Recent content by will_chellam

i used macrium reflect for exactly this purpose - has worked flawlessly on me on a few upgrades, laptop, dekstop etc. Also has nice options for cloning to a network disk image. If you use macrium, it doesnt remove any data from the original disk, so you can test the new one works ok before...

I am looking at buying a tablet PC, primarily for reading medical texbooks (LOTS of text and a lot of fairly intricate diagrams). I am looking for something with a better than HD screen, decent processor and RAM (some books are 300+ MB) and that will be fairly durable, my top end price is...

Your best bet is to change the security key to a new one. Plug your PC directly into the router using a LAN cable Look up your router's default IP address Disable WIFI on your PC Open an internet browser and enter the routers IP address. Use the web configuration to change the password.

One does not simply migrate platforms..... 1. Backup ALL data or use a new HDD for the install and keep the old one to recover data from later. 2. Definitely do a clean, fresh install on an empty partition - doing an upgrade / reinstall will cause you no end of pain in terms of slow-downs...

You can use *any* valid windows key in the anytime upgrade process AFAIK, so if you can find a decent offer or student deal on professional then that would work, also with win8 around the corner, you may find some retail boxes going cheap.

To me, that looks like the pin has been bent next to the white mark - which may mean that someone has tried to force the processor and bent the pin then unbent it, or even worse, snapped the pin off and glued it back on... Personally I would have sold it as no warranty, but since you have it...

depends why theyve broken - if theyve burnt out because youre using high power portable hdds / charging your iphone constantly - you may have burnt out the controller - then its screwed. If youve physically damaged the port, it might just need a quick solder.

completely depends on what you are using it for.... I never watch films, rarely play games, and i have to say, when i switch from my samsung 1280x1024 to a friends 19" widescreen, i really notice the difference..... I do a lot of digital photography, which is much closer to 4:3 ratio rather...

OR, a radeon HD 6970 for the same price, virtually nothing to split them apart from added features - if you're thinking about 3d go with nvidia, if you're wanting eyefinity go with AMD.

Nooo, dont buy anything - you can just download a copy of the 64bit install media from digital river and use your existing serial key - even microsoft say the keys are interchangeable between 32 and 64 bit versions of the same edition i.e. home and home, premium and premium etc...

Oh yeah, my first self-built PC was a Cyrix 6x86 PR-133+ (what a POS processor) it did however have 32MB of RAM and a 16mb millenium G200 graphics / x2 12mb voodoo2 cards and a DXR2 decoder (3 loopthroughs at the back..) most people ran 4 or 8 Mb of RAM back then.....

I'm disappointed not to see the now infamous windows 95 plug-and-plat BSOD on the big announcement day..... worthy of a top-fail all by itself.... It did however pave the way for better things - a lot of people wont remember plugging in hardware and literally nothing happening - having to...

If you can get a hold of a copy of the windows 7 installation disk (there are downloadable copies fairly freely available ( http://www.mydigitallife.info/download-windows-7-iso-official-32-bit-and-64-bit-direct-download-links/ ) you may be able to install it with the product key on the...