It looks like Google now has a password checker for Chrome and it's saying that all these 270 passwords were compromised. I have no idea how. But many of them are junk sites that I've used years ago. Stuff like banking, I change regularly. I don't...

Thanks Slavic. CCleaner used to be free and I used it for years, but then they started doing nags and I stopped. Will try the free version again. I dread clearing browser data, but recently got some weird notice, allegedly from Google, saying that 270 of my passwords had been compromised. I...