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It sounds like it may be a head crash. If the data is not that important (IE worth $1000+) than you may want to try the freezer trick... It works some times. Here is a link, not sure if the gym will block it though...

CCleaner is a good program I recommend to a lot of my customers. As for getting rid of that virus/malware/trojan, make sure that they are all updated and run them in safemode. Also In IE7, go to Tools -> Manage Addons, find the virus and see if you can remove it from there. Also check for...

Yes, this would format your hard drive. However without your XP disk, you will not be able to install XP. This is a beta and should not be used as your primary OS. Also this beta does expire in August. Though if you just want to reformat it (and not install on OS for some reason) you can...

Correct.. I am pretty sure there are a few more reasons.. I guess I was more referring to the non-tech professional public. Like you, I need to know the ins and outs of Windows before it is released so I can provide better support for my clients when and if they choose to migrate. I also...

Darn.. I was really hoping the 32 MB of RAM would be enough. XP x64 has very little support. You will be better off with Vista x64. I have XP x64, but a lot of things do not have drivers and so it is worthless IMO. If the machine is DDR2, then I would get all 8 GB of RAM now. If it is DDR3...

I should have qualified it with "many" since not everybody disliked XP. I also did like XP when it came out, but some people didnt like XP because it was too different (even though it was still pretty similar). I still see some people today using the classic view on machines that can handle...

Most people will not see the need to upgrade.. They will only upgrade when they are forced to. To many people a computer is just a device to get work done, as long as it works, why change anything? That does make sense. I know people still running Windows 98SE on one of their computers...

Yeah so far there are only three antivirus programs that work in Windows 7 (or at least confirmed by Microsoft) Kapersky, Norton, and AVG. That is good to hear that it worked on a 1.2 Celeron with 512 RAM. What kind of Graphics card? Did you have Aero running? I actually like the new task...

I agree with you that Vista is a very good OS (when the computer can run it well). I suggest it for the most part to everybody, but there are some people where I will say to get XP. I just want to clear up one thing I dont agree with you about. A 32-bit OS can map past 3 GB of RAM. While I...

I have had Windows 7 Beta 1 for over a week now.. I must say that I do like it. I have found it a lot more responsive than Vista. It seems pretty stable. There have been some changes to the GUI, some of those changes to remind me of OSX, that do take some getting used to for pure Windows...

Purchasing a new computer is a little overkill to get rid it. Depending on the age of the computer. Then again a 7 year old computer is still failry decent for most office computers. Cheaper solution is to back up all important files (burn to CD/ put on flash drive or external hard drive) and...

Antivirus 2008 and its variants are really annoying and sometimes hard to get rid of. I have found that many Antivirus programs such as Norton, McAffee, Avast, and AVG Free are not catching if for some reason. The best program that I have found to remove the program is called...

If you sign up for Yahoo! Briefcase, that you would have to upload everything that you want to keep, and then download them. This can be very time consuming depending on your internet speed, and will not work for programs. What you will need to do is to create a yahoo account. Then you can...

Setting up a network share can be confusing to some. Making it secure is even more confusing. It is easier to use transfer medium such as flash drives and or CD/DVDs. I would say to use DVDs as it will also give you a backup of the files. It is not as easy as just having both on the same...

And if you have a 250 MB photoshop file, you gonna email that? Good luck. (Yes I have many 250 MB photshop files, I have had one up to 500 MB) I email a lot of things to myself, but using it as you sole means of transferring a lot of data is not the easiest thing to do. It is very time...