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Yes, to keep my child not using it.

I want to turn off my laptop at 11:00 PM on weekdays and can't turn it back on until 7:00 AM. Another way to say is: it can't be used from 11:00 PM to 7:00 AM weekdays.

I install Fresh Win 7. It had Win XP on it and when I install Win 7 I deleted all partitions to make only 1 partition to format, install Win 7. I did a lot of updates from Windows Update, Microsoft Office, Photoshop, ... also using Win Utilities to clean all the registries, tweak, scan...

I missed some important files, I thought I backed up them already, before install Fresh Windows 7 on it. How can I recover them? TIA.

(1) Mine is HP DV9600 I think (its' at home now), does it have Raid mode in bios? And if it does meaning that it has an intergrated raid controller? Right now Windows is seeing them as 2 separated drives C and D, are they in a array of raid 1 or 0? How do I check? (2) So it's not worth...

I have a notebook with 2 hard drives and I want to set up a raid 0 using Win 7 64 bit Ultimate: - Is it possible to do? If so how? - I've read somewhere a while ago that software raid (Windows 7 64 bit) is actually slower than non - raid: is it right?

Well, it's not exactly running them on multiple system because there's only one drive so I can use only one system at the time, but ...

My SSD is 256GB and I think it's big enough. But the problem is not only Windows 7, a lot more like Office, Photoshop, Illustrator, In Design, ... So if I make 2 partitions I need to reinstall all the applications without reactivate?

My new netbook is on the way and I'm thinking of putting the SSD in my 17" laptop into this machine, is there a problem? It's nice if I can use this same SSD on any machine when needed. They both support Win 7 Ultimate 64 bit. Do I need to reactivate Windows in the netbook and do it again...

Thanks for your reply! I guess I have to do a fresh install just too much to data to back up.

I tried to upgrade to Win 7 Ultimate 64bit but it said the disc is not compatible. I don't want to format the drive and install a fresh Windows on it because there are too much stuffs in there and the system is still fresh less than a year old.

A quick SSD and a raid 0 of four 7200rpm sATA drives: which one is faster?

No, I don't have a Mac only PCs.

Any other software to make a slide show beside Power Point?

Anyone can show me how to get rid of this error message: "One or more formulas contain a circular reference and may not calculate correctly. Circular references are any reference within a formula that depend upon the results of that same formula. For example, a cell that refers to its own...

When I double click on any .xlsx files I got the error message: windows cannot find 'C\users\name\desktop\excel.xlsx. Make sure you type the name correctly,and then try again. I tried to search at Microsoft web site with no results, can anyone help?

Is there an answer? Or did I post in the wrong forum?

My pictures are only about 5 MB each and I need a web site that offers free upload and does not reduce the size of them, can someone post a link if there is some site with that feature?

I've never registered in the past but lately I got more calls from my cell phones so anyone cares to post the link to register? TIA.

Win XP Pro booted fine but the mouse is acting weird: when I open IE it pop-up IE Properties box, as soon as I release the righ button the menu is gone, the keyboard is showing different characters when typing, ... I can't even start Windows in Safe mode because of the keyboard. Any suggestions?

Is there anything like that? I want to upgrade an AGP mobo with a PCI Express video card if possible.

Is there a way anyone?

I have few users with the same administrator's priviledge in my computer but I want to lock the settings of the printer Epson 1280 so I'm the only one will be able to change its settings. I still want other users to have the same admin's right when using my computer, just not the printer. Please...

When I click to read the next message the previous message dissappeared that I couldn't find it anywhere: deleted folder, archived folder, ... It's the same problem when I deleted any message: all of the deleted messages are gone without going into "deleted folder" first. It's the Outlook 2000 SR-1.

My friend is using Microsoft Outlook and yesterday he sent me 30 emails of the same message??? The message kept poping up every minute for 30 minutes, he asked me what has happened but I have no answer. He told me he didn't do anything different than before, anyone knows why?

I'm a volunteer so I prefer FREE software, thanks.

It's just a free Acrobat Reader.

If not please move it to the appropriate forum, thanks. After downloaded a Permission Form created by Acrobat online I have to print it out on paper to fill in needed infos and then make copies to give it to people to finish the rest of the form. I can't fill in, modify, adjust, ... the...

If you've read my post you know I already have 4GB of RAM and it's a max for my LAPTOP, some laptops couldn't pass 2GB RAM limit. Any ways to make Vista Home Premium to see all my 4GB RAM? Photoshop never has enough memory to work with. I changed my readyboost to a 4GB USB drive after...

My HP laptop has 4 GB Ram (system shows only 3.07 GB) so I added an 8 GB USB ReadyBoost drive but I couldn't use all the capacity, the max is only 4090 MB. I opened My Computer to get the drive's properties and tried to adjust to max but it didn't stay after I click Apply then OK. Instead of...

I tried to search but couldn't find it, can you show me where to look for?

I just tried Picasa and found out every pictures I uploaded had been reduced to a much smaller size: i.e. from 5,054,464 bytes down to 219 bytes. How to keep the original size of a pictures after uploading?

I don't know where to post so mods please move to the appropriate forum: I want to create an online site with all the photos and probably video to share with them. Which ones are the best free with less annoying pop-up ads?

Thanks for your replies! I'm having 2x1G now and just want to upgrade to 4G but the USB 2G is much cheaper than 2x2G and having the old 2x1G laying around with no use. Will Vista Home Premium see all physical 4G Ram? I've heard Windows having a problem seeing all 4G, just about above 3G.

How much will I miss when update to 2x1G + 2G USB flash instead of 2x2G physical sticks?

After adding another stick of 1GB Ram my system restarts by itself a lot, couples time per hour, is it a bad stick or something else?

Instead of open the case and take the memory out to look at the label, if any, to check what type: sdram (100,133), ddr (2100,2700, 3200,...) or ddr2 (too many speed rated for this new type)... is there a way to check?

I just reformated my old system to install fresh Win2K, got all the service pack updates and just found out when first turning off the system I have to push the power button just like using Win95 or AT motherboard. I look in the bios, old DELL computer, it doesn't have the "soft off" feature...

My laptop keeps dropping signal a lot so I wonder if I buy a USB/PCMCIA card to put in to get the stronger "STAY CONNECTED", is it true? If 1 fail the other stays connected, right? Are there any conflicts if I use both at the same time or I need to disable the built-in? If both can work they...