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The ability to update the BIOS while Windows is running is a very new trick. I'm not trying to offend you but if you think back just a few years such updates were done with DOS boot diskettes for years and arcane command lines. It's improved but I have no qualms with a boot CD or diskette to do this update. Bob

"I congratulate on your background, it is better than mine." As Shakespeare said, "What's past is prologue." I rarely bring up such things in public forums for several reasons: 1. There are a lot of people on the web who are not what they claims and anyone can make any claims they want. Of course, I've been doing this long enough that you can verify all the information you want just by searching for Bob Stout. 2....

I just updated the BIOS on my GIGA-BYTE P55-UD3R while running Win 7 Pro 64 bit and it went without incident. VAPCMD

I am from the old school of HP and computer repair. I have several sets of Hard drive recovery disc from HP, Compaq, Dell, Acer and several other companies. (these all came with the computers). All of these will re-image a drive. even the Asain drives that you can buy. First time I have used the recovery disc from the d: partion to replace a drive. I just gave that a shot, but I did not want anyone else buying their recovery kit which should...

I congratulate on your background, it is better than mine. "I also know that Windows uses klugey data structures for no better reason than to be able to claim IP of a proprietary system." Now if would just explain, how you know this? Actually defragmenters, and similar products predate the PC. You had to compress/reorganize Partition Data Sets on IBM mainframes. On CDC computers indirect access files reinitialized, and I believe...

I currently share printers over my wireless network by right clicking and choosing "Share Printer". The printer is hooked up to the dekstop. My desktop and laptop both run XP and the sharing has no problems at all. If I upgrade my desktop to Windows 7 and keep the laptop as XP, will I still be able to share my printer the same way? Thanks.

you need it. Use an image backup like True Image to store the archive to CDs for that rainy day! A caveat is if the factory image has security protection against imaging/cloning but no consumer grade laptops have it.

It is possible... http://lifehacker.com/5262706/setup-file-and-printer-sharing-from-xp-to-windows-7 #samsung_links a { text-decoration:none; font-family:arial,helvetica; font-size:13px; } #samsung_sign { border-top:2px dotted #666666; padding-top:5px; margin-top:15px; margin-right:15px; } #samsung_links { margin:3px; }

What are you using for security software, specifically firewall? Sounds like a firewall issue.

Thanks for the input, I appreciate it. However, I think my question was misunderstood, it's an odd question. I was trying to ask if, since I tried to update the BIOS within Windows, would it give me a message stating the BIOS update was not compatible with 64-bit windows, EVEN THOUGH it was actually compatible IF I used an alternative method to Windows. So in essence, should I try to update the BIOS with a USB drive (since that's...