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I want to sell my older Windows 8.1 PC, and need a quick easy way to format the HD and erase all files, making just a C drive. It didn't come with a Windows install disk.

Both the old and new PC are connected to our home wifi router wirelessly now. I just need to configure both, so they can see each other in my 2 pane file manager, and I can transfer data files to the new PC, then install new Windows 10 programs on the new PC for them. Please? ( I tried hooking...

Asus with AMD FX-8310. This is frustrating. I upgraded to 16gb over a year ago, and it's showing being used, in the System panel. But it may have something to do with Chrome, or Malwarebytes operating simultaneously with Windows Defender ( they say that's ok ) but every once in awhile, the RAM...

This is weird. We have MWB on my Windows 8.1 PC and it runs along side Windows Defender. But we also have MWB on my sister's Windows 8.1 PC in the same house, and if we start MWB, it turns off Windows Defender and Defender can ONLY be turned on, if we turn off MWB

I have an ASUS M32BC which is a 2014 PC and would like to speed it up by adding a 1TB SSD. They only cost about $100 now. So how do I implement this? Just add it to an inside bay as a drive, then use Acronis to clone my current hard drive to it, then make the SSD the boot drive? Or is there...

Request: Please make Windows 8.1 updates reinstall Bluetooth drivers, if accidentally deleted? My drivers were accidentally deleted and I'm being told that the only way to get them back is to run a system restore and risk losing everything.

I don't see any setting for this, in the mouse setup. As it stands now, I have to swipe the mouse over the pad several times, to get the cursor from the left side of the screen to the right side. I remember there used to be a setting, that made the mouse move across the entire screen with just...

I'm not sure what happened, but something got messed up in the power settings. I have the display set to turn off after 5 minutes idle, and sleep after 15 minutes. But suddenly, the display won't come on again when I move the mouse around. Instead of the blue light, it goes to amber, which I...

I'm running an Asus M32BC AMD FX-8310 desktop. Around March 30th, I ran an update, and it seemed to be stalled. It appeared to be doing nothing for quite awhile, so I foolishly canceled it. Then I noticed that my on board Bluetooth had quit working. I looked at Device Manager and it was there...

I've tried everything in the forums, to get Windows 8.1 to sleep automatically and have failed. But I did manage to rig up a manual sleep, for when I want to leave, where I hit Ctrl-Alt-0. So is it possible to make some kind of inactivity timer, like Windows is SUPPOSED to do, to invoke that...

Playback Devices - Sound _ Playback I have a blue tooth Creative D80 speaker in the room with our parrots, next to my home office. I play music for Lucy - my Yellow Naped Amazon, when she's awake, and she loves it, and even sings ( in her own way ). :) But when they're all asleep after 10 PM...

Hi people, First a little background. I'm 69 yrs old and a former Electronics Research & Development Technician with an ASET ( Associate in Science in Electronics Technology - 1969 ). But back then, I was taught discreet hardware, not computers. Stuff like transistors, tubes and TTL. :-) Over...

Windows 8.1 Won't go to sleep automatically I've done quite a bit a research and nothing seems to support my case. My computer will GO to sleep and STAY asleep if I ask it to as in, I manually put the computer to sleep. But if I don't manually put it to sleep, it won't go to sleep, only the...

I'm looking for some way to access my phone from my PC and copy/move files back and forth, without having to scan a code, like Airdroid makes me do. My phone and PC are both on my wifi network, so I just need a FREE PC app to "see" the phone folders from the PC and be able to do this. My...

I messed up and ordered something that only has 1 ethernet port, and I need it to go to 2 devices. It will cost money if I have to return it now. Can 1 port be split to go to 2 devices?

My PC won't sleep now, on the timer setting. If I put it to sleep manually when I go to bed, it's fine ( I have a cool hot key for that now - when I hit Ctrl-alt-0 ) , but if I just leave it and let the timer try, it won't. I have the settings set to turn off monitor at 10 minutes and sleep at...

I'm using Idrive for real time backup of my hard drive data. When I look at Task Manager - Processes, while Idrive is running in real time, it's using 100% of hard drive, slowing down my PC, and also the Antimalware service executable appears to be running and part of this too. Is something...

I originally understood that these two were good to run together, but lately, MWB appears to be turning off Microsoft Security Essentials and unless I turn off MWB, there's no way to turn Essentials back on again. Should I not be running them at the same time? I paid for MWB, so which one is...

Who has a good free password manager that's a download for the PC - NOT a web app?

I've used the free version of CCleaner to clean my registries for years, but this past 2 years they've been nagging more and more to buy the newest version. Is there an alternative to CCleaner that's free, does a good job of registry cleaning, and has NO NAGS?