I have managed to foul up the clone of my C: parttition, and somehow fouled up the C: partition itself. As you may have read, when I used XXCopy to copy...

What determines the fact that some youtube apps/platforms have ads and some don't? I have multiple platforms and multiple ways of playing youtube videos,...

This post and my next one are two related problems. I'm running Vista, but for this first problem, the OS seems less important than that the partitions are...

Someone gave a Toshiba laptop to my wife to pass on to a refugee family she is helping, and my wife asked me to look it over. It came with Win7 Home...

Hello all I have today been looking at Avanquest PowerDesk again after a few years. I have versions 7 and 8.5 and tried version 8.5 first. Found when I ran it...

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Just ordered a new HP laptop for my granddaughter. It will have Windows 7 Professional 64-bit installed. I will create images of all partitions with Macrium...

I used to have two operating systems running from different partitions or different drives, and I would back up the files of one when I was using the other,...

"WinPurify enables you to remove Windows universal apps, the Windows Store, temporary data and help files, as well as *disable Windows updates*, Telemetry and...

I am looking at a listing on ebay for a 60GBhdd which the seller says has come from a broken laptop he is stripping for spares. A 60GB HDD is no use to...

I have a laptop that I need to reformat with Win 7, has anyone tried the following for installing all of the updates at once? If so, did you encounter any...

IIUC, even though one still can't boot any version of Windows from an external HDD, one CAN boot winXP, Vista, 7, 8 and 10 from a flash drive. True? If this...

That's the problem - Win7 "fixed" the Quickstart taskbar. All on it's own, without asking anybody. what happened is that this morning when I fired up the...

This is a long post, which, though vaguely on topic for both groups cross- posted, is not entirely so for either, and safely can be ignored by those not...

MSCONFIG lists about 150 "services" which can be selectively checked or unchecked. Unchecking a lot of things thought not to be needed, greatly improves...

Until recently I could use Teamviewer 8 succesfully to control my Windows 7 computers (only lan connections). Now I'm getting a strange effect when logging...

I use WordPerfect, which saves files as .wpd. When I click on a file with .wpd extension WordPerfect opens with a blank file. This is a recent phenomenon...

What's the relative merits of these states for an inactive PC ? Sleep appears to have some function of the CPU active but Shutdown is more thorough and...

Can someone please tell this dummy what correct settings are necessary in IE11 so that videos will play with from some sites? They run fine when using Mozilla...

Hi All, W7-pro-x64-sp1 In Windows Explorer (not Internet Explorer), is there a way I configure something to click on in the left column that would direct to...