Recent content by Josh Hearn

  1. Josh Hearn

    Laptop PC has 7 partitions, how can I free them up?

    Laptop PC has 7 partitions can I free them up 2-3 year old Dell laptop I bought used. I upgraded to Win 10 on release day early that day AM eastern time. PC was shipped with 8.0 and than updated to 8.1 prior to me purchasing it. I just saw that I have 7 partitions after I was digging around on...
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    One Drive keeps opening up/pop up?

    So I've never used One Drive on Windows 10. I registered once when I had Windows 8.1 and didn't like it so never used it. For whatever reason now One Drive seems to randomly give a pop up and or run in the background like its scheduled to at certain times. Its getting annoying. My pc is malware...
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    Only Ethernet Internet works, wifi option not available

    Under Network Adapters in Device Manager it has Realtek and about 8 different WAN miniports all are enabled. When I click on the icon at the bottom of right of screen in the taskbar and click settings. Where I would turn wifi on or off or Airplane mode on or off. Under Wireless it says We...
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    Only Ethernet Internet works, wifi option not available

    Giving this a bump. I really need help. Wifi isn't an option anywhere to turn it on. Its like it disappeared
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    Only Ethernet Internet works, wifi option not available

    So for about 2-3 months I've been running hardwired Ethernet internet instead of wifi. I keep my Dell plugged into my tv. The other day I tried to move it and use wifi in another room but I have no option. When I first started with Windows 10 on release day I was using wifi with no problems and...
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    Lost all bookmarks in Edge. Can they be retrieved?

    Lost all bookmarks in Edge. Can they be retrieved I'm not sure what to do. I ran a few cleanup programs. adwcleaner, ccleaner, etc and opened up edge and all the bookmarks were gone. But also to add I imported Google Bookmarks from my phone into the bookmarks also. So I had all my bookmarks in...
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    Downloads really slow on 1GB Internet

    So I moved my wireless router closer to the me and my roommates bedrooms and hard wired my pc to the router. The tech was getting 900Mbps wired and 300Mbps wireless. How was he obtaining those speeds. Hardwired I'm now getting 95-97 Mbps checking on various speed sites like Comcast, etc...
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    Why does Edge go into an auto refresh page mode while switching tabs?

    Re: Edge goes into an auto refresh page mode while switching tabs. Yeah I noticed this today when I had about 6-8 tabs open. I'm usually only using 1 or 2 tabs and close them out. But I noticed when I was multitasking on edge going back and forth inbetween tabs that when I opened like the 6th...
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    Downloads really slow on 1GB Internet

    So my first week on Windows 10 downloads and internet speed were fast but have since went down the drain. From big files to small files. I couldn't figure it out. So to fix this... 1. Updated network drivers 2. Ran Ccleaner and checked dns cache 3. Rebooted PC 4. Windows 10 is fully updated and...
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    How to update Edges imported bookmarks after changes have been made ?

    So I imported my chrome bookmarks into edge. And today I rearranged and deleted those bookmarks and made some new folders. But I can't seem to get the updated imported bookmarks to show up. Only the original import shows. I've made tons of changes in chrome and chrome on my phone. I've tried...
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    Windows 10 and recovery partitions

    Now whats the difference between a recovery partition and a recovery drive if any because just the other day I made a copy of the recovery drive in case I'm not able to boot up Windows 10 in the event of something bad bad happens. I chose create recovery drive to usb and than had the option to...
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    How do you clear tiles on Windows 10?

    And "Resize"
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    Why doesn't Google Chrome work on Windows 10?

    Chrome has worked fine for me in windows 10 since release day. I stopped using it however to give edge a try. I'm assuming most of you have 64 bit computers. You need to actually make sure you are using Chrome 64 bit and not just the regular 32 bit version. To make sure google chrome 64 bit and...
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    Viber is making an App designed for Windows 10!

    Viber and all the other app makers have had a year to develop there apps and get them ready for windows 10. They act like it was a secret and all of a sudden Windows 10 was released quietly out of the blue.
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    Can't create recovery drive

    I wanted to add some more info so not to be confused with formatting and what you need, etc. And your mentioning of buying another usb. To make a recovery drive the usb has to be NTSF To make a usb drive bootable with like a windows copy, etc it has to be FAT32 Unified Extensible Firmware...