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It is a week or more since an official Windows update was issued as a "recommended" one for SKYPE. SEE DETAILS BELOW. Update for Skype for Windows desktop 7.0 (KB2876229) Installation date: ‎23/‎04/‎2015 10:35 Installation status: Failed This update tries to install every time I boot my PC...

I have 4 SATA hdd drives. One is a Seagate 1TB. Recently I have had a curious (to me at least) recurring symptom. My drives are split into partitions. Just one of the drives partitioned into three "drives" upon cold boot triggers the pop-up panels that appear when a removable drive has been...

Thanks for that abundance of useful stuff Cat. I will seriously look at the Easus ToDo backup sxware. Been worth raising this thread for that info alone.

I guess the 200GB hdd is 2 years old. My OS is on that right now but this hdd is a very slow, small cached hdd and when I get a day or two to throw away I intend installing Windos 7 64 bit on my new Hitachi 32mb cache 1TB hdd. The 200G hdd will then be retired or re employed as an external...

The WD 500GB offending drive is no longer in the machine and it was barely a year old. As for Acronis, I have very mixed feelings about that software though I have used it for several years. That is because it is generally held to be the best backup app. I bought and installed the 2012...

With ther exception of the 500Gb WD hdd identified as the "dodgy" hdd and now replaced with an Hit5achi 1TB 32mb cache device, here is the my spec. Oh, I now have 8mb of Crucial DDR3 although I have yet to install Windows 7 64 bit. So my OS is Windows 7 Home Premium > Mainboard : Gigabyte...

I have for several weeks recently been plagued by BSOD's which randomly attributed the cause to different culprits. Early in the events the graphics driver was fingered and I spent good money on returning my costly graphics card under warranty for checking. It came back with a clean bill of...

I loaded Windows 7 on 23 October and on the whole it has gone very smoothly. I like what I see so far. However, one of those irritating panels popped up saying that the HD audio (REAL I think) had the wrong drivers and to visit REAL Taiwan site which I did. Downloaded the driver which installed...

I see Outlook Express offered as a download but says for XP and earlier. I liked OE. Would it run under Windows 7 do you believe?

Does Windows Mail survive from Vista to live on in Windows 7? I do hope not!