Hi Pete, Thanks for the info. I don't particularly care about a clean room (except for not touching the platter, of course) because I'll only...
Hi Pete, (Re: Install Progs on D) I agree that a few programs won't install elsewhere, but in my experience I've always found Defrag,...
Resolved Hi all, Mystery Solved!!! And I'm so :o I don't want to admit it. When I take out my hard drives I have a plastic box that I set them...
Hi cecelikeike, PeteC is correct when he says, "The partition you create for the OS will be at the start of the drive and will become the C:\...
Hi Arie, Thanks for the link. However, I'm an Idiot-Savant when it comes to computers. Some things I'm so good at I scare myself: Other things...
Hi Bill, Totally off topic: How did you get "Quinqagenarian" added? I petitioned the Powers That Be to amend mine to "Senior Moments Member"...
Hi Steve, It all depends on how many times I get tech support calls from my friends using 98. :p I was afraid of that. Isn't there some way...
Hi all, Sorry for the tardy response, but I've been trying to figure this out. MB, RAM, CPU, Controllers, et al, are working perfectly. I had...
Hi all, In another thread I posted about drives dying "” still can't figure it out. Anyway, I installed W98 on a new HDD to test the MB,...
Hi all, This past week I've had three good, relatively new, hard drives fail. It all started when I unplugged the W7 drive (NOTE: I always...
Hi (again) NeverBoring, First, do the programs appear in the Add\Remove Programs list? If they do you can uninstall them. Adobe Reader shows up...
Hi Chaos, PeteC is correct. DVD and CD drives can get gunked up. And, this sounds like your case. You might want to unbend a paper clip and...
Hi NeverBoring, If I'm reading your post correctly, you want to move Adobe and Google to your D:\ partition. Correct? The easiest way is to...
Hi Steve, I tried using EasyBCD when I setup W7: It didn't work. I had to manually copy the three files from WXP to the root of W7 C:\ "” then...
Hi all, Not being exactly thrilled with W7, I unplugged it. I re-hooked up my system to the original configuration (W7 was the Master and main...
Hi surferdude, I already tried that. The "Start" button, taskbar size and programs in the taskbar are fine, size-wise. And, I can raise the...
Hi all, The Sys Tray used to display just the time. Now it displays the time and the day on two lines "” time on top and day on the bottom....
Hi richiebowen, I know it doesn't specifically mention W7, but it does say Vista. Is W7 that different from Vista?
Hi all, When I boot to XP, SeaMonkey is lightning fast. However, when I boot to W7, there's a very, very noticeable slowdown. It kinda reminds...
Man 'o man, Arie, this poll has drawn some people out of the woodwork that I haven't seen for a loooong time. Anyway, don't quote me...
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