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I recently installed Win7 on a Dell Dimension 4400 running WinXP. It's up and running fine, here are some of the issues I ran into. 1.) The Dimension 4400 came with a CD and I needed to buy a cheap $29.00 DVD drive and install it. 2.) The network card was not recognized and neither was the...

Hi all, I hope some clever bod out there can help - I don't know what I'm doing so consequently am not getting too far. I have a PC with a hard disk that has 3 partitions - Windows 7, WinXP and documents. Each partition was getting a little full so I want to upgrade it. I bought a 1Tb...

Good Morning Folks! I have a Problem with installing the drivers on my freshly installed win7 pc. I tried to install it with the utility, found the card in the corresponding PCI-Slot and manually linked the system to the folder where I downloaded the drivers for winXP (these are actually the...

Hello all Win7 Gurus. I've been running Win7 RC since it was released and am very happy with the OS. I have now received my Purchase of Win7 Professional (Upgrade via retail internet purchase) and am wondering how to proceed. My PC is running a dual boot of Win7 RC and WinXP. I have not...

I'm running win 7 32bit and for some weird reason, when i try to connect to my wifi, it asks for both a user name and a password. I do have a password, but what's with the user name ? I had WinXP before and it never asked for a user name ? Anyone els having this issue ?

It Shows me a message Cannot Extract Updater.Zip file i run it as Win XP SP2,but i keeps showing that message,i closed my Antivirus but it keeps showing. what should i do?

Some advice needed please. I have WinXP (SP3) installed on Drive E. I have Win7 (RC1) insaleed on Drive C. All my software for Win XP is installed on Drive D. My question is this: If I install software on Win7 that I already have on WinXP, into the same folder for both operating systems on...

Hi, After some tweaking, I finally managed to install Windows 7 My next problem is that I cant find my SATA drivers. I think this might be the problem: Compatibility issue between Promise FastTrak 378 (tm) Controller and Windows Which is the message I got when I am trying to add the...

Home Setup: 2 x WinXP Pro PC's 1 x WinVista Laptop 1 x Ubuntu PC 1 x Win7 PC WRT54G (All machines IP addresses are set statically) For some reason I am unable to get RDP to work on a Win7 PC when trying to connect from XP/Vista using the Netbios name or the IP address on the Win7 PC. For...

Hey guys Thanks to a member of doom9 (ranpha), I am now able to use Microsoft’s superb MPEG-2 decoder with CyberLink’s audio decoder using MPC-HC (x86). Link Removed Now that I have a ground to stand on, I am free to explore better alternatives. By that I meant using WMP11 instead of...

Hi all! I'm using a software RAID-5 hack in WinXP Link Removed, but when I boot in Vista, this RAID array is just "failed". The XP hack is RAID-5 such as it also exists in Windows Server and Windows NT. Are XP & Vista RAID really incompatible? Naturally I don't want to "just try it" at the...