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Hey guys, i'm having an MSI Laptop with Windows 8 pre-installed and i downgraded to windows 7 (so, i have had to delete the partitions, so.. no recovery partition is there anymore). Now what if i want to go back to windows 8? What i have to do exactly? Because i've read that the Win8 Key is...

Esteemed ladies and gentlemen, I have a 32-bit WinPE into which I have integrated MSDART tools and some 3rd party remote control software as well as some utilities provided by a vendor which supports our hard drive encryption solution. The long and short of it is that there are occasions in...

Electronics and certainly PCs do not like heat. It is important that these devices stay cool @ all times and throughout their lifetime. That said, here is one of those "Best Practice" things that I suggest all too often does not even occur to people and that they do not think about or do on...

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Is there a photo viewing app that automatically rotates a picture, so if the picture is landscape then it is landscape on the screen but if it is a portrait then it is portrait on the screen, to maximize the size of the picture on the small screen? Many Android apps do this but I have not found...

Hi, My XP Pro PC had it's power cord knocked out while running. After that it wouldn't reboot, so I pulled the HD and put it in another machine where I was able to pull off all my data, but running utilities it said the drive was bad. So I got a brand new HD, plugged it in and it still got a...

I installed and used today the recently introduced (with KB 2852386) new Disk Cleanup Utility. After having performed the cleanup with multiple reboots I rechecked the size of the C:\Windows\winsxs\ folder. The size shrinks from approx 12.5 GB to 11GB Wow! :-( Is there something wrong...

IObit Uninstaller is a freeware; Revo Uninstaller has paid and free versions. Would it be possible that a freeware can compete with a paid app?

I never had a problem with image backup creation before with Win 8 using the utility Windows 7 File Recovery. I am aware that this utility is gone in Win 8.1 and the same utility is now under File History. I've tried using this new utility last night to create a backup image of Win 8.1 and it...

Whenever I get and install hotfixes/patches for Windows 7 a copy of them is stored somewhere on the system partition for backup/uninstall purposes. Where (in which directory) are they put in detail? How can I uninstall them? MS has just releases a patch to cleanup them through DIsk Cleanup...

Does anyone use the win7 backup? I tried twice, once on a drive with about 750 GB free and once with about 850 GB. Both times I got errors claiming there was not enough room on the drive to make a backup. I've had numerous backups from 3rd party apps that show less than 3 GB. It looks to me...

Hi, I have been trying for at least 2,3 months not to remove Epson Easy Photo Print from my system. I am using windows 7 64bit & i had a registry hiccup where a virus sorta messed things up a little, however after fixing all problems it's caused 1 problem remains. Epson's Easy photo print...

I need to flash the BIOS on my Lenovo M52 ThinkCenter, so I downloaded what is listed as the current version from Lenovo. The problem is in confirming that I actually got the right one, because the version 2EKT46a listed, downloads as 2EJT46a instead, regardless of the format chosen. The...

Is there a good program that would search/DL/ and install missing DLL files Thank you, Frank

Hi I have our friends computer all set up and ready to go. One of the things that came about during this process is, I learned that you can make a real disk image in Windows 8 without using a third party software program. Something I didn't think was possible, and you don't have to jump...

Microsoft has relinquished its previous statements that it would not provide Windows 8.1 RTM to developers on MSDN or Technet and has since published the following versions on both services. The final RTM version, a major update which includes numerous bug fixes and improvements to genuine...

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Assume I am playing a video or an mp3. Yes, I know how to turn off audio inside audio speaker controls. But I don't want to fiddle around with menus and dialogs. Instead I want to handle it as easy as possible with ONE (DOUBLE)CLICK. I can imagine that there is a utility whose shortcut...

Maybe there are threads and posts that explain this exactly but I haven't found them yet. Here is what I need to do as simply as possible. Have a Dell Latitude D620 laptop - I'd like to clone the internal drive with a Windows XP Pro installation. I'd like to clone it to an external USB hard...

I am using the on-screen keyboard in Win7 64 Pro. I have a Cintiq monitor and am looking for a way to place the keyboard in a specific position. I have it set to "float", which when I call it up puts the keyboard at the top of the screen, centered. In the one particular app where I need the...