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Hello there, My Uncle bought a new HDD and wanted to migrate his Windows 7 Installation from its original HDD to the new one (Maxtor to Hitachi). A tech friend of mine recommended CloneZilla, a freeware imaging program which would allow me to make an image of the HDD and transfer it to another...

Installed Win 7 64-bit. Clean install, not upgrade. Downloaded the 7 driver from the Micronet site... but it seems it's for the PCIE card. Before installing the drivers I contacted Micronet to ask if the driver would work with the 64-bit version. Had no joy with the drivers, but a gentleman at...

Windows 7 SP1 has arrived on Windows Update , and after installing it, you may be tempted to claim back some of your hard drive space — and many tech sites advise you on how to do so. The How-To Geek suggests waiting a while on that , mostly because you won’t know right away if any bugs or...

Hello Everyone, I have a Dell Inspiron 1525 running Windows 7 Professional 32-bit and a Dell Studio XPS running Windows Home Premium 64-bit. I run Dragon NaturallySpeaking ver. 11 software very often on both machines. I'm happy with Windows 7 but I've noticed in the Home Premium version...

Ericuse165 asked the Windows forum if it's wise to upgrade his netbook's OS from Windows 7 Starter to a more powerful version. Link Removed

Microsoft's Windows compatibility expert, Chris Jackson, says simple changes make many apps ready for Windows 7 and Internet Explorer 8 ( ZDNet UK - Desktop OS ) Link Removed - Invalid URL

I've just bought a netbook with windows xp home edition for $229 at London Drugs..i have 14 days from purchase date (Friday Dec 10)to change my mind and return it for a windows 7 starter edition netbook (there's only one left on the shelf at the sale price of $279). The difference in cost is...

I often get asked about Microsoft’s latest operating system Windows 7 and whether it’s worth upgrading. First of all, it probably warrants sharing with you some of the features of Windows 7 and why it might appeal to you. The first reason it might be attractive is that it’s not Vista...

I"ve read several of the entries here about getting rid of unnecessary services and speeding up boot time...... I've gotten rid of some of the services....... Is there any way to have Windows 7 provide a timing of what it's starting up for every program, service, and/or whatever? I'm talking...

A few months ago, i heard about the student Windows 7 Upgrade deal, and decided to take advantage of it. I had Vista Home Premium 32-bit and tried to upgrade to 7 Home Premium 32-bit, but it didn't work properly. I downloaded the upgrade and tried to install it, but before it finished...

I just rebuilt my desktop and installed Windows 7. I had thought to put My Pictures and My Music on separate Hard Drives from the Operating System and everything else; OR would performance be better with all on one hard drive and backing up the My Music and My Pictures to separate Hard Drives...

~ I've read a few tutorials in preparation for the upgrade to Windows 7 and it was recommended that I uninstall all unnecessary software from my computer. I've done that, as well as doing a disk-cleanup and defragging. But I was wondering if it would be advisable to also uninstall my...

I am installing programs to a new Win7 computer. Today, I uninstalled winrar program. When it is uninstalled, three program icons (e.g., total commander, texpad, and True Image ) became the same plain icon. I created their shortcuts from their program folders (I see the icons in their...

Just a quick question for all you techies out there. I have always in the past downloaded software to my hard disk and then run them from there. I then end up with scattered directories of various types with all sorts of stuff that in 6 months time... due to obscure file names I have no idea...

for all thoes people who are experiencing this problem, i have a few tips that worked for me. Solving Windows freeze on startup....(this can happen when even booting from the startup disk, it has nothing to do with any drivers or software related issues) If you have sprung upon this problem...

Question: when and how often should one update/upgrade one's bios on there PC? Even if that PC is not having any problems. I am a firm believer in "if it's not broke don't fix it" saying but would like some sort of answer to this question.

Now that RAM is as cheap as chips it's not uncommon to see those with far too much money to be sporting large amounts of RAM.. Is all this RAM actually needed though and does it get used? Toms Hardware decided to find out... Link Removed