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    Windows 7 Upgrading Windows onto a new SSD

    Hello, I am currently running Windows 7 Home Premium on a basic HD. I recently purchased a new SSD and a full installation of Windows Ultimate. I would like to install Windows Ultimate to the SSD and use my old HD as a secondary storage device. Most importantly, I do not want to lose any of...
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    Windows 7 Backup User file and settings

    I have joined this forum in the hope i can get help and advise in deploying windows 7, I have been deploying windows 7 for the last 7 months as a contractor for two different clients. Both clients have had different ways of doing the deployment, however both have the same concerns about data and...
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    Windows 7 XP: Physical to Virtual Machine & Share Boot Drive w Host? Best way?

    XP: Physical to Virtual & Share Boot Drive w Host? Disk2VHD vs VMWare P2V? XP: Physical to Virtual & Share Drive w Host? Disk2VHD vs VMWare P2V? Physical-to-Virtual - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia My Thinkpad X61T with recent 8GB DDR2 Upgrade: I have an XP Pro 3 instance on a HDD able...
  4. You do not receive an error message when you try to copy an email message that contains invalid char

    Fixes an issue in which you do not receive an error message when you try to copy an email message that contains characters that cannot be used to create a valid name in SharePoint. This issue occurs when you try to copy the email message from Outlook to... Link Removed
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    Windows 7 How to Clone a Windows 7 Partition to a new Hard Drive?

    Hi I just bought a ssd drive and I have 2 partitions. 1 is for work and one is for personal. I did a fresh install for my personal partition. However for work I want to make a clone(it would be a huge pain to setup everything again) of it on my ssd drive. Original Drive 1 Tb seagate hard...
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    Windows 7 Which of the many "S-1-5-21-10866195...." user are really active and setup? Clean-up tool for useles

    Once again I have setup here an 64bit Win7 pro system. Many of the files from the D: partition were taken from the previous Win7 system resp. copied from another Win7 (WinXP) computer. When I look at some of the security tabs of some of the files and folders then various user entries exist...
  7. Windows 8 Would like to move my Win 8 DP install to another HDD as a dual boot

    Presently, I have Win 8 CP on a 40GB WD HDD. What I'd like to do is dump Vista, which is installed on one of my better hard drives, slide Windows 7 over beside XP Pro x64, rebuild the MBR & do a repair install to that. Then, using Mini Tool Partition Home Wizard, copy my Windows 8 install to...
  8. Windows 7 WIN7 C and D hard drive - oops!

    I reinstalled windows 7 on my mother's computer, and just followed prompts throughout. Seems that I partitioned the hd with C and D drives. The C drive is where all files are at and seems to be the startup drive, and it's only 15 gigs. It is now full. D has 180 gigs and nothing on it. So - how...
  9. Windows 7 Another BSOD after copying files from hard drive

    Hi, its been a long time since i last posted about my bsod and after i fixed them i began to get more of these. the only way i can replicate the problem is when i move or copy+paste files in the computer, mostly if it is from my computer to a external hardrive or usb... i attached the latest...
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    Windows 7 Windows Eas Transfer problem

    Just wasted 2.5 hours trying to get Windows Easy Transfer to transfer Outlook 2007 files from Vista to 64 bit Windows 7 using Blkin Easy Trnsfer cable. Any suggestions?
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    Windows 7 Changing default save locations for everything

    Good afternoon Summary: How to I change the default save location of any saved file from C drive to D drive? How to delete current user and program folders on my C drive? Info: I am trying to tidy up my computer and need some assistance with default save locations. I have 2 drives, A 60gb...
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    Windows 7 Folder Location

    When I upgraded to Vista I had a folder system which had been developed over many years and had no interest in Vistas pre installed sytem, so I installed my old file system named UserName in C:\Users\LoginName\Documents\UserName. This turned out to be a poor choice. Now I want to move to a new...
  13. File permissions inherited from one folder persist after the files are moved to another folder in Wi

    Fixes an issue in which the original file permissions inherited from a folder persist when you move files to another folder by using Windows Explorer. This issue occurs on a computer that is running Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2. More...
  14. Windows 7 System Image

    I Have my laptop currently with it personalized to my liking, I'm going to build a gaming pc, is it possible to use a system image, to copy my settings/preferences, and tweaks, to my new computer, and not have to painfully re-install, change, and personalize everything again? or do you know...
  15. Windows 7 File Transfer

    I use a HP dv7-1247 x64 and just bought a Acer Netbook 722-BZ197 x64 and both use W7 SP1 Home Premium. I would like to transfer all my files from the HP to the Acer ao I am requesting advise about the best possible method to acccomplish this type of operation. I travel quite a bit and I...
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    Windows 7 Problem transferring a file from XP to Seven

    My XP crashed so I took my hard drive, put it in an enclosure and opened it with my new Windows 7 pc. My big snag is getting some Excel docs from my desktop from the XP into the 7 Hardrive. It will not do it. It keeps saying that I need administrator permission. I'm the only user of course. I...
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    Windows 7 need some quick help, please...

    i am living and working in fiji, so just to let you know i don't have a lot of resources at my disposal. i have an old office system running xp, with some important files, folders and programs on it. we just purchased a new win 7 machine. for those in the know, WHAT IS THE BEST WAY TO GET...
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    Windows 7 Windows Mail scan error?

    Hello. We just recently updated a new Windows 7 machine with Adobe Acrobat X (standard). Prior to the new Win7 machine, the user was on a Vista machine with Windows Mail and has a Cannon scanner with the MP Navigator software. After migrating data from the Vista machine to the 7 machine, we...
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    Windows 7 Windows 7 clean install from windows vista, software questions!?

    I have a Windows vista Home edition and will be upgrading to Windows 7 professional. Windows 7 professional doesn't allow an upgrade path from vista home so i'll need to do a clean install. My question is if there is some way to make a backup of my programs and then just transfer them into...
  20. Orion Energy Systems Sees the Light, Moves Data to Windows Azure

    Energy-management company switches to cloud-based platform to provide customers with a robust, consolidated view of energy-usage data. Link Removed due to 404 Error