1. C

    Windows 7 Privacy while composing an RTF file offline

    For the record: I have a mechanical switch box which will completely disconnect me from the internet. Here's the question: If I have an invention with a couple of diagrams I want to type up, print and snail mail to an interested party, can anyone see this document when I go back on line ...
  2. J

    Windows 7 How to Identify Your Boot Drive in Windows: SSD vs. Mechanical HDD

    I have two hard drives: a SSD and a mechanical hard drive. I've set the mechanical as the boot drive in BiOS. However after starting the computer, I can't verify in Windows which drive is the boot drive . How can you tell?
  3. sidmoore

    Windows 7 Anyone Have Experience With ELITEKEYBOARDS.COM & The Leopold Tactile?

    This post could go in anywhere I suppose, but, I chose the Windows 7 Forum because I'm partial to 7. I just iced my Logitech diNovo keyboard when I knocked a glass of water over, right on the darned thing! Thus, I'm looking for a really good tactile, tenkeyless, Cherry-switched, replacement and...
  4. pauladev

    Windows 8 Random sound playing

    I can't pinpoint any action that may have triggered it, but the last two days I have heard what can only be described as a mechanical laughing sound playing from the speakers at random intervals, sometimes every couple of minutes. The sound is not always of the same duration, but always sounds...
  5. Mr Walnuts

    Windows 7 Does Win7 have a Soft-Restart Function the way 98/XP did?

    As I'm sure many of you already know, older Windows versions 95/98/XP had a way of soft-rebooting Windows; it essentially allowed you to reboot the system without actually turning the machine off. In the older versions, I believe you just held the shift button down after clicking Restart until...