Posts by Aaron Doyle

Zachary Perez15 said:Hey experts, I need a hand... I picked up an official retail Windows 10 USB, but I'm trying to run it on this old desktop with a Gigabyte 6-quad-s series motherboard. It’s pretty dated—just 2 GB of RAM, a 3 GHz processor, and a 300 GB hard drive. The problem is, no matter which USB I pick from the boot menu, the installation just won't start. I had a clean install of Windows 7 on there before, so I wiped the C drive and reformatted everything, but I keep getting hit with an "invalid partition table" error.
What can I do to get this thing running? Or would it be smarter to just throw a raw version of Windows XP on there first and then try to upgrade to Windows 10 later? Any advice would be appreciated.

Is the version of Windows you got 32-bit or 64-bit? Same question applies to the processor, too...

Paul Rogers94 said:I’m thinking this is all tied back to Windows Photo Viewer—some kind of virus that’s managed to latch itself onto both Firefox and Chrome. Even though I’ve got an adblocker running on Firefox, nothing seems to work right. I guess I need to scrub this virus out first, or whatever the hell it is... spent all day yesterday fighting it and I'm still at it. Does anyone know of a decent tool to clean this mess up?

What kind of antivirus are you running? I dealt with some weirdness on an old machine where Norton or Avast would just fight me whenever I tried to add an adblocker to Chrome... ended up having to wipe them and reinstall everything just to get it to behave. Strange stuff, but it happened.

Paul Rogers94 said:He used to have Adblock Plus running on Chrome without any issues, but now it just kicks him out every single time he tries to add it—using Chrome on Windows 10. Everything else seems fine, so I don't get why this is happening... I even tried resetting Chrome, but no luck, still the same mess.

That’s weird, really weird... maybe some other software is blocking it and preventing the install? I've got it working perfectly fine in Chrome on my laptop running Windows 10 64-bit. If you can't get it sorted soon, just shoot me a PM with your TeamViewer ID and I'll hop on to take a look... honestly, just try searching Google, someone else has definitely dealt with this same nonsense before...