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“Turn windows features on/off” ends up with error,

“Turn windows features on/off” ends up with error, I wanted to turn the “internet information service -IIS” on but I got the error shown on the attached screenshot. What might be the issue here? Thank you

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HELP - Windows 7 is not installing.

HI, I have a Laptop and the OS of the same is crashed. Then I wanted to format the System Drive and I borrowed a Windows 7 installation DVD from a friend of mine. But when I was installing it these...

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Solved Ho do i restore system from factory default in cmd

Hi My computer has crashed, now it wil not start. It keep restarting every time i say start normally. There is an other option wich is " startup repair". If i do that it's does not make anything...

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Find Right SSD for Windows 7 System files

I want to add an SSD to my hp dv6 laptop. I've been reading up on how I can put an enclosure in my disk drive to add an SSD. I plan on using the SSD to hold the system files so I can have a faster...

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Which configuration to Choose when clean installing Windows 7

My desired setup is: Main OS: Windows 7 Pro x64 Plan to run VMWare Workstation 9 Possibly Windows XP Mode Is it advantageous for me to partition here? my HD is 450gb and I'm about to do a wipe...

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Win 7 and SATA drivers

Hi, I know that setting up WinXP on SATA disk will ask for SATA/RAID drivers before it could recognize the HDD,but why would windows 7 also wont recognize my SATA HDD ? (I always thought Windows 7 will...

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What do I do when I stuck in "Setup is Starting"?

Can please help me what to do.. My laptop has a hardware problem and i think it is in HDD because there's is an error appearing when I boot it.. SMART FAILURE PREDICTED ON HARD DISK 0. and press F1....

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Win 7 install hanging on new HDD

I'm attempting to install Win7 on an older Dell E521 and running into problems where it hangs after booting from the DVD. I have installed a new Western Digital 500G hard drive. Before I swapped the...

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Confused about installing Windows on my hard disk,hard disk problem

Hi guys, I will try to explain this as simple as i can.So let's start I have laptop ASUS N75SF and it is a year old,so i have decided to format.I have two separate hard disks that are the same...

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Solved windows 7 64 bit

i am trying to install windows home premium. when it gets to the language i dont see english. i pressed ok on the top one and its all in a different language. thank you kevin

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windows wont install

i have windows home premim 64bit. it wont install. the error message i get is windows cannot install required files. the fil may be corrupt or missing. make sure al required for installation are...

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Turn off Safe Mode boot from Command Line?

I have a laptop from a friend who contactd Dell about an issue. The person at Dell told him to use msconfig to set safe mode minimal. During further discussioin with the Dell rep, he told my friend he...

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Solved Accidentally formatted c: and unable to install windows due to GPT

I have bought a new Samsung laptop. Specs: Model - NP550P5C-S05IN Memory - 8 GB Hard disk - 1 TB SATA II Graphics - 2 GB NVIDIA GeForce I was trying to install Windows 8 enterprise. My lap was already...

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Won't boot if remove 2nd flaky HD

Win 7 64bit Custom build, 16g ram, asus MB, i5 cpu 2) 1T WD internalHD System running fine for 2 months. All software running on C: 2nd HD used for simple backups Now getting SMART error on 2nd drive (...

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Extra Windows 7 Boot option makes pc take more time to boot up.

So yeah, my simple issue is thaht i installed windows 7 on a hard drive, which i later replaced with a Samsung 840 SSD, which also was bootable. So now ive got 2 windows 7 options to boot from, and the...

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How to make new SSD boot drive and still keep HDD in dual port laptop

Hi people, I am really sorry if someone has already covered this but I am new to this forum. I have and HP Envy 17-2000, which has two ports for harddisks or SSDs (or any combination of). The new SSD...

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Is A Windows 7 Reformatting Necessary?

Hi all. My computer went from perfectly working to a big mess. Basically, last week, I was having problems with my Chrome (too laggy) and decided to switch to Firefox, which I hadn't used in 2 years....

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Install the whole O.S. inside a folder

Hi, I'm setting up a Windows to Go drive, and to prevent mess, I want to install the whole O.S. (Program files, user folder, Windows folder) to a folder called "WindowsToGo". Is that possible? Thank you!

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how do i download internet explorer 8 on windows 7

my computer updated and now it seems that i'm stuck with internet explorer 10. ie8 worked fine for me and now I have to deal with ie10 which lags and looks horrible. i searched everywhere and i cant...

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How do I install Windows 7 from my Windows Vista laptop?

Hello, I made a giant mistake. My older laptop had Windows 7 on it and I had this device that only worked on Windows Vista. So, I decided to downgrade to Windows Vista from Windows 7. Turns out, all my...

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