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• How to restore the computer to factory settings?

  I want to restore my computer back factory settings im tp do not know how to do that please inform me on what I do you solved the problem

  Vista recovery media obtain and/or use the Partition Recovery Vista on your computer to the factory settings .

  There is no Vista free download legal available.

  Contact your computer manufacturer and ask them to send a recovery disk/s Vista set.

  Normally, they do this for a cost of $ small.

  In addition, ask them if you have a recovery Partition on your computer/laptop to restore it to factory settings.

  See if a manual provided with the computer or go to the manufacturer's website, email or you can call for information on how to make a recovery.

  Normally, you have to press F10 or F11 at startup to start the recovery process...

  Another way I've seen on some models is press F8 and go to a list of startup options, and launch a recovery of standards of plant with it, by selecting the repair option.

  Also ask them if it is possible to do the recovery disk/s for the recovery Partition in case of a system Crash or hard drive failure.

  They will tell you how to do this.

  Every computer manufacturer has their own way of making recovery disk/s.

  Or borrow a good Microsoft Vista DVD (not Dell, HP, etc).
  A good Vista DVD contains all versions of Vista.
  The product key determines which version of Vista is installed.

  There are 2 disks of Vista: one for 32-bit operating system, and one for 64-bit operating system.

  If install a cleaning is required with a good DVD of Vista (not HP, Dell recovery disks):

  Go to your Bios/Setup, or the Boot Menu at startup and change the Boot order to make the DVD/CD drive 1st in the boot order, then reboot with the disk in the drive.

  At the startup/power on you should see at the bottom of the screen either F2 or DELETE, go to Setup/Bios or F12 for the Boot Menu

  http://support.Microsoft.com/default.aspx/KB/918884

  MS advice on the conduct of clean install.

  http://www.theeldergeekvista.com/vista_clean_installation.htm

  A tutorial on the use of a clean install

  http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/winvista_install_03.asp

  Super Guide Windows Vista Installation

  After installation > go to the website of the manufacturer of your computer/notebook > drivers and downloads Section > key in your model number > get latest Vista drivers for it > download/install them.

  Save all data, because it will be lost during a clean installation.

  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

  http://support.Microsoft.com/default.aspx/KB/326246

  'How to replace Microsoft software or hardware, order service packs and upgrades, and replace product manuals'

  See you soon.

  Mick Murphy - Microsoft partner

• need the simple way to set the computer back to factory settings, and already saved safe data

  need the simple way to set the computer back to factory settings, and already saved safe data

  Vista recovery media obtain and/or use the Partition Recovery Vista on your computer to the factory settings .

  There is no Vista free download legal available.

  Contact your computer manufacturer and ask them to send a recovery disk/s Vista set.

  Normally, they do this for a cost of $ small.

  In addition, ask them if you have a recovery Partition on your computer/laptop to restore it to factory settings.

  See if a manual provided with the computer or go to the manufacturer's website, email or you can call for information on how to make a recovery.

  Normally, you have to press F10 or F11 at startup to start the recovery process...

  Another way I've seen on some models is press F8 and go to a list of startup options, and launch a recovery of standards of plant with it, by selecting the repair option.

  Also ask them if it is possible to do the recovery disk/s for the recovery Partition in case of a system Crash or hard drive failure.

  They will tell you how to do this.

  Every computer manufacturer has their own way of making recovery disk/s.

  Or borrow a good Microsoft Vista DVD (not Dell, HP, etc).
  A good Vista DVD contains all versions of Vista.
  The product key determines which version of Vista is installed.

  There are 2 disks of Vista: one for 32-bit operating system, and one for 64-bit operating system.

  If install a cleaning is required with a good DVD of Vista (not HP, Dell recovery disks):

  Go to your Bios/Setup, or the Boot Menu at startup and change the Boot order to make the DVD/CD drive 1st in the boot order, then reboot with the disk in the drive.

  At the startup/power on you should see at the bottom of the screen either F2 or DELETE, go to Setup/Bios or F12 for the Boot Menu

  http://support.Microsoft.com/default.aspx/KB/918884

  MS advice on the conduct of clean install.

  http://www.theeldergeekvista.com/vista_clean_installation.htm

  A tutorial on the use of a clean install

  http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/winvista_install_03.asp

  Super Guide Windows Vista Installation

  After installation > go to the website of the manufacturer of your computer/notebook > drivers and downloads Section > key in your model number > get latest Vista drivers for it > download/install them.

  Save all data, because it will be lost during a clean installation.

  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

  http://support.Microsoft.com/default.aspx/KB/326246

  'How to replace Microsoft software or hardware, order service packs and upgrades, and replace product manuals'

  See you soon.

  Mick Murphy - Microsoft partner

• If I put my computer back to factory settings, will it get rid of the virus?

  If I put my computer back to factory settings, will it get rid of the virus?

  If I put my computer back to factory settings, will it get rid of the virus?

  In * most * cases, Yes.

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  I just put my moms old computer back to the factory setting and mounted a new ethernet card. His ISP is Virgin Media, which you do not receive a disc for. Usually, it connects via a wireless D.Link router and its operating system is Windows XP. When I try to connect to Internet Explorer, I get "cannot display the webpage:." Any suggestions please?

  Thank you

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  Hi, Deborah17,

  I would say to contact Virgin Media for assistance with wireless - according to this they have a rom installation

  How to manually configure my wireless router cable Windows

  http://help.virginmedia.com/system/selfservice.controller

  If you are experiencing network connectivity problems in Internet Explorer, the first thing to do is to make sure that all cables are connected. Then open Network Diagnostics by right-clicking the network icon in the notification area, and then click diagnose and repair (if you use Windows Vista) or solve problems (if you use Windows 7).

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  I hope this helps.

• I am currently using Lightroom 4. I bought the IMac with the largest memory, but he has quickly filled. To conserve space on my computer, I bought a hard drive and I tried to get my lightroom back up there. (I don't know if I did it correctly or not

  I am currently using Lightroom 4. I bought the IMac with the largest memory, but he has quickly filled. To conserve space on my computer, I bought a hard drive and I tried to get my lightroom back up there. (I don't know if I did it correctly or not) Now, all my photos in Lightroom are "offline or missing", and I have no idea what to do next. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

  I guess you mean not memory and disk space, you want to clear space on the internal drive. Is this correct?

  If you have moved your photos somehow (this is not a backup), please follow these instructions to reconnect photos in Lightroom. Adobe Lightroom - find folders and files moved or missing

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• I have a HP vectra running windows xp professional, version 2002 can download the version of the disc so I can restore my computer back to factory settings?

  I want to restore my computer to factory settings and start over, because I keep getting blue screen errors and I can't seem to fix.  I don't have the original disc, but I have the key code, is there a way to download the disc for Windows Professional version 2002?

  Hello

  I recommend you contact HP support and see if they can provide you with a recovery disc or disk installation for Windows XP.
  http://WWW8.HP.com/us/en/support-drivers.html

  I hope this helps.

• Should we leave how much free space on the C drive before affecting the performance and speed?

  Hello!

  Hard drive of my new PC (C) is 1 TB (processor Samsung 7i, Windows 8.1). It doesn't have any other disk/partition. How this space is safe to use to store large files (videos, esp., stored in the native video library file) without harming the performance and speed?

  And if I create another partition (D) and just use it for storage, it will make much difference compared to the above?

  Thank you!

  Anna

  Sunday, March 1, 2015 10:59 + 0000, AnaFilipaLopes wrote:

  And if I create another partition (D) and just use it for storage, it will make much difference compared to the above?

  Planning your Partitions

  The Question

  Partitions, how much should I have on my hard drive, what do I use
  each of them for, and what size should each one be?

  It s a common question, but unfortunately this doesn t have a
  only simple, just answer to all the world. A lot of people will respond with
  the way they do, but their response isn't necessarily best for the
  person seeking (in many cases it isn't right even for the person)
  response).

  Terminology

  First, let's rethinking the terminology. Some people ask "should I".
  partition my drive? That s the wrong question, because the
  the terminology is a little strange. Some people think that the word
  "partition" means divide the drive into two or more partitions.
  That s not correct: to partition a drive is to create one or several
  partitions on it. You must have at least one partition to use
  He who think they have an unpartitioned disk actually
  have a player with only one partition on it and it s normally
  Called C:. The choice you have is to have more than one
  partition, not that it's the partition at all.

  A bit of history

  Back before Windows 95 OEM Service Release 2 (also known as Windows
  95 (b) was published in 1996, all MS-DOS and Windows hard drives have been set
  using the file system FAT16 (except for very tiny to aid
  FAT12). That 16-bit only because were used for addressing, FAT16 has a
  maximum 2 GB partition size.

  More than 2 GB of hard disks were rare at the time, but if you had
  one, you must have multiple partitions to use all the available
  space. But even if your drive was not larger than 2GB, FAT16 created
  Another serious problem for many people - the size of the cluster has been
  more great if you had a larger partition. Cluster sizes increased from 512
  bytes for a partition to no greater than32Mb all the way up to 32 KB for a
  partition of 1 GB or more.

  More the cluster size, the space more is wasted on a hard drive.
  That s as space for all the files is allocated in whole clusters
  only. If you have 32 KB clusters, a 1 byte file takes 32 KB, a file, a
  greater than 32 k byte takes 64 k and so on. On average, each file
  about half of his last group waste.

  If large partitions create a lot of waste (called "soft"). With a 2 GB
  FAT16 drive in a single cluster, if you have 10,000 files, each
  lose half a cluster of 32 KB, you lose about 160 MB for relationships. This s
  back in an important part of a player that probably cost more than $400
  1996 - around $ 32.

  So what did the people? They divided their 2 GB drive in two,
  three or more logical drives. Each of these logical drives has been
  smaller the real physical disk, had smaller clusters, and
  so less waste. If, for example, she was able to keep all the partitions
  less than 512 MB, cluster size was only 8 KB, and the loss was reduced to a
  a quarter of what it would be otherwise.

  People partitioned for other reasons also, but back in the days of
  FAT16, it was the main reason to do so.

  The present

  Three things have changed radically since 1996:

  1. the FAT32 and NTFS file systems came along, allowing a larger
  partitions with smaller clusters and so much less waste. In
  with NTFS, cluster sizes are 4 K, regardless of the size of the partition.

  2 hard drives have become much larger, often more than 1 TB (1000 GB) in
  size.

  3 hard drives have become much cheaper. For example, a 500 GB drive
  can be bought today for about $50. That s 250 times the size of this
  Player 2Gb typical 1996, about one-eighth of the price.

  What these things mean together which is the reason to be old to have
  multiple partitions to avoid the considerable wastage of disk space left.
  The amount of waste is much less than it used to be and the cost of
  that waste is much less. For all practical purposes, almost nobody does
  should no longer be concerned about slack, and it should no longer be
  has examined when planning your partition structure.

  What Partitions are used for today

  There are a variety of different ways people put in place several
  scores of these days. Some of these uses are reasonable, some are
  debatable, some are downright bad. I'll discuss a number of Commons
  partition types in the following:

  1. a partition for Windows only

  Most of the people who create such a partition are because they believe
  If they never have to reinstall Windows properly, at least they
  He won t lose their data and he won t have to reinstall their applications.
  because both are safe on other partitions.

  The first of these thoughts is a false comfort and the second
  is downright bad. See the analysis of the types of partition 2 and 4
  below to find out why.

  Also note that over the years, a lot of people who find their windows
  partition that has begun to be the right size proves to be too
  small. For example, if you have such a partition for Windows and later
  upgrade to a newer version of Windows, you may find that your Windows
  partition is too small.

  2. a partition for installed programs

  This normally goes hand in hand with the partition type 1, a partition for
  just Windows. The thought that if you reinstall Windows, your
  installed application programs are safe if they are in another
  partitions is simply not true. That s because all programs installed
  (with the exception of an occasional trivial) have pointers to the inside
  Windows, in the registry and elsewhere, as well as associated files
  buried in the Windows folder. So if Windows, pointers and
  the files go with it. Given that the programs need to be reinstalled if Windows
  the fact, this reasoning to a separate partition for programs not
  work. In fact, there is almost never a good reason to separate
  Windows of the software application into separate partitions.

  3. a partition for the pagefile.

  Some people think mistakenly that the pagefile on another
  score will improve performance. It is also false; It doesn t
  help and often I hurt, performance, because it increases the movement of the head
  to get back to the page to another file frequently used
  data on the disk. For best performance, the paging file should normally
  be on the most widely used score of less used physical player. For
  almost everyone with a single physical disk than the same drive s
  Windows is on C:.

  4. a partition for backup for other partitions.

  Some people make a separate partition to store backups of their other
  or partitions. People who rely on a "backup" are a joke
  themselves. It is only very slightly better than no backup at all.
  because it leaves you likely to be simultaneously the original losses
  and backup for many of the most common dangers: the head crashes and other
  types of drive, serious glitches to power failure, near lightning
  strikes, virus attack, even stolen computer.  In my opinion,.
  secure backup must be on a media removable and not stored in the
  computer.

  5. a partition for data files

  Above, when I discussed separate Windows on a clean partition,
  I pointed out that separate data from Windows is a false comfort if
  He of done with the idea that data will be safe if Windows ever
  must be reinstalled. I call it a false comfort that's because
  I'm afraid many people will rely on this separation, think that their
  data are safe there and so do not take measures to
  Back it up. In truth the data is not safe there. Having to reinstall
  Windows is just one of the dangers to someone a s hard disk and not
  probably even one. This kind of "backup" falls into the same
  category, as a backup to other partitions partition; It lets you
  sensitive to the simultaneous loss of the original and the backup on many of
  the most common dangers that affect the entire physical disk, not
  just the particular partition. Security comes from a solid backup
  diet, not how partition you.

  However, for some people, it may be a good idea to separate Windows and
  programs on the one hand of the data on the other, putting each of the
  two types into separate partitions. I think that most people
  partitioning scheme must be based on their backup system and backup
  plans are generally of two types: whole hard disk imaging
  or data only backup. If you back up data, backup is
  usually facilitated by the presence of a separate with data only partition;
  to save just the score easily, without having to
  collect pieces from here and elsewhere. However, for
  those who backup by creating an image of the entire disk, there is
  usually little, if any, benefit the separation of data in a partition of
  its own.

  Furthermore, in all honesty, I must point out that there are many
  very respected people who recommend a separate partition for Windows,
  Whatever your backup plan.  Their arguments haven t convinced
  me, but there are clearly two views different here.

  6. a partition to image files

  Some people like to deal with the images and videos as something separate
  other data files and create a separate partition for them. To my
  the spirit, an image is simply another type of data and there is no
  the advantage in doing so.

  7. a partition for music files.

  The comments above related to the image files also apply to music
  files. They are just another type of data and must be dealt with the
  just like the other data.

  8. a partition for a second operating system to dual-boot to.

  For those who manage several operating systems (Windows Vista, Windows
  XP, Windows 98, Linux, etc.), a separate partition for each operating
  system is essential. The problems here are beyond the scope of this
  discussion, but simply to note that I have no objection to s
  all these partitions

  Performance

  Some people have several partitions because they believe that it
  somehow improves performance. That s not correct. The effect is
  probably low on modern computers with modern hard disks, but if
  whatever it is, the opposite is true: more music mean poorer
  performance. That's because normally no partition is full and it
  so are gaps between them. It takes time for the drive s
  read/write heads to cross these gaps. Close all files
  are, faster access to them will be.

  Organization

  I think a lot of people overpartition because they use scores as a
  organizational structure. They have a keen sense of order and you want to
  to separate the apples from the oranges on their readers.

  Yes, separating the different types of files on partitions is a
  technical organization, but then is to separate different types of
  files in folders. The difference is that the walls are static and
  fixed in size, while the files are dynamic, changing size automatically
  as needed to meet your changing needs. This usually done records
  a much better way to organize, in my opinion.

  Certainly, partitions can be resized when necessary, but except with the latter
  versions of Windows, which requires a third-party software (the and the
  possibility to do so in Windows is primitive compared to the third-party
  solutions). These third party software normally costs money and not
  any point and how stable it is, affects the entire disk.
  with the risk of losing everything. Plan your partitions in
  first place and repartitioning, none will be necessary.  The need
  to repartition usually occurs as a result of overpartitioning in
  the first place.

  What often happens when people organize with partitions instead
  records are that they make a miscalculation of how much room they need on each
  This partition, and then when they run out of space on the partition
  When a file is logically, while having plenty of space
  on the other hand, they simply saving the file in the score of "poor".
  Paradoxically, therefore, results in this kind of score structure
  less organization rather than more.

  So how should I partition my drive

  If you read what came before, my findings will not come as a
  surprise:

  1. If your backup set is the image of the entire disk, have just one
  single (usually c partition :));

  2. If you backups just data, have two partitions one for Windows and
  application programs installed (usually c :)), the other for data
  (normally D :).)

  With the exception of multiple operating systems, it is rarely
  any advantage to have more than two partitions.

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  I work remotely for a company and I want to connect my Mac to the server of the company.

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  There is no "letter" under OS X. It's a hangover very old of BACK, devices of mapping and volumes labeled mailbox.

  If you are connected to your corporate network, you should see the available network volumes listed in the Finder, in ' my computer > network ", or with the command K to connect to a server.

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  Then plug it into the L755 and use the HARD drive as usual BIOS recovery process.

  So, does anyone know the structure of the HARD disk factory default? Size of the partition, file lists etc.

  Or is it a non-starter?

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  Sorry, but this method will not work. HARD drive recovery facility will work if the HARD drive has the factory settings and the structure of origin made by the recovery image installation.
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  Hello

  This should help you.

  How to change the Boot order in BIOS:

  http://pcsupport.about.com/od/fixtheproblem/SS/bootorderchange.htm

  See you soon.

• need to take my computer back in the day that I first started it on7/21/2011 my restore point back up to now how can you start over from scratch with no disc?

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  Most OEM computers have a partition on the hard drive, that allows to give it bought as provided.  Usually, you activate this feature by pressing a key or combination of keys when the first splash screen appears at startup.  Look quickly at the first screen that appears, and you could see the key that you press.  Otherwise, go to your computer manufacturer's website and download the manual for your computer.  Instructions must be there.

  HTH,
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• My updates affect the D: drive

  I don't understand what's going on, but somehow my updates are on drive D. I installed Microsoft Security Essentials and am suspect that could be the culprit but I don't know. How will I know what updates affect the D drive and how to solve this problem.

  I KNOW that I'm not supposed to touch the D drive. In any case, totally frustrated I uninstalled Microsoft Security Essentials and installed Bitdefender Total Security.  This morning when I turned on my computer, the toolbar was not blue and had 937 MB of free space instead of 839 MB. That's why the perceived culprit has been deleted and it seems to be fixed.

• to restore the computer to factory

  My computer it refreshes not guard sent me errors.  It is slow, and I ran a proctection top virus and spyware on it.  I want to clean the computer completely and run the factory, but it keeps asking me for a password.  I can not find my papers to know what is the password.  What would I use it.

  If the recovery process requires a password, contact the manufacturer.

  Vista recovery media obtain and/or use the Partition Recovery Vista on your computer to the factory settings .

  There is no Vista free download legal available.

  Contact your computer manufacturer and ask them to send a recovery disk/s Vista set.

  Normally, they do this for a cost of $ small.

  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

  In addition, ask them if you have a recovery Partition on your computer/laptop to restore it to factory settings.

  See if a manual provided with the computer or go to the manufacturer's website, email or you can call for information on how to make a recovery.

  Normally, you have to press F10 or F11, Acer is Alt + F10 at startup to start the recovery process...

  Another way I've seen on some models is press F8 and go to a list of startup options, and launch a recovery of standards of plant with it, by selecting the repair option.

  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

  Also ask them if it is possible to do the recovery disk/s for the recovery Partition in case of a system Crash or hard drive failure.

  They will tell you how to do this.

  Every computer manufacturer has their own way of making recovery disk/s.

  See you soon.

  Mick Murphy - Microsoft partner

• MSVCR71.dll missing. I installed Windows 7 Pro to Vista Home Edition. EU back up my HARD drive. When I try to put things on the HARD drive I get the message that msvcr71.dll is missing. How to install Windows 7?

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  Hi dezertdawg,

  Welcome to the Microsoft Answers site!

  Msvcr71.dll errors are caused by situations that lead to the removal or corruption of the msvcr71 DLL file. In some cases, the msvcr71.dll errors might indicate a
  problem of registry, a virus or malware problem, or even a hardware failure.

  You can use the tool (SFC.exe) System File Checker to ensure that the system files are intact and replace the file. Follow these steps:

  1. Click Start and type cmd in the box start the search.

  2. right click on cmd in the list programs and then click Run as administrator.

  If you are prompted for an administrator password or a confirmation, type your password or click on continue

  3. at the command prompt, the following line, and then press ENTER:

  sfc/scannow

  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/929833

  Kind regards
  Amal-Microsoft Support.
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