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I always do a clean install That's why I can say for sure that portable copies of the following software does NOT work with Windows 8 Adobe Illustrator CS3 Adobe Photoshop CS5 Adobe Audition CS3 Handbrake Portable Quicktime Portable Massive Portable Soundforge Portable and many NON-Portable...

There is no benefit to a 64 bit O.S. unless you need 64 bit software that requires more than 4GB of memory "IF" you absolutely need 64 bit software for video production or whatever, then that type of software will run much better with a quadcore cpu as most high end video software is optimized...

Full Format is garbage When Full formatting a 16GB thumbdrive using FAT32 with default allocation size, the format takes 33 minutes and 24 seconds (Same as Windows 7) Windows XP-SP2 or SP3 takes 22 seconds to Full Format the same drive the exact same way What did YOU find broken or slower...

Since the majority of "consumer" applications are single threaded, a dualcore is all you need unless you are running more than one videocard or doing a lot of video editing or 3d modelling & such and have the programs that can handle all those cores Quadcore cpu's better handle the overhead...

Very unexplanatory of you Drew Let me help There is no such thing as secure encryption when using closed source proprietary or hardware based encryption The fact is, if security professionals are not allowed to see the sourcecode, then there is no possibility of knowing whether or not the...

Does the 500GB drive still have a bootable copy on it or can you make it bootable by transferring the copy back from the 1TB drive? Is either drive a Western Digital? Is the 500GB more than 2 years old and XP compatible but the new drive has Advanced Format Technology and is not XP compatible...

Vice City was always buggy and crashes whether you use legal copies or copies that do not require a CD When you say it crashes, I understand When you say it doesn't run "smoothly", I don't understand Not running smoothly indicates you may have a graphics problem Did you accidentally plug your...

Drew I'm confused (You bet, he thinks) No, I mean why would you "assume" that Microsoft is NOT a spyware platform? After all, they just turned Skype into a massive spying network Do you think that MS Security Essentials DOESN'T access the Internet when blocked in your firewall? I've tried...

Why did you ban OldTimer? He is right about Windows Windows 7 is a Gov't sponsored Spyware Platform It's easy enough to prove to anyone willing to look but it is so much easier to ban people than to do actual research for most of these Windows Forum Moderators these days The entire Windows...