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re: can you tell me if this desktop is decent
Posted on 8/24/14 at 12:57 am to Asgard Device
Posted on 8/24/14 at 12:57 am to Asgard Device
lol welcome to the thread
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Posted on 8/24/14 at 1:04 am to Asgard Device
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The main thing is preventing full-screen apps from opening instead of traditional Win7 style apps. Man, that can be annoying on desktops.
Mouse to left of screen. BAM! But the lack of an "x" on the top-right is quite annoying.
Posted on 8/24/14 at 2:14 pm to ILikeLSUToo
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ILikeLSUToo
You sir are a fine American. I will be bookmarking for later use
Posted on 8/27/14 at 7:28 pm to ILikeLSUToo
lsutoo
mad props for everything you did to help me, I really appreciate the time it took to put all of the instructions together. I received the computer this morning and followed the instructions as you said and everything went great.
my dad is very happy and so far so good. seems to work very well
I did have one small question
when I made all of my folders default to my old drive, everything seemed to work ok except for downloads. for some reason iTunes, Skype, etc are all saving to my new SSD drive under program files.
is that an easy fix? when I tried to do it, it gave me an error message about something being invalid about trying to move a child folder from a parent or something like that.
the SSD drive still has 180 GB on it and he never downloads anything like movies or music so im not worried right now, just curious why it wouldn't do it.
again, I cant thank you enough. I owe you a cold one!
mad props for everything you did to help me, I really appreciate the time it took to put all of the instructions together. I received the computer this morning and followed the instructions as you said and everything went great.
my dad is very happy and so far so good. seems to work very well
I did have one small question
when I made all of my folders default to my old drive, everything seemed to work ok except for downloads. for some reason iTunes, Skype, etc are all saving to my new SSD drive under program files.
is that an easy fix? when I tried to do it, it gave me an error message about something being invalid about trying to move a child folder from a parent or something like that.
the SSD drive still has 180 GB on it and he never downloads anything like movies or music so im not worried right now, just curious why it wouldn't do it.
again, I cant thank you enough. I owe you a cold one!
Posted on 8/27/14 at 8:37 pm to dallastiger55
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mad props for everything you did to help me, I really appreciate the time it took to put all of the instructions together. I received the computer this morning and followed the instructions as you said and everything went great.
I'm glad! I was actually worried that my instructions were too convoluted or that they missed something important, and I was fully expecting to have to provide a lot more support.
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when I made all of my folders default to my old drive, everything seemed to work ok except for downloads. for some reason iTunes, Skype, etc are all saving to my new SSD drive under program files.
That's probably your browser still using the C: directory downloads folder itself as default. You can either go into settings and tell the browser you always ask you where to save files, or here's an alternative to make sure anything saved to downloads is on the secondary hard drive:
Go to C:\Users\[yourusername] and rightclick on the downloads folder and select Properties.
Click the Location tab and do as you did for your libraries folders. This will actually move the Downloads folder rather than redirect your libraries.
When you click OK, it will ask if you want to move the files that already in that folder to the new location as well. Say Yes.
Also, for the purposes of helping me tweak this tutorial for others, could you answer some questions for me?
1. Give me some details or a screenshot of what the partitions looked like in the beginning. Did you have to resize them?
2. Did you ever have to go into the bios to change anything?
3. How did you end up mounting the SSD?
4. Did the interior of the Dell match the picture I found?
5. Were there any steps of the process that were less clear (for example, confusing verbiage, unhelpful screenshots, etc.)? If so, what were they and why?
Posted on 8/27/14 at 8:57 pm to ILikeLSUToo
ok thanks, will do. i will be back at his house on saturday so i will have to give an update then on the downloads folder
1. Give me some details or a screenshot of what the partitions looked like in the beginning. Did you have to resize them? - yes i had to go and shrink the SSD drive like you said because i got the error message. wasnt sure what the hell i was doing, but i just followed your instructions and it worked, lol
2. Did you ever have to go into the bios to change anything? - no it worked fine, do i need to? what would that change?
3. How did you end up mounting the SSD? sitting right on top of old hard drive. piece of cake
4. Did the interior of the Dell match the picture I found? - exact same, huge advantage
5. Were there any steps of the process that were less clear (for example, confusing verbiage, unhelpful screenshots, etc.)? If so, what were they and why?- let me go back tomorrow and read through when i have more time. 90% was very good and easy to follow. i had a couple of sections where i had to read through them but it made sense after a while. all in all it was great though.
ill post more in the coming days
1. Give me some details or a screenshot of what the partitions looked like in the beginning. Did you have to resize them? - yes i had to go and shrink the SSD drive like you said because i got the error message. wasnt sure what the hell i was doing, but i just followed your instructions and it worked, lol
2. Did you ever have to go into the bios to change anything? - no it worked fine, do i need to? what would that change?
3. How did you end up mounting the SSD? sitting right on top of old hard drive. piece of cake
4. Did the interior of the Dell match the picture I found? - exact same, huge advantage
5. Were there any steps of the process that were less clear (for example, confusing verbiage, unhelpful screenshots, etc.)? If so, what were they and why?- let me go back tomorrow and read through when i have more time. 90% was very good and easy to follow. i had a couple of sections where i had to read through them but it made sense after a while. all in all it was great though.
ill post more in the coming days
Posted on 8/27/14 at 9:36 pm to dallastiger55
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no it worked fine, do i need to? what would that change?
Nothing you need to change. I was just curious if unplugging the hard drive after cloning was effective in allowing the bios to recognize the SSD as the boot device without needing to manually tell it to boot to the SSD.
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