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• My icons and fonts appear very large, and I can't get back them to normal size.

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  Do Safe Mode system restore, if it is impossible to do in Normal Mode.

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• Computer says disk C and F are weak and memory Windows is very low. and I have the same thing in so many programs.

  I have windows xp home edition, he received from a friend. Tells me disk C and F are close to full. Make cleaning disc, but not enough. AND says the window is very low on storage space. Don't know what to delete and keep programs are

  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows-Vista/preventing-low-memory-problems

  Read what you and answer a few questions about your system:

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  2.

  Click Start, run and enter in the box:

  Msinfo32

  Click OK, and when the system info summary appears, click on edit, select all (Ctrl-A), copy (Ctrl-C) and paste (Ctrl-V) the information back here in your next reply.

  You can change the personal information.

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  4. optimize your pc:

  Stanley Zhang tips

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  Search online with eSet Online Scanner.

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  Do a house cleaning and the dust of this hard drive:

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  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/310312

  You can disable hibernation if it is enabled and you do not...

  When you Hibernate your computer, Windows saves the contents of the system memory in the hiberfil.sys file. As a result, the size of the hiberfil.sys file will always be equal to the amount of physical memory in your system. If you don't use the Hibernate feature and want to reclaim the space used by Windows for the hiberfil.sys file, perform the following steps:

  -Start the Control Panel Power Options applet (go to start, settings, Control Panel, and then click Power Options).
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  You can control the amount of space your system restore can use...

  1. Click Start, right click my computer and then click Properties.
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  3. highlight one of your readers (or C: If you only) and click on the button "settings".
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  You can control the amount of space used may or may not temporary Internet files...

  Empty the temporary Internet files and reduce the size, that it stores a size between 64 MB and 128 MB...

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  Download and run the MSRT tool manually:
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• Windows 10 update fails again and again with the error Code C1900101

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  Task of pre-required

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  Retry the upgrade manually:

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  Note: How to check if you are downloaded or installed the update Windows 10 November

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  Option 2: upgrade using the file ISO for Windows 10.

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  then

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  then

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  Versions of Firefox 3.6 + have a feature to allow the user to hide the Menu bar.

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• Windows Installer does not work, and niether do the Windows updates.

  OK, so I recently installed Advanced System Care for a purchase price of 12.28.  After the installation he did in fact speed up my computer but now I cannot make the updates for windows update and I access windows install.  I went through the solutions on "windows setup will not work", and nothing works.  Help, please.

  Alissa.

  Hey alissa,.

  Disable Advanced System Care and see if the update works. If this works, contact the software provider for help on how to make it work with updates.

  Note: run the computer without antivirus software or firewall is a potential threat to the computer; don't forget to activate the security software after completing the troubleshooting steps and after you have identified the problem. Kind regards

  Shinmila H - Microsoft Support

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• Windows has 3 updates installed and I get the error code 646 when I try to update.

  

  Hi KinuBug,

  In my case, I finally solved my problem by going to the Download Center on Microsoft and I install manually.

  Here are the steps that I took... which I think should work:

  Try this 1st to see if it helps, and it should:

  Description of the Patch registration cleanup tool
  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/976220/

  If necessary :

  Try this - Panel - Windows Updates - on every update that will not be installed - click on the important updates
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  Or go here and the KBxxxxxx number to download it.

  Download Center - mount the KBxxxxxx.

  Microsoft Download Center
  http://www.Microsoft.com/downloads/en/default.aspx

  Download - SAVE - go to where you put them - click on - RUN AS ADMIN

  Then you can right click on the update in the updates Windows and HIDE.

  If you get an error Installer install this version:

  Windows install 4.5 Redistributable
  http://www.Microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=5A58B56F-60B6-4412-95B9-54D056D6F9F4&displaylang=en

  Then run this:

  How to reset the Windows Update components?
  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/971058

  Description of the system for Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, update tool and
  for Windows 7
  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/947821

  Also refer to this link for more solutions on your question:http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vistawu/thread/6e716883-7af4-4a9f-8665-2f4dd57eee8d

  Hope this helps you

  Concerning

  Bharath
  Microsoft technical support