Windows 8 recovery and licence question

Hi guys,
I have got an Lenovo G50-30 notebook and I've ordered recovery discs thru phone support line. I got 5 discs and I have issue with this recovery. On first disc I need to choose language and region and there is no polish language (notebook is bought in Poland and recovery was ordered thru polish support). I know that Windows lincence is limited to one language and here is my problem. Will recovery give me an option to choose polish as language for Windows?
PS. Notebook was originally with Windows 8, I updated it to 8.1 and got discs for 8.1, no 8. Thats good?

Yes definitely. On reading through your post when I got to "(One Touch recovery didn't work either, it'd blue screen)" my immediate guess was that you had a problem with memory.
How many sticks of memory are installed in the system, 1 or 2? If you have two maybe you could test them individually to find out which one (or both) may be defective.
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Window inheritance problem, implementation question

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Hi!
I have a window inheritance and implementation question. I'm using
Forte 3.0.J.1.
I have a super (base) window with a PushButton on it. I want to
handle the Click event of the button in this super window therefore
I create an event handler.
<MyBtn> : PushButton
I create a sub window inheriting from the previous super window.
I put some data widgets on it and group all of them (the inherited
button as well) into a GridField. When I set the mapped type of the grid
the name of the inherited PushButton widget changes:
<MainGrid.MyBtn> : PushButton
When I run the application I get a SystemException with the
message:
Attempt to register an event on a NIL object (qqds_C_FieldWidget, 10).
Traceback:
SuperWindow.EH at line 0
SubWindow.Display at line 5
C++ Method(s)
UserApp.Run at offset 105
It is quite understandable that in runtime there is no widget called
<MyBtn>
and the event handler of the super class fails.
But what I don't know : after specifing a mapped type of a GridField why
changes
the name of those widgets that haven't got mapped type e.g.: PushButton,
PictureButton etc.
How to solve this situation?
I made a sall example which i send in attachment.
Thanks for any help and advice in advance...
Attila Racz Lufthansa Systems
Hungary
BUD LSYH
E-mail: [email protected] .-``'.
Tel.: (36 1) 431-2910 .` .' Mazsa ter 2-6.
Fax : (36 1) 431-2977 _.-' '._ H-1107 Budapest,
Hungary
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 <tt>handle the Click event of the button in this super window therefore</tt>
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 <tt> SubWindow.Display
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 <tt> C++ Method(s)</tt>
 <tt> UserApp.Run
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<MyBtn></tt>
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<tt>But what I don't know : after specifing a mapped type of a GridField
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Changed base to double and used the *0.1 method

Lenovo Yoga 3 14 recovery and Windows 10 upgrade

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hi Firefly2462,
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Best Regards
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sure every now and then startup result in a crash but a reboot always get me into win8
play games and program in win8 never had a cash when I get in and because it's native games run great
likely when the official apple win8 support comes along I will stop getting the odd crash at boot into win8

WRT 1900AC and Windows 7 network naming question(s)

Background: I had a Linksys E3000 up and running for about 5 years in a stable network environment. The E3000 died, and I put in a new WRT 1900AC to replace it. In the process of getting things set up correctly the main "network name" in my network displays shows up as a name assigned to a Wireless portion of my network. The "Wired" portion shows up in diagrams, and to windows, as well as both of the main wirless bands but not as the central node between either of the wired Win7 computers and the internet I would like to get the Windows 7 machines on my network to display the wired network name in Windows 7 as the primary network, and NOT one of the wireless ones. Almost everything I want to be able to do is working just fine except for the network map display in Windows 7 where I have been trying to configure a "home group" that will not yield to my efforts.,
I use "suffix" notation in the naming, so my router on ethernet is .<ame>..NET, the wireless lower band is <name>...W24 upper band is <name>...W5. I have not figured out how to get the artifacts of the "setup sequence of events" out of the Windows 7 displays in "network neighborhood" so I have a more rational picture that has Ethernet at the core and the wireless bands as additional subsidiary networks not necessarily associated with all my devices. I know this is not technicallly a Linksys issue, but... Can I simply delete alll the neworking information in Windows 7, and reboot, and then force the computer to set up a network based on the correct network node labels. provided by the router? I'm a bit worried that I might have to "reset" everything which would be a huge **bleep** since almost all of what I want to do is working just fine, I'm just not quite clear some times whether the process of connecting from one computer to another, or to a NAS attached to the router is going through the wired network or the wireless one where performance can be a big issue. My Ethernet is "certified" at 1gbps which is a lot faster than the wireless networking. Sometimes it seems that accessing the NAS attached to the router is being done "through a tiny straw, not the fast pipe in the wiered world. I used to do a lot of NETBIOS networking in Windows "back in the day" and my network naming conventions have probably not kept up with the times, but I still have two Windows XP computers wired into my household network, and when "debugging" things I think of the Ethernet as central and the wirless portions as additional networks, not the other way around. Unfortunately Windows 7 seemed to grab the wireless names first, probably because the machines in question both have wireless and wired connectivity built in and available in their hardware and the one that was set up and working with the old router when the new one got plugged in was used to do the initialization initially using the default sequence built into the router software. I was able to go back and rename everything to get rid of the default names, but my Android based network monitor only works within range of the router and not when the phone is connected to the internet outside of the house. I've never been able to get the phone support folks to help me clear that issue up either. .. When I added the second computer, the same thing happened out of the box, Windows took the name of the first wireless network it found and put it into the network neighborhood as the device in the path between the new computer and the internet, I can "see" the host name of the router correctly from everywhere, and map to the 1TB disk I have hung on it from all of my computers, but the Internet connection is actually an ethernet drop from a cable modem to an ethernet port on the router, not to either of the wireless bands that show up.

@zundapman Hi! What's the current firmware of your router? Make sure that your firmware is up to date with the latest version. Also, are you referring to the Windows explorer's map or the User Interface map of the router or the Network and sharing map of your computer?

SYSTEM RECOVERY (F11) is inaccessible after dual-booting Windows 7 and Windows 8.

I dual booted Windows 8 with Windows 7 and now the RECOVERY partition (F is not loading upon pressing F11. It gives me the boot configuration data error. I have it marked as Healthy (Primary Partition) and I am able to access the files via. My Computer in both OS, but not through F11 System Recovery.
The bcdedit log is here: http://pastebin.com/b0Y5Hd1F
My partition letters:
C: Windows 7
D: Windows 8
F: RECOVERY
H: SYSTEM
In Visual BCD, One WRE is set to D: and the other is set to F:. Should i set both to F, which is the actual RECOVERY partition?
[2] The UEFI boot setup is unable to create HP_TOOLS parition because 4 partitions already exist. I don't remember having the SYSTEM partition earlier so maybe that repalced HP_TOOLS?
[3] When I try to create a recovey media, the orange circle filter keeps of going even after I have inserted the an external USB hard drive for it to detect. Does it usually take this long? I am guessing once the recovery media is made I could do system repair from there and get RECOVERY to work?

What is the p/n? Remove the battery and look for it. Post all alphanumeric characters.
CTO means configure to order. That means only you and HP know the notebook's configuration.
The problem you are going to run into is that there is a maximum of four primary partitions allowed by Windows. That is by design. It appears that you removed the HP_TOOLS partition, which was a requisite for the UEFI diagnostics.
Frankly it looks like what you will have to do is put the UEFI environment on a USB stick.
I would create the recovery media on a high quality 16GB USB drive.
The partition schema must be as follows:
1) C: (NTFS)
2) HP_Tools F: (must be FAT32)
3) RECOVERY D: (NTFS)
4) SYSTEM (NTFS) created by the Windows install process
I am not aware of a dual-boot or more schema that allows a UEFI environment with the Recovery Manager accessible from F11. I wish I had better news for you. Perhaps our forum Provost DavidPK knows how it can be done.
I do recommend that you copy the RECOVERY partition to an external disk for safety sake.
If you are able to boot into the recovery manager I strongly suggest that you create your recovery media. If you do not do that you will not have a copy of your operating system and drivers for a plan B. I did not go with the option you used and did not create problems to deal with later.
When I play around with my loaner notebook and configure it to dual/triple boot, I always install a different hard disk and put the original one aside. You can still return your system to its original configuration and then take the hard disk out and use another one to play with. I believe that would be the wisest path to follow.
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Windows 8.1 Pro, Type recovery and Search can't find anything

System is installed in a classroom with the latest updates. One of the lessons had the students type
recovery on the Tiles page and it should return 5 results (the other 10 systems in the room returned the correct results). This system couldn't find anything so I got called to troubleshoot.
I first compared locations being searched in Indexing Options
to the system right next to this system. They were identical. Next, I went into
Advanced and chose the Delete and Rebuild Index option. Weirdly, while the indexing was going on, I did a search for
recovery and it found some entries. I didn't think to compare the results to the other system, I just assumed I had resolved the problem. No luck, after the indexing was complete, I typed in
recovery and no results were found!
Since another option under Advanced is to choose a new location for the
Index File. I figured it couldn't hurt although I didn't think it would help either. I decided to more the
index file to the root directory on the C: drive. That didn't work, the system just ignored the change. Each system is this classroom has two
BACKUP partitions on the external drive attached to each system. We use
System Images so that's why two BACKUP partitions, allows us to always have at least one backup in case something happens. I next tried relocating the
Index File to the second BACKUP partition (H:). Surprisingly, that fixed the problem. My question is: WHY!!!

Hi,
According to your description,it seems that the permission caused this issue.
I suggest that you try using build-in administrator to test it.
Also,check the Write permission on the C:drive.
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Kelvin Xu
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Bootcamp and Windows XP/7 Install Questions

I got an iMac a few months back and want to set up BootCamp for a Windows install.
I have a Windows XP Full install disk w/the product key.
I also have a Windows 7 Upgrade disk.
From what I have read, the newest version of Bootcamp will not install XP, which I could then upgrade to W7 (I assume this is correct).
Can I then install from the Windows 7 Upgrade disk and at some point indicate the XP Product Code?
Secondary question - assuming I get Windows installed and running properly, if I boot to the Mac OS, can it see/access the Windows partition?
Thanks,
Steve

If the Windows 7 Upgrade is a full install. What you would do is install, then reinstall over itself. And only then will it activate.
There are upgrades that are to go from Home Premium to Pro and that isn't a full install.
Windows 8 CP is free and works.
Windows 7 System Builder are $99 for Home Premium 64-bit

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