I would really like to remove those old and dated substitute icons in favor of the real ones. And hoping I can just replace the old file with one of my own creation.

WAAAY back there was a 3rd party app for Windows 98 called Go Back. It was invaluable then since Win 98 was so clogged with errors. No restore points were needed. You could just "go back" a few...

Denis, Sorry, no...Win 7 has nothing to do with my problem. Briefly, I inadvertently destroyed the original OEM WIN 10 version when I installed Linux. With no way to recover the OEM, I bought a...

No wonder everyone is confused. I'm confused myself. My apologies! Here are the details...

Win 10 installed on new Alienware r7.
Mistake #1: Foolishly did not create recovery disk, nor system...

For reasons that would take far too long to explain, I need to recover my Win 10 product key. I am no longer able to use the version that came installed with the computer. To fix this I bought a new...

Worried me a bit, too.RJ's suggestion of a virtual machine sounded good so I'm working with that for the time being. Thanks Commander...Navy guy myself

Very well thought out solutions...kudos to you all! All direct and to the point. Thanks

I only have ONE computer...a desktop...yes, it will run windows 10. I want to play around with Windows 10 before giving up Windows 7. Here's what I want to do:

Install two newly formatted hard...