confusion

On my new Toshiba Portege R830, the first partition on the SSD is a small 1.46G system drive that is marked as the boot device and as a Recovery Partition. The next partition covering most of the disk is the C drive. I didn't even know this could be done. Is this a new way of doing things? On...

I bought my laptop a month ago and from 2 days appears that the copy of windows is not a genuine one...I'm so confused!!! What should I do?????:confused:

Hi guys I'm new here so forgive me if this's been covered before (I did a quick scan of related threads but didn't find anything similar). Recently I booted up my laptop to error messages saying I had HD failure. I could still use Firefox and Word fine, but nothing else. So I conducted a...

As Steve Ballmer said last year, Windows 8 is a huge risk for Microsoft in a lot of ways -- it will offer a new look, run on different hardware, and break backwards compatibility with millions of existing Windows apps. Source: Yahoo! News

The Windows 8 demo from the All Things Digital conference left me kind of confused. More accurately, it left me thinking Microsoft is kind of confused. Perhaps most important, it left me thinking that most end users who pick a Windows 8 device are likely to be confused. Source: Yahoo! News

The Windows 8 demo from the All Things Digital conference left me kind of confused. More accurately, it left me thinking Microsoft is kind of confused. Perhaps most important, it left me thinking that most end users who pick a Windows 8 device are likely to be confused. Link Removed

Okay, been hunting around for some kind of solution to this problem. I've run virus checkers, checked my drivers. I don't know what the problem is. Starting to think it's something very fundamental though since it occurred even while in Safe Mode. Basically random applications freeze at...

When I try to install java because my browser says it's not installed it says it IS installed. So it asks me if I want to reinstall that's fine too. Then it gives me an error message saying that you can only do that if it's already installed. I'm really confused. I can't find java anywhere. I...

Hello all, I am dealing with more of an annoyance than a serious problem. When I start up I recv. a msg stating that I am not logged on as an administrator. I then have to switch users at the start menu and then no more pop up and I do have administrative capabilities.I am not that computer...

Hi, I'm confused by this, Microsoft state that Windows 7 (32bit) needs 16GB of free hard drive space? Does this mean a 16GB drive is actually too small, because once Windows is installed there isn't 16GB of free space available?

Lately I've noticed two identical appearing icons on my desktop, entitled desktop.ini. Do I need these. I'm trying to reduce the clutter. One says last modified 8/8/10 and the other 6/26/10. When I start to delete it, it says it is a system file. Can I delete it? Mel

Sometimes, my softwares like iTunes/Quicktime (that update notification window that pops up every now and then) and the one for my DivX Player, occasionally want to get updated, like once a month. Each time this happens, is it technically filling up my hard disk space? Or is it replacing old...

Hi, as the title suggests im in a little bit of confusion on whether i can upgrade my current 32bit version of Windows 7 to the 64bit version. About a year ago i purchased the Windows 7 Home premium upgrade package to run on my Dell desktop that was running Vista home Premium at the time. The...

I took an install disk from mt friend and i puted it in teh computer, Then I made a 20GB partition using the one already found in my XP. When I boot from the DVD, it takes 10minutes to go the Select region and language screen. Then another 5 after that to press next. Then I select the...

My documents are all in a partition (labelled) "Terry" reserved for, well, my documents. They're in a folder called "My Documents". But in My Computer there is a "Terry" item too. Which relates to my log-in and is in the users folder of C: And that one also contains a "My Documents" folder. (My...

Hi All, This is my first post in this forum. I'm looking forward to reading and joining in with you all here! I hope someone could help me with a problem I have concerning my system. First of all, I am a musician and purchased a 3XS D.A.W. (Digital Audio Workstation) pc last November from...

I am thoroughly confused as to which copies of win 7 i need. I have a new build desktop running the rc copy of 7, 2 laptops and a netbook also running the rc and a server which all my computers are connected to. I need to know what i need specifically for the new build which has run the rc copy...

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OK...my question is fairly simple: I installed w7 build 7600, is that Build the final version? When I open Everest and look at the info on my OS it still says "Trial". Does this mean it will shut down at some point or is it indeed the final retail version. I was led to believe it was the final...

Hi people.... I was wondering if any of you would be kind enough to help me with a question I have. (Please bare in mind I know next to nothing about windows OR drivers!) Now, I have an Elonex Artsan lx HTPC and have recently upgraded from XP to W7. I had to do a clean install as the upgrade...