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I had my old C: HHD drive replaced by an SSD, and moved to D:
A new copy of Windows 10 was installed by the computer shop.
Although I never used my D: drive since then, Windows 10 reads it upon waking from sleep for a few minutes - even when the drive was disabled and the drive letter removed as...
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BSODs Increasing in Frequency
Hello,
First, I'd like to outline the nature of the BSODs experienced.
My machine is just under a year old, custom built; and has experienced BSODs since early on in it's operation. It has been built for gaming.
Many high-end games (Total War: Rome II, ArmA III)...
A couple years ago I bought a Samsung laptop with Win7 64bit solely to store my CD collection as MP3 tracks on iTunes, connected to a surround amp. All worked very well but recently I haven't been able to listen to any music due to the constant background noise of pops and crackles that has...
i clean installed Windows 7 RC from using Windows 7 Beta for the last few months and im not happy.
heres a quick list as ive only been using it for a few hours:
- i loved the feature where you could hover over something on the task bar and it would show a preview of the window.
- i loved that...
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