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Does Windows 7 require the Disk 0 Partition 1 : System Reserved Partition [closed]
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Can the Windows 7 system reserved partition be deleted without problems?
While installing Windows 7, I see that there's a "Disk 0 Partition 1 : System Reserved" ...
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How to start-up desktop shortcuts when Windows starts?
Is there a way to start-up desktop shortcut automatically when Windows starts?
(E.g. launch Google Chrome on login)
Additionally, is there a way to make the browser start in full-screen mode? (The ...
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Monitoring system [closed]
I need to monitor a vast range of devices in network: network devices chassis, servers, hard disks. What monitoring system can you suggest?
There are some requirements (not requirements, but it will ...
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Computer Restart When I Insert a USB Drive (Othe Removable Device)
I have faced this issue when My computers just restart when ever I connect a specific memory card, USB drive or any other portable device. This is quite a serious problem which is on the other hand ...
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can I restore only the system files with time machine (revert from 10.7.4 to 10.7.3)?
I am having crashes with 10.7.4. I have time machine versions of 10.7.3 obviously. Can I just restore the system without restoring the entire harddrive, and if so, how? How can I be sure I include ...
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Desktops turned into Laptops and these laptops turn into..!!? [closed]
We had only desktop computers in older days and those fat desktop computers turned into laptops. In this form of computers are more flexible, occupies little area and its very easy to move from one ...
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Switch back to IDE from RAID
I have a RAID configuration on a P8Z68-V LX motherboard. I want to convert back to IDE mode. Will a Windows-7 system image work as a restore when I go back to IDE mode? Or does this system image ...
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Creating exFAT partition (for PC & Mac) alongside bootable HFS+ partition?
I have an external hard drive with a bootable HFS+ partition on it. I have unallocated space on this drive that I want to create a new exFAT partition on, so that my entire family's computers, both ...
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How can I move the location of ntuser files
I am trying to use cygwin as the default terminal on Windows 7.
I have changed the home directory to my user directory.
ntuser files just fill up the prompt whenever I 'ls' with ntuser files.
Is it ...
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System crashs frequently
I bought an assembled PC in June,2011.The configuration is Intel Core i3-540,H55TC motherboard,4gb ram,Hitachi 1tb hard disk,XFX 5450hd graphic card and Samsung 22inch monitor.After only 2 months,the ...
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The “System” process has my BCD open(windows 7)?
I discovered this when I tried to use EasyBCD to well, edit by bcd, but it said "The current file is in use and cannot be opened by EasyBCD..."
So I tried to use handle.exe to stop it but it said
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Can Git be used when “experimenting”, changing drivers and software on Linux?
I have no idea how to use any backup software with Linux, but I do know Git. I hope this isn't a silly question as the obvious answer is to use some form of backup software, perhaps - but, I was ...
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System Recovery Operating System not listed
I'm using hp that has Windows 7 operating system installed on it. I cannot get to my desktop, so i tried to go into safe mode, but it is taking too damn long to load...not sure if this is normal; it ...
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Which way can I avoid Dropbox syncing older files when restoring a CloneZilla image?
Is there a way to avoid Dropbox Syncing older files back to my account when restoring a CloneZilla system image?
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Hp desktop system recovery [closed]
I just did a system recovery on my husbands hp desktop computer and everything went fine until it said it was going to shut down. It never did shut down and now it's stuck on blue screen. I tried ...
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Parental controls floods system.log with errors
I was digging around for fun, and I found that the system.log was FLOODED with errors. Here's an example.
Mar 20 08:46:34 THE-COMPUTER parentalcontrolsd[696]: -[ActivityTracker ...
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How can I update the System Drivers in my C:\Windows\SYSTEM32 Directory?
I’ve been having trouble with random reboots for a long time. Microsoft sent me a list of drivers to update, but I can’t find any trustworthy looking links online and the vendors have not been ...
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Getting “The HOME environmental variable changed out from under us!” in system log
In Mac OS X Lion, I am seeing many lines in my system.log file indicating that the HOME env variable has been changed.
19/02/2012 23:47:16.204 com.apple.launchd.peruser.501: ...
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windows 7 - lock a file for writing by only one program?
Is it possible in win7 to lock a file for writing by only one program? anyone can have read or copy accesss, but I need write/move/delete to be done only by one program.
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Why is event-log time different from taskbar time?
Today is the first time in several months that I've opened up Administrative tools to view the event log.
Imagine my consternation when I saw events in the log with a time-stamp of 11/09/2012. The ...
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Windows system restore prior to truecrypt system encryption?
If I restore my system using Windows restore to a point prior to implementing Truecrypt total disk encryption, will Windows 7 fail to boot due to the fact that the Truecrypt drivers are no longer ...
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Gparted will not resize Windows XP system partition
My C: system boot partition needs to be bigger. Tried Acronis, EASUS, and PM within Windows but the partition could not be enlarged with either a merge with another partition or resizing with ...
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Error message - kexts installed improperly
I have just gotten an error message for every single kext file there is.
The error message goes something along the lines of:
The system extension "file path" was installed improperly and cannot ...
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Eclipse using huge amount of System Memory
I have a sophisticated workspace set up with many eclipse projects in my workspace directory. In total the size of workspace directory is just over a gig, with the .svn directory from subversion a ...
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Reinstall Windows under TrueCrypt
I usually partition my hard-drive so that the OS and applications are on C: and ll the data, including user folders such as Documents are on D:. I do this not for any performance gain, but just so I ...
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On Windows 7, how can I retrieve/set system (not administrator) password?
Ok, so I know on many unix variants, you can set up a root / admin user, a standard user, etc. And by default sometimes on some distros of Linux the 'root' superuser is known to have a default ...
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How can I migrate multiple operating systems to a different hard drive?
I currently have a quad-boot system set up, spanning across two separate but identical hard drives.
The image illustrates what is currently going on. Disk 0 (NOW disk 01) holds XP (32-bit), Vista ...
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How to move System Partition to another drive in Windows 7
i just bought two 2TB disks and one 500GB i have installed system on 500GB.
Now in hard drive manager i wanted to setup software raid 1 for 2TB drive, but i have on one of them System Partition, how ...
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Linux file system for a big file server
I would like to know, from more experienced people, what would be the best choice of file system to use for a file server having more than 20TB of hard disks.
Personally I always used EXT3 (back in ...
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system process using constantly 20% cpu - win7 pro 64
In my win7 professional 64bit I see the system process using 20% of cpu constantly. This also tends to rise the cpu temperature, causing the fan to start, and in general slowing down the entire ...
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Windows kiosk / restore functionality
I have a Windows 7 Professional machine used as a kiosk. However, I want to be able to use Microsoft's system restore to basically restore the machine after each reboot.
I believe this will:
Revert ...
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Serial mouse does't work without restart, but USB mouse will. Why?
When I connect a USB mouse to a working system, it will work fine but serial mouse isn't recognized by the system? To get the serial mouse working, I need to restart the system. Why is this?
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Install Windows XP on computer that has “System Reserved” partition?
My computer has Windows 7 pre-installed and it comes with 3 normal partitions plus a Recovery Partition and a "System Reserved" partition. I want to delete Windows 7 and install Windows XP but I don't ...
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Inadvertently entered a password into the BIOS and now I can't use my laptop
I was trying to fix my computer and I was doing all sorts of stuff in the BIOS when I ended up putting a password on my system. Now when I turn my laptop on, it asks for a password right away before I ...
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Is it possible to log every system/application pop-up window and see it later in Windows XP and later?
Few minutes ago while browsing internet with Firefox 8.0.1 for Windows XP (Professional 32bit) i saw that some pop up probably with system or Firefox information blinked (appeared and disappeared ...
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How to make conky list top 5 processes?
I don't like how conky shows top 5 processes with "$top_io name 5" parameter.
Is there any way to make conky show all of them in a column at the same time like "top" does?
Couldn't find it in man, ...
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apache (don't send) error message on every system restart
I am getting this error message every time I restart my machine.
Here is the screenshot that will describe my problem properly.
and here is the another screen when I clicked the 'click here' link ...
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When I format my USB drive in NTFS, it creates a “System Volume Information” folder – is it a virus?
I tried to format my 2GB USB drive in NTFS in Windows XP.
It was formatted successfully, but on the formatted drive one of the folders is named "System Volume Information". I tried to delete the ...
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What can I do if msvcr80.dll is missing?
I have MS-Office 07 setup in my system. But it seems like if its one DLL got corrupted called msvcr80.dll.
When I try to install office now, it says Setup cannot find Office.en-us\msvcr80.dll. Browse ...
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System for computations
I do a lot of computations in Mathematica, (solving large system of linear equations, for example), and as a hobby, I also create fractal art, and animations.
The program I use do not utilize ...
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Best way to *instantly* tell which process is slowing down your system?
I run Procmon, ProcExp, Process Hacker, and the resource monitors of Windows 7, and while some can give me a clue about CPU and IO use, I feel like there's a more integrated solution out there that ...
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Why does Windows 7 have 3 system partitions?
I am using Windows 7 and I wanted to make a System image (using Windows 7), but Windows 7 checked 3 partitions as System (100mb + C (install partition) + D (my partition for my files, all programs are ...
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windows system backup does not recognize second hard disk anymore
I used to take my windows system backups on D: (windows 7 is installed on C:). D: is a 2x300GB RAID0 installation and was (and still is) working fine. Apart from backups, D: was also my big-files ...
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Some files in System32 not accessible outside Explorer on Windows 7
I've got a strange problem regarding accessing a file (more specifically SnippingTool.exe) in Windows 7's System32 directory. I can see/run/access the file when opening the directory in Explorer (and ...
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When is the data in the journal written to the disk?
(1) mentions that "With a journal the file is first written to the journal, punch-in, and then the journal writes the file to disk when ready. Once it has successfully written to the disk, it is ...
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How to find the hardware chipset information?
Is there any software using which I can detect chipset versions/name (like Audio ALC889, Network 8111E etc). I want to detect these chipsets of my hardware.
I tried software CPUID but its not ...
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Why does my System Process use 50% of CPU time?
The System process running on my Windows 7 installation uses almost 50% of CPU arbitrarily. I monitor the process with Process Explorer from Sysinternals.
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Can BLANK computer be reinstalled (OS) with system image?
By "blank" I mean an empty laptop hard drive. I'm going to have my hard drive replaced, so I believe the new hard drive won't have an operating system installed on it. So if I create a system image ...
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Get List of Hard Drive Letter and Types From Registry
I have several Local Hard Drives such as C:, D:, F: and so on. Also several CD rom Drives.
I want to know where windows store these data (Drive Letters and Drive Types).
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Cloning Windows 7 partition
I've got Windows 7 installed and have got Acronis Disk Director. I'm wanting to copy the Windows 7 partition and then use a boot manager to allow me to boot from both Windows 7 copies.
The worry I ...
