I have upgraded earlier to windows 7 enterprise i think on my dell laptop, but when i open 'Control E' windows explorer is crashing all of suddent which is annoying. I want to go back to dell factory default OS which is windows 7 home i think . How do i go about doing downgrade. Also i keep getting mcaffee messae like your firewal off you are comprimising security. where to turn that thing on. please advise
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i did repair yesterday by pressing f8 and also fixed mccaffee whose firewall turned off and ran full scan which did not find any virus though. I hope mcaffee full scan check for malware as well. After repair i noticed once the windwos explorer did not close. But i will do more testing today evening and let you guys know.
gudii9
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i tested still windows explorer is closing abruptly. I think i have to downgrade to factory default. Hopefully that is only option. But i have 300 GB of data not sure where i back it up
If you don't already have a cloud backup service, you should get one. I recommend CrashPlan for home users (crashplan.com) from code42. Bsiness users should use inSync from Druva. Crashplan free allows you to backup to some other computer or drive at no cost to you. (do you have a friend with extra space on their harddrive?). Or just buy an external drive - they are cheap enough. Do you have a USB 3 port? USB 3 would get it done much faster than USB 2.
Look at the port. If it's blue it's USB3. If it's not, it's USB2.
This issue aside, if you have 300 Gig of data and it's important to you, you need to back it up. At the minimum get a portable USB drive. As stated above, they are very affordable.
Backing up your data should be the first thing you focus on. Otherwise, you could be looking for help on how to get your important data back on a crashed drive.
Thomas Zucker-Scharff
In terms of crashplan they give 0 space free. The free portion backs up to a local drive, USB drive, external anything, or another drive of a friend. For a family it is 145 for unlimited cloud storage. (Cheap in comparison to what you would pay if you were hit by Ransomware)
I have about 2tb of data in their cloud. I also backup to a local drive. All are versioning backups.
gudii9
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300 Gb backup? buy a 1,2 or 4 TB disk drive -they are cheap nowadays - around 60$
4tb i can get for 60$? I like usb passport type not electrical type?
how to check and remove safely?