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Hi all! I'm new to this forum so bear with me. ;) Last night, I started to compress my c: in windows through the properties window, but then decided to cancel it about 15 seconds after the process began. There were no problems until I tried to boot windows this morning and got the following...

Link Removed Hi Guys/Gals First and foremost, I must say....great forum! Was hoping someone could release me from the hell I've been experiencing lately with random BSOD's?...they're driving me nuts!!!! I've attached the .dmp file for your consideration. Many, many thanks in advance...

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Hi, recently I changed my motherboard and graphics card. Since then, I have been getting BSOD's and they have become more frequent. I have read possible solutions to driver sweep and reinstall/update drivers. Though after several updates, the problem still persists !! Before the BSOD appears...

Can someone set me straight and clear up a question I have regarding the Windows 7 local user "Administrator". I have seen both here and elsewhere on the internet, some folks attributing some type of special authoratative privledges associated with this account. And that because microsoft has...

I currently have 3 SATA drives. 1.5TB x2 and 1TB x1 Drive partitions as following: C: 499GB D: 897GB E: 499GB F: 897GB G: 931GB I am installing a new 2TB SATA 3 drive, but on SATA 2 mode for now. New config of drives will be quite similar except for that I will be merging the partition of the...

Hi all. I have gone through all the threads about "this computer isn't running a genuine version of windows", even though it's painfully tech for me sometimes, and I still can't find a solution. I get the message at logon, once a day, even though i have used an activator and deactivated the...

Hello all, My name is Tommy and I am new to the forum. Hope everyone is having a great day and I look forward to reading posts and sharing advise and issues with you all. I have a interesting issue that I hope someone can help me with. I am logged into my Windows 7 machine and I have...

I'm new to this forum, so hi all. I'm a SDM for a software house, and decided it was time to evaluate Windows 7 to see whether it made sense to move to it from Windows Vista. The first thing I will say is that we do not like Windows Vista and would love to move away from it. This is primarily...

I'm new to Windows 7, and the only problem I haven't been able to resolve is changing the font color of the task bar icons (of opened programs/windows) to black. They're currently white on a light-grey background, and for these old eyes, they're very hard to look at. Yes, I know that their...

Now that you've gotten either Windows or Ubuntu - or both - installed in VirtualBox it's time to go further. This article - the second in the series on virtual machines - will teach you how to restoring virtual machines, integrate your mouse (and other guest additions), and even how to create...