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2x Samsung 17" and 1x Sony 17" LCD 4:3 monitors still in service after 11 years. Also 1x LG 21" 16:9 in service for 9 years.-Shades (December 08, 2016, 06:07 AM)
sometimes things do go right (with computers). very glad to hear that you got a good piece of hardware, Innuendo.-nudone (June 14, 2010, 04:35 AM)
Thanks for that, nudone. The monitor is always component I always have the most anxiety about when the time to replace comes. I'm still keeping a watchful eye as I hear sometimes dead/stuck pixels will develop in the first days/weeks of ownership.-Innuendo (June 14, 2010, 09:24 PM)
Companies like Windscribe in Canada (a new company that made a splash) and VPN Unlimited seem to have specials along the usage of one year at $20 or lifetime at $40.-Steven Avery (October 13, 2016, 02:20 AM)
If you don't like the EU VAT regime, we are the wrong place to complain about.-SoftMaker (December 07, 2016, 04:36 AM)
This is so neat I may have to do a pictorial or a video.-Steven Avery (December 05, 2016, 10:29 PM)
This tablet is perfect for paper lovers-Arizona Hot (December 05, 2016, 09:59 PM)
. . . an intermittent motherboard problem forced me to replace my primary desktop system before I had planned to. Win7 Pro 64-bit to a VMware virtual machine. The whole process was point & click simple and worked the first time without a hitch. I didn't even have to reactivate Windows in the VM, although that could be a fluke. My only complaint is that it didn't have an option for a split file VM, which I prefer for portability.thanks for that
This is not the first time I have done a P2V with Paragon HDM Pro -- a few years ago, I converted my last working XP system to a VM, which I still use occasionally for some older software, but I was still surprised at how easy the whole process has become in the current version of HDM Pro.
A few years ago, Paragon changed their backup file format to a proprietary compressible virtual machine, which HDM PRo can convert to any of the virtual machine formats they support. That means that, if you regularly back up your system by imaging the system partition with Paragon software and save the backup files, you can, in theory, always resurrect a dead system or a previous version to a working VM in any of those virtualization environments.-xtabber (December 05, 2016, 07:10 AM)
Probably means a new version is about to come, usually happens just outside the 3 month free upgrade period they giveso it'll probably be full price or more in the end. How to get hooked in...-4wd (December 05, 2016, 12:10 AM)
Anyone with expereince of P2V:
would I be able to create an image of my current install (Windows 7) and add it as a virtual machine to another machine, say when I move to a new one, say with Windows 10?-tomos (December 04, 2016, 02:30 PM)
It was long enough ago that I'm not sure what Windows versions were involved (though I can guarantee that the new host for the VM was not Win 8 or newer), so I'm not sure how relevant my experience would be today. But I did this kind of thing and it worked well enough. I think the machine I turned into a VM was a WinXP machine. I am sure it didn't have GPT partitions, just MBR partitions.
Again - it was long enough ago that I wouldn't feel right saying you'll have no problems. But it did work for me.
I'm sure that it goes without saying that you should not decommission the old machine until you've verified that things are working...-mwb1100 (December 04, 2016, 11:32 PM)
Never mind, got it working [user error]
-tomos (December 04, 2016, 04:34 PM)
Tomos - I had to use Internet Explorer to get the link to work. Then I washed my hands.-x16wda (December 04, 2016, 04:32 PM)
]A developer with serious ego problems, I might add.-Tuxman (November 30, 2016, 12:42 PM)
I've never actually listened to this entire song or seen the entire video, but someone said it sounds like she says "Do you think you're better? ROFLOL!" and now I can't hear anything else:-Deozaan (November 29, 2016, 01:47 PM)
Still ugly as fuck.-Tuxman (November 28, 2016, 04:34 PM)
