Recent content by ruggb

I have noticed that a lot of W7 programs have a W10 look. Must be something in the water!

Sorry, I have had a lot of issues getting W10 going and I have totally lost why I had to reinstall it THAT time.

something bork I had to reinstall W10 now the games do not open from anyplace. any clues??

THANK YOU SO MUCH I was thinking I was going to have to abandon W10 because of games and gadgets. got them both back on 10130. Hopefully they will survive release next month. OH BTW, that mega download is flagged as a virus. Get it from the dropbox. ONE question -- I now have a START MENU...

well, if I delete the offline key it will be back to the way it was when I started. But if the offline key is not doing what u said it would do relative to making the drive invisible on W8 then why would it be responsible for changing the operation relative to having to run chkdsk before W7...

Brink I tried disabling the fast start - with W7 drive disconnected shut down W8, reconnected W7 drive and rebooted W8. Shut down W8 and rebooted W7 - that worked, no chkdsk was run I rebooted W8 - slowly and changed the drive letters on my W7 drive to N:, O:, P:, & Q: Then did a regedit to set...

how does one "hide" W7 from W8????????? I'd hate to disable 1 of only 2 features of W8 I like.

I installed W8 on a separate drive from my W7. W7 works fine. W8 appears to work fine. HOWEVER, when both drives r connected to the system at the same time and I try to boot W8 the W7 drive gets corrupted such that the next time W7 is booted it must run CHKDSK. I did this on both a laptop and a...

thx -- for some reason what I copied from a post had \\ as separators instead of \ works now.

I created a reg file to change the registry entry that switched the start menu to something usable on a real computer. When I run it I get "Cannot import C:\ Start Menu On.reg: Error accessing the registry". However, if I go into the registry and modify it, there is no issue and the W7 start...