STOP Code: 0x0000007a

The KERNEL_DATA_INPAGE_ERROR Blue Screen of Death occurs whenever Windows has trouble reading something kept in the memory properly. This can apply to both kinds of memory: stored memory on your hard drive, but also dynamic memory in your RAM, which is usually what technicians refer to as “memory”.

Fortunately, this one has two very simple solutions, and if they don’t work, you simply have defective hardware. The solutions are below, but first, I’ll give you a few screenshots of what this error should look like.

This error as seen in Windows 8.

This error as seen in older versions of Windows.

The first possible solution is that your hard drive is the one causing the problem. To check if your hard drive is causing the issue, open a Windows Search (Windows Key + F), and type in chkdsk. Execute it — you can’t run a disk check while actively using Windows, but you can schedule it to start automatically the next time your computer is turned on. Wrap up what you need to and reboot — the disk check process can take a very long time, especially on large and/or slow hard drives. Watch some TV, play a game, take a nap … whatever you want to pass the time.

When the disk check is finished, your computer will automatically reboot. The disk check will fix any problems it encounters in your hard drive — and it likely will encounter some, even if they aren’t the cause of this particular error.

The second possible solution is that your RAM is causing the problem. RAM stands for Random Access Memory, and Windows makes constant usage of it to keep multiple applications running and keep tabs on important system data. To check if one of your RAM sticks is causing the problem, open another Windows Search and type in Memory Diagnostics Tool. What follows is similar to the disk check process — you can restart immediately to check your memory or you can schedule it for the next time your computer is on. Save what you need to and run the Memory Diagnostic.

After both of these processes are finished, you should be able to determine what’s causing the problem. If the Memory Diagnostic doesn’t flag any problems with your RAM, then your hard drive is the culprit. If, however, it does find issues, it means you have defective RAM that needs to be removed or replaced.

If using a laptop — or you simply don’t know how to replace RAM — call your manufacturer or a technician to help you from here. You’ve done your part.

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Dashboard can be invoked by clicking the mission control icon in your dock. The far left space at the top is always allocated to Dashboard; simply clicking on its preview takes you to it. You can also access Dashboard by use of the same multitouch gesture you use to access all other desktop workspaces and full screen apps, swiping to the right with four fingers until you reach the leftmost space.

The area that slides into view is the dashboard, complete with four default widgets to get you started — a calculator, a clock, a weather forecast and a calendar. Let’s start by setting these up.

Four Default Widgets

Hover your cursor over the weather widget, and you should see a little I in the bottom right hand corner. Any widgets that have settings have a little I that appears when you hover over it. Click it, and you should see it flip over to reveal settings on its back. Enter your location, or postal code or zip code, and click on the most likely result from the list that appears. Now click Done, and the widget should flip back around to show the weather for the location you chose! You can do the same for the clock widget, to show whatever time you want to.

This alone is useful, but wouldn’t more widgets be even better? Well, look at the bottom left hand corner of your dashboard. See the +? Click it and you should see icons for even more widgets appear on screen. You can simply click on the icons for the widgets you want, and they will be added to dashboard for you to arrange however you want. You can even have more than one of the same widget at once — useful for seeing the weather or time in more than one location, for instance.

Setting Widgets

If you find you want more widgets than are built in, click the + once more, and then click More Widgets… in the bottom left corner of the screen. You will be taken to a website where you will find a huge number of widgets to add to your dashboard. Simply find one you want, click Download, and the widget should be automatically downloaded, installed, and added to your dashboard.

Multitouch

If you have a modern portable Mac, you may not know that it has a bit of the iPhone and iPad inside of it. The same chip that powers the multitouch on those devices sits inside your Macbook’s trackpad, and your iMac’s Magic Mouse or Magic Trackpad, allowing you to use the same multitouch gestures you’re used to using on your iPhone and iPad, on your Mac.

Gestures such as rotating images with two fingers, and pinching to zoom in or zoom out can be performed exactly as on the iPhone and iPad. There are also gestures unique to the Mac, such as two finger scrolling, right clicking by tapping two fingers, and four finger swiping and pinching.

To enable specific gestures, and watch video demonstrations of how each work, go to System Preferences by clicking the Apple in the top left of your screen, and clicking System Preferences from the dropdown menu. Then, in the window that opens, click Trackpad or Mouse, and hover your cursor over each gesture description from each of the three categories to see a video demonstrating it. You can enable or disable each gesture by use of the checkboxes to the left of each gesture description.

Some of these gestures are almost essential, such as right clicking and scrolling. To right click on a trackpad, simply tap it with two fingers. To right click on the Magic Mouse, lift your index finger, and click with your middle finger on the right-hand side of the mouse.

To scroll with a trackpad, place two fingers on the surface of the pad, and move them up to slide the page up, or down to slide the page down. Do the same on the Magic Mouse, but with just one finger.

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It’s pretty apparent that you can move any application or other file found during a Search to an open tile. That tile will then open that file. But you can also customize a tile in order to open something else, like, say, your favorite website.

To customize your own tile in Start Menu Reviver:

• Right-click on an empty tile and click Add Tile (Reset Tile, then Add Tile if there’s something already there). You’ll see the Add Tile screen.
• Choose a description for your new tile.
• In the Shortcut box, type a website, or click the magnifying glass to find a file.
• Choose the color for your tile, then choose a picture. There are dozens of pre-installed icons to choose from, or find your own.
• Select Run as Administrator if you think you’ll need admin privileges to open this.
• Then, click Save.

Customize your tile in the Add Tile screen.

Now you’ve customized a tile exactly how you want it. You can also use the above steps to modify a tile you already like. For example, give it a better icon, change its color or have it point to a different version of the document.

Pretty soon, every tile in your Start Menu Reviver will be customized your way.

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It’s understandable, then, that users wishing to browse and download with no worries are seeking better options for their protection. However, a good amount of these better options are actually free — ready to see them?

AVG Free

AVG, or Anti-Virus Guard, is a free antivirus program developed by AVG Technologies, a company with a fairly fitting name considering their product line.

AVG Logo

AVG offers the standard set of antivirus features, but if you’re only using the free version of their program, you’ll be hit near constantly with popup ads advising you to upgrade. In addition, the free version gets vital virus definition updates later than the premium — so an unlucky person could get hit with a virus that AVG protects against that AVG Free has yet to.

Avast Free Antivirus

avast! Free Antivirus is a free antivirus program developed by AVAST Software a. s., which, like the other companies on the list, has a name based on their premier product.

Avast Logo

Avast, like AVG, features background scanning, automatic updates for virus definitions and such. Like AVG, Avast also has pop-ups, but these are only given whenever it updates or it blocks a virus that could’ve compromised your system. The settings for these notifications can be notified, and once you download the program, it’s free to use for a month. At the end of that month, you can make a free account with Avast and you’ll still be able to use it for another year — at the end of that year, however, you’ll have to make a new account to return to using Avast for free.

Avast for free obviously has its downside in comparison to its higher-tiered, paid-for brethren, but unlike AVG, it demonstrates more direct control for a free program and doesn’t withhold updates from you if you don’t want to give Avast money. The choice there is yours to make.

Avira Free Antivirus

Avira Logo

Avira is developed by, well, Avira. Avira has the strongest foothold in the free antivirus market and offers all the same features as its free competitors — with no threats of subscriptions and begging for updates to paid versions.

Lined in a row, the antivirus programs aren’t too different when it comes to their main function of detecting viruses and malware. However, the big differences become apparent with how the programs intrude on the user experience and treat their users — with this all in mind, Avira becomes the clear winner.

Malware, by the way, is a secondary function of antivirus programs. For the best malware detection and removal, download Malwarebytes Anti-Malware.

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The Search Box

The Search Box is the text box along the bottom of Start Menu Reviver. It’s not to be confused with the Search Charm along the left, which just opens Windows’s standard Search feature. The Search Box instead allows you to search your PC for files, programs and documents within Start Menu Reviver’s environment.

You don’t need to click on the Search Box to start using it. Just click Start to bring up Start Menu Reviver, then start typing. The app will search when you are done typing, whether you press Enter or not.

By default, the Search Box searches contents of your extended menu and then after that searches all contents of your computer. Out of the box, Start Menu Reviver’s Expanded Menu shows Desktop Apps (when run in Windows 8), so the Search Box searches through the Desktop Apps first.

Note that regardless of where the Search Box searches, it will also search Windows settings, such as changing passwords and changing screen resolution.

Search for resolution, for example, to find the appropriate Windows setting.

After Searching

Once you’re searching in the place you want, the search is extremely fast. The best part, though, is that you can drag any and all search results on a Start Menu Reviver tile, and never have to search for that item again!

Drag any search result to a tile, and you won’t have to search for it again.

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The App Store Icon

But eventually you’re going to need more. Maybe you’ll want an instant-messaging app to talk to your friends abroad, or a word processor to do some college work. Well, there’s a one stop shop waiting for you with all the apps you could ever need: the Mac App Store.
The App Store is a built-in application pre-installed on your Mac. You’ll find it in your dock or in Launchpad –- just look for the blue icon in the bottom left of this page. Clicking opens the store.

The Mac App Store

There are five sections to the store:

• Featured shows you the new and noteworthy apps available.
• Top Charts shows you what’s currently popular.
• Categories allows you to browse by category.
• Purchases shows you what you’ve downloaded in the past, so you can re-download for free if you ever need to, and…
• Updates shows any free updates available for you to download for your installed apps.

All applications in the store have been tested by Apple to make sure they are of high quality, do what they say they do, and don’t do anything bad (for instance, damage your computer). There are many free apps as well as paid ones, so there is nothing to stop you from exploring!

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Today I am very excited to announce the release of a brand new and FREE product from ReviverSoft called Start Menu Reviver. We have been working extremely hard on this product for many months now, and we hope that you can see that hard work when you try the product for yourself. Start Menu Reviver is designed to bring the Start Menu back to Windows 8, but not in the traditional way. We have designed Start Menu Reviver to be the Start Menu of the future. Before I go into too many details about the product itself, I would like to give a background on why we developed Start Menu Reviver in the first place, and the reason that it is designed the way it is.

Windows 8 is Here to Stay

Windows 8 has been available now for nearly seven months. Many reports say the sales for the latest version of Windows are reasonably strong. However, many of the new innovations and enhancements to Windows, designed to make it work well with the ever-changing device landscape, have been frustrating users of previous versions of Windows. They’ve lost a few familiar features and that has caused some problems with usability.

While we, too, have been frustrated by the dramatic changes in the way you navigate Windows 8 compared to older versions of Windows, we really love Windows 8. I believe that Microsoft has gone ‘against the grain’ of public opinion with its direction of Windows 8, but for good reason. They are taking what is the most-used operating system in the world, which powers billions of devices, and adapting it for the future of computing. This future involves touch devices, an exponentially growing landscape of computer form factors, and even more mobile computing.

Change is never easy, and Microsoft has definitely received its fair share of criticism with Windows 8, but the right direction here is not to go back to the way things were with Windows 7. While Windows 7 was and is a great operating system, it is not going to be relevant in ten years’ time. Microsoft needs to keep on track with what they set out to achieve — adapting Windows for the future of computing — and this is exactly what Microsoft is going to do. Windows 8 is not going anywhere, and Windows 7 is not coming back. Windows 8 will be the future of computing.

Changing the way you start

Two of the biggest changes to Windows 8 over previous versions of Windows are the introduction of the Start Screen (as opposed to the Start Menu) and the removal of the Start Button on the desktop. The Start Screen allows for a fullscreen view of your favorite apps, and also give you access to Live Tiles that display information from within each app. But the interface is dramatically different than the traditional Start Menu that most people are used to, and there is a significant learning curve needed to become very efficient as using this Start Screen over the traditional interface.

The Start screen works exceptionally well for touchscreen devices, but for those people used to a Start Menu who use a mouse and keyboard, it is a dramatic change and has some challenges:

• The Start Screen takes you to a completely different environment to get to the application you want to open. Some users are quite shocked when they get to the Start Screen, and don’t realize how to get back to the desktop if they choose not to open an application.
• The Start Screen does not have applications sorted by alphabetical order, by default. To find the application you are looking for, you either need to remember where it is located, or look through all items until you find it.
• The most recently installed desktop apps are installed on the far right edge of the Start Screen, so you have to scroll far to find them.
• The Start Screen does not show all the applications you have installed on your computer. In order to see them all, you need to right click on the Start Screen, then click All Apps to bring up a list of all apps. Looking through the multiple horizontal lists of applications on this menu is quite a straining experience. I find it easier scanning down one long list rather than multiple columns.

Of course the Start Screen can be customized to place what applications you want on it, and where you want them, but this takes quite a bit of time to maintain and keep optimized to your liking.

How Start Menu Reviver Helps

We aren’t flogging a dead horse

While there are plenty of other Start Menu replacements for Windows 8 available online, they have all been designed to make Windows 8 work like Windows 7. If you want to buy Windows 8 and then make it work like Windows 7, you may as well just use Windows 7. We didn’t want to just create the same product everyone is used to. We wanted to create something the is new and progressive but is still easy to use and recognizable for a first-time user.

Specifically designed to enhance Windows 8

We designed Start Menu Reviver specifically for Windows 8 (it also works on Windows 7 though!) and for the many types of devices that will run Windows 8 in the future. One of the ways we did this was to make sure that Start Menu Reviver was great to use with touchscreen devices. Whether you are using a Windows 8 tablet, a hybrid or a traditional mouse and keyboard, Start Menu Reviver is great to use.

Make it yours

The product uses a tile interface that is both a new concept for Windows Start Menus, and a familiar interface for people who use smartphones or tablets. You can place anything you want in the tiles to truly make your Start Menu something unique to you. Here are a few of the things you can make as a tile:

• Any desktop application
• Any Windows 8 application
• A link to any URL or website
• A shortcut to a file on your computer
• A picture from your computer

Not only can you make the tiles look however you want, you can change the colors used for the Start Menu itself. I tell people that this is almost like skins in Winamp. You can really make your Start Menu stand out by changing the text color, the background colors, etc. Here is an example of one that my wife did on my computer the other day using websites and programs she uses frequently:

It definitely looks nothing like my version of Start Menu Reviver!

Extremely powerful search

Start Menu Reviver has an extremely powerful search box located at the bottom of the product. The great thing is that you don’t even need to click on it to start using it. Just open Start Menu Reviver and start typing. Is shows search results directly in the product for applications and files on your computer, but it also searches Windows settings from the Control Panel and other places. Try searching for the word Change or Bluetooth, as an example. It makes getting to where you want to go extremely quick and easy.

Power down, restart and hibernate with ease

One of the complaints about Windows 8 has been that it is difficult (at least initially) to determine where to turn off your computer. With Start Menu Reviver, we give you access to shutdown, restart, log off, hibernate, and more from directly on the Start Menu. Super easy!

So much more to explore

There are many more cool little features of Start Menu Reviver, and rather than writing a novel about them here, I would rather you just start using the product. Once you start using it, you will not understand how you lived without it!

Oh yeah, did I mention it is 100% FREE

Start Menu Reviver is a completely free product. Why are we doing this? We want people to use the product and learn about ReviverSoft and how we can help them with whatever computer problem they have.

We really hope you enjoy the product. Feel free to leave us your feedback here, or post it in the comments section of this article. We take the feedback very seriously, as we want to continue making Start Menu Reviver the best Start Menu for Windows 8.

You can download Start Menu Reviver here.

Watch the video we created for the product below:

Thanks for reading!

Mark

ReviverSoft Founder

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Upgrade Requirements

Importantly, your computer must have the minimum requirements, including a 1 GHz processor, a minimum of 2 GB RAM, a 16 GB hard drive and a graphics card supporting Microsoft DirectX 9. If you want to use the multitouch features, make sure your monitor can support them. Your screen resolution should be at lease 1366 x 768 pixels to support the snap apps feature.

In most cases of transitioning or upgrading from Windows, you will be able to keep your personal files, applications and Windows settings. This applies whether you have Windows 7 Pro Home Basic, Premium, Professional or Ultimate editions; or Windows 7 Professional, Enterprise or Pro editions.

Four Steps to Upgrade

Microsoft conveniently provides four steps for upgrading to Windows 8. Their Windows 8 Upgrade Assistant will download to your PC and check through its components to determine if your computer is Windows 8 ready. After you have purchased and downloaded the Windows 8 package (plain or Pro), the next step is to install the upgrade. Finally, you set up Windows 8 with your personal settings.

The Upgrade Assistant determines whether your PC can run Windows 8.

The Windows 8 Upgrade Assistant pops up and allows you to click what you want to keep: Windows settings, personal files, and apps; just personal files, or nothing.

After you have decided and purchased the package, you determine whether you desire immediate or later installation. With the latter, you can download the Windows 8 package to a USB flash drive or burn it to a blank DVD.

If you are doing an immediate installation, changing Windows 7 to Windows 8 on your PC, the process is a no-brainer; let the download do its work. Your computer will come on and off several times and you will soon find yourself at the final step with the Personalize window in view. In a matter of minutes you will move from Windows 7 to Windows 8.

Personalize your Upgrade

The below window moves you to the process of selecting colors for backgrounds and choosing an account picture. You can spend time here or go to the Express Settings and customize your platform at a different time. Decide if you want to have a Microsoft account. By setting up one with your personal e-mail, you will be able to synchronize your social networking sites and photo sharing. It’s a good idea to have a Microsoft account to have access to your files over desktop, tablet, laptop and smartphone platforms that also have Windows 8.

Personalize your Windows 8 installation with colors.

Clean Installation

A clean installation implies that you want Windows 8 installed on an empty drive or one that you don’t mind erasing, or on a different partition of your drive for a dual-boot arrangement. Either way, you use the DVD disk or USB flash drive that has the downloaded Windows 8 installation package to boot up your computer and perform its magic. Place the DVD or flash drive into the computer while it is on. Turn the computer off. Turn it back on to allow it to boot up into the installation process. You might have to go into your computer’s BIOS settings to change the order of the boot process so that it recognizes the DVD disk or the USB drive over the hard drive. From there, just follow the directions.

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Reminders

The Reminders application allows you to create lists of to-do’s — things that you need to do and want to write down as a reminder. The app can then automatically remind you about an item on your list at a set time, or even when you are in a certain location.
To launch the Reminders app, click it’s icon in the dock, or from Launchpad if it’s not in your dock. The Reminders app consists of two main areas. The left hand side has a column which holds your lists (by default there is just one, named Reminders), and the right hand side contains the reminders written in the selected list.
You can use lists as groups for your reminders. You could have a list for the shopping you need to buy, your home reminders, your work reminders, etc. To add a new list, click + in the bottom left of the window. A new list is created with the placeholder name New List. To change the name of the new list, right click on the list in the left hand column, click Rename in the menu, and type a new name.
To add a new reminder to a list, first click on the name of the list you want to add a reminder to in the left hand column. With that list open, click + in the top right of the window. A new, blank reminder is created. Simply type what you want to be reminded about, for instance, Buy Groceries, and press Enter.

Reminders

If you would like the app to remind you of an item on your list at a certain time or place, hover your cursor over that item. An I will appear next to the item on the list — clicking it opens a popup window with options for how you would like to be reminded. Select On a Day if you would like to be reminded at a specific date and time. Select At a Location if you would like to be reminded when you arrive at or leave a specific location. Then, simply fill in the details of the date and time or location you require, and click Done.
When you have completed an item on a list, select the checkbox next to it to mark it as completed. It will be moved to a new list named Completed.

Notes

The Notes application is a place to hold any small notes you need to write down, such as notes for a college lecture. To open the Notes app, click its icon in the dock, or from Launchpad if it’s not in your dock.

Notes

The Notes app is split into two main sections — on the left hand side is a list of all your notes, while the right hand side displays the contents of the selected note. To create a new note, click + in the bottom left of the window. A new blank page of paper will appear in the right hand area. You can now simply type whatever it is you wish to note down. The first line of text you type will become the title of the note shown in the left hand area of the app.
When you have more than one note, simply click on its title in the list of notes on the left hand side, or if you have many notes you may find it easier to search for the note by typing something in the search field above the list of notes. You can search for any word that is in the title or the note itself.
Should you ever wish to delete a note, first select it in the notes list, then click on the icon that looks like a bin at the bottom of the note area.

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Calendar Icon

Calendar

As its name implies, Calendar allows you to store your appointments, and can alert you at a set time when a scheduled appointment’s date and time is drawing near. You can also use the application to see your schedule in daily, weekly, monthly and yearly views.
To open Calendar, click it’s icon in the dock, or in Launchpad if it is not in your dock. At the top of the application you have the day, week, month and year views to choose from — clicking on one of the four tabs switches the calendar to that view.
The easiest way to add an event to your calendar is by clicking + in the top left of the window. This opens a small popup text field where you can simply type in what you would like to add your schedule. For instance, if you are planning on going to see a movie at the cinema at 7 p.m. this Friday, simply type Movie at 7pm on Friday.
Or, if you are going on a business trip next Thursday and Friday, type Business Trip next Thursday to Friday. Press Enter, and the event is added to your calendar automatically!

Calendar

Once the event has been added, the Calendar application pops up a small-window, allowing you to check the details of the event, and change or add details if necessary. Details such as the event title, location, date and time can be edited simply by clicking in the appropriate area and typing new details. You can also choose which calendar the event should be shown on (by default you can choose from Home and Work — home events will appear on your calendar in blue, and work events in green), and set an alert so that the Calendar application will remind you of the event at the time you set. Click Done to save any changes you make.
Should you need to edit an event in the future, just double click on it to bring up the same small popup window once more, and click Edit. Enter new details, and click Done. To delete an event, just select the event by clicking on it once, and press Backspace.

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