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Why is it that so many Western Digital products suck at what they do? Every time I tried using a storage device by WD it's been acting up. One time a drive wasn't even being detected by a computer (or other computers I've tried it on) and now this new 1 TB external drive is not wanting to...

Quite a few people here use MSE and recommend it a lot. I understand MSE is going to be part of Windows 8. I know we won't really know until Windows 8 comes out but I've got a couple questions. If a person wants to install a third party AV is the MSE going to cause a problem. We all know you are...

By Paul Thurrott With developers now tearing up the Windows 8 developer preview and looking for hidden gems, we’re going to soon see an amazing number of utilities aimed at improving the Windows 8 experience and, in some cases, making it work more like its predecessors. While I can’t endorse or...

Hi, The external harddrive that I have been doing back-ups to with the Win 7 back-up utility has failed and no longer functions. I want to back-up to a different drive but Win Back-up seems to be fixated on the old drive that no longer exists (I pulled the USB cord). The "Mange space" link is...

Link Removed My concern is that while it really does look like a really nice user interface with rich features and functionality, is it actually faster. When moving files about from one place to another in explorer, it was never much of a concern what it looked like while it was happening. My...

Supporting 32-bit Windows® 7 and 64-bit Windows 2008 server, AutoSave v5.06 interfaces with third party PLC editor packages to provide archival backups, change detection/documentation, historical tracking, secured user/workstation, disaster recovery, controlled editor operations, and automatic...

Addressing Full Text Copying and Pasting of News, Security, and Tutorial Articles We were recently made aware of what appears to be infringing content, in the form of full-text copy and paste articles from 3rd party websites. While we consider information posted online about computer...

I have my laptop and desktop connected to a Windows Home Server and my laptop has always been able to make an FTP connection to it via windows explorer by Link Removed but when I try that on my desktop it opens google chrome (my default browser) and tell me to login but then never does. When I...

I have a different setup in that I have two Windows 7 Pro machines in a workgroup. One machine RDP’s into the other. I need to block IE access on both PC’s still allowing RDP access. I know I can rename the executable and I think there may be a way to block port 80 in the windows firewall but...

I bought Win 7 Ultimate from a third party dealer on Buy.com that turned out have a bogus product key. Since Ultimate is installed on my computer now, can I buy the Anytime Upgrade from Home Premium to Ultimate? It's only $139, and it would seem to be perfectly honest. I had Home Premium...

Blames third party, doesn't reveal who Microsoft has blamed third party software for a Windows Phone 7 glitch that transmitted huge chunks of data over 3G networks, causing some subscribers to exceed their monthly tariff.… Reg Guide to Improving Systems Agility - Free Download! More...

An unknown number of Link Removed after authorities discovered that hackers broke into one of the company's business partner's databases and stole information. Computerworld quotes a McDonald's spokeswoman as saying: We have been informed by one of our long-time business partners, Arc...

Dear Techies, Is there anyway to setup Terminal Server in Windows 7? If the option is not there in Windows 7, plz suggest any third party free application. Thank You, Suhail

Hi My system is using a Toshiba Satellite L500D and I have Windows 7 Home Premium as a clean install since RC7 and a further clean install once it went official. This CDDVDW plays, rips and burns cds fine. When it comes to DVDs however, it rarely plays, will not rip and fails on burns. This...

I am trying to install some third party software and cannot get beyond the error message shown in the attached png file. Others have indicated no problem with XP. I am using Win 7 32-bit Home Premium and have tried the install in the usual way and from a bare boot.

Faulty memory often comes up in posts relating to Win 7 64-bit issues (BSODs, corrupt system files etc), I ran Windows memory diagnostics many times with nary a blip and since 32-bit installed OK without non-repairable sys file corruptions, I assumed all was fine on the RAM front and continued...

In 1981, IBM launched the personal computer. Although few recognized it as such at the time, least of all IBM’s execs, it turned out to be a game-changer. The IBM PC killed off its predecessor, the mainframe computer, a market that was also dominated by IBM. Who knew? Fast forward 29 years to...

Hi All, I have W7 running "fairly well" on my HP Media Center. So far I like it. I must admit to everyone first, that I'm a Mac User and have just received a PC. So much differences. So complicated. I'm setting W7 up to run like my PowerMac. Desk drive to allow seeing disks on the desktop...

Make sure you physically disconnect the internet when rebooting after an update!!: A friend of mine was doing some work in the Windows 7 OS and came across something unexpected... QUOTE Basically after digging through the coding & cleaning it up, i found another phone home, but this one only...

I am running a medium-size Active Directory domain, based on Windows Server 2003. We are starting to introduce Windows 7 clients in the domain, and I need a way to make so that Windows 7 boxes can receive instant messages sent by the domain admin using the classic "net send" command. Since the...