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Hey Windows 8 family, Long time no post, I just wanted to let everyone know of a new backup solution I found, well got introduced too. So at work we moved to VEEAM which has been awesome as we are a virtual environment. VEEAM is so intuitive I started to look for a desktop version I could use at...

Hey Windows Community, So for some reason my son and I are not able to connect on Minecraft so we can play together. I am on a Windows 8.1 Pro machine and he is on a Windows 7 Professional machine. I have done some work on Bing and we each have our own copy of Minecraft (latest update)...

Hello Everyone, So I have a Windows 8 Pro Product key and I am currently running Windows 7 Professional 64 Bit. Last week I tried upgrading to Windows 8 Pro 64 Bit and everything went fine including the activation. The issue is when I go to install updates I can install one at a time and I will...

Hello comunity, So it was brought to attention that one of our senior IT's at my company which I cannot disclose our name might be using a Bitcoin miner on our network without the knowledge of management. Another IT found it under the senoir IT's profile and it is called Quarkcpu_Miner. We also...

Hello Community, Today I started on do a disk defrag on my wifes computer using defraggler. When I opened the application under "disk health" in yellow said warning. I went to the health tab and shows the HDD temp is green which means within the allowable number but what can I do to give me more...

So it just seemed to happen the other day but when I go to search for something in the address bar it would normally search bing, however I noticed today it searches my ISP which is charter. I tried going tools>manage add-ons>search providers but bing is the only one listed. Is their another...

So I downloaded Avast today and I keep getting this error message "Fatal error: current avast! installer is not trusted by avast! Self Defense module. Try to launch the installer again." I called avast and they said sounds like an infection but I had just done a fresh install, nothing pirated...

So I have an office 365 subscription and I went to go install it on my computer and the installer froze, so I used the task manager to end the task and now when I try to go install it again I get "Couldn't start office installation" because it claims there is an installer already going but I do...

Hello Community, I am curious if Microsoft uses a display server? I assume it does but I am doing a presentation on display servers and I found a ton of information on Linux and OS X display servers but I cannot find anything on the display server Windows uses. Honestly at this point just a name...

So I currently have a "live" account, is it possible for me to move to a outlook account without losing my account information. Example being my xbox live account is attached to my live email, if I moved to outlook would I lose my membership, purchased movies, xbox music subscription and xbox G...

So a friend gave me a call saying that when his computer boots up it says "a cooling fan is not working properly and may cause problems", no error code. The computer he says gets hot and shuts down. I am assuming bad cooling fan however I have never had that message just a computer over heat. So...

So every once in a while when I boot up there is a work group icon on the desktop which I cannot delete. The only way I can remove the icon is to reboot. What is the icon coming up for and is there a way to remove the icon?

So I have my computer set for me to manually update, I have tried the auto feature but have had the computer randomly restart to install updates and seems my computer knows when that would be an inconvenience to me. I check for updates and I have noticed that I have not had any updates in the...

So I was over having coffee with my grand parents this weekend and my grand father was telling me how he bought a new computer running Windows 8.1, I did a few things to make it more pleasant for him and his only request is could I find him a solitaire to install that is not a metro application...

So my computer came with Windows 8.1 64 Core, I downgraded to Windows 8 Pro 64 Bit with a disc I had and then upgraded to 8.1 Pro. I have all my current drivers installed and the latest Windows updates, since I did this though when I tell the computer to reboot it will start to reboot and when...

Hello Everyone, So I don't even know if this is possible or how I could go about doing this. Last year I bought a Windows 8 Pro upgrade disc we used to upgrade our machines from Windows 7 home Premium to 8 Pro. Is it possible for me to use that same upgrade product key for Windows 8 Pro on 8.1...

Currently when I do something like lets say install a piece of software the system prompt's me if I want to allow this and I respond buy pushing either "yes" or "no". Is it possible to have Windows 8.1 work like Unix with instead of me pushing a "yes" or "no" I would type in my password? If so...

Hello everyone, So I am looking at buying a Windows Phone with my tax return and I am curious for those of you who own or are thinking about owning what your experience has been with the platform? I only use my phone for social media, texting, skype, calling, music player and gps. As far as I...

Hello everyone, So another forum I am a member of said that Microsoft default maintenance tools like "disk cleanup" and "defrag" don't do the job very well and they were recommending "ccleaner" and "defraggler" I have already been using ccleaner to scan for registry issues but when I use...

Hello everyone, So I have an aunt who runs a business who wants to be able to let the computer run over night at her business and let me access it remotely to do the usual disk cleanup, defrag, virus scans and backups. Currently I have to go on Sundays to do all this and it is just a pain to sit...