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I'm setting up a new computer that will have a 250 GB Samsung EVO 850 SSD and two 1 TB Seagate Barracuda hard drives. I want the SSD to be the boot drive and have the Windows folder with the operating system (Windows 7 Professional 64 bit). I also want to have a few programs on the SSD...

I don't want to bother with tracing every new installation, but I want to do it with media programs that tend to appropriate to themselves a lot of extension defaults and with programs that make huge numbers of additions to the registry and file system, such as a new AV I'm about to install. I...

I refer to the paid versions of Bitdefender Anti-Virus. 1. What kind of impact does it have on the system performance? Is it light as the company claims? Is it prone to surges of high CPU usage that make it hard to use the computer till they subside? 2. Does it allow the user to disable "PUP"...

I'm about to buy my first smart TV, and I'm considering a TCL Roku TV. I haven't done streaming. This is all virgin territory for me. I know getting an HDMI cable to connect computer and PC is very cheap. Does that give me all I would get with a Roku box or a Roku TV? I was comparing a TCL...

Thank you gentlemen. Where things stand now is that my local computer shop has somehow got my computer recognizing the new 250GB hard drive. But to get started on that hard drive I need to be able to use MiniXP on Hiren's Boot CD to transfer the image of the near-dead hard drive to my new hard...

Thank you for your response, PliotronX. I borrowed somebody else's Windows 7 to create the bootable flash drive. I am now able once again to boot into the flash drive consistently after making one little change: I turned upside down the little jumper on the new hard drive. It's not intuitive to...

I have used Hiren's Boot CD a great deal, but now I am unable to. Whenever I click Enter on USB Flash Device in the menu, instead of opening up Hiren's Boot CD, it is giving me the message: Strike the F1 key to continue, F2 to run the setup utility. When I...

Thank you, gentlemen.

I refer to K-Lite Codec Pack. Do I need to install version 11.x before upgrading to the 11.2 Update ? I can't tell whether what I currently have is Basic, Standard, or Full. Computer: Dell System B3 Desktop CPU: Intel Pentium 4-2667 (Northwood, D1) 2666...

I said on an earlier draft of my last comment that got vaporized : Thank you very much for your help, JackMDS and ketchup79.

Well, I don't have much space on my C drive. If I can ever beat the scabies I will be transitioning to a new system. I heard back from Jarte's developer. He said the backward slashes are from a bug in WordPad. He sent me back my attachment of "My Programs" with the slashes removed and the...

After the shutdown of Jarte, when I brought up Jarte again, I was shocked to find that a huge file of mine was truncated, with less than half of it there. I was able to recover virtually all of it by going to the Document Backups folder which resides in the Jarte folder. A second...

Thank you. It wasn't in My Documents, but this seems to suggest its having the .rtf extension means it would not be restored. Do I have hope with data recovery software like Recuva?

A few days ago Jarte was locked up, so I clicked it out to start it all over so could use it. I ended up with a version of one of my Jarte documents that was truncated with a loss of over 95 percent of data. Would System Restore give me back the version of the document I had a few days ago...

Thanks again for the advice, guys. Yes, I've tried it and everything else on the menu there. Without question its driver was giving me blue screen problems.