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When using an old console editor, compiled with Borland C, I find that some characters do not paste from the clipboard, viz: ) * + : ; < = > ? @ ^ l (upper case L is ok!). All paste ok in other console applications, and when using the legacy console! Does anyone have an...

In this tutorial we will be manually creating the system boot partition. This is for a system that is BIOS booting (sometimes referred to as legacy or legacy CSM) which utilizes the MBR. The MBR is the first sector on the hard drive that contains a small first stage boot loader which hands the...

I have a Dell xps 8700 pc with Windows 10 installed. I cloned my new wd hdd from a ssd card. In the bios under UEFI boot the hdd does not show up in the boot order, but does show up in the Legacy boot order. I played around for a few hours with this but to no avail. Any help to get it to boot...

If I remember correctly, XP's EOL had a HUGE reaction because of all the people's fond memories of it. So Win7's will be that, but bigger in my personal opinion.

I got myself a Silicon Image 3114 SATA Controller which is capable of RAIDing two discs. I have two SSD sporting approx. 230 GB each. I wanted to enable RAID 0 (striping) to have one "virtual" drive of 450 GB. I followed the steps below: Installed the 3114 PCI card on my board. Connected the...

should windows legacy features be on or off in windows 10 default? I had to copy from the title to the body to paste as typing in the message body did not work, I use Chrome.

Hi This is not a Piracy issue. We use a Legacy software a 16 years old database that is no longer available and not made by MS, on Win XP We use an 'add-on' with the database that was $20 sadly the developer of the 'add-on' has passed away about 4 years ago and the business no longer exists...

Hi Adobe doesn't sell it's software anymore. You have to rent it, and when they told me that I couldn't install my payed for copy of Photoshop CS2 because they didn't support it I was mad!!! I've used Photoshop as a professional since version 2, in the early 90s. A lot of other people were...

I was having several issues so I did a full reset of Windows 8.1 (that was a nightmare). When I went to update, it offered me Windows 10. I bit the bullet and did it. The exact same thing happened this time as the first time (which is why I reverted back to 8.1). On the desktop, if I place...

I just saw this about clean installing Window 7 Sticking with Windows 7? The forecast calls for pain | ZDNet I've noticed that since Windows 10 released Windows Update is incredibly slow when updating Windows 7 PCs. I'm glad I keep several images. I used to slipstream updates in XP and several...

Futuremark has released some of it's older titles for free including a free activation key: Futuremark - Legacy Benchmarks

I've never shifted using Mac as my official or using Mac as my personal OS as far from the beginning of my life I always have been using Windows and it feels great that it has come up with much more customisations its been a proud that Satya Nadela is leading it towards the great future and Bill...

After years of joking about the death of the not-so-legendary Internet Explorer, the moment has finally come. Microsoft announced it will end the era of the famed web browser that started it all. Continue reading...

Hi, I recently purchased a Lenovo laptop with pre-installed windows 8.1. However, after using windows 8.1 for a while, I still wanna go back to windows 7. But since I bought my laptop with licensed windows 8.1, i dont want to waste it which led me to dual booting w7 and w8.1. I encountered...

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Hello, I'm trying to disable UEFI on my computer. I did this on some other PC's and it all worked out fine, but I got stuck with this one. The BIOS does have a "secure boot", "fast boot", and "quiet boot" option, but even when I disabled them all I could still only boot into windows 8 (I'm...

I seem to have numerous files of this name. They are from 2005-2012 with the latest being dated 7/31/2014. Are the all necessary, or only the most recent? Thanks Found an old thread that addressed this. So nvm, but thanks.

So consider this to be a bit of self indulgence as I give my own eulogy at windows XP's funeral. Windows XP was my first full time operating system, and as it ends its support cycle its time for me to do some fun looking back on one of the computing worlds biggest successes and how it all went...

Nvidia have decided that from Driver version 340 certain products will no longer be supported. The list for these products is below: Ref: http://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3473

Hy my motherbord is a little old i have asus p5pl2-e and i dont have the drivers anymore any tips were i can find some good drivers `` im not that good with drivers and motherbords`` please help.