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    Headphone jack not working

    Headphone and USB ports located at top front of case. When PC arrived damaged those USB ports were not working and required attaching to the header. Never checked the headphone port located in the same area and now I need it working. So I expect the headphone issue is related. Where do I look...
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    Cannot delete file?!

    I have a folder that I cannot delete and the problem seems to stem from a svk file that remains in a subfolder. When you hover the mouse over the svk file it shows 61.9 GB in size, yet if you right click and look at properties it shows 0 bytes. If you try to delete the file or the folder, it...
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    Antivirus - still a thing?

    Pardon my ignorance, but if don't people who write viruses know that the first wall they need to get through to infect the masses is windows defender? Therefore it seems that it should not be enough?
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    Recommended backup before making changes - hardware vs software?

    Thanks guys. On my newer PCs with NVME drives, it involves several steps to hardware clone them, so I'd like to save that process for when I get the PC to the point where I consider it "finished". But to get to that point involves several changes along the way and a software backup sure saves a...
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    Recommended backup before making changes - hardware vs software?

    Hello. I have a physical drive duplicator that you remove your system SSD from your PC and put it in the device and it clones the drive bit by bit at the base level to another identical SSD. Once my PC is "finished" my procedure has been to make a physical clone, and that way if something bad...
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    Windows 10 Pro will not activate

    Thank you. It's going to mainly be a render machine when I need some muscle. And some video editing since it's twice the machine of my others
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    Windows 10 Pro will not activate

    I understand. All the sudden I got input from several at once (surprised but good) and was trying to process it with my weary brain, not pit you excellent helpful guys against others. now I'm off to resolving broken licenses with some of my software and some hardware swaps. Will be glad when...
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    Windows 10 Pro will not activate

    Thank you for the help. I had reached our several places earlier during my searches in hopes one might help, and so happens several got back with me about the same time. Thanks again
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    Windows 10 Pro will not activate

    thank you. I never knew about LTSC. that sounds interesting. I got back with the guys that installed it and they upated win10 to the new win10 build but it still woudn't activate. So we used win 11 key and it activated. So good news is I have win10 active now but bad news is it is a much...
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    Windows 10 Pro will not activate

    a tech said that windows 10 builds prior to 2021 have issue activating and require updating the windows to newest build is that true? my dvd is an old build bought several years ago build 2015 i think
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    Windows 10 Pro will not activate

    thank you but will that result in windows 11 being installed? I hate 11. Someone from MS actually said that the product code should have been entered at time of OEM windows install. And since it might not have been that i may need to re-install and be sure to enter code during install...
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    Windows 10 Pro will not activate

    Thank you. Do you mean buy win 11 and feed the 11 key into my windows 10 to get 10 to activate? It took me several years to gather up the new parts since they discontinued the platform. Working every day since 2021. Current work week is ~1400 days long and those are 15 hr days not little 8hr...
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    Windows 10 Pro will not activate

    When I run the check from the command prompt it comes up empty. When I run ShowKeyPlus it say Edition: Win 10 RTM Professional OEM DM EULA: OEM and it says OEM key not present in firmware
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    Windows 10 Pro will not activate

    thank you. No. I never opened it until I built my PC and was ready to install the OS
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    Windows 10 Pro will not activate

    Thank you. I do not remember where I bought it as it's been several years (walmart, newegg, etc?) It is an old Microsoft build (2015 I believe) which is what I wanted because the new builds were hard or impossible to turn off automatic updates which tend to break things. Yes it has to be Windows...
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