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After disabling secure boot I was able to change boot mode from UEFI to legacy and also I changed sata from AHCI to comptability and the laptop just booted from the dvd. thanks to all those who tried to answer.

I have a toshiba satellite C50-A569 which came with windows 8.1 pre-installed. I tried to install windows 7 but it simply won't boot from the dvd, I've change the boot priority, made odd and usb before hdd and ssd, disabled secure booting, tried booting from a dvd a usb stick. I even tried...

You can use Acronis Disk Manager. It's the best in partitioning drives.

you can use systemrequirmentslab.com this website looks into the specifications of your computer and tells you if you can run it or not

I once had a windows service that kept occupying about 20% of my cpu making my idle temperatures about 60 to 65 degrees (from the normal of about 50) and my fan kept running. so my advice is to check your services in the device manager. also notebookcheck.net reviewed that laptop and stress...

use crucial scan it will tell you all that you need http://www.crucial.com/systemscanner/

My laptop (which is a dell) has an option to stop charging. it can either be done from the bios or from the windows. you should check if you have something like that.

I'm no expert but if I were you I would try a driver updating program as it may get the right driver for you. I prefer driver navigator.

I clean mine using a piece of tissue (not cotton as it leaves small bits) after spraying it with a cheap perfume that I have and it has worked for me perfectly

Yes, I clean the fan and the heat sink about twice a month (I use a blower)

I have a dell Inspiron N5110 with a core i5 processor and Nvidia graphics I changed the thermal paste about 5 months ago used Antec Formula 7 and the temps. dropped significantly (I stress tested both CPU and GPU at the same time for more than 30 min with core temps of approximately 95 degrees...

The lenovo G500 is one of the good options. you can save some money by going a little bit lower in specs like this dell http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=8041010&CatId=4935 (4GB ram and 500GB HDD) for 400$ you have plenty of options, I myself like dell...

I've just found that inspiron n5110 was out of production (i just bought mine a year ago) so I would recommend this one Lenovo G500 15.6" Laptop - Black (Intel Core i3-3120M / 1TB HDD / 8GB RAM / Windows 8.1) As i said an i3 is more than enough and it comes with a lot of space and ram all that...

you can get dell inspiron n5110. since you'll be using it mainly for internet I believe an i3 processor will be enough and you can skip on the nvidia graphics card and go to the one with only integrated intel graphics

you can try changing the thermal paste ( I have a dell inspiron n5110 famous with heating problems) my temps went down by more than 10C after applying antec formula 7 (just applied it today :D ) although I would think twice as it is a bit expensive for an old laptop.