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I am trying to install Linux Mint 18 Sarah Xfce 64 bit, but it is failing.

Ok, i'll try that after making a system image. Thanks for the help.

There sorta are... but it requires multiple keystrokes. ALT+F4 UP ENTER DOWN DOWN ENTER or something like that. If you are looking for a 3rd party tool, use Auto Hot Key. You can make AHK scripts for executing specific programmes, for example, shutdown.exe -s -p. Good luck! :up:

Hello to anyone reading this. I have a Win 7 64 bit 2012 laptop (HP). My main disk (A Toshiba 320GB) is currently a Dynamic. I want to shrink my Win 7 Partition (Simple) to make room for Linux Mint. Whenever I try to shrink, it can only shrink by about a Gig, and it says "The partition cannot...

And that a thing called the .NET enhancement service or something was using %50 of my cpu all the time (One Entire CORE!!!)

I found that during my trial that Win 10 actually uses more ram and CPU than Win 7 (I applied lots of tweaks) and I think my ol' 2gb of ram, integrated 1gb graphics and Celtron B820 isnt gonna live to see its 10th birthday. Thanks for the input :)

1. Yes I did use the built in image creation tool, which had worked twice for me before 2. I did fix if by DISKPART clean /all and then restoring the image because for some reason the Win 10 image restore f***ed up my MBR 3. I image monthly to my 500gb external HDD and Weekly to the cloud

Here's a story for ya. Yesterday I decided to give Windows 10 a shot because of what all my friends were saying. "OHHH ITS AMAZEBALLZ" "SOOOOOO AWSM" and such. The upgrade took a few hours but was well worth it. The programmes were exactly where I left them along with everything else. The new...

I LOVE WINDOWS 7 AND WOULD DEMISE INSTALLING 8 OR EVEN 10 1 BILLION/10

It seems that when I got my computer, it had one partition. Then I dug into administrative settings and discovered that I really had four. One was Windows 7 (C:\), which I labeled, one was HP_TOOLS (P:\) and contains a "backup of the bios", one was SYSTEM_ (V:\) which contains a copy of various...