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1. if i put my page file swap file temp folder on its own partition, is it best to use fat32? if i remember right fat 32 is fastest just isnt the best for space usage. 2. does reinstalling windows after time (1-2 years) create better performance? im not sure what it is but windows xp and...

sorry if this is annoying, sure you must be getting many of these... but i was wondering if anyone has any tips i could follow to help lock my drive in DMA mode... I have done everything others have told me and yet every time i do anything on my 2nd drive (1st primary is SATA and slave is IDE)...

Hello everyone, First of all I'm not 100% sure this is ONLY(or at all?) Win7 related but since a lot of my questions involve changing or moving my OS i figured i should start here) The problem I am having consists of my RAID volume( that I use for OS + data) has recently come back with an Error...

Hi, I'm using the Win7 Backup utility and no problem with incremental backups.Let's call this Backup #1. However, I wanted a separate backup task for all my photos to a separate backup drive about once/month (Backup #2) as opposed to once/week for Backup #1. I looked around for trying to do...

Hi all. I would like to know what is the difference between Backup and creating image. I encountered a strange problem when I wanted to make an image, as well the same problem when I want to make a backup with image. From some reason, windows thinks that drive E is system related, which is...

Hi I have set up a VPN connection to my work computer which is running 2003sbs. I have no trouble connecting (as long as I disable packet filtering on my PC Tools firewall). However I am unable to access the drives. When I go to 'computer' the network name does not appear and if I try to...

As the title suggests my DVD-ROM, a Pioneer 106S, is blue screening everytime I push a disk into the drive. I see that it tries to read the disk and then the blue screen happens.. Now as the drive is actually 9yrs old I'm pretty sure the problem is that it's come to the end of it's working...

Just like last year, my not so computer smart family, not to mention a couple of friends. Got new computers, for xmas. All but one got either a Dell, Hp, with the exception of one of my Uncles. He took my advice, and bought seperate componets. So guess who had to do the build me. Well that...

When I insert a DVD into my drive it automatically begins to play audio only. I cannot see any picture at all. The main problem is there aren't any programs open and I can't stop it from playing. Can anyone help me with this or had a similar issue?

Hi All, I getting the error that i need permission to perform this action. I'm trying to delete a folder. It is a folder that had all my adobe software installs, its on a different partion to my OS. I reinstalled my OS on c drive and now want to install my adobe software again but want to...

Hellooooo peopluuh My beautifull litlle PC is having startup problems! oh noes! :O Well, I got only SATA drives, so I changed some registry value (yea i did that after windows install, my bad) and changed all Bios option that had anything to do with IDE or so to AHCI. It's runnning like that...

Is anyone else getting this error? Link Removed due to 404 Error After I upgraded and inserted a DVD for the first time it popped up a window saying that the dvd was region 1 and that I had to set a region. I set it to region 1 and now I get this error every time I insert any DVD. I tried...

i have WD Green Drive 2 TB But can someone tell me if windows 7 is not able to read 4 TB drive ? Link Removed

I recently installed Win7 Ultimate on the second drive of my main computer, but running XP Pro as the main OS. The Win7 partition was "G" in XP and when re-formatted using Acronis Disk Director. However, when booted into Win7 it is running in C Drive and the other partitions go up the...

How do I empty my recovery drive in order to free space for downloads?

This game takes 8 times longer to load in 7 than it did in Vista why? However there is an up side in that it will run without the disc in the drive which it wouldn't before.

Hello everyone! First, thank you for all great posts from here, they are very useful. Second..i have a big problem. I use Windows 7 Ultimate and today i tried to change file permissions for a drive from my HDD and removed the group "Logged in users" by mistake. Now my drive is unaccessible...

I'.m trying to recover the registry hive from a drive that crashed and load them into a program that you can edit the registry. Problem is, I forgot the location of these files. System.alt sounds familiar, but can't locate it. Any help?

Hi All, I'm testing and setting up windows 7 on a laptop now. Our network is very diverse: We have linux servers, mac machines, windows vista's, XP's, 64bit, 32 bit, and so on. We also run several servers, with a lot of different versions of windows server (2003, 2007, 2000 and even NT)...

I have shared a drive with everyone. Every computer on the network can see it (3). However, some folders under it cannot be seen as they are not shared. How can I make all the folders shared when I share the Drive without individually sharing each??????????????