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    Windows 10 How to make Microsoft Edge your friend

    This method works for 99 percent of those that have tried it. Edit: Including me.
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    Windows 10 default printer in Win 10

    Ahh, you're right. Bad install.
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    Windows 10 How to make Microsoft Edge your friend

    One of the major issues I and others have had is using Microsoft Edge on the internet. Yes its fast but noise on the net really get the best out of Edge. If you have not managed your host file, you seriously do not know Microsoft Edge. (Note, there will be an ad block for Edge eventually but...
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    Windows 10 Host file in Windows 10

    I started this thread on another forum about Microsoft Edge and many have had success with it. 1. Right click on Start then click Command Prompt (admin) Click Yes to the UAC prompt. 2. This should drop you at C:\Windows\system32 but if not no biggy. Your aim is to get to the folder where your...
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    Windows 10 default printer in Win 10

    If you have only have one printer davehc would work but if you're a student with a laptop or have more than one printer in the house as I do, this is what you need to do. Pretty simple actually. Right click start and grab control panel. Find Devices and Printers. Locate the printer you want as...
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    Windows 7 Trojan Threat Alert for Windows® 7 and FIFA World Cupâ„¢

    Seems like the PCTOOLs Team is trying to get a jump on the competition. -JM
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    Windows 7 Portable external drives doesn't show up

    I took the clean option and the install created a Windows.old. That folder continues to exist until I'm satisfied I've moved everything I want out of those folders into my current 7100 install. My thinking is once I run disk clean up and remove earlier installations, that will get rid of it...
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    Windows 7 Portable external drives doesn't show up

    Plugging directing into the motherboard allowed the drive to properly register. Before hand, I used an extender cable to plug in the device. Which didn't work. What is did do later was try to understand why that was then I discovered not all extender cables are alike. I happen to have one that...
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    Windows 7 Portable external drives doesn't show up

    This is the device: This is a Y cable. Mine is all black (maybe it's called something else) Link Removed due to 404 Error And here is the results of diskmgmt.msc -JazMac
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    Windows 7 Portable external drives doesn't show up

    Hi reghakr I deleted this after I recognized I was in the wrong forum. But here are my specs: AMD Athelon 64 bit, dual core 5000+ 2.6 GHz 4 gig ram Windows 7 7100 64bit. No errors in the device manager and no message to speak of. They simply don't show up. In my laptop running Vista Sp1...
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    Windows 7 Portable External Iomega SimpleTech drives don't show up

    I'm running Win 7, RC1 and it's great. However, my portable drives don't show up when I plug them in. I have an external Maxtor 250 that connects to the same computer via USB and it works fine. But the portables do not. One is a SimpleTech 120GB and the other is an Iomega 250GB. Both work fine...
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    Windows 7 Portable external drives doesn't show up

    ..... -Jazmac
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