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Thanks, CLiNT. I now know how to install Win 7 via UEFI boot but looked for a trick to switch the partition style to GUID on a PC, which was set up the conventional way w/o lhaving to re-install the OS and all applications.

Not sure what the question is exactly but GUID refers to the disk only. So is it a MBR disk and you want to convert it to GUID?

Thanks for your quick reply.

Exactly. The store were I bought the PCs pre-installed Win 7 for test purposes and I’d already installed a bunch of applications before I learned about the alternate method to set up Win 7 via the UEFI Bios. There’s no problem at the moment because all HDDs have 2 TB only. But in the future I may need to use larger HDDs and would hate to do all the work to configure the PCs again.

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Put a “” after drivers, and look in a subfolder called “etc”.

Oops, [shame] I relied on Total Commander’s search engine. It does not find the file with “hosts” or “hosts.* as search string, I tested it again a few seconds ago. Strange….

Thanks a lot!

After reading this article I successfully write-protected the hosts file on a PC with XP as OS. But on my other PC, running under WIN 7 Ultimate 64bit I can’t find any sub dir driversetc or a “hosts” – file anywhere. The OS is configured to show all hidden files. Any suggestions? Thanks!

Maybe the problem is caused by Word, not by the clipboard or the swapfile. It may depend from what you copied. 120 pages text only do not require so much RAM. The whole bible (AT + NT) needs approx. 1 MB. But if you copied text + images things look different. WinWord is well known to have strange problems with larger blocks of text + images.
Sorry, English is not my mother tongue