Avast works well with Windows Defender on Win 7 & I am running Win 7.
Bill, I didn't imply that his board is in ok condition. I only answered his question about compatibility with CPU & RAM.
Try VirtualBox. Its free & works with any WinXp/Vista/7 flavour.
What about alternative browsers like FireFox ?
IMHO, its much better to stay put with Win 7 & use virtual machines for running older programs as suggested by markmadras. Its not much fun to...
Sorry Alicia, missed that. If you followed Steve correctly, you should get a DOS window. It should NOT close when chkdsk is finished. Spaces...
Open Computer or Explorer, select the drive on which you want to run chkdsk, right click ->Properties->Tools->Error Checking->Check Now. You would...
Your board is ok. Its a AM3 board & that supports your CPU & RAM.
Welcome jeffm444. The VPN setting would be most probably at your corporate office. Tell your IT staff to check if they have given VPN access to...
Agree with you 100% Bill. I also update BIOS only if its critical else leave it alone. Why complicate life more when there are already so much...
You should run it on 2nd hard disk also.
Welcome VirusVictim1 [how apt :D]. Please post in Malware & Virus Removal forum.
Welcome :)
Are you facing any problems with your computer, braindead ? If not, I suggest that you leave the BIOS alone as a corrupt BIOS can leave your...
Just remember to take a backup somewhere else before doing anything. Just in case...
yes. In fact its a good idea to keep all your data on separate drive/partition so that if your OS partition goes belly up, you face minimum of...
That's most probably for overclocking. Leaving it at 'Auto' is probably the best choice. Not very important I guess. You can manage most of...
No harm in trying. In most of the systems I have assembled, there is no visible difference but on 2-3 it made an impact. Not sure why.
Thunderbird can happily use your current mail settings & mailboxes. Backup your TB profile folder somewhere else. Start profile manager...
This would disable CPU throttling. It would always run at top speed.
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