Questions tagged [windows-8.1]
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Very high CPU usage of Firefox only when Hotspot Shield VPN is connected
I'm on Windows 8.1 and Firefox 99.
Since we can't connect to most sites from inside Iran we have to use a VPN. I've hadn't this problem until recently just after the latest updated of Hotspot Shield (...
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Keyboard not working in one user account
My friend have a strange problem. Few weeks ago, he just bought a new keyboard for his laptop, because it's internal keyboard is broken. But recently, his new keyboard suddenly not working in his ...
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Upgrading an older HP Pavilion laptop from Windows 8.1 to Windows 10
I'm updating someone's older HP Pavilion laptop from Windows 8.1 to Windows 10, using Microsoft's Media Creation Tool.
I've created a recovery partition and made a complete system backup, in case ...
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US International keyboard layout dead keys behaving inconsistently
I use the US International keyboard layout, which makes it easy to produce a whole bunch of special characters without alt codes or third-party software. It usually works fine, but sometimes the dead ...
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Gain admin access on Windows 8.1 Enterprise with Bitlocker enabled
I'm supporting a user whose company went bust and was allowed to keep his laptop. He has a domain user account which he can login to and has been using his computer fine. But he needs to gain admin ...
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Half of my laptop screen has suddenly gone dim
Issue:
Solutions tried:
Restart
Updated some drivers as suggested by some blog posts on the internet
Nothing has worked so far. Can you please let me know what could be the issue?
Specs:
Lenovo G50-...
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Erase a hard drive without reinstalling Windows 8, by a Windows recovery disk?
Is there an option in a Windows 8 default recovery disk (a USB key in my case), to erase the main hard drive where Windows 8 is installed, without Windows 8 being reinstalled afterwards? Or to do this,...
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Tablet Keeps Shutting Down
This has been going on for a couple of weeks..
I have this Windows 8.1 tablet, (32 bit Intel processor, 2G RAM, 64G disk with 720MB free space).
It shuts down soon after boot up.
As I power up, after ...
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Windows Dism.exe /RestoreHealth /LimitAccess, no /Source, Where is the Features on Demand location and should I use it?
Regarding the command Dism.exe /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth /LimitAccess
Normally /RestoreHealth is used without /LimitAccess, which makes Dism use Windows Update to compare against the ...
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Upgrading Win 8 to Win 10 not possible
The screenshot explains everything:
A couple of days ago received a machine with Ryzen 1700 cpu and ASUS X370-Pro motherboard with enabled RAID1 on first 2 SATA ports (in fact on all ports, ask ASUS ...
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I want to remove some portion of video in regular intervals [duplicate]
I have 22 minutes and 21 second video. I want to remove some portion of video in regular intervals. Like for every 30 seconds I need to remove next 5 seconds and then after 30 seconds again I need to ...
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Is there a way to have Windows 8.1 enter into a softer level of hibernation? So it still does work overnight but less hard drive activity?
My Windows 8.1 hard drive does loud things for the entire night.
How can I put it to a softest sleep which would remedy this, without fearing to loose any data?
I really do not know what it is doing.
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Convert another microsoft account to local account when logged as administrator
I'm logged as the "administrator" on the windows 8.1 machine.
Another account is "microsoft_user" (an Online Microsoft account).
There are similar questions:
Disconnect Microsoft ...
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Toshiba Satellite C855 is not booting up or going to BIOS and just displaying black screen
My parents own an old Toshiba Satellite C855 that sits in the office always plugged in. Now it won’t turn on.
When the power button is pressed the LEDs light up and the HDD spins up but the screen ...
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Volume issues on an Asus laptop
So Win 8.1 did an update yesterday and all of a sudden my old Asus laptop wouldn't boot into Windows (it was stuck on the Asus screen) & I figured out it was the USB hub and I could only boot into ...
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Computer crashes frequently whenever I try to run a .exe file before the system asks permission to run
I have Windows 8.1 in my laptop which has an unusual problem of freezing or not responding when I try to run an .exe file.
As soon as I run it the screen returns to desktop and dims down a bit. Before ...
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My windows 8.1 can't upgrade to windows 10, the system requirements seem to screw me up hard
The title almost states my problem. Take a glimpse of my system as below,
Windows 10 requires it to have a different CPU core type. I think my computer is dying.
I've tried to run the Media Creation ...
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The shift+W+spacebar not working, even replace the keyboard , but the keyboard works on another PC
I use Logitech K120 to play game, use i for 6 years and one day it cant press Shift + W + Spacebar for a sametime. So i think this is keyboard fault then i buy a new one recently.
But the issue still ...
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Remove lock screen wallpaper in Windows 8.1
When accessing a remote system through TeamViewer or AnyDesk displaying the lock screen takes a long time because of the wallpaper. So it may be desirable to remove this wallpaper ("to set it to &...
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Why are other audio devices unusable?
Some time ago, all audio devices on my computer except one became unusable. The one that works is an old USB sound card. The motherboard's onboard audio has stopped working, a new USB sound card has ...
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Network adapters not found
I have a dual boot system (Ubuntu 22.04 + Windows 8.1 pro) running on Dell Precision M3800. Suddenly, network has stopped working, both wifi and wired, on both Windows & Linux.
Following are two ...
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Disk cleanup doesn't work on Windows 8.1
When I am trying to clean the 2.53 GB of old "Windows Updates" by pressing "OK" in
and then re-open the clean up window, all those old updates are still there.
I ran
Dism /Online /...
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Win8.1 updates failing for months
I just noticed that nearly all of my Windows updates have been failing since 4/17/2022:
Just a few exceptions succeeded:
I tried following the suggestions at:
https://www.800error.com/KB2962409-...
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How to disable internet connectivity for a particular app/software?
I want to disable the internet connectivity of 'Steam' as my younger brother keeps on downloading video games from the Steam client on my computer. I cannot downright uninstall it as well since his ...
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My Flashdrive isn't working because I deleted system volume information [duplicate]
I accidentally deleted my System Volume Information on my Flashdrive and now Windows can't recognize it.
It always asks me to scan the drive before but it still isn't working.
I don't know how to do ...
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How to hide an app or a software from windows search in Windows 8.1?
I want to be able to hide a software/app, specifically 'Google Chrome' on my Windows 8.1 PC.
Upon searching for the app/software, I don't want chrome to show up in the search results. Is there a way ...
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Is it expected behavior when a Windows 8.1 iso file says Unknown Publisher?
Using a Windows 10 PC, I downloaded Windows 8.1 iso using a link from here:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/software-download/windows8ISO
in order to re-install Windows 8.1 on another machine.
When I ...
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How do you download the latest Windows Defender platform engine for offline PC, as well as the definitions?
How do you download the latest Windows Defender platform engine, as well as the definitions?
It is for computers that are not online yet, I would like to do this for both Windows 8.1 and Windows 10.
I ...
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Does Windows 8.1 contain updates when downloaded with the Media Creation Tool?
If I download Windows 8.1 (to install on another PC) using Microsoft's Media Creation Tool would it include many recent updates, and of what kind? (I can find no recent answers). I'm presuming that ...
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How to track device IDs assignments in Windows?
Is there a way to keep track of device IDs as they're assigned by the OS? I'm using Windows 8.1, trying to track mouse IDs in specific. A cursory glance at the System logs turned nothing useful.
To ...
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How to install Windows 8.1 on legacy BIOS based lapop
How do I install windows 8.1 on a laptop running legacy BIOS firmware? The laptop in question is a Toshiba Satellite C870D-11X that originally came with a windows 8.1 OEM install.
I've downloaded the ...
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Internal 2TB SSD suddenly inaccessible except through cmd as administrative user
I've been using the boot drive SSD from a Windows 8.1 computer as an internal, SATA-connected secondary drive in Windows 10 machine for months. And still often switching it back to the Windows 8.1 ...
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Rename a file based on a selection list
I have to rename thousands of image files with a set of name list such as photos of products named as topview, topview1, topview2, etc., and sideview, sideview1, ..., sideviewn, backview, ...
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Unable to install Windows 8.1 using Apple Boot Camp
I've been tirelessly searching a answer to my issue, but I couldn't find anything.
I'm trying to install Windows 8.1 on a mid-2010 21.5" iMac running on macOS High Sierra (10.13.6).
I have a 16Gb ...
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How does the font value in Windows Registry is organized?
This comment https://superuser.com/a/1069328/1664175 explains some crucial facts about the font value of Windows Registry but not completely.
I would like to know more about the font value. Especially ...
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Remove Watermark of Aero Glass on windows 8.1
Recently I have installed Aero Glass for windows 8.1 and noticed that it creates a watermark of the site name and this is how it looks:
Also at the startup of windows a window pops up saying "...
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Does creating a child's account in Windows 8.1 have to be a Microsoft account?
creating a new account in Windows 8.1
Simple question, when you create a child's account in Windows 8/8.1, is it a local account or a Microsoft account?
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Windows 8.1: 100% Disk usages at Startup. How to overcome?
First of all here is the screenshot of the program that causes trouble when I boot my laptop.
Service host taking 100% disk:
When I boot my Laptop up disk usages remains 100% for almost 5 minutes and ...
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Unable to boot (Windows 8.1)
I have a problem similar to this: Missing boot files in Windows 8
I was unable to boot and I found an old rescue CD I had, Wondershare LiveBoot 2012. It booted, but I made a mistake because I clicked ...
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Photos' timestamps get changed (to when they're moved onto new phone, and their creation date gets set to 1969 - losing all order of images
Scenario:
New Android 11 cell phone. Moving 1000's of photos over from old Android 5 phone via a 64bit Win8.1 PC. Photos on new phone then all adopt creation a time stamp of 12.31.1969 (no clue why) ...
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Stuck On "Detecting Android-x86.. found at dev/sda1" While installing Android 9.1-r2 (x64) In VirtualBox
First of all, I'm frustrated as hell, I'm facing this problem for the last 6 months when I first thought to try android on a PC.
Till then, I've tried multiple iso's from android 7 to android 9 but ...
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Will running a python script as admin cause all subprocesses to run with elevated rights?
I am on windows 8.1, python 3.
If I am using subprocess.run() to run a cmd command (particularly netsh export) and I run the python file as admin, will the command given to subprocess also be run as ...
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Strange keyboard events on Win8 HP laptop
I have had a HP Pavillion forever, running Win8. Lately, it has been acting weirdly, and I assumed it was simply on its deathbed. But the weirdness is getting even weirder now. Other than it sometimes ...
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Windows CMD interprets "y" as immediate command execution
Every input containing the character "y" in the command prompt ends in a new line respectively the command is executed immediately. Because of that it's for example not possible to start a ...
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Windows 8.1 to Windows 10 and back, playing with secure boot
On a Samsung NP900X3C, Windows 8.1 is installed. I would like to test Windows 10 on this machine and for that, I purchased a separate disk so that if it fails, I can just revert to the previous ...
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SSD not showing in Disk Management / File Explorer
I have an SSD which is not showing up as a drive in Windows (8.1)
It doesn't show up in Disk Management
It doesn't show up in File Explorer
It doesn't show up in Device Manager.
It does show in the ...
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Windows 8.1 100% Disk Usage after reboot
I recently refreshed my PC and newly installed Windows 8.1. After that I noticed the 100% Disk- and Memory-Usage. Then with the following commands I fixed the problem:
SFC /scannow
DISM /Online /...
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Load password recovery from SD card
The problem
I have an old Lenovo tablet (Lenovo IdeaPad Miix 10) that is running Windows 8.1. The tablet comes with a detachable keyboard, that seems to be broken - there is absolutely no reaction to ...
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Is there a way to mount an NTFS partition read-only on Windows without Diskpart?
I have searched for a while and haven't found anything. Other than using diskpart to set a readonly volume bit. Which is persistent and modifies the partition table, which is not an option for me. And ...
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Bios shows Android and Windows 8.1 in Windows 10 PC
I went to American Megatrends BIOS settings, there was an option to choose between windows 8.1 and Android. I have a Windows 10 PC. Should I select Android and boot or is it unsafe?!
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