system upgrade

Hey everyone, just downloaded and installed 8 Pro. I love it, but my internet is extremely slow now. My wife and I were streaming netflix last night and it kept buffering. It never did this on W7. I just did a speed test on my phone and got 4.9 Mbps. I did the test on my laptop and I got .89...

Hi Guys Looking to try and improve my home computer station / internet speed I have added as much info as my ability allows (and Speccy's help) to my profile hope this helps Any help advice etc greatly appreciated

Hi i have a Hp Pavilion Dv6-1128TX Running Windows 7 Home Premium 32 Bit and the following specs 2 GB Ram ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4530 512Mb Graphics Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T640 2.00GHz I am having issues with BSOD Errors and i was hoping someone has the answers for me i get a few...

I have been experiencing issues for a while now, since I upgraded CPU, motherboard and memory in one go. My system worked fine prior to the changes, and after a full reinstall, I've been having frequent issues with BSOD. My system is currently; Intel i5-3570K Ivybridge Asus P8Z77-V LX...

I created an Up To Date Image of her Win 7 HP OS for restoration if necessary. I would not think about this installation, or any major changes, without first creating an Image of the OS. I installed the 90 day Evaluation Copy of Win 8 Enterprise on my wife's PC last night, including all her...

Hi I am having big issues with blue screens. The pc is pretty new, I build it myself, and I put windows 7 Pro. I am geting blue screens almost every day, I am getting crazy about this. I have installed windows debugger but it seems all crashes are comming from window 7 itself and I don't really...

Hi, I have run into a problem when upgrading my current machine to use an SSD as the main boot device. I restored a backup of my original Sata drive on to the SSD and I am able to boot from it ok. My problem is that when I connect the original Sata HD to the machine it appears in the BIOS...

So I've been using ReadyBoost for a few years now (4GB stick formatted in exFAT file system seems to work nicely). And now I'm upgrading my system to a hybrid hard drive (was going to do SSD but 750GB with 8BG flash cache was cheap as heck compared to SDD). I'm looking for someone with real...

I have a computer that I bought refurbished and they loaded the 32 bit version of Windows Home Premium. I need to run the current version of Photoshop and it only runs on 64 bit. Need to do a clean install and I have no problem with that since their are very few programs on the computer. My...

Hey everyone. I am once again running into a BSOD within minutes of booting into Windows 7 Pro. I don't know where this came from but two days ago my system was running just fine and now, I am getting nothing but a big pain in my butt. My two dump files and the info about my system are...

Built new puter and installed Windows 7 Pro.....backed up old system before system went south (had Vista on it)...had been using Mozilla Thunderbird........backed up profiles (including old mails, as far as I know) specifically.......both system back and profile backup on external drive on new...

No Beta OS should ever be installed, except as, follows: 1. On a spare machine 2. Virtually 3. As a dual-boot. 4. Run from a USB stick Never as an Upgrade or replacement to an existing, current, non-beta OS. Never on a production machine. Nor, BTW, can one move from 1 Beta of an OS to the...

I first found out at the beginning of last year that there was going to be a Windows 8,and that Microsoft had finished making Windows 8.And I read about and saw a preview of what Windows 8 was going to be like,and I knew right away that I did not like it. To tell you the truth, when I first saw...

Hey everyone, Background info: My company uses blank CCID cards that store a name and number on them and we use them with our handset devices so clients and customers can vote and interact with our software. We have been using windows xp to read and burn our smart card's internally and...

We've touched on the topic about the speed of Win-8 compared to XP and Win-7, but tonight I decided to do something about that. I moved Windows 8 from an old 80 gig Sata II drive to a new Seagate SATA III (6GBM) drive on a SATA III controller card. Windows XP would not run on the SATA III...

I have a dual boot system with Win XP (installed first) and Windows 7 x64 (installed second). I want to replace XP with a clean install of another Win7 x64. Are there any concerns, issues to be aware of ? Will multiple boot menu be still available after installation? Thanks! Zabukowski

My system installed he W7 SP1 a week or so ago - immediately had a problem: my ATI 9600 graphics card stopped working with the upgraded driver giving the error message: Windows cannot load the device driver for this hardware. The driver may be corrupted or missing (code 39). The legacy drivers...

If anyone is thinking about upgrading or building a system then for RAM at least the time is now.. I have been noticing more and more articles like this one: DRAM prices drop even further I've got my eye on some very cheap DDR2 which is now definitely playing second fiddle to DDR3. At one...

Hey there, Im new here and I just wanted to just ask a quick question to anyone that will hear me out... Ive currently got 2 systems running.. -Win 7 32bit with 2x2gb DDR2 ram -Win XP Pro with 2x512mb DDR2 ram and I currently have a single 1gb DDR2 ram card spare. as my Win7 system is only...

So first off i didnt know where to post this so im posting it here. Alright so i upgaded my Sony Vaio VGN-NR310E Windows Vista Home Premium 32bit to Windows 7 Home Premium 32bit and everything worked for a night then i woke up and our power was turned off and when it came back on the usb ports...