The bios screen displays fine. Then the "loading windows" screen appears with the spinner. In about 3 seconds, the computer locks up. So the hardware is fine. it's able to display video. It's...

I have an i7 desktop with an AMD HD 6950 that's been perfect for years. Suddenly a few days ago it locked up. Black screen. No errors in event log. Rebooting it would lock up again as soon as the...

Jimbo, hi. I've read all your threads a few days ago and I agree.

Microsoft, I hope you are listening. I've been a fanboy since 1981, and a devoted my career to developing systems first for...

Sure, I'll try it. But you have to understand something.
I still have the original unchanged ISO that was used to install this system, and it was installed 10/14/2015. It has not changed.

How...

one last comment and question.

This thing seems to be doing "click to run", which she NEVER installed or consented to.
This is a standalone instance of Office and always was, for years. It...

Thanks, it's a good idea.
However, I downloaded the 2016 32bit patches and each one says "the upgrade patch cannot be installed.... application may be missing or a different version..."

But it...

From the little information I've been able to get from MicroSoft regarding 30088-26, it seems to point to a proxy issue regarding Windows updates. I checked the proxy settings and they are correct. ...

No problem. It is not a VL, it is an individual subscription, I forget to add that.
I appreciate your time looking at this.

The ISO is the same one used to build her machine, and it is directly from that license, downloaded from MS site. And there was no problem from the day 2016 was released until this week.

The...

Yes, of course we know this. She's a developer and that's what MSDN is for. We've purchased it for testing every year since 1994.

What does this have to do with her problem?

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I have one user with Office Pro 2016 running on Windows 10 Pro, and everything was perfect from day one, until 2 days ago. Outlook would not start up. Just opens and dies.

I tried to run online...

Here is the answer found in another post.
OfficeBackgroundTaskHandlerRegistration flashes a window every hour - Microsoft Community

I just started noticing that too, today. I ran malwarebytes and it found zero problems. I haven't been able to get a pattern as to when it appears, have you? It is so fast it doesn't even draw the...

Thank you. I have switched it off now. Hopefully that's the end of it.
Good day!

Every few hours the Edge shortcut pops up this annoying message that interrupts my work. It says: "Have you customized Microsoft Edge ?" I do not use Edge, I use Firefox. I thought I had stopped...

Additional info:
In activation panel, it says "digital entitlement".
However, in the slmgr -dli output it says:
Windows RETAIL Channel.

With that I assume I'm good for the future.
Thank you...

My previous OS, Windows 7 Ultimate is most definitely Retail. I built the machine myself.
And after allowing the strong-arm upgrade to 10, it is most definitely saying "digital entitlement".

If...

I rebuild my computer every few years, like I'm sure most people do. In Win7, I could move to new hardware with certain restrictions of course.

Then I read this: "If you have a retail license,...