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What does cloning a hard drive mean? Is it just simply copying over all the “CONTENT” of the hard drive EXCLUDING the operating system, drivers, all the installed programs? or is it … Windows 7 – What is “cloning a hard drive” and how does one go about doing it?Read more

My Windows 7 system makes an intermittent ding sound (like a single chime, or bell).  I don’t know which process does it.  So, my question is: Is there software/method out there that … Windows 7 – What process is making that sound?Read more

What is the shortest route to Device Manager? Solution: Click on the Start menu and type (or type the same in a command-line window, CMD.EXE): devmgmt.msc Or you can just type Device … Windows 7 – What’s the shortcut to Device Manager?Read more

I was using another account before. Let me call it account A. And I deleted a lot of files to the Recycle Bin at that time. But before I removed account A … Windows 7 – Which folder is recycle bin in on Win7? How to check files there?Read more

I have a brand new flash drive (one week old) that has become marked as read only, by Windows, Kubuntu and a bootable partitioner. Why did this happen? Is it fixable? If … Windows 7 – Why did my flash drive become “read only” and (how) can I fix it?Read more

This is a very peculiar problem with a station on our network.  The client pc is running Windows 7 Pro.  What makes this problem interesting is that this client is the only … Windows 7 – Why do I get “General Failure” when pinging host name on a Win 7 node on the network?Read more

  Possible Duplicate:  How to avoid bit torrent to degrade my connection performance without limiting bandwidth usage?   I’m not a regular “torrenter”, but I use µTorrent occasionally to download large files … Windows 7 – Why do torrents slow down my internet?Read more

My computer seems to randomly turn itself on, usually in the middle of the night when I’m asleep. It’s in my bedroom so it wakes me up. I’m running Windows 7 and … Windows 7 – Why does my computer keep switching on?Read more

I am using win 7 64 bit. I tried the solution given here, didn’t help.  David’s answer makes me think this is futile.  Is there anything else to try? Updates: Notice that … Windows 7 – Why does my sytem only uses 3.2GB of my 4GM RAM?Read more

I use HD Tune to measure performance of the hard drive.  The tests typically take 2-3 minutes and the transfer rate of a regular hard drive decreases dramatically as the test comes … Windows 7 – Why does performance of a regular hard drive decrease over the duration of a benchmark while SSD doesn’t?Read more