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    Two HDD with Windows 10. Can't choose boot.

    I have two HDD with Windows 10 installed in them and can't get the system to show the F2-F10 boot menu at start, if Both drives are plugged in, If I unplug one drive the menu shows up. When Both are plugged in it goes strait to HHD 1 and to get to HHD 2 I have to unplug HDD 1. I was able to...
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    Acer and Windows 7 Shutdown ..

    I have this ACER Laptop that is running Windows 7, when battery was down to 7% it would advice your to look for alternate power source. Now (or lately) when the battery goes down to about 10% it just SHUTS DOWN and when I plug it with the AC supply I get the Black screen asking if I want to...
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    Windows Defender Update

    When I get the Windows Update ALL the Windows Defender files show FAILED. I have Kaspersky and Malwarebytes installed as protection and Win7 64bits. I don't have any issues with the system as far as I can tell, however I was wondering if those "failed updates" can be avoided. Thanks.-
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    Windows Boot Manager 7-8

    I tried installing Windows 8 Preview on a Separate formated HD and had a little problem with size.... So I decided not to tryout Win8 for now. Now, I get this boot menu ALL the time when I start my PC that has Windows 7 Ultimate 64, the other HD for the installation of Win8 is not connected...
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    Memory Issues ???

    The system is an Intel DP55WG, 4 DDR3 2GB Memory, I7 2800, Windows 7 64, Corsair 750 Power. All of the sudden I could not boot, I got 3 beeps and the count stops at #21. Removed the Memory Sticks and started one by one. When it starts up, sometimes it boots fine but then I restart with that...
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    USB drive disappeared ....!!

    I have Win7 64 and a 500GB USB drive does not show up in Windows Explorer. It shows up in Device Manager as OEM EXT HARD DISK USB DEVICE everything is up to date and enabled, the "this device is working properly" is there and it shows that it can be ejected with the "Safely remove Hardware"...
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    Lost some Volumes !!!

    I have this 1TB SATA disk drive that had 3 volumes in it. Now all of the sudden I only see one volume !!! When I goto properties and POPULATE only one volume shows up. Here is the pic of that volume Any ideas??
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    "RECENT" list ...

    All of the sudden I lost the "recent" list on things like Notepad, Word, Adobe Acrobat .... By placing the cursor over the Task Bar and Right-Clicking the icons I was able to see the most recent files opened from before, now they don't show-up even after just using some. Any ideas? Thanks.-
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    LAN Enable--Disable

    If I Disable my LAN connection manually through Control Panel > Network and Sharing Center > Change Adapter Settings and Disable ... I can't connect it back on UNLESS I Restart the computer. I know I was able to do it before but now I must Re-Start to get my LAN back on. I read somewhere...
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    Login and password ??

    In Windows 7 64 bits on my own PC while I logged in using my Gmail account I would click on the user name and a list of accounts will drop down I would pick the account I needed and the password would fill up(in dots) and would immediatelly log in. Now, all of the sudden, when the drop down...
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    Locked Folders ?

    I have these folders that are locked. Just me uses this PC I am the Administrator and Jack How do I UNLOCK these folders? Some programs can't install because the temp file can't be written to a locked folder. Any help on this? Thanks.
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    Cookies ...

    How is it that when I use internet Options to Delete the Browsing History (Cookies, History and Temp Files) not all the cookies are erased. After using the above Delete option I can goto into C:-Users - %Name% - Cookies (also in Low) and the cookies are ALL still there?? Any help with this...
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    RAID0 and RAID1...?

    I just installed two 640GB identical drives setup as RAID. I set 300GB as RAID0 as to have Windows 7 and a WORK disc. I set 446GB as RAID1 on the rest of the HDs. My question would be... In an event that one of the two 640GB drives failed would I be able to retrive the information that would...
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    HDMI Greyed out with red arrow

    I have a Radeon 4850 card that has a HDMI out. I can get the image/video to the TV set just fine, however, the HDMI Audio does not. The DP55WG board has the sound embbeded. Here is the SOUND menu where it appears with a down red arrow but greyed out...
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    Blinking HDD light eveery 2 -3 seconds

    Have installed a DP55WG with a I7 860 and a Radeon 4850 with a 640 HDD. Windows 7 Ultimate. 8GB memory Everything running real good after built. the only concern I have is the Activity (red) light that briefly blinks every 2 - 3 seconds and so does the SATA drive activity LED (blue). After...
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    Activity on HDD?

    When my PC is on "just standing" state, with no activity from me, the HDD light blinks about every 2-3 seconds (not constant and not the same intensity). How can I find out which program or file is making it do that? Thank you.
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    Running out of Drive Letters

    I have a system which has run out of Drive: letters, Drive Z: is the last one. Any other drives that might be in the system DON'T show up. I read somewhere that when the single letters of the alphabeth run out Windows will start doubling eg Drive ZZ:. Is this correct? or is there a solution...
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    Downloding Updates ...

    I dowloaded SP3 directly from Microsoft and burned to a disc so I could install it on my system at home because I have a veeeery slow connection at home. I installed it without any problems, but now 'Windows update' keeps insisting on downloading this upgrade to my home computer, which will...
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    UPS Batteries?

    I have a UPS that uses four (4) 6V 12ah batteries connected in series but one of them is on the blink, it only charges to 6.25V the other three fully charged are up to 6.82V thus the UPS does not hold. I tried it with 3 batteries and it works fine but and holds but for a short period of time...
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    DWWin.exe failed to initialise because Windows is shutting down

    ..... and the "Shutdown" takes forever. Windows XO Pro SP3 ... I have tried looking in Event Manager and disabled Error reporting on Services and Disabled Dr. Watson through the Registry in AeDebug but the DWWin.exe failed to initialise because Windows is shutting down keeps popping up and the...

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