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I'm running W10 x64 Ver 1709 Build 16299.334. I have, among others, a 5TB WD hard drive that is less than six months old. The drive disconnects intermittently. That is, sometimes every other time I start the computer the drive shows up as missing. I have run chkdsk and Western Digital Hard...

On Windows 8.1 x64, I have installed Android Studio. However, it won't start. I keep getting error messages related to JAVA_HOME in user variables. I have installed both the jre and the jdk. When I set JAVA_HOME to either of these two paths, I still get the same message: C:\Program...

My desktop PC running Win 8.1 on an ASRock Z77 extreme4 motherboard was acting erratically, so I decided to restore from an earlier backup made with Easeus Todo Backup Free. This software has worked fine for me in the past. But now the restored drive won't boot. I get that light blue screen...

For some reason, when I right-doubleclick a folder, instead of the folder opening I get an empty instance of VLC Media Player. This started suddenly. I have run Malwarebytes, Avast! Adaware and CCLeaner and none of them can find any virus. I have Outpost Firewall Pro. I imported a file I found...

Hi. I have Windows 8 Pro installed as an upgrade from Windows 7. I cannot log into the Windows Store. I cannot even get to the point where I can log in. When I click on the Store tile nothing happens. I had some difficulty earlier and it was suggested that I change my login from a local...

Running Windows 8 Pro. Set up Hyper-V. Added switch Created five different virtual machines using different flavors of linux. None of them will start. I get an error message saying the OS failed to initialize. I've read through the posts here and it doesn't seem to be a common problem. Does...

Every time my Windows 8 Pro installation starts up, it displays a box asking which application to use to open a file. If I select an application, the file cannot be found and it is apparently named c:\Program. There is no such file on my system and I can't find anything in the Startup folder or...

Running Window 8 x64 on an Asrock z77 extreme4. All of a sudden the POST menu doesn't show. Neither does the Asrock BIOS screen with the login option. The screen stays black until the Windows 8 login appears and continues. I updated the graphics drivers, but it made no difference. Anyone...

I set up W8 Consumer the way I like it -- had to create a custom inf for the screen of my Dell Mini 10 among other things. I then created a system image on another computer on my network. Next I wiped and reformatted the disk in the Mini. But now, when I try to restore from the system image...