Recent content by sharpCode

Hmm not sure why but my friend's new laptop (Lenovo X1) has a recovery paritition of only 12gb in size. Should I make it smaller? I am going to install 8.1 tonight from a flash USB.

Just wondering I found office 2013 for $148 at jbhifi while on Microsoft site it is $169. If i buy it at the store does it allow me the option to download it form somewhere and just use the product key? Cause I don't have a CD/DVD drive on my ultra book and haven't yet got an external one. Also...

Oh I have a manual/guide that says "Backup Windows 7 professional (Smart USB Backup)" is that what you are talking about when mentioning recovery media? It requires a 20gb USB so might need to do it tomorrow (laptop doesn't have CD/DVD drive need to get an external one later for when I upgrade).

Would it be fine to merge the C and D though?

Yeh I might leave the virtual memory for now. Though with the drive size here is the current seetup (this is a brand new laptop) Why is the 20gb 100% free? Is there a way to have 2 partitions only? Is the boot partition necessary? At the moment it has Windows 7 Pro installed which I plan on...

I recently purchased a laptop with a 256gb SSD and was wondering why it only shows up as C drive (99gb) and D drive (118gb). Also is there a way to merge them together? And also I am not sure about this but I have 8gb of ram and an i7 quad core so was wondering if having virtual memory set to 0...