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Deegan posted:After backing up my stuff I'm prepared to wipe the ssd system drive and the storage drive and reinstall windows 7. Should I then simply upgrade to Win 10 or is that another post for another time? Just to address this specifically, if you are going to install Windows 10 then there is no reason to reinstall Windows 7 first. Download the Windows 10 installer and use your Windows 7 key - this has worked since the Fall refresh.
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Bisse posted:Looks like the windows license key doesn't support it. It's tied to Asus so only Asus Approved Shenanigans are allowed such as restoring from an earlier restore point, which worked for about 3 seconds before the chinese garbage-ware woke up from hibernation. So I would need to make it happen without a license key, not that that's not possible but I'll see if I can avoid it first. If you can find the license key then you should be able to do a nuke and pave and install Windows 10 using the old license key. Should there be data recovery necessary first boot the laptop with a live Linux CD/thumb drive, copy the material off, then do the reinstall.
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Bisse posted:
Trying Windows 10 is still worth a try - from what I've read people are still able to use Windows 7 keys to activate it even though the "free upgrade" ended. If not, this site mirrored all the Digital River Windows 7 ISOs before Microsoft closed it down, so you should be able to download a legit one from there: http://mirror.corenoc.de/digitalrivercontent.net/
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Dec 18, 2016 22:33
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RFC2324 posted:This is bad advice, imo. Use a cloud solution. My inclination would be to boot the machine to a non-Windows OS and copy the files off to physical media that way.
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Jan 14, 2017 09:07
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Maybe installing portable apps on a thumb drive might serve your travel purposes? Yeah, you'd still be stuck with using whatever computer you accessed, but at least you'd have persistent installs of applications that way. I've done this just to have access to LibreOffice on computers at the local university for those times I really don't want to have to hassle with Word.
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May 2, 2017 04:01
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Golden Bee posted:Sorry to resurrect the thread, but I’m having a problem where other apps will open links in a new instance of Firefox, one without my settings saved. Not a new window, entirely different version. Do you have more than one version of Firefox installed? If you deliberately launch Firefox and check settings, does it show Firefox as default? If you check About Firefox in each instance do they show different version numbers?
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Nov 25, 2019 06:49
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In terms of saving documents, it seems like worst-case you could access the drives using an operating system other than Windows, open them and save them in a different format (like .doc to .odf or whatever), and the risk would be minimal. I trust others will correct me if I'm wrong about that - it's just an off-the-top-of-my-head answer.
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May 18, 2020 03:35
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I went back to the first page but the entry for password managers hasn't been updated in a long time. What's the preferred cross-platform password manager nowadays? Would need to be Windows/Linux/Android capable.
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Jun 14, 2020 05:31
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Dolphin posted:I'm not even sure it's the USB incompatibility, this computer just seems to extremely hate Windows 7. Nothing I did helped, just BSOD whether I tried safe mode, install disk, anything. Couldn't even get it to boot to repair mode so I could use the command prompt. The support page for that motherboard shows no drivers for Windows versions earlier than Windows 10. You're probably not going to be able to run Windows 7 on it except in a VM. https://www.asrock.com/mb/AMD/B550M-ITXac/index.asp#Download
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Aug 22, 2020 22:45
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Quaint Quail Quilt posted:I've recently done encryption with pro and the only time I know it's on is if you reinstall windows or update the bios you have to type your 100 digit key in. I just recently had to do that to resurrect an old tablet running Windows 10. Using the onscreen keyboard. Like 3 times because of how hosed the previous install was. 
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Oct 11, 2020 00:39
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FWIW I used EaseUS to clone a drive a few years ago, and I recall it being fine. Did your system boot from the HDD you'd cloned in 2018? If you don't deliberately remove Windows from a cloned drive and just leave it hooked up then if the boot order changes or the SSD disappears then it will boot from the old drive.
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Jul 5, 2022 03:04
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Cup Runneth Over posted:Absolutely, those are lower unicode numbers so the bit map of your passwords will be smaller Make your password the same as your username and you save even more space.
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XYZAB posted:*family tech support curse* I'd strongly consider copying out whatever data they want/need from the machine, putting it on external media (and scanning the poo poo out of it), then nuke and pave, followed by a fresh install where they don't have the admin password, and install something like Teamviewer or use the built-in Windows remote assistance function in case they actually need to install something that isn't malware on their limited user accounts. Or install Linux and skin it to look like Windows. They could even keep using Edge! My parents are late 70s, early 80s, but luckily I haven't had to deal with anything like the level of crap you're describing here.
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May 26, 2023 07:29
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My stepfather managed to get malware on his Mac, so even that isn't 100%.
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WattsvilleBlues posted:Oh yeah, don't use Norton anything. When I worked tech support for an ISP in the mid-2000s I used to say that Norton Internet Security was an excellent product, because it kept its users safe by preventing them getting online in the first place.
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