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    Help is it m/board-sata connectors-bios-cmos or drives

    Spec: Gigabyte 78LMT-S2P Rev 5 CPU AMD FX4300 Video Geforce GT 610 Ram 4Gb As you will guess from the above I am totally confused, frustrated and cheesed off. did a windows update everything seemed fine. while installing backup programs had to do a reboot and then found drives missing. checked...
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    Windows 8 To Go

    And another that can not get it to work. Even tried Enterprise Preview in which it is built in but will not accept incompatible USB drives Keith
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    Solved Dual boot - 2 x SSDs both W8 - 1 x Video / 1 x Music (DAW)

    Thank goodness for that as I have been doing that for a number of years I was expecting a knock on the door by the "Microsoft Police" and some serious jail time as I would not :dinesh:- could not pay :cry: Keith
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    Windows 8.1 Crashed

    boot from installation disk when asked choose country and keyboard. On next screen look bottom left and select repair pc. Keep clicking on advanced tools until you see "command window" then select that ( Otherwise known as dos window ) then type in SFC /scannow and let it do its work. it will...
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    Solved Dual boot - 2 x SSDs both W8 - 1 x Video / 1 x Music (DAW)

    CountMike sorry but have to disagree re windows. Nothing wrong with putting the same version on twice as it is licensed for one machine. and it does not matter how many times it is installed it can only be run one at a time from same machine. This is how I operate my machine and use the second...
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    Solved How to Migrate OS to new Hard disk.

    YKTAN I am always looking for an easy life have a look at Paragon Backup and Recovery™ this will do exactly what you want and is FREE. Can't put a link but look at paragon-software. Usual three letters c** ;);) Keith
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    unable to install webcam drivers -- access is denied

    Finally got my PC sorted. Try: 1. open msconfig - select services - click on hide Microsoft services then click on disable all. 2. open windows update and check that all updates are installed and not "failed" 3. Reboot Hopefully you should now be able to install drivers Best of British Keith
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    I want to place a cloned drive to another identical PC

    Jimbo45 I agree with you BUT no harm in cloning to another pc as a backup provided it is not used live on both machines. I just wish I had taken my own advice 2 weeks ago as it would have saved me a LOT of grief, time and hair. Keith
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    How do i get back a removed device?

    First open device manager select View and ensure there is a tick against show hidden items then if you do not see joystick and do not have a restore point right click on any device and select scan for new hardware. If nothing shows then try going to Action add legacy hardware and follow...
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    Acer V5-571 laptop - 9 months old yet becoming very noisy

    Only thing I can think of at the moment is to use a program similar to CPUZ and check the temperatures at various time.check temp when first started as that should be lowest and listen to noise then use something a bit cpu intensive like a photo edit and again check temp and noise. if temp going...
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    unable to install webcam drivers -- access is denied

    Been there, done that but I think drivers may be out of date but strange webcams work on Samsung laptop with windows 8.1 32 bit
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    Win 8 wont show up USB drive

    I get same result using computer management . I also use Partition Manager ( which is free and they show fine suggest you give it a try. ) see http://www.***********/partition-manager/ Keith edit Sorry Mods forgot about links clue instead of ****** looking for a 6 letter word beginning with E
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    unable to install webcam drivers -- access is denied

    Hi everyone - I have a beauty if anyone can help. Story so far ( I'll try to keep it short ) had drive problems with PC so got new SSD drives and a Hybrid drive. All new drives so did tortuous route install win7 - upgrade to win 8.0 all worked then started acting up. My tech support worked on...
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    Windows Explorer Column content and font colour in Windows

    Hi Rich Many thanks for reply. I had tried friend google but must have been asking for wrong thing. Tried again and found Multi Commander which does most things I want. Just have to sort out coloured fonts. Multi Commander is certainly worth a look Keith
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    Windows Explorer Column content and font colour in Windows

    Hi Everyone Does anyone know of a way to customise windows explorer columns to show folder size as well as file size and also change font colour dependent upon a category. For example in my music folder I have 2 artists that contain adult mp3's so just to remind myself I would like their names...
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    Applications will not show correct device names

    Omitted from previous post Registry shows :
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    Applications will not show correct device names

    Masterchief thanks for that. I have checked inf file for Manycam and yes name is in inf but no mention of other camera names. Manycam shows : and Skype just shows the bottom two.
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    Applications will not show correct device names

    DustSailor Many thanks for the reply. I have already changed that setting as I got cheesed off when the pc decided to reboot just when I did not want it to. My problem showed on reboot so there was no update carried out. Again though Thanks for the thought Keith
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    Solved Custom Cursors

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    Applications will not show correct device names

    Hi Guys, I have 2 webcams attached to my PC and originally Device Manager showed them as USB Camera and USB Camera. I successfully changed the names in Device Manager and registry to USB Camera 1 and USB Camera 2. Applications such as Skype and Multicam show them as USB Camera and USB2.0...
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