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[SOLVED] A current driver on your PC may be better than the driver we're trying to install. We'll keep trying to install. FIX: I used Windows Update Minitool.

Great tool I hope it works as I have failed solving this several times!
- Rich-M
- Post #19
- Jan 18, 2021
- Forum: Windows 10
[SOLVED] A significant number of skips and pops. FIX: I don't use sleep mode anymore.

Many don't realize that shutting down and starting from a cold boot is the only way to reset memory as reboot does not do that. That makes me wonder if perhaps memory isn't the issue here. I would run memtest 86 on each stick individually you may have a bad one.
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- Post #11
- Dec 25, 2020
- Forum: Windows 10
Anxious newbie.

Welcome aboard you will find this a friendly and helpful bunch!
- Rich-M
- Post #4
- Dec 25, 2020
- Forum: Introductions - New Members
Should I be worried with these hard drive test results?

I think the age of the drive almost means more than the amount of bad sectors and the older the drive the more likely it will continue to produce bad sectors and since the average used doe not backup anything regularly or even at all I like to use ther age of 5 years as my end of life for most...
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- Post #59
- Dec 10, 2020
- Forum: Hardware
Been Experiencing BSOD since upgrading my Motherboard, CPU, and Power Supply

Oops my bad the attachments didn't show on the pc I was on for some reason.
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- Post #35
- Dec 10, 2020
- Forum: BSOD Crashes, Kernel Debugging
Been Experiencing BSOD since upgrading my Motherboard, CPU, and Power Supply

I guess I am a little puzzled here. Poster is using a brand new motherboard with some old and new hardware, getting memory error messages and you have been asked to do Memtest86 quite a few times and post logs and that appears to be the only thing you haven't done yet it is the single most...
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- Post #33
- Dec 10, 2020
- Forum: BSOD Crashes, Kernel Debugging
All games are crashing due to graphics driver being reset.

Thanks for that as honestly it doesn't sound like Malware anyway and if you thought it was Malwarebytes would have made more sense to use along with ADW Cleaner from Malwarebytes anyway.
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- Post #34
- Dec 8, 2020
- Forum: BSOD Crashes, Kernel Debugging
Unable to reset my PC

Download Windows 10 The link above if you use the second option "download tool now" allows you to create a bootable usb to install Windows 10 newest version clean or make a bootable dvd to do the same just make sure you backup whatever files and data are important before doing using it.
- Rich-M
- Post #8
- Dec 7, 2020
- Forum: Windows 10
All games are crashing due to graphics driver being reset.

Have you uninstalled the two Antivirus programs as suggested. Never run 2 Av programs and frankly I wouldn't run either one of those as they are dinosaurs and couldn't find today's problems if your life depended on it and for sure if both wre installed I would be surprised if your system would...
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- Post #32
- Dec 7, 2020
- Forum: BSOD Crashes, Kernel Debugging
Should I be worried with these hard drive test results?

Not just to pile on this is much ado about nothing because we have some indication the drive has some bad sectors checkdisk may have dealt with (hiding them from Windows basically) but where I stopped was the drive is 5 years old and there is nothing more important than preserving files and data...
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- Post #54
- Dec 7, 2020
- Forum: Hardware
Using Legacy Software Safely

I would not react so quickly to that Brian, there is a lot of merit in a small business from the standpoint of control by the owner if you think about it. Not saying I would do it just I need more time to think about it.
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- Post #19
- Nov 14, 2020
- Forum: General Help & Information
Using Legacy Software Safely

I agree with you as well but my problem is I am now finding the norm is no action taken or offered by Windows in the majority of computers I have revisited in the past year and that is my issue. I have about 450 clients but quite obviously I see a small fraction of those each year but the...
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- Post #16
- Nov 13, 2020
- Forum: General Help & Information
Using Legacy Software Safely

Of course I completely agree which is why I raised the question in the first place is I have always told them to keep current, my problem is how to do that now based on the fact Microsoft may or may not be helping with doing that because all of what you both are saying makes me not sure what...
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- Post #15
- Nov 13, 2020
- Forum: General Help & Information
Using Legacy Software Safely

I just meant it would be nice not to have multiple answers is all. I mean we don't want our clients ignoring updates, especially feature updates and since I seem to have no issue updating any system using the media creator update site, I don't get why anyone can't go there and update their...
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- Post #12
- Nov 13, 2020
- Forum: General Help & Information
Using Legacy Software Safely

Thanks for the above but unfortunately it sort of "muddies" the water for me rather than clearing it up as it sounds then again like the feature update will be offerred when Windows feels the system is ready which then does not explain why so many of my user systems are multiple versions behind...
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- Post #10
- Nov 13, 2020
- Forum: General Help & Information

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