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    8.1 or 8.1 Pro

    To me, there is no alternative to RDP. The experience just isn't the same with anything else :)
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    8.1 or 8.1 Pro

    Me neither, mate. Or Bitlocker for that matter. I feel safe knowing that my data is encrypted. Also, given that I'm in the IT field, joining an Active Directory domain is rather crucial for my needs. It's not really a debate for me. I'll always go with the "pro" version of Windows.
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    8.1 or 8.1 Pro

    Here is the official page that talks about the feature list between 8.1 Pro and 8.1 Standard. http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/compare Windows 8.1 Pro adds: Remote Desktop support Bitlocker drive encryption Join Active Directory domain (includes Group Policy support)
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    Upgrade to Win 7 - will my files on Win XP HDD be accessible?

    Alternatively, you could simply disable the drives in the BIOS / EFI firmware, then re-enable them after the OS installation is completed. Do you have any disk encryption installed on your Windows XP drives? If so, you may need to disable that before you can access the data from Windows 7.
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    Fresh Install of OEM Win 8.1 using OEM 8.0 key?

    For those who are interested in a more advanced scenario, you can use diskpart to partition your hard drive, and then use dism.exe to extract the install.wim file from the \sources directory, on the installation media, to your target OS partition. Then, you use bcdboot.exe to configure the boot...
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    Asus Technical Support - P8P67 Pro RMA Problems

    Scott, Sending you an e-mail now. Thanks for checking into it. Cheers, Trevor
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    Asus Technical Support - P8P67 Pro RMA Problems

    Scott, Thanks for offering to talk to the call center for me. I actually just got a call back (based on my voicemail) from a guy named "Curtis" who was extremely professional, told me the exact steps he was going to take on his side, and the steps I need to take in the next couple of days, in...
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    Asus Technical Support - P8P67 Pro RMA Problems

    Hey folks, Have any of you had problems getting through to Asus Technical Support? I recently submitted an RMA for a motherboard, and got a couple of e-mails within 12 hours with the RMA authorization and shipping label. Thankfully this part all went well, and the e-mail said that since my...
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    New SSD worked 2 days now dead?

    +1 Pretty sad. I would have recommended booting up to the Windows setup media, hit Shift + F10 to invoke a command prompt, then launch diskpart.exe. Once in an interactive prompt, use "list disk" to see if the disk is present. If it is, then you most likely have a "c" drive, but you can use...
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    Minimal Install of Intel AHCI Drivers?

    I'd highly recommend running memtest86+. Sounds like bad RAM. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Here's a link to the latest Rapid Storage Technology (RST) driver, for both RAID and AHCI controllers, and the directions I typically use...
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    The end of PC as we know it

    In other news, pigs will fly within the next year.
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    Samsung Series 5 - Installing Windows 7 Problem

    Well it turns out that I worked around the problem by using the "system restore" (ugh) DVD that was included with the system (Home Premium, not Ultimate Edition). Not happy about that, and Samsung Support refused to support their SSD + spindle hardware configuration when installing a "custom OS"...
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    Samsung Series 5 - Installing Windows 7 Problem

    Hey folks, I just got a Samsung Series 5 ultrabook and went to install Windows 7 Ultimate on it. I removed all the partitions and went ahead with a standard installation of Windows 7. After the machine rebooted, all I got was a constantly repeating "missing operating system" all over the...
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    Killed PSU rail?

    I clocked my Asus P8P67 PRO & i5-2500K using the auto-OC-tuner in the UEFI configuration screens. After this, I started getting delay write failures in Windows, so I decided to reset everything back to defaults. Everything seems back to normal, however the power rail going to my SATA optical...
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    Asus P8P67 PRO Total Memory Amount

    I just wanted to share the following factoids with the community regarding memory on the Asus P8P67 PRO motherboard. 1. The earliest version of the P8P67 PRO BIOS only allowed Windows 7 64-bit to recognize 4GB of memory, even though the BIOS itself and other utilities (eg. CPU-Z) showed 8192MB...
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