Recent content by Mallomar

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    Recommend external hard drive?

    Thanks again for the tip. I picked up two of them at my local BB. Both made in Thailand!
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    Recommend external hard drive?

    Thanks, I didn't know about the Hot Deals forum. That EasyStore sounds good.
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    Recommend external hard drive?

    I'm looking to buy an external HD (desktop, not portable) in the 6-8TB range. I use externals ONLY for backups, not for archiving. I normally have at least 3 externals, and backup to a different drive each time. I use Macrium for backups, if that matters. My desktop PC is old, so it only has USB...
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    How can I install an old wifi driver in Win 8?

    Thanks for your response. My bad -- I was doing it wrong. I finally navigated to the correct folder and got the driver installed. And I am cautiously optimistic. I've been running wirelessly for over 24 hours with no disconnects at all. I'll give it another couple days to make sure it's...
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    How can I install an old wifi driver in Win 8?

    I bought a Win 8 Lenovo G580 laptop recently, and it keeps dropping the wireless connection. Apparently this is a common problem -- the Lenovo forum has a 24-page thread about it -- and there's no one-size-fits-all solution. One suggestion I read was to install a Win 7 driver for the...
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    Screensaver and blanker quit working (Win 7)

    Bought this computer a year ago with 64-bit Win7 installed. I set it up so the "bubbles" screensaver would kick in after a few minutes, and the screen would go blank in 10 minutes. Worked until last week. Now, even after fiddling with the settings, turning the screen saver and "blank"...
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    Keyboard quirks (skipping keystrokes)

    Tried that, but it made no difference. Repeating characters isn't the issue -- characters are actually being skipped. I hit the key, but the character doesn't appear. I hear the click, so I'm not missing the key, but something's not connecting.
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    Keyboard quirks (skipping keystrokes)

    I seem to have a black thumb with keyboards lately. I've been using a Logitech Wave wireless keyboard and mouse for years, but a month or so ago, the keyboard started typing multiple duplicate characters when I pressed a key, and if I hit the delete key, it would delete more than the characters...
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    Recommend DVD recorder

    I think my old Panasonic DMR-EZ47V is fixin' to die. It started making weird mechanical noises (intermittent rattling or vibrating sounds) about two days ago. It still reads and writes DVDs, but that noise can't be good. It only makes the noise when there's a disk in the drive, regardless of...
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    Recommend 1TB external drive?

    Very intriguing -- I'd never heard of these. Can the drives be hot swapped? But I think the exposed disk would be a problem for me -- I have a very dusty environment, which can't be good for the circuitry. And I'd need to figure out how and where to store the drive(s) when removed from...
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    Recommend 1TB external drive?

    Hmmmm. If I were to do this, which enclosure (I googled and found many different models) would you recommend? I do like the idea of one with a fan. And which drive? A Caviar? Barracuda? I believe the Barracudas have 5-year warranties, and it looks like the Caviar Black does to, but the Caviar...
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    Recommend 1TB external drive?

    I'd rather not try to put together a regular drive in an external case. I have no experience in this area, and I don't know how complicated it is. I'd prefer to just buy an existing external drive.
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    Recommend 1TB external drive?

    I've always bought Seagate externals, partly because of their 5-year warranties (all of the other externals I've looked at have only 1-year warranties), but the last one I bought is "clicky," although it's working fine. I searched the forum and someone else had the problem and I'll probably try...
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    Looking for backup software for windows 7

    PMJI -- I was late to this party. I had a catastrophic computer failure a few days ago and had to buy a new (Windows 7 Pro) PC immediately. I'd been using DriveImage 7 on the old (XP) PC, but it won't run on Win 7. So what I need (and I need it right away, since I want to start doing images of...
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    Backup software similar to DriveImage?

    Wow, how did I miss that thread??? Thanks!