Help! I know little about this. I run windows XP. My son tells me I have to many pictures on this. Now my virus program will not upgrade. He told me to get an External Hard Drive to download all my pictures, because I have no disc space left. Will this work just to take off all my pictures or files of pictures? Help! I know little about this. I run windows XP. My son tells me I have to many pictures on this. Now my virus program will not upgrade. He told me to get an External Hard Drive to download all my... » Read More Help! I know little about this. I run windows XP. My son tells me I have to many pictures on this. Now my virus program will not upgrade. He told me to get an External Hard Drive to download all my pictures, because I have no disc space left. Will this work just to take off all my pictures or files of pictures? « Show Less
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Does you computer have a DVD drive? Copy as many photos as the DVD disk will hold and move on to the next disk. Good safe storage in case you internal hard drive or that external drive fails.
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Yes, this can be set up as just a external hard drive for storage. That is what we use it for.
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You should be able to connect this drive and then redirect your download to this drive. You should be able to do this through the W7 download page or you could redirect your default download location through your browser. The bigger question to you will be whether you have enough room on your primary drive to do the upgrade.Another option would be to move most of your personal files from your original drive to this external drive freeing up space on your primary drive to download and upgrade Windows. Depends on what you want. Personally, I would at least use the external drive as a backup/copy for your personal files in case your upgrade goes badly. You should be able to connect this drive and then redirect your download to this drive. You should be able to do this through the W7 download page or you could redirect your default download location through your browser. The bigger question to you will be whether you have enough room on your primary drive to do the upgrade.Another option would be to move most of your personal files from your original drive to this external drive freeing up space on your primary drive to download and upgrade Windows. Depends on what you want. Personally, I would at least use the external drive as a... » Read More You should be able to connect this drive and then redirect your download to this drive. You should be able to do this through the W7 download page or you could redirect your default download location through your browser. The bigger question to you will be whether you have enough room on your primary drive to do the upgrade.Another option would be to move most of your personal files from your original drive to this external drive freeing up space on your primary drive to download and upgrade Windows. Depends on what you want. Personally, I would at least use the external drive as a backup/copy for your personal files in case your upgrade goes badly. « Show Less
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My suggestion would be to reduce the size of the paging file (your computer is probably using hard drive space as temporary RAM). You have 1 Gig, so you shouldn't need more. Just go to control panel and find "system." (You might want to switch to classic view to find it faster.) Click "advanced" and then click "settings" under "Performance." Click the second tab there, "Advanced" and then there's a bit at the bottom labeled "Virtual memory." It'll say how much your machine is using. Click "change." Make sure the C drive is selected, then put in number in the custom size fields (initial and max); 50 or 100 should be fine. Make sure to click "set" and then "OK" and you're done. This happened to me on my eee and I couldn't figure out how I kept running low on disk space when I don't save anything on the C drive, until I discovered this resources hog. Again, since this machine comes with 12 Gigs of RAM, you shouldn't really need to waste harddrive space supplementing that. (If you want more RAM, go spend $25 at Circuit City for another 1 gig stick.) Good luck, I hope that resolves the problem. :) You can also search the forums at eeeuser.com for more tips on slimming your Windows down and getting rid of programs you don't need and such.
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i have a 30gig drive i would think if you have 500mb left on your drive you need to put some pics and songs or movies on a flash drive. the program puts it on the hard drive to compile it and then burns it to a dvd. i use 3 flash drive to store pics and movies. keeps the hard drive free.
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Sort of. Windows 7 Upgrades are designed for Windows Vista, keeping your files and programs in place. If you have XP, you will not be able to perform that same type of upgrade directly. Instead, you can do what is called a "Clean Install" which will move your files to a Windows.old folder, but you will need to install all of your programs again. I'd also like to point out that you cannot use this Anytime Upgrade to go from XP to Win7. This product is strictly to upgrade from Windows 7 Starter to Windows 7 Home Premium; if you do not currently have Windows 7 Starter installed, then this product will be of no use. Try searching for "Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium Upgrade" as that includes the DVDs so you can do the Clean Install.
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Will this stick remove the Groovorio virus? And it is really any better than free programs like SuperAntiSpyware? If it can't remove the trojan viruses, like someone mentioned here, what else does it not help remove? I need help with the biggie things.
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According to the instructions with the disc, it will wipe all Windows OS, including XP. I did two passes on Windows 7 and my HD was wiped clean. The cost is worth it.
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Wouldn't you rather reinstall your programs and such onto the new drive and not copy everything over? I have had less issues starting from scratch than imaging it.Alienware should use standard sized drives unless everything is on a mSSD.
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I thought I only had to connect the two computers Windows 7 to Windows 7 and start transfer and that it would transfer the programs and the files therefor. Do you mean to say that I have to install every program I have then transfer the files? There are dozens.
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Yes, part of the package is automatic updates to the system. All virus software MUST update frequently, or the latest problems will not be addressed.
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All I know about 8.1 is that it is an upgrade after you install 8-if you do not want 8.1 don't upgrade. If have done it- not sure how to remove it--I would contact Microsoft. This upgrade program will only work on one computer-has one product key-you would have to buy another product key to install it on another computer.
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You don't have to have the disk in your computer to use it. The program does randomly connect to the Internet to check that there are no updates and that it's an originally issued copy of the program. As far as using it on multiple computers you can do that if they're not being used at the same time. I have it installed on 2 computers but never use them at the same time.
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No sure yet. Can you buy your programs on the internet and download? Otherwise you have to buy the $80, external hard drive. Good luck.
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It came without an antivirus program but since you probably want to upgrade up from buggy XP why not switch to Ubuntu and eliminate the need for an antivirus program?
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Yes it works, I installed this on a few xp computers and works every single time on one of this computers the antivirus downloaded additional components, I think is because that computer was XP SP2 instead of sp3
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You need to format the drive before use. So if you have some files on it, you will lose that. Beware!!!!!
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HiReally depends on the age of your machine. This version is for system builders, meaning you'd have to wipe windows xp and install win7 fresh. This won't upgrade an existing windows installation.If your machine is older than 4 years, I'd suggest a new machine.The install took 15gb of my hard disk