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    Delay in Meda Centre remote button press being recognised

    I had an intermittent problem develop some time ago and I put up with it but now it is getting worse and I could use some help. I have a Media Centre remote with a USB IR receiver. When playing video (recorded TV, DVD's, media files) in Media Centre on an 8.1 PC sometimes key presses on the...
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    What is the best way to open partition security?

    My system is a UEFI based system with 6 physical disks and different instances of windows installed on 4 of those disks (I use F12 during the boot process to select which disk to boot off). On all 6 disks I have multiple partitions. This is a home system with no domain and I'm the only user, so...
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    Deploying std image to diff hardware - lic. key question

    Hello, I have seen posts about reinstalls of Win 8/8.1 on OEM PCs will automatically use the licence key in the BIOS, but I'm looking at doing something a little bit different and I was wondering if people could tell me if it would be an issue. I have a standard image that will be deployed onto...
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    Solved Can BIOS bootable recovery CDs be made to work with UEFI

    I have recovery tools that have bootable CDs based upon WinPE but they do not work in a UEFI environment. Is it possible to modify the boot details on the CD (or USB) such that it will then boot? I don't want to fiddle with the PC settings to enable legacy mode or anything like that as this...
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    Can the recovery partition get full?

    I have Partition Wizard on my system and I was looking at my system drive. I have the standard UEFI partitions on my system (300MB Recovery, 100MB UEFI, 128MB MSR, and my Windows OS) and I noticed that my Recovery partition is 88% full. Should I be concerned about it being this full and look at...
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    Can I put custom utlities in WinPE?

    I have various utilities on my systems, several of which come with bootable CDs for those times when the OS isn't available. The problem is that most of them use FreeDOS or similar to run the boot CDs when I have RAID 0 SSD for my OS - consequence, the utility discs can't my OS environment. I...
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    Solved What versions are included on retail media?

    Hello, I want to have access to media to for both the Home and Pro editions (currently I do have Pro from upgrade downloads from Microsoft) and I have decided to purchase a new retail DVD/Licence to get them. However I would be wanting a new Pro licence rather than Home so my question is - Does...
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    Solved Can't get DVD ISO to work with both Home and Professional

    I keep getting asked by family and friends to help with their PCs (you know how that feels :D) and when I ask about their installation media I just get blank looks. So I thought I would look at creating/using my own media. I have been using VMs for testing these, so much better than playing...
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