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Greetings. I have my backup running automatically, doing a backup every 7 days. Yesterday I noticed the back up kept running, until it racked up 73 folders totaling 12.2GB. Whereas the last backup was 172MB in one folder. The 1-5-14 backup was: 94KB and 180,416KB in two folders. 12-22-13...

I believe Windows is no longer updating Vista. At least those were the Windows update messages I was getting for quite awhile.

Hello again: In reference to patcooke's reply: "I strongly recommend you create a second partition on your hard drive or install a second drive to which you should save all data. It will help if you set your system defaults and any installed programs to save to the data drive. This way whenever...

Thanks for your reply. Pat Cooke: For data storage you need to use an internal drive to give you immediate access to it. This may be done either by shringking your drive c and creating a new partition on your existing drive or by installing a a second drive. Then transfer all your data...

I strongly recommend you create a second partition on your hard drive or install a second drive to which you should save all data. R. I do have a (C:) drive that has what appears to be most of my system components. And a (D:) drive holding my data. I presume this is what you are referring to...

patcooke; No, they have different meanings - see my reply above. R. Or your other reply in different thread. patcooke Tier 2 Moderator Microsft Most Valuable Professional...

Thank you for your input! patcooke; A clean install is always to be preferred to an upgrade (which in your case is not in any case possible) R. So would this mean I could buy the Win 7/64 bit OS upgrade version, and do a clean/custom/fresh install of the upgrade version? As opposed to buying...

bassfisher6522; There is only 2 kinds of installs with and OS...upgrade, where the new OS is over written on top of the old and all your data is saved, and a clean install, which wipes your drive completely, so there's no data on it what so ever and then the new OS is installed. To answer...

1. Is there a difference between a clean and custom installation? When considering a OS change from Vista 32 to Win 7/64 bit, which process should I be using? Or are the words clean/custom install more or less semantics and mean the same thing? 2. I have been looking at purchasing Win 7 Pro...

Thanks for all the help, much appreciated. Vista32 to WIn7

Thanks. I ran update checker from FileHippo today, they had the download, and I installed the new update. :thumbs_up: Thanks.

I have Adobe Reader 10.1.6 installed on my laptop. But when I go to update Adobe Reader through Firefox plugins...after downloading it tells me I already have the latest version already installed: 10.1.4. But my Programs and Features shows Adobe Reader 10.1.6 was installed on 3/22/2013? When I...

Greetings: I have a faulting disk that needs replacement. I am considering replacing the disk with a SSD/HDD Seagate 750GB, 7500 RPM disk. I also want to install Win7/64 bit to replace the original Vista 32 bit OS. And upgrade the memory from 3 to 4 GB. I am not computer savvy, but learning...