No, new laptops do not come with Windows XP back up software disks. New laptops and desktops now come with Windows 8 installed. A Windows XP disk could still be purchased separately at select places.
This depends on how through the back-up software was when the discs were made, if a complete backup was made then yes, other wise the software may have just only made a backup of the Operating System only, check the settings if possible to find out. If the problem is due to infection restoring from a complete backup may reinfect the computer again as the infection was backed up as well. Install from an manufacturer disc/partition.
DVD Shrink is a software program designed to backup your DVD discs. The software is available directly from DVDShrink, but can also be found at many other popular download sites online.
Quite a few softwares can do that. Windows Xp & Vista Media Player can. Version 11 is current.
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As of 2009-09-09 you can not. Blu-ray discs need software that can decode the material in order to play the Blu-ray disc. Windows Media Player does not have Blu-ray decoding capability. A 3rd party software such as WinDVD can be used to playback Blu-ray discs on Windows computers. There are also hardware requirements to properly display blu-ray movies.
Promotional discs of Windows 7 Ultimate is generally given to business partners, prospective customers, and IT professionals as a way to make it available to them. This is done as a potential marketing scheme to later encourage new customers to buy Windows 7 (hence for promotional purposes).Typically promotional discs are the full version where indicated and don't differ from other Windows 7 retail software except they are not for resale. An example where Windows 7 promotional discs were circulated was during the preparation for the Windows 7 Launch Party campaign.
The cheapest place to purchase Windows Home Vista Premium is at Office Depot. Other places this software can be purchased include ebay and amazon. It can also be purchased online through Microsoft.
Windows software can be purchased at most office and retail stores in the electronics department. There are different editions of the software that can be purchased. You need to figure out what exactly you need the software for and get the right product. Keep all of the discs and papers to the software in case you need to install it on another computer.
The best and most trusted back up would be to do it yourself onto discs or external hard drive. Symantec is a very good data solutions company with a good reputation.
By default, Windows burns discs in the Live File Systemformat.
It's extremely rare to get discs 'backward compatible'. You may be able to get some software to 'trick' the Windows 98 machine into accepting a Windows 7 disc but since Windows 98 is no longer supported by Microsoft (and hasn't been for some time) you'll probably have difficulty finding a suitable converter.
Yes. Windows 2000 can read discs in both UDF 1.02 and 1.50. All commercial DVDs are produced in 1.02 format, and most discs that people burn default to 1.50. In other words, Windows 2000 can read all movie DVDs, and will be able to read most discs that people burn themselves.