I would like to set up a test computer to test Windows 10 Pro on. I'd like to take advantage of virtualization. What is a good motherboard, processor, and video card for such a test system? I would...

The Windows 10 "Reset this PC" functionality does not appear to work on this installation. Indeed, every rescue option has run into a brick wall. Particularly distressing is the lack of helpful error...

The system in question is an Asus KGPE-D16 dual processor motherboard, two AMD processors, 32 Gb of memory. The full version of Windows 7 Ultimate was originally installed. At first I used Seagate...

I followed Kari's tutorial for doing that at the time I installed the full version of Windows 7 Ultimate on this machine. So I used the "OOBE"/sysprep methods Kari discusses. Everything has worked...

Actually, I built the computer myself, and installed Windows 7 Ultimate -- the full version -- at the time it was built, a few years ago. At the the time I originally installed Windows 7, I followed...

I guess the question in my mind is whether the tutorials will work if you "Reset Your PC". I am sure they work fine if you are doing a full installation, or an upgrade. The question is whether the...

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I have a computer that is stuck in an "automatic repair" loop. On this machine, the Users folder is on a separate physical hard drive than the system drive.

I have concluded that I will...

Malware infection, perhaps?

Bob

Any suggestions about this? The friend's system is a little strange to me. On further investigation, it appears that all the boot files (like BOOTMGR) are on physical hard drive #1, then the Windows...

I also tried restoring registry hives from the f:\windows\system32\config\RegBack directory and restarting, but this seems to have no effect because of the drive lettering of the hard drives.
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A little more detail. Here is a picture of the "automatic repair" loop that I'm seeing:

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Under "Advanced Options" I can apparently open a command prompt and run diskpart. Here is how the...

Hi!

Several years ago I built a desktop computer for my friend. I installed Windows 7 Ultimate on this, in the 64 bit version, and I followed user Kari's tutorial for placing User data and...