Recent content by thomasjames

Hullo. Enter pls. cheers, but also Merry Christmas and a happy new year ladies & gents @ tom's

oh my god. FINALLY. after years of CRIPPLING and costly mistakes and immense, *VAST* duplications of efforts with ubuntu custom-everything, sanity will prevail. i am so happy i could cry. props though, takes a man to admit he was wrong rather than simply step down. however, let's move on, please...

can you clarify please? the way you've phrased the question makes it difficult to understand what you want. what would you want to restore, and what did you use to perform the backup?

ok i need to go for the moment. when applied that fix might increase performance from 1% to 7% according to the app. the ugly truth is the current amd arch is just not .... what was hoped for ( i have to be careful what i say to avoid yet another flame war on this issue ) so you might not be...

yes, that comment was for the poster above. did you check whether you've applied the hotfix?

a hard drive error whose only symptom is 1/3 the performance of game capture and nothing else? i seriously doubt that.

ok there's a hotfix, it's called "KB2646060". check whether you applied it

you may be seeing the combined effect of scheduling issues due to the fact that windows 7 was released long before the current amd cpu family was introduced, together with a cpu whose performace is a mixed bag on non-heavily threaded software. unlike intel SMT's cores those 8 are actually 8...

by any chance, was your previous cpu an intel cpu? and which one?

ok good luck

if you're having problems with the regular windows backup, "windows easy transfer" might be a better fit for your current skill level, however, the above poster is also right, dragging and dropping the folders you want to save to a different drive is straightforward and everyone can do it...

finding it very difficult to imagine what you're trying to describe, unless you're describing the regular taskbar hiding process, in which case to fix it: right-click on the taskbar, select "properties", then pay attention to the labels you're ticking, 'cause you may have checked "auto hide the...

i hope you (the OP) won't find this offensive, as it's not meant to. but there's little point in someone asking the above questions then going to look into what virtualization instructions the two cpus will support because it will be greek to you, so it's way, way stranger for someone to suggest...

you never told us what version of windows you run, and yes, it makes a big difference, so: go to a friend's pc or a library, and download the just about any linux distribution that runs as a live cd/dvd, copy the iso to cd/dvd, boot from the disk, and copy all your important data to a usb drive...

thanks. glad you've solved the problem. keep in mind that D.O. has built-in complex searches, filtering and scripting, so you don't need external tools. however, as long as it works you should go with what you're confident with. all the best.