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I have this printer since 1995, and it still works well! (I had, though, to take it apart and clean it a few times.) It runs with WinXP and Linux, but I have not yet been able to install any of the drivers I could find in Win7. Of course, I use a parallel port adapter that works well with XP...

It will be a kind of security check, but the thing is that it should - must - be possible to choose if you want to have it, or not! 1. If the external drive runs without problems, you don't want to scan, because 2. it COULD happen that the scan messes up files on your drive. 3. Therefore you...

I have two external disks that I mainly use for Win7. I used them earlier for XP on another computer and I maybe used it also for the XP partition in the new computer some time ago (don't remember now). (I have XP, Win7 and Linux Mint in 3 partitions.) The pop-up seems not to come anymore with...

Shell Hardware Detection is disabled, autorun/autoplay turned off. And still the pop-up comes when I attach an external hard disk. By the way, it has nothing to do with a browser, only with Windows 7. I hope that there will be still something else that can be done, except performing the scan. I...

Thanks, Mike. If I may make a general comment: Why does Microsoft want to keep us in their leading-strings? This is supposed to serve safety, since hackers, viruses (and unauthorized persons) cannot change, add or remove certain files. That is nonsense! In reality it reduces safety, since...

I had hoped for a more concrete and detailed reply telling which folders and files can safely be taken ownership of and which not. In my Win7, the following are not accessible (and myaby just a few more I missed in a short searched): 2a181ba621897bc56ee637 with subfolders amd64 and i386, the...

I sort of thought that autoplay should be disabled, too. I have now done it, and then we will see. It anyway happened with less external drives after disabling that service, but it still happened.

There is some little software around to take ownership of files and folders in Windows 7. When I was installing Windows 7 Ultimate, I took ownership of all I could find. Then a few things no more worked and I had to reinstall... Luckily, I had almost only the basic installation done. I and...

The service is set to "disabled" and not "automatic". I suppose that this is what you mean.

A webpage in the Internet describes a way to get rid of this unnecessary and disturbing pop-up whenever you connect an external drive. It is to disable the service Shell Hardware Detection. I did, but the pop-up still comes occasionally. Is there a more effective way?

Thanks! After updating WinXP to SP3 and all later updates, it works. Now I can "see" Win7 from WinXP and, - if ever needed - hopefully also get into folders through the back door that Win7 doesn't allow to open (or I can take ownership of them). For reasons mentioned. All the best to you! [So...

I installed first WinXP in partition C:, then created partition D:. Both NTFS. Then I installed Win7 in partition D:. When I open Win7, it nevertheless starts with "C:" and accesses WinXP files under (now called) "D:"! When I open WinXP, it also starts in C:, but has no access to the Win7...

Thanks! That worked!

For security reasons, I want to turn my Internet connection via my Netgear router on and off, as I like. In Windows XP it was easy. I could pull out a LAN icon from the Network connection section in the Control Panel to the desktop. Then all I needed was to click it and choose to disable/enable...