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Awesome windows like distro
Hello forumers, I found this awesome linux distro called Zorin. It looks like windows so I didnt have to learn anything its really fast and apparently it doesnt get viruses. It has my Office on it already. Im running it on my dinosaur of a dell omniplex with Windows XP on a dual boot. Ive only...- chrisprais
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- core version dell distro dual boot fast linux lite version office old computer omniplex user experience virus protection windows zorin os
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- Forum: Linux Forums
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Windows 7 Windows 7 hardware
Witam. Jak wygląda sprawa od strony użytkowników jeżeli chodzi o stare konfiguracje sprzętowe. Napiszcie w ty temacie jakie konfiguracje obsłużą Windows 7. PS. Stare komputery to takie przed wyjściem Windows 7 czyli do 2009 roku. Im więcej wstawicie tym lepiej.- sakuwbaraku
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- 2009 configuration hardware legacy old computer support system requirements tech discussion user experience windows 7
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 7 Radeon X1550 PCI Undetected for use
So here's the issue: Radeon X1550 256 MB PCI installs fine and shows up in the Device Manager, but when I right-Click on the desktop and click on "Screen Resolution", under the "Display" drop down menu, I ONLY get the "1. Generic PNP Monitor on Standard VGA Graphics Adapter" that is listed. The...- Gage
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- amd sempron compatibility device manager display drivers graphics adapter graphics card installation legacy hardware old computer pci pnp monitor radeon x1550 resolution tech support troubleshooting undetected windows 7
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- Forum: Windows Graphics and Gaming
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Windows 7 Cannot Boot Windows - Keeps Restarting
Hi guys, I recently upgraded our old computer from Windows XP to Windows 7 Professional. It wouldn't boot from the CD to install for some strange reason so I put the hard drive in my computer and installed it from there. After it installed, I put the HDD back into the old computer and tried to...- Impossible
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- boot issues compatibility diagnostics hard drive installation old computer reboot loop repair upgrade windows 7
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows XP I screwed up
I screwed up - never done that before! :) Was giving an older computer I no longer use to someone - has MS xp on it. Went through to delete all my personal files off it and saw a folder - "JIim", my name and thought it just contained my personal stuff. Deleted that folder - appears that...- jeb
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- computer issues data recovery file deletion old computer personal files tech support update installation vista upgrade windows upgrade windows xp
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 7 Help with windows 7 installation for older computer cant find drivers
I have been looking and cant find any drivers for windows seven to run the ethernet or wireless cards in a IBM thinkpad r51 if anyone could help me i would greatly apreciate it im new to drivers and stuff never really had to deal with them- dont tch meh
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- drivers ethernet ibm installation old computer r51 support thinkpad windows 7 wireless
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- Forum: Windows Software
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Windows 7 Cannot Boot from CD, Code 5
I'm sorry if this is a duplicate post, but honestly, I did Search for "Code 5" and found nothing. I have a HD on an eight year old desktop PC that had an early beta version of Win-7 on it. That old version has already expired. I wanted to boot up with my Windows 7 Ultimate DVD and just do an...- OldTimer
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- audio issues boot issues code 5 computer issues driver issues error graphics card installation legacy hardware old computer resolution setup program upgrade windows 7 windows dvd windows mail wireless card workaround
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- Forum: Windows Upgrade and Installation
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Windows 7 'Bad block' installation error with MS Office Professional 2007 in Windows 7
MS Office 2007 Professional will not install. It does not get past the splash screen 'Setup is preparing the necessary files', but hangs. The summary error message in Event Viewer is as follows: The device, \Device\CDRom0, has a bad block. The detail is: + System - Provider [ Name]...- Ebenezercm
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- bad block cd-rom compatibility device issues dvd drive error event viewer file preparation hardware issues installation microsoft office old computer setup issues software issues system error troubleshooting update user support windows 7
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- Forum: Windows Software
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Windows 7 Windows 7 Server.
I have an old computer, My old 2007 gaming rig, and I want to turn it into a server. Specs: Amd Anthlon 64 x2 5600+ Processor @ 2.80GHz Corsair 4 GB DDR2 800MHz Memory Nvidia Geforce 6600GT 256 MB DDR VRAM http://www.msi.com/index.php?func=proddesc&maincat_no=&cat2_no=&cat3_no=&prod_no=1143...- Firecracker
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- amd backup computer setup coolermaster ddr2 diy file sharing gaming rig home server lan party network nvidia old computer performance print server server storage system builder system specs windows 7
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- Forum: Windows Hardware
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Windows 7 Win XP to Win 7
Just got a laptop to replace old HP tower system that was 32bit. New laptop has Win 7 and is 64bit. I would like to transfer all data on the old pc onto the new laptop. Can someone explain please if this is possible and if so how to go about it...Thanks- Danco
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- 64-bit compatibility data transfer file transfer hp laptop migration old computer upgrade windows 7 windows xp
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- Forum: Windows Upgrade and Installation
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Mirror Image on Two Computers
Is it possible to transfer everything from an old computer to a new one so it is like a mirror image? For example if I was using an Acer and wanted it to mirror image everything onto a Dell? Thanks in advance.- kirkie
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- acer backup computer setup data transfer dell disk cloning migration mirroring new computer old computer
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- Forum: General Computing
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Windows 7 Transferring files from WinME to Windows 7
My wife saved her Latin lessons with WinME word pad in *.wps format. Have tried to copy them from "My Documents" via flash drive and CD but her new computer with OS Win7 does not recognize them. We want to donate the old computer but need to get those files transferred. Would appreciate...- birdy176
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- donating computer file transfer flash drive help request migration old computer windows 7 windows me wordpad wps format
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- Forum: Windows Software
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Windows 7 VMware Player, The Easiest Way to Run a Virtual Machine
Source and Download: Link Removed For running XP Mode, see here: Link Removed- Adamsappleone
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- convenience drag and drop graphics isolation legacy applications linux old computer pc recycling performance shared folders software testing unity integration user interface virtual machine virtualization vmware windows 7 windows xp
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- Forum: Virtualization
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Windows 7 W7 not using allocated shared memory
I have an older computer I have upgraded to W7 I have allocated 128MB shared memory in BIOS. I have 2GB installed RAM. W7 reports Total Available Graphics Memory = 32MB Device manager Display Adapter is indicating three Memory Ranges C0000000-C7FFFFFF CFEE0000-CFEFFFFF 000A0000-000BFFFF Could...- ruggb
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- bios device manager display adapter driver issues graphics memory memory ranges old computer ram shared memory windows 7
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- Forum: Windows Graphics and Gaming
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Windows 7 Please Help - Microsoft Outlook 2007 Question....
My old computer is about to die, so I decided to get a new laptop that came installed with Windows 7. When I installed Office 2007 everything went fine & I went to transfer over my Outlook.pst file from the old computer to the new one & I can not find a .pst file anywhere on Windows 7. Is...- MattMyatt
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- 2007 email transfer help request installation migration office 2007 old computer outlook pst files windows 7
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 7 Dual boot - from 2 harddisks?
Hi I have an old computer with Windows XP. I also have a new computer with Windows 7. Is it at all possible to take the harddisk from my old XP computer, and install it in the new Windows 7 computer to create a "dual boot" machine? It seems it is possible to create dual-boot systems, but my...- xdzgor
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- boot manager dual boot hard drive installation new computer old computer partition windows 7 windows xp
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- Forum: Windows Upgrade and Installation
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Windows 7 Installing Windows 7 on Older Computer
Basically, my friend has this really old PC on which he's currently running Windows XP. We've been doing some upgrades, and it now has a 2GHz single-core processor and a decent Radeon 8000 graphics card, but still only 256MB of RAM. This is because it only has 2 memory slots available and the...- jedimattk
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- eboostr graphics card installation memory old computer performance ram upgrade windows 7 windows xp
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- Forum: Windows Upgrade and Installation
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Windows 7 BSOD due to video card
I spent a few hours last night attempting to install windows 7 Ultimate on my fairly old (P4, 2GB ram) pc. I had recently bought a 1GB Radeon HD 4650 AGP graphics card. Unfortunately, this card did not play well with Win7, causing a BSOD after the starting up logo. I was able to complete the...- Random DBA
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- agp boot issues bsod driver issues graphics card graphics driver hardware installation nvidia old computer performance power supply radeon safe mode system error troubleshooting vga windows 7 windows xp
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- Forum: Windows Blue Screen of Death (BSOD)
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Windows 7 win7 ver# 7100 question
hello all im running win 7 rc verstion 7100 i read some places that i can use this tell march of 2010 can any one confirm that ? also is there down loads to bring it closer to the full release win7? there is no upgrades from microsoft for this also i am useing a real ser# number direct...- hudsonhawk
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- amd beta compatibility download graphics help memory nvidia old computer rc version release software support upgrade version 7100 windows 7
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 7 can not access my external HDD from new computer
I can see the usb Hard drive on all the lists. my computer and the device manager but it does not show any volume and when I go to click on the icon to ppull it up the drive the task par just shows a very slow progress on teh green line and never stops searching. any clue on what to do? This...- rockwerks
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- computer data recovery device manager disk management drive letter external drive file system hard drive maxtor old computer physical connection storage issues tech support troubleshooting usb user guide volume access windows issues
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- Forum: Windows Hardware