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.
Have you tried running chkdsk /r on your hard disks ?
Start button, boot to desktop aren't the show stoppers for me, so I don't really miss them. I would just apply it as it updates & patches the OS.
You're welcome.
On most modern switches yes. On some old switches there is a separate port for download/upload. That's all that is to it.
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