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so I fired up an old laptop with windows 8.1, because my other laptop has windows 10 and takes a day to bootup. OMG what happened to Windows 8? It has been about 6 hors and it still says completeing windows update. Up till 10 I was a loyal MS user, right back from the old MS DOS days on my XT...

I was talking to HOLDUM333 yesterday, on an open thread on a Win7 help issue, and we got to talking about the old days of computer stuff, and he's even older than I am--starting to feel like a fossil now that I'm retired! :bigtongue: So, he suggested we talk about that stuff here in the Water...

Hi all! I am looking for a Windows 7 64 bit, WMC compatible capture card that has S-video/Composite and Stereo Audio inputs. I am looking to set up an IPTV receiver in Windows Media Center. PCI-E is not an option as I am out of those slots. TV is not necessary - just a simple capture...

Hehe, I joined this forum to learn about the impossible. Well, visited a group of really poor countries some time ago. Thought I'd give them my laptop. A Toshiba running first installation xp for the fourth year. It sucks, but there is a limit to charity, isn't there.. ?+ Hello...

how do i go about watching my camcorder tapes on my laptop my camcorder is a Panasonic NV-GS75 my laptop is a Toshiba Satellite L500\01U Windows 7 does not accept the dvd disc called "MotionDV Studio 5.3E LE for DV" that came with the camera,and I think that it might be obsolete because it is...

Hey All just wondering if there is any way I can connect an old Casio Cassiopeia Pocket PC thats running Windows CE Version 3.0.9348 to my windows 7 Ultimate laptop? I know its a long shot but I was having a clean out today and came across this pocet pc and amazingly its working and with all...

I have an old Microtek scannmaker X6EL that refused to work "twain error" the driver appeared to be fine just refused to scan through any programs. I found this program VueScan that worked prefectly. This program is not free but beats buying a new scanner. You can use the program to test for...

Ok decided to try installing the RC on an older system I have laying around. Guts are a Dell Optiplex GX270 SMT (P4 2.4Ghz, 2Gb PC2700 ram). I have upgraded the power supply to a Coolmax 500w, put in a Samsung 140Gb IDE HD, an IDE DVD drive and am using a XFX GeForce 6600GT 128mb AGP video card...