Upgrade windows 10 problems on Inspiron 17R N7110
Hi,This summer a upgraded my laptop, who was on windows 7, to windows 10 and i have been having some serious bugs since ... My screen goes grey with some lines like distortion .... I have to disconnect...
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I recently was asked to upgrade Dell backup and recovery. When I did this the upgrade did not complete but since then the start menu is no longer working. Initially I got a critical error and was asked...
View ArticleHard Drive Crash - New OS, Help with Drivers
I need some help ... my Dell XPS 8300 experienced a fatal hard drive crash last week. I went out and purchased a new hard drive, then Dell Support sent me a copy of Windows 7 to load up on the...
View ArticleDDPE Win7 - How to disable 'key' that consumes bottom-left quadrant of file...
My laptop is now encrypted with DDPE and all 25% of all icons (bottom-left quadrant) get gobbled up with a 'key' graphic.Can this be turned off?I can always use WSScan.exe to scan for unencrypted...
View Articledowngrade from windows 10 to windows 7 problem
Hi I am wondering if anyone can help me out. I have a dell XPS 8500 and I recently did the free upgrade to Windows 10 not realising until later that dell will not make drivers for windows 10 for my...
View ArticleFactory restore from recovery disks HELP error 0xc000000e
Hi Folks,After 4 years I decided to restore my Dell Inspiron 5110 to factory setting as it started running slow and I wanted to clear all the *** from over the years.I have saved all pics, music and...
View ArticleWindows 7 Product key
I just had to reinstall Windows on a Dell XPS 8700 that I bought 8 months , but now I do not have the Windows product key.The PC was bought from Dell's website.Please advise
View ArticleReinstall of Win 7 on XPS 8100 with new disk (RAID) crashes
My hard disk died so I replaced it with a hardware RAID (mirror). When I tried to install Win 7 from the disk that came with the computer, it proceeded well until near the end when it crashed during...
View ArticleWindows 8 Product Key Disappeared
A customer brought me an Inspiron 17R 5720 to refurbish for them. I'm assuming it came pre-loaded with either Windows 8 or 8.1 judging by the lack of product key under the battery and the Windows 8...
View ArticleDell Inspirion 3520
I have a Inspirion 3520.Bad HDD replaced with a new blank one but cannot get Bios to boot to DVD for reinstall of OS. Bios is A09. Looked at several Forums and they say to add boot option CD but I do...
View ArticleMicrosoft office
When trying to open a .DOCX file in Word 2013 I receive the following error message:“there was an error opening the file.”What can be causing this to happen?
View ArticleDell Latitude D620 Win 7 re-install...
I have a friend's Dell Latitude D620 that she had tried to upgrade to Win10 and has totally screwed up machine. It will not recover at all. On a tag on back of computer, it appears this was...
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Unable to access apps after period of inactivity
Question Applies to Windows Windows 10 Performance & system failures PC1 viewUnable to access apps after period of inactivityCWCWHMDW asked on January 21, 2016I have a XPS 8700 desktop. The...
View ArticleDell Inspiron N7110 Restore
Hi I bought a dell inspiron n7110 on eBay and they had upgraded it to windows 10 but when i look in the system management it showed a recovery 19GB partition so is that the restore partition? and it...
View ArticleProduct key doesn't work on new installed windows 7
Hello. I have a Inspiron N5050 and used it for about 3 or 4 years now. It worked very slow so i decided to reinstall it. A friend had a disk with windows 7 home premium (that's what i also had) but...
View ArticleDOCUMENT LIBRARY: LIST FOLDERS: WINDOWS BACKUP
I want to check that a specific folder will get backed up by windows backup.I can click on DOCUMENTWhich brings up DOCUMENT LIBRARY and shows 5 locations Dell has created couple of shortcuts on...
View ArticleHow to reinstall Microsoft office 2007 that came preinstalled but lost due to...
My insprion 15 5558 ran into bluescreen error again and again and even my nvidia display adaptor didn't respond or reinstall...and window crashes down..even if i ran diagnostics using Dell...
View Articlewindows 7 home basic operating system recovery
how can I get my window 7 home basic operating system boot disc if I have lost the disc.
View ArticleDell XPS 13 (2015) Developer Edition - upgrade from linux to Win10
I purchased the Dell XPS 13 (2015) Developer Edition in the UK which comes with linux factory pre-installed. Can I upgrade to windows 10? Does the upgrade void Dell's warranty? Is the upgrade for free,...
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Can't install win 7 stops at starting win insignia
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