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[SOLVED] Office to new HD from old

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I have a new HD with a clean install of Windows 7. I can't boot from the old drive but I can access the files on it. I need to install Office onto the new drive but I don't have a disk. Can I use the old drive to get it onto the new drive? I did try to copy the Office folders under Program Files from the old drive to the new drive but that didn't work.

Thanks

Is it common for the OS to take 25 GBs of space?

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I have a 10 year old desktop on which win7 was installed 5orsomething years ago. It's extremely slow and buggy.
And I noticed that out of 80 GBs of HDD, the system software alone takes 25GBs of storage. There is absolutely no other programs or software in it. It's completely vanilla. And yet so slow and the storage so used...:ermm:

Black screen after BIOS Splash

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Hello,

I am having an unusual problem with Desktop PC. Sometimes when I boot the computer it will show the Gigabyte splash and then go black the moment it switches to what would have been the "starting windows" screen. I am positive that it is not the monitor because I never hear the windows login sounds or music. When this happens the only way I am able to fix it temporarily is by re-slotting the memory sticks in the motherboard. I did this on a suggestion that it may be a bad stick, but based on my experience of switching them out and using them separately this doesn't appear to be the case.

Any suggestions on how to proceed? Thank you for looking,


Desktop:

Windows 7 Enterprise

GIGABYTE GA-970A-UD3P AM3+ AMD 970 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard

AMD FD8320FRHKBOX FX-8320 FX-Series 8-Core Black Edition

MSI NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 OC 2GB GDDR5 2DVI/HDMI/DisplayPort PCI-Express Video Card N760 TF 2GD5/OC

Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 1600 MHz (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory (CML8GX3M2A1600C9)

Can't open some downloaded .exe files

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I have recently purchased a laptop from eBay and for some reason some .exe files don't want to open. I have tried to download Microsoft Office 2016 from the website, and uTorrent is another one I have tried as well. Whenever they download, it completes with a blank white default icon and they won't open when I try to.

I have run a full scan with malwarebytes and nothing was found. Anyone know how to fix this? I have successfully installed Firefox and Security Essentials too.

Couple of questions on BackUps.

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In the screenshots below, the total of the Used Space on the two drives is around 107G which appears on one of the Acronis screenshots. But in the other Acronis screenshot, 75G is shown as the backup size from today.

In the Explorer shot, today's backup is no where near that size and is considerably less than the previous backup size a month ago. The two sizes, 56,541 and 20,667 add up to about 77,208 which is closer to the 75G shown on Acronis.

What am I seeing? I have it set for full backups, not incremental or differential, so why would the recent size on disk be smaller? And why don't the Explorer and Acronis screens match?

Also, what happens if I need to do a restore? Will I need two drives? Or would it restore to one? The OS and program installations are on C:\ while most pictures, music documents and other user files are on E:\.

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Windows 7 laptop infected with Virus 10

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I came back to my desk recently and my windows 7 had been "upgraded" to Windows 10. I have AU OFF (I check monthly and pick and choose). So my operating system was altered without my knowledge or consent. Which is a virus. Turns out I have to undo that because some of my s/w doesn't run under Virus-10. Not looking for help, just wonder if anyone else is outraged?

teredo tunneling pseudo

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how to download and install correct driver for teredo pseudo

Cannot creat bootable usb using same steps as before

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I can't understand what's gong on. In the past, I have on several occasions successfully created a bootable usb with the use of img burn (to create an image file) and rufus (creating usb with image so created). I did that just a few months ago to install windows 7 on a device without a cd drive. All of a sudden, the same procedure doesn't work any more. After seemingly creating a bootable usb, after making sure bios is set to boot from usb, I am rewarded a message that no operating system if available or other words to the effect. What has changed or what could I be doing wrong?

I have tried different versions of rufus and tried Windows USB/DVD Download Tool
instead of rufus. I have tried the resulting usb on both a desktop and the target device, a windows tablet, and got the same outcome on both machines. I have tried different usb ports. (My desktop uses usb 2.0.) No change.

svchost grabbing 25% CPU

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This laptop is an HP Pavillion g6 i3 8G ram. Win 7 64.

"svchost.exe SYSTEM" is using 25% of my CPU all the time (not at boot, takes a few minutes before it grabs) and 254,140 k of ram.
The result is the CPU temperature keeps climbing and soon reaches 70C and the laptop underside becomes uncomfortably hot.

I have Googled and been told it is a Service that is consuming resources and I have stopped several that I dare (Computer>Manage>Services) but to no avail.

I have also run a rootkit killer "tdsskiller" but it found nothing.

Be most grateful for any ideas.

BTW, why am I told to login when "it" knows me anyway and I cannot find a login box but in the end it did not matter?!

Dave.

System Recovery Disc

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Hi, When I first purchased my PC a few years ago, it gave me the option to create a system recovery disc. I ran the option to create the disc, but before it finished the process it asked that I insert a second disk. I did not have a second disk so I postponed the recovery disc creation until later. I was not able to buy disks until a few weeks later. I inadvertently damaged Disk 1 and when I tried to create disk 1 again it would not allow me to do so. It only gives me the option to create disk 2. Can someone please let me know what my options are? Thanks

*I recently upgraded to Windows 10.

Windows 7 - will not download updates

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My WIndows 7 PC has decided it will not download updates.

I have prevented auto updates because I do not really want to be given Windows 10 - at least until there are a lot less complaints about loading applications etc,.

Using manual updates - currently listing 104 essential and 3 optional... it seems to start the downloading - the indicator is spinning - but no indictions of download size ever shows. I leftit like this for 6 hours... just nothing else going on.

Any help will be appreciated.

Task Scheduler error

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I'm getting an error when I go into the task scheduler.

The selected task "{0}" no longer exists. To see current tasks, click refresh.

I've read up about different fixes and I'm not having any luck solving the problem.

When I start the Task Scheduler I get the error box, I click the OK button and another error box, the same one, comes up. I click the OK button and then no other errors show up.

From what I was reading I have to tasks that are not synced with the registry.

I've double clicked the Task Scheduler Library, then the Windows Defender folder and then I got the error. So I deleted the files in C:\Windows\System32\Task and the subsequent registry entries. I got the same error in the WPD file and did the same thing with the files and the registry entry.

This eliminated the error in those to files. I had to reboot and the entries regenerated themselves.

But now when I start the Task Manager I still get the error which occurs twice. Now I find the error on the Windows folder (in the task manager). But I can't find which folder is the problem. Whatever folder I click on first the error happens, twice. But it doesn't occur again, until I close the program and open it up again. The WPD and Windows Defender folders no longer cause errors. But the Windows folder does and it has many dozens of sub folders.

Not sure how to proceed from here.

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hp is moving terribly slow this am

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My desk top has been working good for long time. years probably. It now won't move to any new site for A minute or so, It is said; theres junk files aplentyon it. How do i get this cleaned up . i run Super antispyware and malware bytes.and one other AVG protection. What do i do make it get its speed back?:sad:please bob s

I also have A cleaner i never run.don't know how thank you again

Computer lag/freeze issue

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For over a week now (minus one week--I'll get to that later) my computer has been experiencing lags and freezes. They start when I load my Firefox browser. At first my computer froze up whenever my Forecastfox browser extension reloaded its weather data, so naturally I thought it was the culprit. After disabling it, however, this turned out to not be the case. Later (and currently) the trouble starts whenever I go to YouTube. At the beginning, a video will play just fine, but a later video will either buffer or freeze and then start up again with a visual lag. (A temporary solution to this is to do a full restart of my computer, but a few videos later it will pick right back up again.) During the buffer/freeze my computer is frozen as well. Despite having two browsers on my computer, YouTube manages to stall my laptop. (One time my computer actually crashed while in the middle of watching a video.)

When I am eventually able to regain control of the computer, I can exit out of the browser, but the lag/freeze continues. If I try to pull up Task Manager in order to ensure that the browser program has ended, it takes about two minutes for the right click menu to show up. When I go to hover my mouse over Task Manager, it takes another minute for the highlight to show up for my selection. When I click on Task Manager, it takes another two minutes for the program to load. Most of the time the browser I exited from isn't there, so that's five minutes of my time wasted.

But the trouble doesn't end there. If I click on a folder located on my desktop, it'll take three minutes for the folder to appear and five minutes for it's contents to show up, no matter how few the item count. From here, one of two things happen: either I can click on something and wait a few more minutes for the next (folder to open/program to start) or explorer.exe will crash whether or not I click the folder's frame to bring it to the forefront. If I reach my intended destination (usually a video I have saved) it'll take another few minutes for the program to load and even then I have to deal with buffering issues even though, when my computer is running smoothly, I otherwise have none.

I have several anti-virus/malware programs on my computer and I have run both a quick and full scan with both of them. No viruses have been found, although both programs crashed my computer several times while in the middle of the full scan. I took me about four days to run both full scans successfully.

My Firefox browser is up to date, but my IE browser isn't. I've tried to install an update for it, but it didn't work. Since it's IE, I didn't care to try any harder. I'm also fairly certain that my Adobe Flash player is current since I haven't received a notification to update it, and I'm also certain that the YouTube trouble didn't start until later on down the line after the current update was installed.

I lost the internet for a week due to troubled times, and just as I figured, the lag/freeze issue went away. Now that it's back so is the issue. My gut is telling me that the problem lies with Adobe Flash, but for the life of me I don't know how to fix it. The Forecastfox extension trouble started first, but I don't know if it's related to the current problem, especially since, now, the lag/freeze happens when the extension isn't reloading its data.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Windows 7 Partially Deleted. RC Disc Won't Work

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I have an Alienware 17 laptop, and I have had problems with it shutting down while playing games, but it has not happened anywhere else until yesterday, when I started to restore my laptop to factory settings. I was using the Alienrespawn program to reset my laptop, hoping it would solve the shutdown problem, but part of the way through the process, my laptop shut itself down (which is slightly ironic). When I started it up again, and pressed F8 to try and restart the process, it said that I did not have windows installed and needed a disc. I was able to start the computer and log in, but most of my programs had been deleted, so it is basically useless now. I tried using the Windows 7 install disc that came with this laptop, but for some reason, it is not working, and I have no idea what to do to fix this problem. If anyone could hep me solve this problem, I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks.

Performing System Restore with an external DVD Drive

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Hey guys,

So I have wanted to factory reset my hp dv6t-2100 notebook for a while now, but my DVD drive stopped working and I could not use the recovery discs. I finally got an external DVD drive which works just fine with my pc.

I now wanted to try performing a system restore using hp's Recovery Manager interface, but I was worried since I plan to factory reset, that during the installation it would not recognise the DVD drive. Upon researching, I stumbled upon a thread on TSF:

http://www.techsupportforum.com/foru...ve-732737.html

More importantly, spunk.funk's awesome reply:

Quote:

Originally Posted by spunk.funk (Post 4381897)
There are no drivers required for any USB device in modern day computers. It should be recognized in the Bios.
With the DVD drive attached, Boot into Setup (Bios) On the first page, it should list all drives on the computer. If it recognizes the DVD drive on the Bios, then proceed to Boot Priority. Here change the boot order to USB CD/DVD Save and Exit. If it is not recognized in the Bios, go to Integrated Peripherals look for Legacy USB if it is disabled, using your arrow key, Enable it. Save and Exit. Return to Bios to see if the DVD drive is recognized.
Once the drive is recognized, boot off of the Windows CD and Format the HDD and install Windows. The DVD drive will still be recognized in Windows after install.

My worry is that my computer may constitute as old since I purchased it back in 2010. Therefore, I am unsure if I would run into the drivers problem or if it would accept the BIOS change and I would be able to System Restore with the external DVD Drive. If anyone could please assist me with this situation I would be grateful. Thanks for reading this wall of text!

So basically, TL;DR version: Can I system restore Windows 7 on my 6 year old hp dv6 pavilion using an external DVD Drive and how?

Other info:
Hewlett-Packard HP Pavilion dv6 Notebook PC (dv6t-2100)
Windows 7 Home Premium (x64) Service Pack 1 (build 7601)
Date of origin (estimate): 3/29/2010

Windows won't load, running out of options

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Toshiba Satellite P850 PSPKBA-03000U
HDD: Toshiba MQ01ABD075
Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit






Hi, I'm unable to startup my computer, and am being stumped at every attempt I make to fix it. Here's what's happened so far:



- Upon startup, it gets past the Toshiba splash screen, then gets stuck on a black screen with a moveable cursor (but no other responsiveness), or gets stuck on the Windows welcome screen, and has once or twice immediately gone to a page reading "A disk read error occurred Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart".

- The same happens in safe mode.

- In BIOS, the HDD is still recognised... the majority of the time.

- I attempted to use Last Known Good Configuration, it got stuck on the Windows welcome screen.

- The "Repair my computer" option does not appear in the advanced boot options menu.

- I attempted to boot from a Windows System Repair disc made from my computer after it was bought, but it results in a Toshiba error screen "f3 f100 0003". There are suggestions online that this error is associated with a rootkit infection that can be removed by Kaspersky TDSSKiller. It could also be possible that this system repair disc has a write error; I am trying to get hold of another from someone else.

- I also attempted to boot from a System Repair disc made from a Windows 7 32-bit computer (forgetting that it was 32-bit). For whatever reason, this successfully loaded the System Recovery interface. Either due to being 32-bit or because of genuine errors, it was unable to recognise the existence of an operating system or C: drive, and as such System Restore cannot be performed, and the following:
- I attempted Startup Repair-
- "Startup Repair cannot repair this computer automatically"
Problem Event Name: StartupRepairOffline
Problem Signature 01: 0.0.0.0
Problem Signature 02: 0.0.0.0
Problem Signature 03: unknown
Problem Signature 04: 0
Problem Signature 05: unknown
Problem Signature 06: 1
Problem Signature 07: unknown
- "Diagnosis and repair details: Root cause found: A hard disk could not be found. If a hard disk is installed, it is not responding."
- In Command Prompt-
- diskpart> list disk: "There are no fixed disks to show."
- chkdsk /f /r /x: "The type of the file system is NTFS. Cannot lock current drive. Windows cannot run disk checking on this volume because it is write protected.
- C: did not appear in the file manager accessed through notepad

- I attempted to use Kaspersky Rescue Disk to scan and remove malware; it was unable to see C:. After being updated, it performs a scan lasting 1-2 seconds and finds nothing.

- I booted from the Linux Live CD 'System Rescue CD'. I'm not familiar with Linux and to me operating the various tools here seems less than easy to understand to me.
- However, in the file system checker 'fsarchiver probe simple', it is able to see my C: partition:
[DEVICE][FILESYS ][LABEL ][SIZE ][MAJ][MIN]
[loop0 ][squashfs][(unknown)][352.42MB][7 ][0 ]
[sda1 ][ntfs ][System ][1.46GB ][8 ][2 ]
[sda2 ][ntfs ][HDD ][685.13GB][8 ][1 ]
[sda3 ][ntfs ][Recovery ][12.04GB ][8 ][3 ]
Upon googling, apparently the initial loop0 partition is related to the live cd.
- It appears that in order to access or backup C: (sda2) I need to mount it; however in response to inputting "ntfs-3g -o ro /dev/sda2 /mnt/windows" into the command line terminal, I received:
"Error reading bootsector: Input/output error
Failed to mount '/dev/sda2': Input/output error
NTFS is either inconsistent, or there is a hardware fault, or it's a SoftRAID/FakeRAID hardware. In the first case run chkdsk /f on Windows..." etc.




So, I've more or less run into a brick wall at every turn so far. I'm not yet convinced that actual data on the C: partition is gone, or that the HDD is suffering hardware failure- so recovering my data is the first priority, and otherwise to repair the problem.

My current remaining options to fix it myself that I'm aware of are:
- Getting hold of another 64-bit system repair disc
- Try another Linux-based boot option, such as Ultimate Boot CD or Ubuntu Live
- Try another antivirus boot option
- Try to remove the rootkit (if there is one) with one of the latter two options above






I will continue trying to follow up these options, but any help would be extremely welcome!








(Further background:

- Laptop was bought four years ago; it has never previously had any major HDD issues. It had recently begun to overheat (though not to the extent of, say, switching itself off, or noticeably affecting performance)
- I had previously been backing up to an external that wasn't big enough for both full backup of files and a system image; and windows backup consistently failed to back up incrementally. I bought a new Seagate 2TB Expansion drive and got EaseUS Todo Backup Free, and told it to do a Disk backup (effectively a system image), where it said that there was an error on an unnamed partition (my HDD only had the main C: partition, and the two smaller system/recovery partitions, so presumably the error was on one of those). It said it could continue sector by sector to bypass that part, I had never experienced any issue relating to such an error before, and I just wanted to get a backup down ASAP, so I said yes, intended on investigating the error later set it to shutdown when down and went to bed. I woke up several hours later to see that the Seagate external was no longer blinking as it does when in operation, and therefore thought the backup had finished and the laptop should be shut down, but the lights were still on. Being half asleep, I held down the power button to hard reset for inexplicable reasons, and the computer has been unable to boot since.
- Either I was right and something strange was happening at the time related to the system/boot partition error above, that happened to occur whilst backing up; or I was wrong and I caused the problem by mistakenly doing a hard reset whilst the computer was on/possibly backing up system files.
- The backup that was created at this time was indeed incomplete and corrupt, leaving me high and dry.)

My Posts don't show up under view posts/your posts (bug with these forums)

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I tried searching for my thread I had posted on this couldn't find it. This showed up automatically (auto-fill in- so that's probably what it was called)

I guess I'll have to bookmark this post, so I can see it again. It won't show in the list when when click view posts/my posts, or when I do an advanced search, and search for my name of what I've posted. Here's the last thread/post I posted before this one.



And here's what clicking on view post/my posts shows me

E-machines T2642????

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Hey guys and gals, I recently had someone give me an Emachines-T2642. It has an intel celeron processor of 2.40 ghz and has 2GB of ram "memory" And ait does have Windows 7 Ultimate with 111GB Hard drive. Seems to be a bit on the slow side. Any tips on making it faster or thoughts feel free to comment ;-) Thank You all for listening ;-)

Is the 2gb of ram memory really the max? It can't go beyond that?

No videos

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I have the latest Firefox version 49.0.1 and Flashplayer 23.0 installed on Windows 7, I cannot view any videos on utube or other sites.
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