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Hi! I know Steve won't toot his own horn, so I'll do it for him! Here's some good stuff. You need to join the forums. It's free. What are you waiting on? You will learn a ton of stuff. Here's some things about Steve. Will add more latter! http://www.groovypost.com/about/

OK! Thanks! That explains it. Thought I might have been doing some thing wrong. I won't worry about that one then! I want to be on all your forums! I just registered for the free news letter! That went well! I'm really enjoying all this. Thanks my friend! The forum is not boring any more!

Hi Steve! Thanks! I think I understand! I'm just a simple old country boy and I live in a retirement center in a small cottage. Not much room. I just run my old Toshiba laptop and a HP printer. I'm thinking Macrium Reflect would do all that also! I think you have it well covered my friend. Thanks Steve! Great forum my friend! Thanks I'm really enjoying and learning some great stuff here.

Hi! I don't think I need a off line back up program, but I might give it a look. Why should I use one is my question? I've been using Macrium Reflect free for years and it's never let me down! Thanks!

Hi Steve! Please explain (FREE box) I think you mean a external drive. I just lost a seagate 1TB external yesterday. I'm not a happy camper, but I had the most important data on another external drive, so no worries. I'm a little down on seagate at this moment. Think I'll try a WD Good to see some action here on the forum. I was hoping for that! Can someone tell me why my posts are double spacing? Thanks!

Hi I can't log on Q&A. I can't register there either! Email address not recognized! I think I'm registered on every thing except Q&A . I registered on news letter and groovypost.com Thanks! Hodum333!

Thank you friend! Made my day! I hope I can make a good hand here on the forum!

To get that classic F8 behavior back we need to restore the legacy boot menu policy. To do this, hit the Win + X keyboard combination and launch and elevated command prompt. When the command prompt opens, run the following: bcdedit /set {default} bootmenupolicy legacy That’s really all there is to it. Now, when your computer boots up, you can mash the F8 key to view the classic Advanced Boot Options. If you want to return the boot menu back to normal, you can use this command: bcdedit /set {default} bootmenupolicy standard http://www.howtogeek.com/164001/how-to-make-the-f8-key-work-for-safe-mode-in-windows-8/

Problem Steps Recorder. Suppose you are having some troubles in your Windows 10 system and you want to rectify the errors through a certain process. And you want to let others also know about the process. If you allow this tool then it will record each and every action that you go through to complete the task. The recording will be saved as a ZIP file. You will get the screenshots of every action along with the details. It's also a great way to show grandma how to use a program. Jut send her the Zip file in email! You can use Problem Steps Recorder in Windows 10 by following the steps given below: Use any account to sign-in or log on to your Windows 10 laptop or desktop computer. On the desktop screen, click inside the Search bar present next to the Start button. Type PSR and from the displayed suggestions, click Steps Recorder. From the opened Steps Recorder program’s bar, click Start Record As the recording starts, perform the actions that you wish to explain to the technical professional. Once done, click Stop Record. Here's a very simple example using the toll! Windows defender.zip

Hi a little late, but I agree with orlbuckeye! I had your same problem until I bought better brand of DVDs. I prefer Memorex! I have found the same problem with flash drives. Some brands are just better. I prefer PNY!

Hi Your welcome! I'm using the Photo Gallery on W10 and I do not have a problem using it, or Photos. I prefer Photos, but it's what ever you get use to and like. What problem are you having . Did you click on my last posted link?

Hi Bill! I'm having no problems. Did you try the link I attached ?? Did you read the link from groovypost.com? I'm not sure what Microsoft SQL Server 2005 is?? See if this helps! https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=21844

Hi Bill! Here's a little more information! please let me know how things go or if you need any further help, I will try my best to help you! Good luck. Hope you make the forum a regular daily visit. You can learn a lot here. I sure am! http://www.groovypost.com/howto/replace-photo-viewer-windows-10-after-clean-install/

Hi! Bill! I have W10 and I'm not having any trouble with Photo Gallery. You could try Photo! Here's screen shot. Hope this helps! holdum333! Give this a look! https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=26689

"When it comes to hidden gems in Windows, nothing beats the Reliability monitor tool, hidden behind a link inside of another tool that you don’t use either. Why Microsoft doesn’t shine more light on this really useful troubleshooting tool, we’ll never know. Reliability Monitor tracks the history of your computer — any time an application crashes, hangs, or Windows gives you a blue screen of death. It also tracks other important events, like when software is installed, or Windows Updates loads a new patch." HTG Mine doesn't look to good, but I know what happened! http://www.groovypost.com/howto/microsoft/windows-7-reliability-history-tool-diagnose-issues/

Hi! I'm a little late on this thread, but Free Superantispyware has a file assassin . Like ShockerSH says,"You need to be careful which files you're deleting"; and all ways have a back up plan!

Hey ShockerSH! The report doesn't look well for Seagate! I just lost my 1TB Seagate external drive. I had a lot of back up images on it. I'm not a happy camper about that. Probably won't need the images as most were W7 and I have up graded to W10, but still not happy. What do you think about WD? Do you have a preference? 1TB will be plenty for me!

Hi ShockerSH! I do use Superantispyware to scan with on demand occasionally. I also give ESET on line scanner a shot once in awhile. MBAM quarantined a PUP today. I love my Pro MBAM. I wouldn't go any place with out it running in real time. Yes I'm a safe suffer. Not sure were I picked up that PUP. Will need to be more careful!

Heya ShockerSH! Thanks for the welcome! Good to hear from another member. Not much going on here. I'm hoping the forum picks up some action soon. I have talked to Steve a little and Steve told me he was trying to get the forum going again. Looks like a good place to hang out. Hoping someone will have a issue that maybe I can help them with! Yes I play a little Texas-Hold-um for free on the internet. Do you play??

Hi Shocker! I've been looking for a little action here on the forum. Looks like there are two of us now. I'm just a simple man with a simple plan. I'm 78 years young, and live in a small cottage in a retirement village in Oklahoma. We don't have a lot of room. I run a Toshiba lap top and a HP Photosmart7510 printer. Always looking for forums where I can learn new things and help with things I have learned from others. Thanks for the link. I'll give it a look. Here's a speccy log. My hard drive is a spinner. I have a quad core processor and my lap top runs really cool.

Hi ! Don't know if this tip or not, but I test my hard drives to see if there is any thing going on. My Hitachi is going on its 5th year and it's looking good. I seldom shut my PC down. i don't use sleep or hibernate. it's either on off off and very seldom off. You will get all kinds of theory about this. i figure if you get 5 years from a hard drive, you're doing good. I realize it could go bad any time, but right now it's doing good. I test with WD and seagate! They do a good job. If you want to test your RAM, I recommend memtest86. I'll probably do that next. Here's my test, and remember to create back ups of your OS on a regular basis. I like Macrium Reflect, but there are several good free image back up programs! If you have any favorites, post them. Sure would like to see more people posting on the forums.