The process of installing software, hardware, or peripherals on a personal computer.
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How to install Windows 7 from the network?
Is it possible to install Windows 7 (Current RTM Version) on a computer without using removable media like DVD or USB?
The first thing that comes to my mind is through the network, but I don't have ...
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How to extract files from MSI package?
Can anyone advise a way, or utility that can extract the files from an MSI installation package.
We have some old patches that we want to get the files from but don't wish to spend the time ...
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what are these “online installers” for?
It is probably not the name of these installers. By online installer I mean the little executable we download and execute, which download the true software I are going to install.
There are so many ...
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Install Windows 7 from USB flash drive
I have an ISO image of the Windows 7 installation DVD, but I can't burn it to CD or DVD. I have an empty flash drive with plenty of space. Is there any way I can put the ISO image on it and install ...
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How can I install Windows 8 on my HDD without the use of a USB or DVD?
I decided to install Windows 8 on my home machine this weekend. I've already downloaded the Windows 8 Enterprise Evaluation iso, however we just got done moving and somewhere in the chaos I've ...
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Where can I get Chromium binaries?
I want to have Chromium on my Windows machine, but I find only instructions how to make it from sources on official site.
Are there any official pre-built binaries?
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Swap partition size for 4GB RAM
I'm planning to install Ubuntu 9.04 version. How much space should I dedicate for swap partition. I remember setting it to double the RAM size when I installed long back. At that time my RAM was 256 ...
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How to check if Win 7 disk is 64bit and what version?
I've got a DVD that I've burnt from an MSDN ISO. I'm not entirely sure if its Windows 7 64bit or 32bit.
How can I be sure?
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Resuming Windows 7 from Hibernate after a RAM change?
I ordered a pair of new DDR3 RAMs, I will install them to the empty RAM slots once they arrive.
What would happen if I hibernate my PC, then install the new RAMs, and then wake it up from ...
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Installing Windows XP from USB pen drive
I want to install Windows XP on my desktop computer (only XP) but my CD drive is not working.
I've only found installation tutorials on how to install it on the pen drive rather than from the pen ...
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How can I update gcc to the latest version in Ubuntu 10.04?
I have Ubuntu 10.04 32-bit with gcc 4.4.3 currently installed on it. I want to upgrade it to gcc 4.6.1.
How to update using Ubuntu Package Manager:
apt-get upgrade/install
As a second option I ...
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How/Where do you install Console2 on Windows 7
I downloaded the source and binaries from http://sourceforge.net/projects/console/files/
In the binaries help file it makes reference to a setup file but there is none.
The list of files included in ...
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Can I install Windows OS (Windows 7) on a removable USB hard drive?
I wanted to take a sneak peak at Windows 7 so I thought of installing it. I have Windows Vista on my laptop which came pre-installed with it. I didnt want to mess with it.
So I created a partition ...
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Should I choose 'Format' or 'Format (Quick)' when installing Windows XP?
When installing Windows XP, there is a prompt for formatting the disk. What is the difference between an NTFS 'format', and an NTFS 'format (Quick)'?
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Why do I need restart computer after installing new software?
Why is it sometimes that I need to restart my computer after installing new software and at other times I don't?
Is there any reason why it needs this reboot or why it's not always one way or the ...
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How do I prepare Windows 7 for a graphics card update?
I'm about to upgrade my graphics card from a Radeon HD 3650 to a Radeon HD 6770.
Prior experience of upgrading graphics cards under all other versions of Windows (but not 7) has been the following:
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How do I determine if an unbootable copy of Windows is a 64-bit or 32-bit installation?
I need to reinstall Windows on a laptop. I have the product key (its on the laptop), and I know it is Windows 7 Home Premium.
I need a way to determine if 64-bit or 32-bit Windows is installed, so ...
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When installing Windows 7, CDBOOT error 5 appears: Cannot boot from CD; why?
I am installing Windows 7 on an old machine. I can not even get it to boot. I get this error message:
CDBOOT: Cannot boot from CD - Code: 5
Boot Failure from Previous Device..
Boot Failure from ...
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Is it possible to speed up ./configure?
To compile a software package on a workstation with many CPU cores (say 12), the configuration stage often takes much longer than the actual compilation stage because ./configure does the tests one by ...
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How does Google Chrome installer work?
I have been wondering - how does Google Chrome install in a single click?
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OSX: cant create a partition because drive is locked
Problem:
I have a USB key with Mountain Lion on it and I want to install it on my macbook pro. I deleted the existing partition on the laptop and wanted to created a new one were to install the OS ...
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Legality of using a burned CD with a legal CD-Key? [closed]
I have a friend that keeps a collection of burned Windows CD's; 2000, XP, Vista which he uses to repair peoples computers with. Now he justifies this by saying he uses the CD-Key on their OEM sticker ...
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Make a bootable usb to install Windows XP from Linux
I have a Dell Mini 9 with only Ubuntu installed, I want to install Windows XP also but I don't have and can't get an external CD drive, so I need to make a windows installation from the usb.
All the ...
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How to install windows 7 RC from a USB disk?
Can anyone provide detailed steps to install Windows 7 RC from a USB hard disk (rather than a DVD)?
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How to add drivers to Windows 7 installation DVD?
How I can bundle newer or missing drivers to Windows 7 DVD?
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How can I make it difficult to install a new operating system on a certain computer?
I want to host a website on a desktop computer running Ubuntu with a Windows virtual machine. I will give away the computer in exchange for a number of months of remote web hosting. I want to add some ...
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Where is a typical Linux program installed
I mean not just the binary, but its libraries, config files and data (strictly speaking all files). Also when I download a package where is it best to extract it. If I move these files will the app be ...
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Installing Windows 7 games on Windows 8
I wish to play all of the games that I have on Windows 7 by default (chess, freecell, minesweeper, etc) on my Windows 8 machine.
I tried to just copy over the relevant .exe files, but when I run them ...
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How to install multiple Microsoft applications without conflicts
For all the IT students, self-teachers, and new professionals
Situation: The days of ...
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How can I install DropBox without root privileges?
Is it possible to install Dropbox without root privileges in Linux?
I've tried to install it at my university, using the sources found here, but I seem to need to enter the root password (which of ...
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What happens during a Windows 7 Install?
During a chat discussion the topic of what happens at certain key points during the Windows 7 installation came up. Knowing what exactly happens at these points would be great in determining any ...
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CPU installation
I'm in the midst of building a computer (this is my first time).
When I first put the heatsink on the CPU, I was a little off center. Some of the thermal compound came off, so when I re-centered ...
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installing packages without sudo access
Is there an easy way to install packages with a large dependency tree, provided that you don't have superuser access? For instance, say I wanted to install firefox. Firefox has a ton of dependencies, ...
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Installing Mercurial 1.5.4 on Ubuntu 10.04
I've downloaded the source and tried to install via the README instructions:
sudo make install
but I get the following errors:
python setup.py build
running build
running build_mo
warning: ...
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How to install new packages on Cygwin?
I installed the latest version of Cygwin with a number of packages.
I soon realised that I need more packages (such as wget, etc) and I couldn't find a way to install the new packages without running ...
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How can I duplicate my Linux environment if I am migrating to different hardware?
I currently have packages, modules, settings, etc. for Eclipse, MySQL, Python, Firefox, etc. set up on Kubuntu. I have also optimally configured Kubuntu for my needs. I would like to duplicate my ...
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How can I download and install a browser on a new installation of Windows 7E?
In Europe, Windows 7E comes without a browser, it now has a chicken-and-a-egg problem where users don't have a browser to use to download and install a browser.
What is the simplest way that a user ...
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How do I install a font from the Windows command prompt?
Is it possible to install fonts from the command prompt on Windows? If yes, what is the command?
I tried copy [fontname].ttf C:\Windows\Fonts\ and it said copying was complete, but I could neither ...
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How to install Dropbox in Windows 7 for all user accounts?
That's it. When installing Dropbox on my laptop it's only installed for my current user account, the other users can't see the shortcuts or use them (since logged in as another user the shortcuts ...
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Must I reboot after installing software when I know I need to install a 2nd package that requires reboot?
Say I install software package A which says I must reboot to finish the install. I also need to install package B which will also require a reboot. Is it advisable to reboot after installing A and ...
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Can I make USB drive bootable and install multiple OSes from it?
Is it possible to have USB drive bootable and place multiple ISOs like
Windows 7.iso
WindowXP.iso
Ubuntu.iso
RHEL.iso
so that I can choose which OS to install?
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Bare-minimum hard drive space to install Windows XP SP3 Professional?
Just enough for my drivers and my windows XP setup will be more than enough ...
I will work from another partition and the system partition will be frozen ...
2Gb seem right but was using 5-10 Gb ...
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How to install Jenkins on Windows Server 2012
This may sound like a trivial question but here is what is happening:
I grab the latest version of Jenkins as native installer for Windows (1.491 in my case)
I set up a Windows Server 2012 (official ...
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How do I install the latest version of packages in Ubuntu?
For example I want to install the latest version of "numpy". I type the following: "sudo apt-get install python-numpy". When I type this the first time it installs something and if I type this the ...
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Install linux to USB flash drive - “normal” not “live”
Is it possible to install linux to USB flash drive so that I can
install further software in it? I mean
use my harddrive as /home
I know ho to create a live-usb, but it leaves me with read-only ...
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Identify files installed by installer on Windows
How do I identify the files installed by a specific installer on windows?
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How does one install Windows 7 using USB 3?
I want to install Windows 7 onto an SSD from a USB 3 drive, however it won't let me boot using USB 3, however it does work using USB 2. I guess that's because Windows PE doesn't have the needed USB 3 ...
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How to install a UserScript in Internet Explorer 9?
Is there any way to install a UserScript or GreaseMonkey script in IE9?
I know that Trixie used to be able to provide this capability but it doesn't seem to work in IE9 at all.
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For a PC with 1GB RAM, should I install 32 Bit or 64 Bit Windows 7?
I would like to install Windows 7 Ultimate on a PC with 1GB of RAM.
What's better for me? The 32 or 64-bit version?
