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I hopelessly crashed my computer. I was trying to install the Windows 8 Preview and it did exactly what I was afraid it would do. It started overwriting my Windows installation without asking me where I wanted to install it. The Windows 8 install failed, so I tried the rollback option and...

Ever since I first got my Windows 7 machine, I have been able to run the XP mode virtual machine without problem. A few months ago, I started getting a message that the XP mode couldn't come up without integration problems, or something like that. I was able to dismiss the message and have WinXP...

Toshiba website hacked – email addresses and passwords exposed | Naked Security

Source: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2387752,00.asp As you might notice, in the full article title, Microsoft also says to "Re-install Windows", which was Microsoft's original recommendation. Reading the full article, you will note that, nowhere, does it say you have to re-install...

hie,i am using windows 7 64 bit , with 3.5 gb ram, 1 tb hdd slave and 160 gb hdd master, i recently found out that i had about 4 700 images (jpg) all from screen captures i did not do, amounting to 6 gb in C:\users\my username\AppData\Roaming. i would like to know what causes this and how can i...

Guy's check your email accounts. Today I received an email from codemasters: Keep safe!

after short check the 2 folders that take most of the place which is couple of GB'S are C:\Users\eli\AppData\roaming and the second is C:\Users\eli\AppData\Local this is how looks the content of folder "local" Link Removed and this is how looks the content of folder "roaming" Link...

I have been with this bluescreen error for a long time. I am just reinstalled this windows 7 64bit Ultimate and this error is coming still i formated this hard disk before i installed. So if there is someone genious please help me with this and fast Thanks! Problem signature: Problem...

The Deus Ex site and Eidos.com were defaced and taken down yesterday when a splinter group of the hacker organisation Anonymous broke through Square Enix security to steal the personal data of more than 80,000 registered users. According to IRC chat logs of the hackers’ conversations...

Yahoo plans to extend the amount of time it retains records on what its users search for online, just two years after breaking from the other big Internet search engines and promising to delete such data promptly. The new policy brings the company in line with Google Inc., which dominates the...

Windows 7 already sports some solid user data utilities, from its built-in backup tool to the greatly improved file and settings transfer wizard and System Restore. From what has been revealed in the early leaked milestone builds of Windows 8, Microsoft is clearly focused on offering even better...

As far as I know System Restore Points are stored in a system folder "SystemRestoreVolume" Ok, but on which partition is this folder? Is it ALWAYS on the same partition as the saved/monitored partition? I have a Win7 system partition C: and a (big) data partition D: Can I tell Win7...

By Link Removed - Invalid URL Piriform Software has updated its system optimization and cleaning tool, CCleaner, to version 3.04. The latest release adds a number of new features, but most notably also adds support for Windows 7 Service Pack 1, which was made available for download two days...

I've changed the location of my Chrome user profile folder, and created a shortcut which has –user-data-dir=”d:\new chrome user directory location" appended to its target. But when Chrome is opened any other way than via this shortcut, for instance when launching a web page file saved to my...

While Google seems ok with handing over information to advertisers, it is less keen to help a couple get back their stolen caravan. Street View cameras might help Derbyshire police solve a crime which may have been captured by Google's cameras. However the search engine is saying that it will...

I needed to clear up a problem with start up and resorted to defaulting to factory settings. I lost all photo files and other favorite dowload sites. I have attempted a few different recovery programs without success. Can these 1000 plus images be recovered?

Hey guys I am using robocopy in windows 7 to upgrade users computers. I have it setup to pull users personal documents and such of the old laptop to the new win7 laptop. I do this through the network by setting the old laptops c drive as a network drive z. i use this for robocopy to...

Wifes Dell with XP blew up mother board and corrupted boot files. Placed drive as slave in my machine. Drive works fine, can access all needed stuff, can't boot it. I can access Favorites, Address book files from Outlook express, photos. I copied all the important things also to a seperate...

So, if I access my files through C:/users/jjn/My Documents/whatever... I can see them and they are there, if I go through the library feature that 'says' it's looking in the same location some files are not there. How do you reset or refresh or rehydrate the library so it sees what IS actually...

Did you realize, for example, that Microsoft knows how many times its users click on the Start menu? How often they use certain Aero features? How many programs get pinned to the taskbar? Link Removed