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I am just got a new system from Maingear. Windows7 is installed on an 80G SSD. I have a 2nd 1TB drive that I want all program and user files stored on, but keep the OS on the SSD. Any idea how I do this? Thanks

1. if i put my page file swap file temp folder on its own partition, is it best to use fat32? if i remember right fat 32 is fastest just isnt the best for space usage. 2. does reinstalling windows after time (1-2 years) create better performance? im not sure what it is but windows xp and...

Hi I don't know if this is the right place to post but having looked around seemed best to me. My mothers computer recently failed. She had Vista installed on a striped raid array, unfortunately one of the disks failed, and she never thought to backup any of her data. However on the disk that...

I did a clean install to Windows 7 32-bit on a Lenovo 3000 C200. Everything has been going fine (save some expected slowness). I had Adobe Air installed and running fine, was using it to run TweetDeck. I went to open Tweetdeck today and got an error message on my applications bar. Installer...

Hi guys you see i have a error in windows 7. i have windows 7 64 bit Here are my PC specs 4gb ram intel e2200 2.2ghz dual core Intel G35 IGP 640 HDD and my problem is that i randomly get a blue screen i get this in vista and windows 7. Here is the problem i get Problem signature...

Hi I just installed Windows 7. Now I encountered one problem... Before installing, I made back up of all files and that included My documents. I just drag it to the 'Back up" folder and the copy was made. After the install, I organzied everything that includes moving my documents to the...

Can someone explain how technet works? I called them and asked the same question. A very helpful lady told me I could download an ISO of any of the MS software up to 10 times and that each ISO has 10 activation keys. That makes 100 copies for my own use of each of their software titles. Is...

On the two systems I've set up with Win7 Pro (x64) thus far, I've noticed that some applications store their settings in a "Roaming" directory and others store their settings in a "Local" directory under my C:\Users\username\AppData\ directory. There's also a "LocalLow" directory containing...

Overview Agood solution for XP users. This software installs Windows Easy Transfer on a computer running the 32-bit version of Windows XP so you can copy your files, photos, music, e-mail, settings, and more to a computer running Windows 7. If your computer is running another version of...

Hi all, Just a quick question, I am planning a re-install off win7 on a crucial 128gb ssd (finnally managed to bag one) dous any one know how to back up windows settings and particularly windows live mail?(i have some mail i dont want to loose! Can I use the files and settings transfer...

I have just "blogged" this: I was having a discussion on another forum, and got fascinated by an observation another member had made. If you use the default desktop, the welcome screen only stayed for 2 or 3 seconds. If you customised the desktop, this deteriorated to, in the worst cases...

I wanted to know if this is normal.... I did a search for something that happened to be in my C:\ProgramData\Application Data Folder but in the search results I saw something strange..... The Folder "Application Data" repeats itself many times! Is this normal? Attached is a screen shot of the...

We have started testing Windows 7. We have discovered a quirk in the storage of temporary internet files that may have some security concerns. The official literature of Windows 7 says the storage point for the Content.IE5 folder has been relocated to...

Trying to move a users rasphone.pbk to a windows 7 laptop. Any ideas as to where it goes now? Thanks Mike

Looks like the susposedly superior Mac has a bit of a problem Updated: Major bug in Snow Leopard deletes all user data Seems like MS isn't the only one to make blunders. Joe

Hi there, I've successfully made an answer file on SIM that gets through the whole process unattended. However right at the end it always asks for user name-also it hasn't named the computer. Here is my answer file. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <unattend...

i opened %userprofile% folder and found that there are 2 My Documents folders. Does windows 7 allowing same names now ? Both are exact same name, copy name paste to other has no effect as if they were named differently but not. This making me confused where user data is stored. Is this normal ...

hi friends,i have just now installed windows 7 rc on my computer,but during installation i have accidentally clicked Load driver button(at the stage where it asks for partition,format,new,load driver,etc) and then my D drive button and came back and continued with my installation.After complete...

I've bene using Win7 x64 RC (7100) for several weeks now without any problems. This morning while renaming some files in Windows Explorer, Explorer locked up, and I couldn't close Firefox either. Couldn't ctrl/alt/del either. As I was about to just reset the system using the power button, I got...

[SOLVED] Want to reinstall - what do I backup? After formatting a totally different primary partition on another drive that had held an older XP, for some reason Win 7 seems to think it's been dumped instead as it now won't load at all. And when I thought about it, I realised that for some...