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I created all the DVD's. One to install Windows 10 that I just made using the microsoft tool (on this same PC, so I know the DVD works). The other two I tried to rule out a problem with the windows install disk (I don't have another PC with a DVD to prove the validity of the windows...

I have an older desktop PC and I'm trying to do a fresh install of Windows 10. It is an HP P6710f. It has an SSD and a hard disk and was set with Windows on the SSD. I think it is a Legacy BIOS and cannot boot from USB, so I am trying to boot from an installation DVD. I have tried 3...

Thanks for the recommendation. That soiunds like a possibility. I think that if I use HDMI for a 4K display, I need to make sure the display supports HDMI 2.0. Is that right? As I have been looking at 4K monitors, I often see ones that do not have HDMI 2.0. I searched around and could not...

I'll start by saying I've searched here and read a lot of similar threads, but much of the time I didn't fully understand the answers. I don't know much about graphics cards and I wasn't sure if people were referring to whole graphics cards or just chipsets. My system is a Dell XPS 8700 with...

OP here. I installed Ubuntu Linux on this PC and have run it for a few days without any crashes. So I think that I either have a hardware problem that Windows triggers, but Linux uses the hardware differently and doesn't trigger or triggers less often. Or I have a Windows bug that I haven't...

Nuance PDF Converter Professional 7 is not supported on Windows 8 according to Nuance's website. Has anyone tried using it anyway? If I know ahead of time it doesn't work. I can save myself the trouble of trying it. It would take some work for me to try it properly because my old PC died...

I did some more searching and found an answer myself. FarStone DriveClone 10 is free for home use and does SSD migration. They don't really explain it very well, but it ended up being pretty much a one button migration that set up both a system partition and an OS partition and even somehow...

I got a new Dell XPS 8700 and want to use an SSD in it for Windows 8. I would prefer to clean install, but Dell doesn't provide OS disks and the recovery disks I can make won't recover to the SSD. I don't have any migration software, so I tried AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard Edition. It...

OP here. It appears to be a single windows update is responsible for my inability to boot after running Windows update. Believe it or not, it is the IE 10 update. If I fresh install and then select only the IE 10 update from the list of approx 120 updates, the system will not boot after the...