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I just got a new laptop without any OS (it had FreeDOS, but not anymore). When I go to Windows Installer and try to create a new partition from un-allocated space, I don’t get any Error message but the installer is unable to create the partition. At the bottom of the installer window, there’s a […]

I need to create a bootable CD from an ISO. Is there free software available? I am using Windows 7. Solution: You can use the free ImgBurn to do that. Here is a walkthrough explaining how to create bootable CDs with ImgBurn.

In the last 18 hours my Windows 7 Pro 64-bit machine has rebooted in response to the Windows Update applying patches. Now I find when I try to start the VirtualBox Manager (not the actual VM’s which the manager manages, I don’t get that far) I get the message “.GLOBALROOTSystemRootSystem32.dll is either not designed to

I have 2 external USB harddrives that are on/active during the boot process. I believe that Windows7 is looking at those drives while booting, which is causes bootup to take longer. Is there a way that I can disable these drives until after the OS has booted to the logon screen? Solution: Another solution: Quoted:I

  Possible Duplicate:  Do SSDs suffer from fragmentation?   Is there an advantage to it?  I mean, SSD is essentially random access memory. Solution: You said it yourself, SSDs are random access. Defragmenting them, as such, provides no benefit, but also wears down the drive by performing a lot of writes. Most modern OS’ turn

Do you know a good software to download all PDF links in a web page?? Operating system is Windows 7. Solution: You can use wget and run a command like this: wget –recursive –level=1 –no-directories –no-host-directories –accept pdf http://example.com Or with the short options: wget -r -l 1 -nd -nH -A pdf http://example.com UPDATE: Since

Whenever I have an application running (Visual Studio 2008, Notepad, etc.) under “Run as Administrator”, I cannot drag and drop files from Windows Explorer into the application. I’ve tried running Windows Explorer as administrator, but to no avail. Is there a way to get drag and drop to work when my applications are under “Run

I want an easier way to change my default sound device from my sound card to my usb headset. Currently it takes a very precise right click, a left click, another right click, and two more left clicks. Ideally i could just have it swap with a shortcut key. (it was a little easier in

Is there a way to find some type of log file that saves all IP address that were assigned to a desktop? I changed an static IP of a desktop (switched it to DHCP) of mine and i can not recall what the ip address was. Does windows log what it was anywhere? Solution: Interesting

Because my laptop fan was spinning up for no reason, I had a look at the CPU usage and I see  svchost with 12.5% CPU, which is basically a full core. Now, I’m aware that  svchost runs services and I know how to display the services it runs in Task Manager or Process Explorer (as