Recent content by alkolkin

I insert a CD containing the iso for installing Linux Mint. I get an error message: EDD: Error 3200 reading sector 455274 No DEFAULT or UI configuration directive found! boot: I have tried 3 different versions of Min and all exhibit the same error. Any clues?

Whoops, I misread. It would be slow, but I see no reason why not. I have not used it on a portable USB drive so my answer is not definitive. Just download the free vmware version and try it out.

Absolutely. Whether there is a BIOS setting in your laptop that allows virtual acceleration or not will effect speed. In either case you will be able to install VMware. If you have the capability of 2 drives in your laptop, that would also improve performance if the drive u use for virtualized...

WOW! Does VMWare Workstation work great or what?! I have Windows 7 x64 as the base system, with XP x32, Vista x32, and Linux Ubuntu x32 running simultaneously with an I7 and only 6 GB of RAM (6 more is on its way because I am at 92% with only 6GB). My C drive is an SSD, my data drive is a RAID 0...

Your assumptions were right on. I support about about 100 customers, most of them seniors, who live in planned communities here in Florida. They have all three operating systems. Those who cannot afford new computers, buy a used Dells from me that are quite old. I add a faster hard drive, a...

I support people who use Vista, XP, Linux and Windows 7. My main work computer is Windows 7. My staff works on another Windows 7 computer. I want to build a third computer that will house Windows Small Business Server. I would like one of those machines to also run Vista, XP, and Linux as...

I have the same problem but it is worse My mouse stops working and then I hear a device disconnecting. After the disconnect sound, the mouse works again. This goes on again and again over the course of my computing. I too have disconnected all the USB devices NOT connected directly to the...

I was fooling around with the OC capabilities built into my Nvidia BIOS. MISTAKE! It caused hard disk corruption and a system crash. I was forced to run CHKDSK and wallah! the files Windows 7 files required for those applets must have been wiped out by that archaic process. I should stick...

Thank you for responding KeMical. Unfortunately, the restore to an earlier time did not help because this problem had evidently been around longer than my string of backups. I went back a couple of days in the regular system restore and it too was too near time and I was concerned with going...

The Personalize and Screen Resolution applets do not work. When I click on them I get the message: 'Windows cannot find ". Make sure you typed the name correctly, and then try again." How do I fix this please, please :confused:

I want to install a product named Shadowprotect Desktop (backup software) from Storagecraft. When I do it requires a reboot. When I reboot, I get the message: “Autochk Program not found – skipping Autocheckâ€Â￾. the computer then recycles endlessly. The recovery does not work...

Basically, I must have done something to mess up Windows Explorer. On the left I show Favorites with a Star on its left and in the right pane it shows the folders that are Favorites. It used to show those folders Under Favorites in the left pane. The next item is Desktop and it contains...