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Its happening to what I beileve is a legit copy of Windows, it happened before with win7 when reinstalling same program, VLC PLAYER. That time it went unrepaired for 9 mos. It prevents me from lowering a movie to work on something. l'm in the hospital now and will not access any of my tools or a...

In the top right corner of the page on your desktop is a hyphen, a square, and an x. Those are controls which allow you to configure the rectangle be it a square or page. Sometimes I lose them when reinstalling programs or folders. How to reinstall? thanks.

solved Hello. It sure has been rough livining without sound. I poked around on Google and conversed with a few friends and fixed it. My research told me that several picked up the problem while working with youtube, as did I. Links for the curious. This entered on duck, duck, go. thinkpad...

I'm mobile for awhile so I've not had access to my tools meaning my 6 other thinkpads, my library and tools. Usually these problems are traced to a switch that I've bumped, but I've checked and found no solutions. Thanks for any and all assistance. I'm working on my email so I must take advice...

For the past 5 years I’ve done a backup of my Windows computers. I take a program like Acronis True Image and make a clone of the install. I then put the original installation away as a backup and I can copy that original install back to the hard drive if there is a failure due to virus, human...

I tried the suggestions above but all remains the same. The only thing I get is a black screen with the following text "ThinkPad (large text) and under that in considerably smaller text To interrupt normal startup, press Enter." Its the same old song, nothing changes. However, I am lucky I have...

My computer won't boot after a Windows 10 update. The computer had a message on it to reboot after win update. Now all I get is the initial splash screen. What should I do so it will boot?

Thanks some of you know what I'm talking about. Yes, I do remember "indexing" was one of the things it restricted or put a stop to. There were 3 to 5 things it stopped or curtailed which it claimed were shortening the life of SSDs. This took place about 3 years ago. You may be right though, such...

I just put in 2 two terrabyte SSDs at a cost of $555.00 so I want to take care of them. A couple years ago I put in a free program that had the SSD discontinue some activities that are rough on SSDs. I had to sign up for the program in order to download or license it. Then the program just ran...

Thank you guys. I finally found the one I had before, maybe I'm not as thrilled with it as I remember I was looking for a PDF reader with as few features as possible so it wouldn't take up space on my screen. I wanted space to read the PDF rather than massive toolbars. The one I got is Expert...

Thank you for your replies. I did get the new Thinkpad laptops yesterday, a W541 and a X201 wth an I7 at 2.67GHZ. I'll start installing new 2TB SSDs tommorrow and then maxing out the RAM. I'm a Thinkpad fanboy with much more than 10 of them. I cringe at the thought of a consumer laptop. Could I...

I need good free PDF reader for Windows 10. A PDF reader that doesn't do much just for reading. I had a good one last month but that computer died after 4 years. But the happy ending is that I just got 2 new Thinkpads, a W541 and a X201 with an I7 at 2.67GHZ. Now I need a new PDF reader for Win 10.

I just bought a Lenovo Thinkpad W541 i7-4810MQ 2.8GHZ 16GB 240GB SSD W10 k1100 1080 SE 29-02. I'm putting in a 2TB Seagate Barracuda SSD. Then I'm moving to 32GB of RAM. What RAM and should I go with 2 16GB sticks? Thank you for any and all guidance.

Yes, you are correct , computers are still a big part of my life, but for different reasons. A foot injury has kept me non-ambulatory for several months. I’ve found myself lying around healing. I’m still collecting Thinkpads and I realized that I’ve not bought a laptop for 4 years and if I’m...

I’m not a gamer, but I play about 4 flavors of Unreal Tournament, Deathmatches are quick and easy to learn, no difficult commands like Medal of Honor. These days I buy used corporate Thinkpads, max upgrade them and drive them until they drop, consumer laptops are low quality and don’t last...