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I have a netbook that originally had XP installed. I upgraded to Win7 and experienced no problems. Thought I would try Linux Ubuntu...too much for me. Had to download Gparted to slick disk. Worked well, reinstalled Win7 using a legally purchased upgrade disk...no probs until activation time...

My netbook arrive's later today with Windows 8 x64 on it. My desktop is running 8.1 Pro w/Media Center x64. Should I join the desktop's HomeGroup first, prior to the netbook's 8.1 upgrade ?

For the past 3 weeks now I have been trying to buy a windows 8.1 installation DVD so that I can install Windows 8.1 on one of my netbook. So i phoned up PC worls which is the main computer store here in England where I am. The customer services adviser told me they only sell Windows 8 but not...

Hey guys, I have a question. I have both Windows 7 Ultimate and Ubuntu 13.04 installed on my laptop. Here's the partition details: Link Removed I wish to remove Windows 7, but keep all my personal data on that partition. I'm seriously done with W7 on my little netbook... it can't handle 2...

Hello I Got A 1 hell problem here my netbook can connect to our home wifi but my acer laptop windows 8 cant connect it has an wireless bar thing in down right of my screen anyone please comment back :D

how do i successfully reboot my acer aspire one netbook to factory settings after pushing the F8 key i do knot the administrator password and i already started the reboot system and my laptop died

I seem to have encountered lots of problems with my new Netbook PC, featuring Windows 7 Home Professional OS. For example, I can't shut the system down unless I turn the power switch on. Sometimes, I get a system malfunction screen and I need to shut it down. I went to a Windows Repair website...

Hi, I am new here. I installed an SSD and relocated some various temp folders to an SDHC card to minimize write operations on the SSD (although I understand this is not necessary). Anyway, I purchased a 16GB class 10 Polaroid SDHC card to be exact and it gets corrupted constantly. In...

I use Windows Live Mail on my Acer Netbook with XP with no trouble. On my new Acer Desktop with Windows 8 I set up 'Groups' or 'Categories' but the contacts I put in won't stay there. It worked initially but hasn't for some time. I've completely re-set each 'Group' several times but the same...

Here north of the USA, we honestly don't seem to keep up with tech trends as much as our American and even British friends. We think Blackberry 10 is the greatest thing since sliced bread and most people in Canada have probably never heard of the Microsoft Surface, or even Windows Phone for that...

I have a netbook whose harddrive has crashed. It has no CD/DVD drive and does not supports booting from USB flash drives but does support booting from USB floppy or USB CDROM drives. The problem is that I don't have neither a USB floppy nor a USB CRROM drive. Therefore the only viable option...

i have recently upgraded to 8 from 7. my bluetooth has stopped working a couple of days ago. the device manager lists bluetooth with an yellow exclamation mark ( code 19...windows can not start device...registry problem...blah blah blah ). i have uninstalled and reinstalled latest bluetooth...

I have an ACER Aspire ONE NetBook, that had a hard disk go south. I have a new hard disk to install and will have to use a fresh copy of WIN7. The system was originally starter edition. Should I try and stay with that, or install something with more functionality? I really do not wish to...

Hello. I don't have a hard drive large enough to backup the data on my daughter's netbook with a corrupted W7 starter install. When I attempt to re-install W7 starter, it does tell me that if it detects a previous Windows install, it will move the files over into a Windows.old folder. I'm...

I know it's nearly Christmas but a reminder that,if you are still using Windows 8 Release Preview,it is due to expire on 15th January 2013. Also if you have still got Windows 8 Consumer Preview, or Windows 8 Developers Preview,those two Beta version will also expire on the same day. So...

i have a DVD with two movies on it and wanna watch the movies on my netbook (no optical drive). i will use my friend's PC to rip it to my usb drive.

packard bell touch ze8 someone can help me, my netbook is a packard bell ze8 (butterfly touch) comes with windows 7 home premium upgrading to windows 8 pro during installing new windows recognize all drivers except accelerometer i installed windows 7 driver in compatibility mode but the...

I upgraded wife's Netbook to Windows 8, verdict don't upgrade a Laptop with screen resolution of 1024 x 600 or less, the New Apps style interface will not work. Disappointed as the lay out and speed and ease of use is quite good, a little different from XP and Win 7 but usable. Basically they...

Hi all. I am having a problem with installing Windows 7 on my netbook (Novero Solana). I did a clean install (wiped out Windows 8) and when using a USB boot install of Windows 7, I encountered the following error (Disk 0 Unallocated Space): "Windows 7 install Error "Setup was unable to use...

Hi all. I am having a problem with installing Windows 7 on my netbook (Novero Solana). I did a clean install (wiped out Windows 8) and when using a USB boot install of Windows 7, I encountered the following error (Disk 0 Unallocated Space): "Windows 7 install Error "Setup was unable to use...