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Hello,

It worked. No idea why it wasn't already on. My new thing that I want to do is find a way to disable the lock screen on my home pc... Thanks

It worked. No idea why it wasn't already on. My new thing that I want to do is find a way to disable the lock screen on my home pc... Thanks

I will do this, and thank you, but why do I have to do it in the first place, am I missing something? It seems like a feature that should happen automatically like it did in 7.

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Every time I search in Windows 8 in Windows Explorer it takes forever and it never offers to index my HDDs. I have 6 drives and a SSD and this was never the case on Windows 7. One example is that I was looking for a file with the beginning Revo and I searched under "My Computer". It searched...

Every time I am in Windows Explorer and I open a photo or video and then close it, I am kicked back out into the metro interface and from there I have to re-click on the desktop icon to get back to Windows Explorer and my files. This is really annoying. Is there a way to stop this? Is there a...

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I should mention one more thing: when I reboot sometimes it now says "media test failure, check cable" but when I go into bios to select the proper drive it is not listed. Only listed are the realtek network adapter and the dvd drive. I did a hard shutdown and rebooted and it booted up. I...

I dropped my laptop (MSI A6200) from approximately 4 feet high while it was on. The harddrive was damaged so I changed it out for an SSD and reinstalled windows. The laptop will work for anywhere from 20 minutes up to 5 or 6 hours without problems, but then will ultimately freeze and have to...

I swapped out the drive and reinstalled a new copy of Windows 7 Home Premium that I procured online. I had no problem using the same serial on the bottom of the machine to activate it, but the one that Belarc Advisor gave me was not correct, strangely. So, it works! The bad: it was a...

Thanks to both of you guys.

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Hi, I bought an ASUS laptop and it came with no disk. I not only do not want the bloatware but I want to switch the HDD out for a newly purchased SSD. How can I do this? I want to use the license that came with the laptop, obviously. Thanks