Thanks for the advice. Well taken. To think, my desktop (this computer) is running on Vista.

For information, I decided to get rid of Win 10 and installed Win 7 Pro with the help of SIW2. I activated it via phone. I know we got off subject and I appreciate all the good information from...

Bree said- "If you can find an OEM Win7 Pro ISO for this model then it will install and self-activate from the SLP marker in the bios. If not, then clean install with a standard W7 Pro ISO, then use...

Hello Bree- Good to see you. I'm the same guy with the username wither x in the Vista and Win 7 forums and we've had previous interchanges.

Thanks for all the information.

This system is about...

After I got it to boot, I wanted to customize the desktop and other things. I found out that the Win 10 installed doesn't have a product key. I've asked the seller if he has it but haven't heard...

Well, this morning I decided to go through the process again. Cortana insisted that I need a Hello Pin. Strange thing is that it let me create a PIN in contrast to yesterday and I was able to boot...

First, I don't have a copy of Win 10 to reinstall with.


Second, Cortana will not let me get past the request to create a Microsoft Account, unless I set up a PIN. It doesn't recognize "No."
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I bought a used computer which has Win 10.

During boot, Cortana asks a lot of questions about the system setup some including region, time/date, keyboard, etc. I somehow got through setting it up...

On my monitor (Viewsonic), I press a button on the bottom of it and a menu comes up which allows me to select the "input" type.

I had looked at the tech specs for your system the other day and somehow I saw that you had a hdmi to vga adapter. Today I looked at the specs again and the connection is hdmi. Of course, you would...

I understand that but it had already been a day since he posted. It was just a casual comment.

Hello-

I don't know why no one has responded but, it looks like you have a HDMI to VGA adapter. Is that what you're using for the monitor connection? If so, have you set the monitor to VGA?

5 hours is the typical time difference between the US and European countries. What do you have the location and language set for your system?

Let me know how it turns out.

Since the instructions tell you to set AutoPlay to On for all media and devices, what ever setting you make in the Removable Drive section will apply to all. In the AutoPlay section of Control Panel,...

After I replied, I got thinking about it some more. You might want to chose a setting, such as the "ask me........" one in the event you ever want to boot from a flash drive. Of course, a USB device...

You might set the AutoPlay options for the device to "take no action" as shown in this-

https://www.howtogeek.com/236241/how-to-enable-disable-and-customize-autoplay-in-windows-10/

Then, if you...