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Hey guys, I got a problem with my laptop. My old laptop crashed some weeks ago. It doesn't work anymore if I press the power button. So I took the hdd and connected it with desktop-pc to rescue the data. I had to get the rights for the user folder and windows got it automatically for me. But now...

I just wanna share something to you guys here who spends a lot of time in forums or anywhere on the web using an old laptop or PCs with only 2.4Ghz wireless adapter. I have not been using my Vista laptop for years because of it's "slowness". Even web browsing is so slow even though I have a...

Hello all, After 5 years of use, my college laptop (Windows Vista) finally gave up on me a couple of months ago. Each time at start up, it would automatically go to the blue screen of death and never get past that point. I wound up getting a new laptop (ASUS S500CA) operating on windows 8, and...

My Grandson gave me his old laptop, an Acer Aspire 5750. He can't remember his password to the administrator so I can't download and run any new programs. I can use the PC as a "user" but I want to update several programs. I previously got help here and then I put in a new keyboard and tried his...

Hi, My old laptop (HP Pavilion dv9500) currently has Windows Vista 32-bit, and I have been using it for a couple of years. I recently upgraded the hardware to be ready for the Windows 7 installation, which I will do soon, and now it has 4gb, one 750gb 7200rpm HDD, one 250gb 5400 HDD, and an...

I'm new to this forum so excuse me if I'm asking this question in the wrong place. My old HP laptop died from overheating (a common issue with that model I found out). Is it worth saving the RAM modules before I send it off to the recycler? The 2 modules are each 512mb DDR 333 CL2.5 I...

Hello, I've tried searching the plentiful problematic posts, but I cannot find my exact dilemma. When it comes to networking, I'm as lucky as the man who played Russian Roulette with a loaded glock. Nothing ever goes my way. I have an XP laptop set up, I used to disable sharing because I...

Hi all, Old laptop had XP. Died. (no, the issue is not the hard drive). Got a new laptop with Windows 7. Took out hard drive from old computer (Samsung model MP0804H, IDE PATA 80 Gigs), bought a generic enclosure (that operates of two USB ports for power and data). Upon plugging it in I get the...

Hi guys, Today I installed windows 7 on one of my old machines I had knocking about, its a HP Pavilion Ze5700, yeah, seriously old. System spec: Intel Celeron R, CPU 2.80Ghz, 1024 mb RAM, x86. I can't connect to the internet or hear sound. I think if i figure out the network adapter, i can...

I know this has probably been covered previously but I haven't fixed my problem yet. On my original setup the Desktop PC (Windows 7) talks to the old Laptop (Windows XP) perfectly OK. I've just bought a new laptop with Windows 7, configured the Network to MSHOME (same as on existing...

Well, I have XP on my old laptop, dual booting with Windows 7, because the Source SDK's faceposer lip sync doesn't work with SAPI 5.3, which is what comes preinstalled on Windows Vista/7. Aside from that, I use Vista as my primary OS, and 7 on my older laptop when I'm not using the SDK.

I have successfully Vlited Win7022 to the size of 1.27g so that it can run fast on my old laptop with 528 ram. Following is the vlite log of items removed, mostly Media Center, languages, drivers (I have my own)). To avoid having to download the huge MS add-on to vlite, simply install the old...