It may simply means that Windows is waiting for some drives to connect to. Always switch on your NAS & server well before switching on your...
It is. Its also a "Service Pack" with MS dropping Service Pack & renaming the whole thing to 8.1 as people are afraid of "8 ".
Have you tried changing the DNS servers in your computer ? Your ISP's DNS server may have problems.
If the board is under warranty, send it for replacement.
So when MS ships 8.1 to RTM, its fair to believe that all patches before that would be included ?
Yes. The current 8.1 is Preview or Beta. The finished version may or may not have changes.
Does anybody has any idea if 8.1 contains all the patches which MS has published for Win 8 or they have to be installed separately ?
Promote ?
Yes. No. Many networks can share the same gateway, provided they can reach it.
You don't need anything more than a stock cooler if you are not overclocking the CPU. As retiredlearner already said, your temps. are within...
There can be many domains on a network. Network don't have any knowledge or care about the domains. See no problem here.
Good. Everything points to your external HD as the cause. Does it has external power supply or draws power from USB only ? If its USB only,...
No. Something wrong either with your machine or OS.
Seems more like MS PR than anything else.
Does the system freezes even when the new hard disk is NOT attached ?
RTFM. Every manufacturer has different ways of doing the same thing. Some supply you with recovery cd & others have a hidden recovery partition....
I think most of the problems that you are having are more to do with the c-r-a-p loaded by Dell than with Win 7. What you need is PC Decrapifier.
The 'owner' & 'user' are 2 different concepts altogether. For a given computer, there can be one & only one owner but there could be 'n' number...
I won't be bothered if the computer is working ok. During last so many years, I have come across the same problem myself but there seems to be...
Keep us posted.
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