I have a Gigabyte GA-P35-Ds3 motherboard that has just died. Do I need to replace it with the identical model or is there some leeway in replacing the mobo that won't affect the current Windows 7 licence.
View 5 RepliesI just 'upgraded' my computer from xp to w7 and have major issues re my old Matsonic motherboard.
Now the question is: what is a "computer" or 'One unit" licence? If I change the m/b would I be OK (morally/legally) using the same licence key on the new version of my computer?
Some things (google map or mapquest map for example) print VERY faint. other things are ok. come to think of it, I am printing a selected part of the page, in case that is relevant. other test files are ok.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI've had a look at the forum and can't really find an answer to my query.
About 4yrs ago I switched entirely to Linux due to the general instability and speed of my XP systems.
I have one valid XP licence from a Dell laptop now running Ubuntu but daughter No1 has used Windows 7 elsewhere and now wants it on her own homebuilt desktop.
Not being one for conflict I have agreed but here's my question.
Can I use the licence from my Dell laptop with an upgrade edition of Windows 7 on a clean install on the homebuilt desktop which has never had any version of Windows on it.
The Dell laptop runs Ubuntu and always will so I'm using a valid licence just on another machine, it seems an honest thing to do at least in my mind.
So, I have my computer set up so that Windows 7 is on my C: partition, and all my programs are installed on my D: partition.
If I was to do a clean install of the C: partition, how would that affect the programs on the D:? Would I have to reinstall them all?
If I do fresh install of W7 will my cpu overclock and bios settings be affected?
View 6 Replies View RelatedMy system specs are :Core 2 Duo E6750 2.66 GHz, 2 GB of RAM,nVidia GeForce GT 210 1GB SDDR3 graphics card. I want to install win 7 64 bit. Will the gaming performance be slow on it, as compared to win 7 32 bit ?? Is 2 GB Ram enough for games on win 7 34 bit ??
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have a PC that has windows 7 ultimate installed by a friend with a disk that legally allows multiple installations.Unfortunately my operating system isnt working well. it wont install a service pack or printers etc and I would like to do a fresh install from scratch. My friend tells me if I use his disk it will use up another of his product keys . however I am wondering is there any way I can re-install it with the existing product key so as not to use up another windows installation from his batch of licence keys
View 1 Replies View Related14 months used Operating System - OEM Win.7 Home Premium licence.-want to Upgrade the OS to 64 bit + install a SSD, better Graphics + more ram, do MS 'allow' this
View 6 Replies View RelatedI've got Windows 7 and Ubuntu Linux on different partitions, so if I were to recover windows 7 by the Advanced Recovery Method restoring to factory condition, would this action delete/affect my precious Ubuntu in any way? Is the restoring applying to that partition or the whole computer?
View 9 Replies View RelatedI know, this is annoying but I've got quick question.
Has anyone activated 2 or more computers with the same license? Does it work?
It's illegal, I know, but here we don't have the benefit of a family pack and I don't feel like buying the same software twice for my desktop & laptop.
Need a quick answer because I'm about to head out and buy Win 7.
The motherboard of my laptop (a 2-year old toshiba) got probably fried and I had just upgraded to Win 7 using the upgrade licence (irony!!)
All I ask is if there is some way to tell this to MS and re-activate/re-use the same licence or get a new one for another laptop.
(btw...the same goes for Office 2007 that was install on that machine)
Where I can find this kind of information?
Can I get my licence back from Microsoft to use again after my laptop was stolen.
View 8 Replies View RelatedI INSTALLED SOUND DRIVERS FOR XP AND NOW I NEED A LICENCE TO ACTIVATE IT INTO A REGISTERED VERSION
View 3 Replies View Relatedi have a fairly large sound system (15'' sub woofer included ) that i use for my computer. the sub has a huge magnet, a good 15-25 cm wide 5-8 cm depth. the sub is about a metre and a half away from the PC, so will the magnetic field affect it?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have win 7 ultimate 32bit installed on nforce2 based motherboard with 1GB of RAM. When I have something turned on (e.g. Winamp) and start to downlod, speed is decreased almost in half. If I close aplication, speed isincreased.
Any idea?
what I am trying to do is sort of complicated but I'll try my best to explain it. Basically I'm trying to squeeze every ounce of potential out of my nearly outdated machine.
First, my relevant system specs:
- Windows 7 Pro 64bit
- 2 IDE Hard drives - 5400rpm 80GB Maxtor, and 7200rpm 160GB Seagate
- 2 Gigs of generic grade RAM
OK so earlier today I found out about virtual memory, AKA a paging file, and about how it acts like a sort of RAM buffer, increasing performance. I also found out that I can put a paging file on each hard drive and that I could get the greatest benefit if I had each hard drive on a separate IDE channel, so I ripped open my case, rerouted the cables appropriately, changed the master/slave jumpers, reset CMOS, and booted up Windows 7.
Now here is where I make things more complicated . In the interest of getting every drop of juice out of this rotten orange, I want to move (clone) the entire Windows 7 partition from the Maxtor to the Seagate to take advantage of the extra RPMs. Except when I attempt the cloning process via Seagate Disc Wizard, I only get the option to clone the Windows 7 partition and not the reserved unallocated space used by Windows Recovery Environment.
I am unaware of how Windows 7 uses the reserved space specifically, but I assume that if I just created the unallocated space later it wouldn't instantly restore WinRE functionality. I know enough to know it has to be more complicated than that. How would I clone the Windows 7 partition and retain WinRE functionality?
Then, after that's done, do I still have to allocate some space on each hard drive for the paging files, like a Linux swap file? Or is the virtual memory reserved literally as a file in the operating system partition?
i have heard that more files we have in libraries folder (document, music, picture and videos)the slower the performance of computer will be..
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have a laptop that I bought from a highstreet shop that came with win 7 already installed. It didn't come with the disks or anything though. Now, I am probably going to buy another laptop and was wondering if there was anyway to move the OS over? I will be moving the HDDs across from one laptop to another, will I just be able to boot from the primary HDD that has the OS on it?
View 9 Replies View RelatedI had done a large number of System Restores recently, then a complete re-installation of Windows 7 via the Toshiba software partitioned in my laptop. I had updates waiting to be installed before that and I'm also worried whether the ones previously installed were picked up automatically. Now I'm not sure how to proceed.
I just did some reading and found out how important the updates are security-wise. Previously I had thought they they were more or less optional.
I've tried all the methods I can find, and I'm not so strong with boot files or images in general.
I have an image of my current system, created last night ( created in windows 7 from the "Ctrl Panel> Recovery>Create a system image" option) stored on my external 1.5Tb drive. It is stored in the "WindowsImageBackup" folder that was created and contains two .vhd files. one is obviously the image at 39Gb)
With my system running (Win7 Home Premium) I want to install this image onto a new, larger HDD and then replace my current drive ( 80Gb ) with the new, larger drive (320Gb ).
I simply want to copy the image from my external 1.5Tb drive to a "New" 320Gb drive (connected to my system via a USB2.0 to IDE and SATA cables that I use for backing up people's files and things from crashed machines) The "new" drive shows up in "Disk Manager" as "E", healthy partition, formatted, etc.
Is there a way to install my backed up image to my 320Gb external drive, THEN open my desktop pc, and replace my current 80 Gb drive with the 320Gb drive (already imaged and bootable as if nothing changed except the size of the drive) ?
Also, do I need to delete the partitions on the "new" 320Gb drive so that it shows up as unallocated space?
I recently had hardware failure that resulted in myself RMA'ing my motherboard. It is my understanding that I will be receiving the same model of motherboard, but a different unit. Am I eligible to use my current Windows 7 product on my computer after I receive my replacement motherboard? Specifically I'm using Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit OEM.
View 9 Replies View RelatedFor one reason or another I am frequently installing a fresh copy of Windows 7 onto my hard drive. I use a lot of software so as things get installed and uninstalled bad things tend to happen and sometimes things are beyond repair.My question is can I use my product key to download from someplace an image of Windows 7 with all the updates already installed? Installing the updates becomes very time consuming and the machine has to be restarted many times over so I am trying to avoid this. I suppose I could disable the updates but that is not really my intent at this time.
View 6 Replies View RelatedI had an existing properly working system consisting of a SSD 64GB for my OS and a Raid1 config with two 1TB drives for data. My SSD ended up being to small as certain programs do not let me remap content to a separate drive. I have upgraded (swapped out) to a 240GB SSD reinstalled windows on it and windows does not see my raid1 in disk management, nor does it see my two monitors or my connection to my router. It was my understanding I could just swap out the SSD's and reinstall windows and it would see everything.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI have at the beginning have 1 (Fckyeahphotography ) account i logged in to the system. but later i got another one with my Blanket name i need type in my name sandra. The funniest is i cant see my 1st Sign in account Fckyeahphotography in system and no i cant sign in in my 1.st account.
View 1 Replies View RelatedAssume I have opened a couple of windows for some applications on my Win 7 desktop.Can I somehow store the current window positions and sizes (and restore them later (even after a reboot))?As far as I remember there is a tool which ofers this feature but I don't remember the name.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have my current system live and working well. I want to add an SSD as the main boot drive.Is there a way I can migrate or reinstall easily on the new drive without having to run updates on everything again? The only hardware changing (adding) would be the SSD.I plan to format the old drive to use as storage.
View 7 Replies View RelatedSo I have Windows 7 RC installed on my computer still, and as we all know.What I want to do is simple, I want to reformat my hard drive, and install Windows XP Pro...which I own and have a product key for.When I put my CD in the drive and restart, I get the "Press any key to boot from disc" screen, I press a key, and it'll take me to the blue Windows Setup screen, and it begings to inspect my hardware.. and this is where the problem is (I haven't even began to install or make any changes to my hard drive and I get this lovely blue screen of death-type error: A problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer.If this is the first time you've seen this stop error screen, restart your computer. If this screen appears again, follow these steps:Check for viruses on your computer.Remove any newly installed hard drives or hard drive controllers. Check your hard drive to make sure it is properly configured and terminated.Run CHKDSK /F to check for hard drive corruption, and then restart your computer.
Now, I haven't have any changes to any hardware on my laptop ever.I ran chkdsk and it didn't find any errors, and it ran both a quick scan, and full scan. And I also ran some type of scan within Window 7 (right-click drive C, then "Properties", then "Tools", then something like "Scan drive for errors/bad sectors") and it also said everything was fine.Last night I sat down, backed up all the necessary data from my hard drive, and was looking forward to having a clean installed OS, and I can't even get it to install.
I'm currently building a Server as well as in the market to snag a new laptop. How would I go about making my computer a virtual machine so that I could port over to my new gig.
Reason for this is that eventually I would love to get myself more "Organized" with where I keep important documents versus random crap. Stored all over my various machines.
I am about to purchase a ssd for my pc and was wondering if there is a way to simply transfer windows to the ssd from my current spinning drive
View 3 Replies View RelatedMy current Hdd which contains my OS and program data totals nearly 249GB, obviously SSD's which are this big are very, very expensive, how can I transfer my current OS install to a new SSD in an easy as possible way but keep the OS and the programs that are installed.Some of the stuff on there, like games, I guess I could uninstall and then reinstall them later so that they are no longer on the boot drive.
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