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mr_lebowski

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9. Then he can just download W10 to a USB drive and scorch the friggin' earth

Tue Jul 14, 2020, 03:09 PM

Jul 2020

as us nerds call it. Reformat the HD and reinstall a clean windows copy from scratch. Bye bye virus.

W10 works indefinitely for free, it just puts a little transparent message on your desktop and limits some of the 'personalize' options.

Or you can buy a license on ebay for like $5 like I did to get rid of that issue. Mine is even W10 Pro, not just Home version.

Chrome/FF/Edge can all save your bookmarks in the cloud and then you just install it (chrome/ff) on the new machine, log into your account, et voila ... it's just like you were using it on your last machine (or ... copy of windows in this case).

It's not rocket surgery to reinstall windows.

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need assistance - possible problems with a windows 7 pc, using firefox [View all] Kali Jul 2020 OP

Always worth trying "restore to a previous date" soothsayer Jul 2020 #1

yeah he probably should try that again Kali Jul 2020 #4

Edge just got a major update, not surprised that's in the tray. mr_lebowski Jul 2020 #2

no little shield Kali Jul 2020 #6

Yes, you don't want to upgrade with a virus, if he indeed has one ... mr_lebowski Jul 2020 #7

I don't think he as anything on there Kali Jul 2020 #8

Then he can just download W10 to a USB drive and scorch the friggin' earth mr_lebowski Jul 2020 #9

I just gave up getting avast to work well on win 10 BootinUp Jul 2020 #10

Has he or she tried just shutting off and restarting? grumpyduck Jul 2020 #3

many times Kali Jul 2020 #5