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I have a family member who complains that her laptop is slow. I checked the laptop over and indeed, it was slow, so I looked into what was using the most hardware, … Windows 7 – Can a ‘system image’ be restored to a drive with a different storage capacity?Read more

I typically have 2-3 OSes in my boot menu: Ubuntu 10.04 Windows 7 [Sometimes, a third option, such as Ubuntu 10.04 Netbook] If I am in an OS other than the default … Windows 7 – Can Grub be configured to remember the last OS you booted into?Read more

I want WINDOWS+LEFT and WINDOWS+RIGHT to snap to the top half and bottom half respectively.  Any solution works, be it a registry hack, driver setting, or program I can run. This question … Windows 7 – Can I Aero-snap to the top/bottom instead of left/right when using Portrait display mode for a monitor?Read more

I have 4 RAM slots on the motherboard P5K. At the moment I have two 1GB RAM modules and two 2GB RAM modules. Everything is working fine. Can I buy one 4GB … Windows 7 – Can I mix different RAM modules in PC?Read more

I want to be able to ‘put the display to sleep’ on one of my two monitors when it isn’t needed, so it doesn’t distract me or use unnecessary power. Ideally, the … Windows 7 – Can I sleep one of the displays on a multi-monitor setup?Read more

I’ve got a new laptop with a wireless card which runs Windows 7.  At work, I put the laptop in a docking station that gives the laptop a hardwired internet connection and … Windows 7 – Can I use my PC as a wifi router?Read more

There’s a folder on my desktop called like ‘example’ and when I try to delete it it says “You require permission from the computer’s admistrator to make changes to this folder” when … Windows 7 – Can’t delete folder, need permission from adminstrator?Read more

I need to frequently change the DNS server address, and for now I do it by opening ‘network and sharing center’ – ‘local area connection’ – properties – ipv4 – and then … Windows 7 – Change DNS with scriptRead more

A screen of mine burnt out, and was replaced with a screen of lower resolution. It works in safe mode as that is in 800×600 resolution, but when I try to boot … Windows 7 – Change screen resolution while in safe mode for normal modeRead more

My machine has a SSD (fairly small) and a Hard disk (large). I want to have windows and a couple of programs on the SSD but I want to have the documents … Windows 7 – Changing default directory structureRead more