Recent content by john517

Thanks again. A touchscreen is far in the distant future for me. I'm sure modern apps won't continue to run in sleep or hibernation, but will they run in the background while I'm pounding away on MS Word? I ask because of my experience with the modern app for Windows Update, which was 3%...

Unfortunately, leaving the app isn't the problem. Getting back to it is. I don't have a touchscreen, so instructions to swipe aren't germane. 1. I do NOT see icons in the upper left corner (when my mouse is in that corner) for apps that I've opened and then left by using the back arrow or the...

My question was how to leave and get back to a running/suspended/whatever modern app. Mousing to the upper left corner does nothing at all for me. No popups, nada. I'll take a look at the properties sheet for the start screen (when I figure out where it is LOL!) Edit: Found it, but the second...

Actually, I only now realized, after some googling, that modern apps are suspended when you move away from them and do not run in the background. I use the modern apps so rarely that I haven't paid attention to their behavior. Two questions, or maybe a comment and a question: 1. That...

Thanks. That USB bootable disk utility will be useful. I've done it before, but not recently. At the risk of beating a dead horse, I recalled something I read a few months ago on a Web site, but can't recall where. The thrust of the post was that CDs are better for storing data than DVDs; CDs...

Thanks very much. Looks like that's all I need.

Who'd of thunk? Learned something new today. Thanks.

Maybe I don't understand this because I have the wrong mental definition of a term or it's just an off day. My understanding is that verification involves comparing bit by bit a newly-burned disk with the original data still on the hard drive (as in this case, or the data on another optical...

I'll give the USB drive a try. Thanks. I was interested, though, in the comment that if I burn a disk at maximum speed, it will most likely verify. Never heard that before -- any explanation as to why that's the case, or is that just something you found through experience without worrying about...

I have Win 7 Pro bought online during last winter's college student sale. No original CD, but I burned two copies of the download. I'm trying to reinstall Win 7 on a new processor and motherboard. Backed up the old system drive and have been trying a clean install with no success. During file...