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hi, i want to encrypt my full HDD using win 8.1 pro and bitlocker using a password to authenticate at boot.i have managed to encrypt successfully using a PIN (the only option that seems available). please see screenshot,"group policy"where it mentions the use of a password but i've tried a few...

i was lucky to find the following solution found on a microsoft site and the person who had posted got it from somewhere else,it worked. i think the reason not many have had this problem is because it is a problem that only seems to affect machines purchased with win 10 on and then has then a...

TPM malfunctions on win 10 machine running win 8 i'm trying to run bitlocker on a windows 10 machine on which i've installed win 8.1 pro. you will see from the following screen shots messages,that this is not at all straight forward. the top screen capture is when the lenovo was running its...

thank you for your assistance Bat, i will try and simplify things: i looked in to things again to try and simplify, i always triple check things to try and avoid mistakes,this time when i booted from USB DVD it worked,the only thing that was different was the first time windows 10 was still on...

i'm trying to install win 8.1 pro on a windows 10 laptop,i know there will be issues with drivers,but thats not a problem. i purchased a windows 8.1 pro-OEM-ESD product key off amazon,it didn't cost too much, i thought i could use this to activate a clean install using a "windows 8.1 home USB...

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hi, my old computer has had to be be scrapped by my insurer / vendor. i'm getting a voucher for a new one from their store but it has to be a windows 10 machine,they no longer stock windows 8 machines.because i dislike windows 10, in readiness i have purchased (for about $14) a product key for...

thanks ever so much, it worked a treat, first time,you AND windows 8 forum rock.

thanks mate, i'll give that a go and report back,kinda glad its not coz of the macrium restore.

hi, I've re imaged my daughters computer to an image taken in 2016. I restored her computer because it was running slow and not because of malware infection. I've had a series of failed updates (please see attached screen shots) the final one keeps failing to install. I have deactivated malware...

thank you, i will, although everything else related to graphics is fine, its just this.

hello, i have just noticed that when my computer boots up the screen at first shows half the image and then the full image, i am sure it never used to do this. please see attached(zipped) video.my computer is working fine, but i just want to know what could possibly be causing this problem...

thanks thats sorted it many thanks, advice taken, i remember you now i think from the windows 7 forum or perhaps when i first came here, it was from you that i learned the advantages of a clean install and not to trust ANYTHING from google! thank you and goodbye for the time being.

it worked but still a slight problem thank you, your suggestion has stopped the update for windows 10. when hiding the update for windows 10,i noticed that kb3035583 has suddenly appeared,it was not there before. i deselected it and "hid" it.it became like greyed out like the hidden windows 10...

agree that windows 10 is being forced hi i have just downloaded a clean install of windows 8.1 (if that is the correct terminology) i was fed up of bloat-ware on my machine. i installed windows 8.1 from a USB stick that microsoft had put the complete windows 8.1 OS onto. BTW i had cleaned...

thank you very much!

hi when using macrium free to restore a system image that's older than a few weeks old, windows demands the windows product activation key for activation,which i haven't got because the OS is OEM and therefore has no sticker ,or any documentation containing the product key. the vendor...

thanks so much to everyone , i'm sorry not to have thanked people earlier,been very busy,this has given me somewhere to go big thank you everyone, ken

hi sorry this maybe OT or not in the right place but this is one of the few places i could think to post this question along time ago i started to read Peter Norton's Inside the PC 7th edition,which i had loaned from the library sent it back and due to work commitments i didn't carry on...

thanks thats brilliant