Hi - I am thinking about transitioning from Win7 to Win10. I have been running Win7x64 for a very long time on my main PC. I have done a lot of instal

I don't know of any software that specifically gives burn speed, other than CDBurnerXP. However, Windows usually tells me if it is burning at max speed, at least as far as I have noticed. One thing: Burn speed is subjective and you really are at the mercy of your media here. You may have a 16x burner, but it may only ever burn at 8x with your particular media. It's sort of a crap shoot. I have ...

How to Backup Personal Files from Windows Recovery Environment When a computer does not boot due to a corrupted Windows operating system rather than a hardware problem, its files remain inaccessible but intact on the hard drive. Personal files can be reco

If I go into safe mode, it always uses a lower screen resolution (and wrong aspect ratio) than is possible with the basic video driver that is used by safe mode, and the resolution may be changed back

Post an image of Disk Management. Make it full screen and expand all areas so everything can be seen. See this tutorial: Disk Management - How to Post a Screenshot of Make sure you expand the fields as shown so all data can be seen. Disconnect everything except mouse and keyboard, everything. If you have more than one hard drive, disconnect the cables to them so only the boot drive is connected.

I have a Lenovo Z510 laptop which originally came with Windows 8 Home. However, I wiped the HDD and reinstalled Windows 8 Pro using a valid key I got

Visit manufacturer's site and download latest USB 3.0 driver. If there is no driver for Windows 10, use that of 7 or 8. Install it just in case Windows Update has replaced it with a generic Microsoft driver. Then use the show/hide tool to hide any relevant update so it won't be replaced again. If it is an Intel USB 3.0

So recently Windows 10 came out and I manually downloaded the Media Creation tool and started upgrading my PC BUT I had to turn it off and all of the

When you dock and use a full-size monitor the resolution might be 1920x1080. In that state, let's assume you have icons all over the desktop. Now undock the laptop. In this mode the display resolution might be 1600x900. In this situation any x-axis coordinate above 1600 no longer exists. And any y-axis coordinate above 900 no longer exists. So any icon that had been in those locations must be ...

From Recovery Environment the DISM commands are installed I believe so nothing to worry about there. And, yes, you will need to enter commands from cmd.exe. From Recovery Environment you will get a command prompt like X:\>Sources (see this tutorial - Open Command Prompt at Boot in Windows 10 Windows 10 General Tips Tutorials ) Then you need to identify which drive letter is assigned to the ...