laptop setup

Whether you're working from home, in a cozy coffee shop, or at an office, using a monitor with your laptop can significantly enhance your productivity. But why keep the laptop lid open when a closed lid setup can provide a clutter-free workspace? Here’s how to transform your laptop into a...

I have a laptop... acually I have 20 lenovo T420 laptops. Same type but probably with some small differences. Diks are all SSD but diff. kinds. I have installed one of the laptops as I like it. Now I will install all the others so they are similar. I used MS system image which works fine, but...

I have just purchased a new (Acer) Windows 10 Home laptop and want to move my existing Outlook emails/calendar etc. from my 'old' laptop without having to purchase additional software. Can anyone advise on this, please ?

ok guys i'm a new user and i would like some help with mounting windows 7 to a usb flash drive... i am wiping my laptop and installing windows 7 and would like to use a flash drive to load the os to the laptop... i'm not sure if the usb drive would be called a boot drive... to put it simply, i...

I have been 'googling' for sometime looking for an answer to this issue but would like to ask for help here. What I am trying to achieve is to setup roaming profiles, folder redirection and offline files with all 3 working together. The system involves a Windows Server 2012 R2 domain controller...

First post, first problem. Running a TV as a second screen off my laptop via HDMI connection. Old TV gave in, bought a new standard 22" screen. When connecting to the screen, it automatically assigns it to the right of my PC, however I need it positioned on the left. I have gone into control...

Hi I'm setting up a laptop for a friends mother, she's 88 years old. I have installed Classic Shell, and am working from the desktop. My problem is that when I open up Google Chrome there are no minimise, restore, or close icons in the upper right corner as there are on my own computer. That...

Hi, My company has about 10 new HP 2570p laptops. These have 128GB SSD. I have set up two of these laptops in audit mode with all drivers, updates and software configured. I then went to sysprep, selected OOBE - generalise and shutdown. The first laptop gave me a BSOD preventing Windows...

I want to setup my laptop with VMWare or something similiar so that windows is running virtually, and every boot-up i am running a "fresh" windows install (sorta how most colleges have their systems setup), as well as have the option of booting into Ubuntu or Fedora as a dual boot option. BUT...

First time poster in a great deal of stress. Just bought a new laptop with windows 7 installed. Ive got it home and tried to connect it to my BT homehub and all im getting is "Unidentified Network" and "No internet access". When im in Network and sharing centre all i get is that connection...

I am setting up a brand new laptop with Windows 7. I have not used Win 7 before. I have set up two user accounts, both "administrator" accounts. I have downloaded Google Chrome using one of those accounts, but when logged on as the second user, I cant see the Chrome shortcut, or find the program...

I have a couple of games that do not agree with 7 at all no matter what, and I would like to have multiple operating systems on here. How would I go about putting 98 on here?I have the disk and key. I want it to where I can choose which one I want. Thanks guys.

I have been given a new laptop, lucky me, and when I first ran the thing up, I manually created a wireless network access point that I know I would use in the future, its one of my regular access points, all fine here. When I came to connect to the access point it continually fails, so I've...

Hi i had bought new laptop. At that i have two drives and i locked one of them with the bitlocker and later on i just deleted that drive from disk management. Now i cannot create partition, i have more than 160 GB and system does not allow me to install a fresh copy and neither it allows me...

Hi: Two questions about Win7, if anyone can help, I'd appreciate it. Just bought a laptop for 3 boys to share, as their old one was so out of date & bogged down. One of the boys, I found, goes to sites he shouldn't (need I say which type?) & it totally messes up the OS!! Before he can...

I recently picked up a new laptop. It came with W7 Home Premium 64-bit on a single partition. I want to do one of two things: 1. Repartition the 500GB disk so the O/S and programs use 60-70GB and have the rest available for "data" - the problem is the W7 partition tool won't let me get this...