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I want my account to be the "same" on Windows 8 and Windows 7, but that has proven difficult with my Win 8 account being a Microsoft-connected account. What exactly do I make my Windows 7 account name to ensure it is exactly the same as my Windows 8 account? I want to do this so I can easily...

Hmm, that's interesting you say this because I have another 3TB HD that only has a single GPT partition where all my data resides. No other partitions at all on the drive. For whatever it's worth this drive is connected through SATA while the one I took the screenshot for above is on eSATA.

Good Idea will try removing and rebooting. I don't even have Reserved GPT on my C: drive.. I think I read somewhere it's only for UEFI BIOS installs of Windows which I don't have.

Can I delete a GPT Reserved partition on drive with no OS? See screenshot below. I know that I shouldn't delete the GPT reserved partition if I had an OS installed on this drive, but I don't. It's a pure data drive. I'd like to keep the J: and delete the Other partition if possible. Is this safe?

Thanks

Looks like this is exactly what would do the trick for my request in my first post. But I've been convinced that an entire backup of my C: drive is probably the better choice at this point.

Hmm, I thought it also backed up\restored certain programs. For example if I restore to a point before I installed a program that program might be missing\not work correctly. It even gives you a list of programs that might not work right before you do a restore. But in all honesty, it probably...

Was reading this tutorial: http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/33910-restore-point-automatic-creation-disable-windows.html And it says that " System Restore in Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 creates a scheduled restore point only if no other restore points have been created in the last 7 days."...

I have a ton of .rar and .zip files on my computer and I'm not sure which one's I've extracted and are okay to delte. Is there a program that can automatically tell me this?

Found a solution. Went to C:\Users\Joe\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\SendTo and added shortcuts to the folders I wanted to be able to send shortcuts to. Next, I just have to hold cntrl+shift and right click the file I want to create a shortcut for. Then go to send to and choose one of the...

When you right click a file and go to "send to" you can make it send a shortcut to the desktop. Is there a way so I can send a shortcut to a different folder?

Been a while since I did an sfc scan. Will give it a try. Thanks.

Thanks. AVs are not perfect so I figure if I can see myself what a file creates I can manually inspect. I don't download suspicious files often but I think it'd be a useful thing to have.

I know i was talking about seeing the files and folders created after running the .exe.

Is there any program that will show me all the files and registry changes made when an executible is run? For example if I suspect something is a virus, after I run it I can see if the .exe created any new files or messed with something?

My system restore size keeps rezing itself to 50% of my SSD. I keep putting it down and ever couple weeks when I check it puts itself back up

My 3TB toshiba suddenly turned RAW from NTFS today out of nowhere. Drive letter is still there, but when I click on it, it asks me to format. HD does not seem to be failing and it fairly new (5 months). So I decided to hook it up to SATA, and all of sudden everything works perfectly again. I'm...

I have a bunch of of HD videos on my computer but they're all scattered all over different drives and folders. Is there a way where I can search by video quality? Such as only search for 1080p videos?

This is a Windows 7 question, but it also applies to Windows 8 if you use any of the start menu replacements. Basically, when I go to the start menu and go to recent items, it is sorted alphabetically, rather then when I last accessed the file. I tried going directly to the recent items path...

I just started using Lync for work and I love the feature where you can share only a single program or window with another person instead of your entire screen. This got me thinking. For work I usually have to RDP into several servers/computers to access programs on there. Is there such a...