How did you make or get this bootable recovery drive? is it an OEM 'factory restore' recovery drive? Also, where did you get your key? The OEM...

Windows system image has the advantage of being in vhd (x) format.The basic restore interface MS provides for consumers is limited and not without...

How do you know your printers won't work with Windows 10? You could try out Windows 10 and see for yourself whether the printers worked. There is a...

Thanks for the reply. I'll PM you in a minute. I actually sent the 4TB Passports back. I'm still looking for external drives for backup but...

I hope your Passports hold out. A BIOS pw can be annoying. I shut mine off. It's just a way to make an extra hurdle so that someone can't access your...

Bree, my profile says Windows 7 there are two problems: 1- this is an OEM license, the VM is a different machine than that on which it is installed:...

What does that have to do with anything? I asked how many gb the installation file was.

There is a function in dism++ which does it. It uses the win10 cbs engine and seems to be somewhat similar to the component store cleanup ( or...

Also the size shown for the Component Store is confusing, a lot of entries displayed are systemic links and report the size of the linked file, and...

For a newbie like me can you tell me what you use to backup your data and clone the drives? What are you using for your external drives? Thanks!

Absolutely not! That is your Windows Component Store and deleting it will break Windows. You can however reduce its size by cleaning it up. ...

I've downloaded Firefox this morning and am just setting it up. It is a little faster than Chrome which is welcome. It has downloaded with the...

Unfortunately, that's all above my pay grade. :( I have two printers that don't have drivers for W10, two reasons I would stick w/ W7.

Welcome to Seven Forums. Yes, it is quite possible to run a Windows VM in Linux. There are several ways to do that, I think my choice would be...

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