Recent content by krazykat

Neemobeer, Thanks for the reply and tip. Will do the sfc / scanow.

Problem: slow response of text typed on the keyboard appearing on the screen. The slow response applies to just about any program, commands, cut & paste text or other text selected with the mouse. If it is keyboard typed text it is delayed. I have a desktop with WIN 7 Ultimate, I have 8...

BIGBEARJEDI, Thanks for taking the time to give me the the results of your (long) learning experience with making WIN7 bootable USB drive , really appreciate your support. Your statement " W7 copy protection is much improved over both Vista and XP (and earlier windows versions)", is news to...

Hi, Unable to copy the Windows 7 install DVD to a thumb drive I am using Windows 7 PRO X64 desktop. I have been unable to copy the Windows 7 install DVD (happens to be a Dell OEM full WIN7 PRO X64 DVD) to a thumb drive. I have tried using Internet explorer and a file management program called...

Saltgrass, Good news ! I followed your instructions; F8 to bring up the boot menu, then used the down arrow key to select the SATRA PM: ST31000340AS line (the hard drive with XP installed) and pressed enter. XP started to boot with no error messages! It took about 5 minutes and a lot of disk...

Saltgrass, I did some cheking decause I thought I got rid of IDE drives some time ago. Here is some information I collected. At boot time I used the F8 key to display the Bios "Boot Select" screen, shown below. Please Select Boot Drive SATRA PS: HP DVD Writer COCO SONY DVD RW SATRA SS: Hitachi...

Saltgrass, Thanks for your comments, sorry for the delay in my response holiday season takes it's toll on computer time. Attached is screen shot of my WIN7 disk management screen. For information, disk 0, (C:) partition is the WIN 7 boot partition; Disk 1, "DRIVE C (G:) is the location of the...

Windows 7 Pro and Windows XP PRO “Semi Dual boot” My question is labeled “”Semi Dual Boot” because I have a situation involving WIN 7 Pro and WIN XP Pro on the same computer. Background --How I got to where I need to make this post I had a WIN XP PRO, SP3 system installed,(100% genuine...