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First Windows 7 PC arriving Soon and Have Questions
Hi, today I ordered a ZT Affinity Phenom II X4 965 3.4GHz 1GB Radeon 5450
Blu-Ray ROM Desktop w/ Windows Professional 64bit. This will be my first Win7 PC. What should I do before using the PC everyday? I'm thinking drop the DVD\Blu Ray player to a very low drive letter, setup a permanent swap file. and I'd like to partition the 2TB HDD. Do I need third party software to partition a Win7 HDD? What else would you do to set up this PC? Thanks, Sam |
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First Windows 7 PC arriving Soon and Have Questions
For expert Windows 7 advice, please post your inquiry in the appropriate
Windows 7 Forum: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/w...ult.aspx?tab=2 Jack wrote: Hi, today I ordered a ZT Affinity Phenom II X4 965 3.4GHz 1GB Radeon 5450 Blu-Ray ROM Desktop w/ Windows Professional 64bit. This will be my first Win7 PC. What should I do before using the PC everyday? I'm thinking drop the DVD\Blu Ray player to a very low drive letter, setup a permanent swap file. and I'd like to partition the 2TB HDD. Do I need third party software to partition a Win7 HDD? What else would you do to set up this PC? Thanks, Sam |
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First Windows 7 PC arriving Soon and Have Questions
download and install security essentials from microsoft.
excellent virus program which also does trojans and even root kits. check for updates for all your hardware before loading too many programs. "Jack" wrote in message ... Hi, today I ordered a ZT Affinity Phenom II X4 965 3.4GHz 1GB Radeon 5450 Blu-Ray ROM Desktop w/ Windows Professional 64bit. This will be my first Win7 PC. What should I do before using the PC everyday? I'm thinking drop the DVD\Blu Ray player to a very low drive letter, setup a permanent swap file. and I'd like to partition the 2TB HDD. Do I need third party software to partition a Win7 HDD? What else would you do to set up this PC? Thanks, Sam |
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First Windows 7 PC arriving Soon and Have Questions
mikeyhsd;1242529 Wrote: download and install security essentials from microsoft. excellent virus program which also does trojans and even root kits. check for updates for all your hardware before loading too many programs. mikeyhsd@newsgroup "Jack" jack@newsgroup wrote in message news:%23HypiQXxKHA.5100@newsgroup Hi, today I ordered a ZT Affinity Phenom II X4 965 3.4GHz 1GB Radeon 5450 Blu-Ray ROM Desktop w/ Windows Professional 64bit. This will be my first Win7 PC. What should I do before using the PC everyday? I'm thinking drop the DVD\Blu Ray player to a very low drive letter, setup a permanent swap file. and I'd like to partition the 2TB HDD. Do I need third party software to partition a Win7 HDD? What else would you do to set up this PC? Thanks, Sam If you want to partition it, then its the first thing you will have to do, use partition magic or a boot CD. remember to activate the super administrator account. And enjoy your PC, its amazing -- compuwhiz93 If you liked what i said(even if you didn't), click on the scale button on the top right side. I need some reputation guys!!! Compuwhiz93 |
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First Windows 7 PC arriving Soon and Have Questions
"+Bob+" wrote in message ... On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 21:30:39 -0500, Leroy wrote: Why? He appears to like newsgroups and the fact that MS doesn't want to provide on for Win7 is their problem, not ours. I do prefer newsgroup but will also check out http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/w...ult.aspx?tab=2. |
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First Windows 7 PC arriving Soon and Have Questions
"mikeyhsd" wrote in message ... download and install security essentials from microsoft. excellent virus program which also does trojans and even root kits. check for updates for all your hardware before loading too many programs. OK, any suggests partitioning the HDD? |
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First Windows 7 PC arriving Soon and Have Questions
If you want to partition it, then its the first thing you will have to do, use partition magic or a boot CD. remember to activate the super administrator account. And enjoy your PC, its amazing -- compuwhiz93 If you liked what i said(even if you didn't), click on the scale button on the top right side. I need some reputation guys!!! Compuwhiz93 Thanks, I may have a copy of parition magic around here. I'm unclear The boot cd. Can I make a book CD then use it to partition the HDD? I don't know what a super admin is but I'll figure it out. |
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First Windows 7 PC arriving Soon and Have Questions
I really don't like to partition. I'd rather install a second Hard Drive. That aside, your Dell will likely have a "hidden" partition that contains some sort of "as delivered" Windows 7 recovery copy.
Usually these are of limited use, since they will "brick" or go back to the original without any of the updates, app installs, etc. "Jack" wrote in message ... "mikeyhsd" wrote in message ... download and install security essentials from microsoft. excellent virus program which also does trojans and even root kits. check for updates for all your hardware before loading too many programs. OK, any suggests partitioning the HDD? |
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First Windows 7 PC arriving Soon and Have Questions
I like to my data separate from th OS and my camera and music files separate from everything else. Lot's of thrashing going on w/ a 2T HDD.
"Chuck" wrote in message ... I really don't like to partition. I'd rather install a second Hard Drive. That aside, your Dell will likely have a "hidden" partition that contains some sort of "as delivered" Windows 7 recovery copy. Usually these are of limited use, since they will "brick" or go back to the original without any of the updates, app installs, etc.I hear you but it's a 2t HDD. |
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First Windows 7 PC arriving Soon and Have Questions
Thanks, I'll check it out.
"Terry Heinz" wrote in message ... On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:48:37 -0400, Jack wrote: If you want to partition it, then its the first thing you will have to do, use partition magic or a boot CD. remember to activate the super administrator account. And enjoy your PC, its amazing -- compuwhiz93 If you liked what i said(even if you didn't), click on the scale button on the top right side. I need some reputation guys!!! Compuwhiz93 Thanks, I may have a copy of parition magic around here. I'm unclear The boot cd. Can I make a book CD then use it to partition the HDD? I don't know what a super admin is but I'll figure it out. I'm not sure because my hard drive was already partitioned into: C: D: E: But I think Win 7 already has a partition prograam. -- Terry Heinz. |
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