pc upgrade

I just added another 4GB of ram to my PC for a total of 8GB but as I type this, the task manager is showing me 277MB of free ram with there is 5307MB of available ram. What is the difference and which is preferable? I'm not using a page file so I don't want any problems with my system.

Seagate has confirmed that it is preparing the first 3TB hard drives to come to market later this year, but has warned that many users will need a new computer to take full advantage of this amount of storage. The drive maker said that its first 3.5in 3TB units are likely to be available...

Hi all, Hope you can help me with this - and to save me wasting your time, if there is a link to an answer, just point me in that direction! Many thanks! I recently purchased a new tower (Intel i540, Gigabyte GA-H55M-UD2H, 4Gb RAM 500Gb HDD) with Windows 7 x64 Home Premium pre-installed as...

i have a video card NVIDIA MX440 with 64 Mb, installed in my mother board, and recently i changed my OS, upgrading it with a windows 7 enterprise version, [formerly i had a xp pro OS] it happens that i cant have the aerials and transparencies, which is an extraordinary new feature of the 7 i'm...

I purchased a Win 7 Home Premium Upgrade and upgraded my computer from XP to Home Premium, but then I further upgraded my pc's to Window's Ultimate and have different product keys being used for these. I am wondering if I might be able to unregister/deregister my product key so I can sell this...

In a move that might baffle many, the government is planning to upgrade the PCs in the House of Commons from Windows XP to Windows Vista, rather than Microsoft's latest OS, Windows 7. Link Removed - Invalid URL

I have seen on here many posts about the SPWIZENG.DLL error when trying to install W7. I have yet to actually find a solution, so I am requesting some additional info... I have downloaded the "STUDENT UPGRADE" version (MSDNA) of W7 Pro 32-bit and the ISO is roughly 1GB in size, is this right...

Hello all, A few days ago i bought myself a new cpu/MB/memory/HD and since i've installed them i'm having spontaneous restarts. i've done quite some research on the net but i can't seem to get this fixed. So any help would be appreciated. First of all,i'm gonna start off with my pc specs...

for christmas i got windows 7 home premium with 32 and 64bit discs inside, they both say upgrade on the disc but inside the box it says i can upgrade from XP when i insert the 64bit disc, it brings up an error telling me my pc isnt compatible, i dont know why that is since im running a quad...

Hi everyone, I'm new to these forums, and I desparately need help here... For months now, ive been having horrid computer problems. First I would get random crashes with no bluescreens... So after switching many parts out, It turned out to be the graphics card. I switched, quite temporarily from...

Hi, can anyone please help me with my problem. My desktop PC was recently upgraded with a new ATI Radeon HD 4670 and all that shows up when I check the sytem is the Standard VGA Graphics Adapter when I have the graphic card installed and fitted. I have already downloaded the drivers for my...

Our company recently upgraded two PCs on our network to run Windows 7. A third machine still runs XP. We use Quickbooks for our accounting (etc) and all access the same Qbooks file accross the network. When we start up the PCs and first log in to the Qbooks file, the XP PC automatically...

Please help me recommend a Windows 7 64bit Network card. My computer use an old Network Card by cisco with 802.11b compatibility. But I cant make it work on Windows 7. I have contacted them and they say it is not supported any longer. So I need to buy a new one, I have seen a few reviews but...

Hi there, we bought a pc from pc world and sent off for the windows 7 upgrade. I tried putting in the disc today but it said our computer wasn't listed and that we should download the windows 7 drivers (does anyone know how i find these and what do i download and how do i install windows 7...

Hi, My very first post. I hope someone can help :redface: I've currently got my 1.8 Sony Vaio NR laptop connected to an O2 (thomson) wireless box, running VISTA. Interface type: 802.11b/g Actual Speed: 54 Mbps Band: 2.4G HZ Bandwidth: Up: 1,057 kbps Down: 4,480 kbps I'm waiting on...

I can not find the answer I wanted about the Windows 7 Anytime Upgrade. I ordered the Windows 7 Home Premium to Professional anytime upgrade and wanted to know the following: Does this mean that the next time I needed to reinstall Windows 7 on my laptop, I can use my Windows 7 Home Premium...

I am testing out Windows 7 having come from XP. My spec is as follows: Processor: 2.20 gigahertz AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core, 256 kilobyte primary memory cache, 1024 kilobyte secondary memory cache, 64-bit ready, Multi-core (2 total), Not hyper-threaded Motherboard: MSI AMETHYST-M 1.0, Bus...

This should be simple. I have a samsung syncmaster T260HD monitor that I really love. It was a joy to use on my old 32 bit XP PC with integrated graphics card. Its native resolution is 1920 x 1200 but on old PC was able to EASILY change resolution down a bit to 1200 x 800 or any other...

I have Windows 7 RC installed on my PC. Previously, I had a Full Ultimate Version of VISTA. When Windows 7 comes out in October, can I use a Upgrade Version (Windows 7 Professional) to install or do I need to purchase a full version of Windows 7? Do I need to do a clean install?

Hi there. Recently I encountered problem with my wireless Network Adapter Edimax EW-7128g (with Ralink RT61 chipset). The problem started when i upgraded my PC with new RAM memory (from 2gb to 4gb). When I browse internet Windows suddenly freeze and only thing that helps is restart, I can't...