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Acronis True Image 2021 Review

by Dennis Faas on December, 7 2020 at 11:12PM EST

If you lost all of the data on your PC, would you be devastated? According to a recent report, cyber crimes are booming thanks to the covid-19 pandemic . That's because cyber criminals are counting on the fact that most users are working remotely at ... home and/or retired, increasing their chances in converting a "sale". The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said that in 2019, cyber criminals raked in $3.5 billion targeting individuals and businesses in the USA. Of that, $8.9 million was attributed to ransomware attacks, while scammers posing as fake technical support stole $54 ... (view more)

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How to Fix: Device I/O Error (and Recover Data)

by Dennis Faas on March, 27 2017 at 02:03PM EDT

Infopackets Reader Phoebe A. writes: " Dear Dennis, Today I tried to free up some space on my C drive by moving files over to my external hard drive, but Windows gave me an error message, stating that 'Error during copy: the request could not be ... performed because of an I/O device error'. I've also tried using 'TeraCopy' to copy files over, but it keeps freezing on the same files. Can you help? " My response: If you receive an error that says "the request could not be performed because of an I/O device error" when trying to copy or move a file, that usually (but not always) indicates bad ... (view more)

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How to Fix: Cannot Create Partition: No Free MBR Slots

by Dennis Faas on July, 8 2016 at 02:07PM EDT

Infopackets Reader Sam T. writes: " Dear Dennis, I have an HP computer, which has 4 hard drive partitions: the System partition, the C drive, the factory image partition (which includes a backup of Windows), and the 'HP Tools' partition, which ... contains BIOS information in case a BIOS flash fails and I need to restore my BIOS. My question is this: I used MiniTool Partition Wizard to shrink my C drive, which then created unallocated space. Normally I can right click the unallocated space and create a new volume, however, I receive an error message that says: 'Partition Wizard cannot create a ... (view more)

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How to Fix: 'Windows cannot be installed to this disk' Error (RAID)

by Dennis Faas on October, 30 2015 at 09:10AM EDT

Infopackets Reader Phil P. writes: " Dear Dennis, I have installed Windows 10 32 bit and now I am trying to upgrade to Windows 10 64 bit using the clean install method. Since I'm installing Windows 10 from scratch, I am also going to upgrade my C ... drive performance using 2 x 2TB hard drives (for a total of 4 TB usable data) in RAID 0 configuration . The problem is that when I try to install Windows onto my RAID, it tells me that 'Windows cannot be installed to this disk. This computer's hardware may not support booting to this disk. Ensure that the disk's controller is enabled in the computer' ... (view more)

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Download Windows 10 .ISO (DVD) for Clean Install?

by Dennis Faas on June, 15 2015 at 09:06AM EDT

Infopackets Reader Tim A. writes: " Dear Dennis, When will the full retail version (OEM) of Windows 10 be available as an .ISO file, so I can burn Windows 10 onto DVD and install it that way? I would much rather install Windows 10 clean using my DVD ... drive than to install it using Windows Update. A colleague of mine says that installing Windows over top of Windows (I.E: doing a Windows 'upgrade') is never a good idea. He says that upgrade installs usually leave left-overs from the previous Windows installation which can interfere with the new Windows 10 install - or worse, cause ... (view more)

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'Desktop Movie 2.2', and 'Disk Scanner 2.7.0'

by Brandon Dimmel on October, 30 2013 at 08:10AM EDT

Desktop Movie 2.2 Play movies on your desktop with Desktop Movie. This straightforward application replaces your background image with the film you've selected to view. The player supports most movie formats and the newest version is compatible with ... Windows 8! http://falcosoft.hu Disk Scanner 2.7.0 Having trouble with your hard drive? Experiencing the dreaded 'Blue Screen of Death'? Then give Macrorit's Disk Scanner software a try. It's designed to find bad sectors (or clusters of troublesome data) on your hard disk and suggest solutions. http://www.macrorit.com This freeware software program ... (view more)

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Windows 8 Pro: Upgrade Benefits Explained

by Brandon Dimmel on January, 8 2013 at 08:01AM EST

Here's a question we recently received from an Infopackets subscriber in beautiful Montana, "Dear Infopackets team, I'm thinking about buying a Windows 8 computer. But I'm not sure if I should buy one with Windows 8 or Windows 8 Pro? And what's ... Windows RT? Can you please explain the differences to me? Thanks for the assistance, Molly C." My response: Technically speaking, Molly, those are the three different versions of Microsoft's newest operating system (OS), Windows 8. Windows RT is a trimmed-down version of the OS specially designed for portable devices with ARM chips. We're talking ... (view more)

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'Wise Program Uninstaller 1.22.52', and 'Little Disk Cleaner 1.0'

by Brandon Dimmel on January, 4 2013 at 08:01AM EST

Wise Program Uninstaller 1.22.52 Wise Program Uninstaller will safely remove files from your Windows computer. Unlike many other uninstall programs, Wise Program Uninstaller will completely clean your system of unwanted programs. This software tool ... is free and compatible with the new Windows 8 operating system. http://www.wisecleaner.com Little Disk Cleaner 1.0 Little Disk Cleaner is a small and easy-to-use program designed to help you find and remove unwanted programs installed on your Windows computer. Freeing up disk space by using this program could improve your system's overall ... (view more)

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'Cover Printer 1.3.1.0', and 'Disk Bench 2.6.2.0'

by Brandon Dimmel on April, 5 2012 at 08:04AM EDT

Cover Printer 1.3.1.0 Cover Printer is an easy software tool for printing customized DVD and CD covers for anything and everything you burn to a disc. It's not intended to be a cover layout tool, but it does make printing your covers extremely easy. ... Cover Printer automatically scales your cover images to the correct size of whatever cover format you select, and makes the appropriate image rotations and other adjustments necessary for covers that require one image, and those that require two. http://www.nodesoft.com Disk Bench 2.6.2.0 You say you want to know how fast your disks transfer data ... (view more)

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Ashampoo WinOptimizer 9 Review

by Dennis Faas on February, 23 2012 at 08:02AM EST

Update: Save up to 60%. Offer ends on January 14th. Proceeds support our website and staff of writers. You can click here to go straight to the offer . Otherwise, continue reading below. With every new edition of Microsoft Windows comes new tweaks, ... new menus, and oftentimes no one seems to know where the old features went, which makes optimizing the operating system for a particular PC very difficult. Let's take Windows 7, for example. It's vastly different than Windows XP and offers new visualization features and background tasks (services) that literally rob a PC of its processing power, ... (view more)

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