We have all experienced clicking on a Print button or on a Print menu item in an application and having the job fail to print. We then click Print again until two or more print jobs are listed, none of which starts printing. We open Devices and Printers in the Control Panel and then mess…

It has happened to me and it probably has happened to most computer users who have been wise enough to make regular file backups or system images that create a restorable image of the entire computer system. Windows fails to boot or goes wrong in some way that needs to be put right and so…

Here is what Microsoft says about how to upgrade Windows 7 SP1 (Service Pack 1 and subsequent updates must be installed) and Windows 8.1 to Windows 10 for free (no other versions of Windows qualify, not even Windows 8.0, which has to be updated to Windows 8.1): “You can do one of two things: a)…

A three-step process involved in solving Windows problems should solve most of them. The first two steps are relatively quick to perform. No reading through a solution is required, which would be confusing or involved. 1. – The first step is to make use of the troubleshooters built into Windows, including Windows XP, which Microsoft…

Most software designed for Windows requires a version of Microsoft’s .NET framework software to run. .NET Framework – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.NET_Framework “Programmers produce software by combining their own source code with .NET Framework and other libraries.” Windows 8.1 supports only .NET version 3.5 and higher versions, therefore any software that requires a lower version won’t be able…

PROBLEM: For several years, Windows 7 Home Premium running on my laptop PC worked properly, then, all of a sudden, it started shutting down immediately, cutting out by itself after variable periods of working properly and even during installing updates. It doesn’t go through the shutdown process, just switches off as if I had held…