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Forum: Windows 7 Forum May 19th 14, 08:28 PM Posted to alt.windows7.general
Replies: 19
Views: 616
Posted By Surfer Joe
how to switch owners?

Thanks. It came with a win 7 disk and I eventually bought a win 8 dvd,
but now it is on 8.1 and it was upgraded via download so I don't have an
8.1 dvd.

On 19/05/2014 16:57, Dave C wrote:
On...
Forum: Windows 7 Forum May 19th 14, 08:24 PM Posted to alt.windows7.general
Replies: 19
Views: 616
Posted By Surfer Joe
how to switch owners?

Thanks a lot. That is simple and clear.

On 19/05/2014 00:26, ...winston wrote:
Surfer Joe wrote, On 5/18/2014 5:39 PM:
I have a laptop that I set up as normal when I installed win 8, with my
...
Forum: Windows 7 Forum May 18th 14, 10:39 PM Posted to alt.windows7.general
Replies: 19
Views: 616
Posted By Surfer Joe
how to switch owners?

I have a laptop that I set up as normal when I installed win 8, with my
account as the only one. It has some personal files and data that I
don't mind losing but I don't want to leave them on the...
Forum: Windows 7 Forum July 20th 13, 09:23 AM Posted to alt.windows7.general
Replies: 23
Views: 696
Posted By Surfer Joe
Computer dead please help

I did not get the chance to properly test the sticks the first time
because the hardware was in a mini-itx case and was impossible to work
with. I was able to remove one stick or another and it did...
Forum: Windows 7 Forum July 19th 13, 09:24 PM Posted to alt.windows7.general
Replies: 23
Views: 696
Posted By Surfer Joe
Computer dead please help

Thanks for all of the help.
It seems to be a ram module.
I did a clear cmos and then tried each of the ram modules in different
configurations. One stick did nothing when I tried it in each of the...
Forum: Windows 7 Forum July 19th 13, 09:03 AM Posted to alt.windows7.general
Replies: 23
Views: 696
Posted By Surfer Joe
Computer dead please help

I was away for a month and left my computer off and after I returned, it
worked fine for a few days and then I got a series of blue screen
crashes. Then it failed to even turn on.
You can see a...
Forum: Windows 7 Forum September 4th 11, 09:50 PM Posted to alt.windows7.general
Replies: 10
Views: 225
Posted By Surfer Joe
choosing a hard drive dock

Thanks Paul.
I found the item on that site and ordered it.

On 04/09/2011 21:03, Paul wrote:
Surfer Joe wrote:
Thanks for the links.
The Newertech item is what I would like, but I'm not in...
Forum: Windows 7 Forum September 4th 11, 08:47 PM Posted to alt.windows7.general
Replies: 10
Views: 225
Posted By Surfer Joe
choosing a hard drive dock

Thanks for the links.
The Newertech item is what I would like, but I'm not in the US and don't
really want to buy overseas in case of any problems.
I really like OWC stuff and buy there when I'm in...
Forum: Windows 7 Forum September 4th 11, 01:29 PM Posted to alt.windows7.general
Replies: 10
Views: 225
Posted By Surfer Joe
choosing a hard drive dock

That would worry me in case the drive failed.
Digital storage is almost as big a nuisance as hard copy storage in the
long run.
You need to have multiple backups for redundancy. You need to...
Forum: Windows 7 Forum September 4th 11, 11:05 AM Posted to alt.windows7.general
Replies: 10
Views: 225
Posted By Surfer Joe
choosing a hard drive dock

I have some 3.5 and 2.5 inch hard drives that are sata 1 and 2 and 3 and
some laptop ssd drives that contain archived files.
Currently I use external enclosures, but they are bulky and some have...
Forum: Windows 7 Forum June 5th 11, 08:07 PM Posted to alt.windows7.general
Replies: 14
Views: 209
Posted By Surfer Joe
Booting problems with Windows 7 netbook

I did a clean install with a win 7 home premium disk and let it update
itself until it reached service pack 1.
I also tried a win 7 with service pack 1 disk but the same issues
emerged with both...
Forum: Windows 7 Forum June 5th 11, 09:22 AM Posted to alt.windows7.general
Replies: 14
Views: 209
Posted By Surfer Joe
Booting problems with Windows 7 netbook- further developments

I have been doing some further testing, still ongoing, and now the
behavior is a bit strange.
I kept stressing the machine yesterday, keeping it on and going through
as many activities as I could...
Forum: Windows 7 Forum June 5th 11, 09:20 AM Posted to alt.windows7.general
Replies: 14
Views: 209
Posted By Surfer Joe
Booting problems with Windows 7 netbook

From what I can see, it's a corruption of Windows Explorer. On screen,
it looks like a Windows Explorer window but with the search area
glitching and the rest of the window blank, and in task...
Forum: Windows 7 Forum June 5th 11, 09:17 AM Posted to alt.windows7.general
Replies: 14
Views: 209
Posted By Surfer Joe
Booting problems with Windows 7 netbook

Thanks for the advice.
I have been doing some further testing, still ongoing, and now the
behavior is a bit strange.
I kept stressing the machine yesterday, keeping it on and going through
as many...
Forum: Windows 7 Forum June 4th 11, 11:45 PM Posted to alt.windows7.general
Replies: 14
Views: 209
Posted By Surfer Joe
Booting problems with Windows 7 netbook

Apparently, it has something to do with service pack 1.
I did a complete reformat and reinstall of windows and everything was
going fine for about 12 hours and working correctly, but then I updated...
Forum: Windows 7 Forum June 2nd 11, 11:06 PM Posted to alt.windows7.general
Replies: 14
Views: 209
Posted By Surfer Joe
Booting problems with Windows 7 netbook

I installed an ssd in my asus netbook and it seemed to all go well, but
now I have two new issues that I did not have before.

I installed the ssd and did a clean install of windows 7 home premium...
Forum: Customizing Windows XP February 22nd 10, 05:26 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.customize
Replies: 36
Views: 4,071
Posted By Surfer Joe
Best free antivirus software?

On 22/02/2010 15:02, Ken Blake, MVP wrote:

On Sun, 21 Feb 2010 21:41:34 -0600, Roy
wrote:

On 2/21/2010 6:09 PM, Surfer Joe wrote:
Can anyone please suggest...
Forum: Customizing Windows XP February 22nd 10, 05:26 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.customize
Replies: 36
Views: 4,071
Posted By Surfer Joe
Best free antivirus software?

On 22/02/2010 15:02, Ken Blake, MVP wrote:

On Sun, 21 Feb 2010 21:41:34 -0600, Roy
wrote:

On 2/21/2010 6:09 PM, Surfer Joe wrote:
Can anyone please suggest...
Forum: Customizing Windows XP February 22nd 10, 12:09 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.customize
Replies: 0
Views: 1,003
Posted By Surfer Joe
Best free antivirus software?

Can anyone please suggest a good free antivirus?
I'm tired of paying for norton.
Forum: Customizing Windows XP February 22nd 10, 12:09 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.customize
Replies: 36
Views: 4,071
Posted By Surfer Joe
Best free antivirus software?

Can anyone please suggest a good free antivirus?
I'm tired of paying for norton.
Forum: Security and Administration with Windows XP February 22nd 10, 12:00 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.security_admin
Replies: 2
Views: 1,754
Posted By Surfer Joe
Best free antivirus?

Can anyone suggest a good free antivirus software for windows?
I heard that agv free was ok.
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