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    Windows 7 Where Does Win7 Put Cookies?

    Where does Win7 put cookies? Are they all in one place, or are they in multiple locations? Thanks, C:\
  2. Windows 7 Changing letter of a drive - the letter is not offered

    Hi guys, I had non-system HDD which was F:. After reinstaling the system I want to assign the "F" letter to this drive, but in diskmgmt.msc it offers me all the other letters except that F:, which i used before reinstaling. The HDD works, data are OK, there are no other F: in the system, but...
  3. Windows 7 What duplicate files are safe to be removed?

    To put it shortly, I have that utility called advanced system optimizer and I performed a scan to find duplictaes on my partitions. It resulted a cluster of 10000 files. Ther are all kind of files and many are founded on several locations. I dont know if its safe to remove them and which exaclty...
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    Windows 7 Drive labeling confusion in Disk Management

    I have four internal drives and an external Drobo drive. The internal drives are my concern in this query. All are working well and I could just leave well alone, but my sense of order requires me to get all these different descriptions into conformity with each other. Active/Not Active...
  5. Windows 7 Migrating Windows System Directories.

    I have been thinking about getting a SATA controler card and a few SSD for my system. I have been looking around for something on this topic and thus far have not found anything talking about it or it is talking about moveing the entire disk. What I want to do is migrate system directories to...
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    Understanding the Places Bar, Favorites and Libraries: How do they work, and how they can be customi

    Hi all, While using Windows XP, I used TweakUI to get the directories I frequently used with a minimum of fuss. The default options just didn't cut for me. At first, I thought the Libraries feature would be useful on Windows 7 but in my experience, they're more trouble than they're worth. What...
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    Windows 7 Why does W7 create a 100 mb "system reserved" partition when installing

    I've had W7 on two computers that I built: My old one and my new one On the old comuter, W7 installed itself, boot loader and all, on a single partition. However, on my new build, W7 created a 100 mb "system reserved" partition leaving 111 G for data on one of my SSD's which I decided to use...
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    Windows 7 SightSpeed Recordings

    SightSpeed Recordings [SOLVED] There is a "SightSpeed Recordings" direcory in my documents folder. It seems to hold no more than copies of what's in the documents folder itself. What is its purpose and can I remove it? Regards, Cheemag.
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    Windows 7 Moving Users Directory

    Hey, This might be a complicated question, because I have already followed a specific process to move my users directory. It worked, and it worked well! But I am now concerned because I think Windows sees my Users directory as belonging on both the SSD and the other hard drive that I have it...
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    Windows 7 Where can I buy 5 terabyte external portable hdd?

    Where can I buy 5 terabyte external portable hdd?
  11. A boot LUN can be disabled if it is claimed for use with MPIO in Windows 7 or in Windows Server 2008

    Fixes an issue in which you can disable the boot LUN in Device Manager if you use a DSM to claim the LUN for use with MPIO on a Windows Server 2008 R2-based or Windows 7-based computer. This issue occurs when the computer is configured to start from a... Link Removed
  12. Windows 7 Folders Pictures (Folder Icon)

    Hi everyone.. I know that when I customize a folder icon, a desktop.ini file will be created inside that folder, but if I assign a picture of that folder in (folder pictures panel) where are these data saved? Because when I put this folder in another PC the picture is missing, and goes to...
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    Windows 7 Can't remove USB device safely.

    Okay so whenever I need to remove my USB flash drive after updating some excel files, it won't allow me to remove it safely. It tells me that the device is currently in use and that I should close all programs but there aren't any programs opened. I can only remove it by going into the library...
  14. Windows 7 Partititioning Windows 7 HP/ Extended ??

    I'm back with a new problem. Today I tried to create a new Logical partition on my laptop by taking 1 of the 4 Primary partitions, (It was the 13 gb Arcade partition) and making it logical. I then resized the C drive partition to leave 75gb of un allocated space which I was going to use as a...
  15. Augment your data storage options with Windows 7 Live File System format

    In this issue of the Windows Desktop Report, Greg Shultz describes how the Windows 7 Live File System format works and how you can use it for backups or additional storage. Link Removed
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    Windows 7 Hitachi vs Samsung vs WD

    I've got a samsung HDD now, but it has died (within 3 days). So I don't know if I did something wrong or if the HDD sucks. anyway, I've got my eye on 2 new harddrives: samsung HD105SI(bulk, SpinPoint F3 EcoGreen) = 49 euros vs Hitachi HDS5C1010CLA382 (bulk, Deskstar 5K1000, 24/7) = 50 euros...
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    Windows 7 Can't eject external hard drive. This device is currently in use.

    Whenever I try to eject a certain external hard drive using the little icon in the task window, I get a message that it is in use. I am very careful to be sure it is not in use but still get the message. This is a data storage disc. I am not aware of any programs on it that may be running in...
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    Windows 7 Where are SystemRestorePoint stored? Changing partition possible?

    As far as I know System Restore Points are stored in a system folder "SystemRestoreVolume" Ok, but on which partition is this folder? Is it ALWAYS on the same partition as the saved/monitored partition? I have a Win7 system partition C: and a (big) data partition D: Can I tell Win7...
  19. Windows 7 Trying to install Windows 7 on a New Hard Drive and Intel Bad Axe 2 Motherboard...

    Hi, guys. I am trying to install Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit on a computer with an Intel Bad Axe 2 motherboard and brand new, never used Western Digital 2TB (WD20EARS) hard drive. Problem is, I am getting a ton of errors; when I set the hard drive up with RAID I get array errors (and I will be...
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    Windows 7 I'm also thinking of buying a 64GB SSD for the OS and application software...

    ...but rather than re-installing the OS ( W7 Ultimate ) and all software can I not simply make an image and copy it to the SSD, thereafter modifying the BIOS to boot from the SSD rather than the original HDD leaving the latter available for data only ? I gather I have to disable Prefetch, Super...