Recent content by Boppa1

YES, I purposely set up multiple partitions as I saw no need for huge partitions on a 320 GB HD. Being from an old school (back in the WIN98 days) I recall having to defragment and was not looking forward to doing this on big partitions. Yes, I do have data in all of them, although not...

ATTENTION: MITCHELL A!! So, that's one mistake for me (a newbie to Win 7 and this forum) despite being the ripe old age of 75!! and one mistake for you despite being on this forum for about 3 years at the ripe young age of 15!!!!! Lest you are wondering what your mistake was, let this old...

Sorry if I don't follow all your instructions very well. I am by far not a guru of Win7, WinXP, Win98, PCs, nor other computer operating system. Despite being involved with computers since (before many of you on this forum were born) 1965 with systems that varied from (what one company called...

Note that I am not into the Win 7 environment at this point. As a general rule, my selection in the Windows Boot Manager screen is to go into 'another Windows OS', which in my case is Win XP. It is out of this selection screen where the hang-up appears to occur. I have also tried checking the...

Well, it helps if one uses ones head!!!! Have discovered I had inadvertently had a setting indicating that my speaker set-up was via a 7.1. Negative! These are merely Creative 'GigaWorks T20' desktop speakers. Once I changed that setting my problem went away!!

This is a strange issue that is occurring with my IPL (Initial Program Load) procedure. And, I do mean on 'THE INITIAL ATTEMPT'. It occurs on either of the dual-boot choices I make. The scenario is as follows: Hit Start button and watch as the process goes through the initial phases of the...

Have substituted a "WELCOME TO MY CASTLE" wav sound as the Windows Log-On sound. On log-on this sound is cut short to not much more than "WELCOME" and you will not hear the rest. The same holds true of some others seeming to be cut short. See no indication of a problem in device manager and I...