Recent content by Cecebee

This is an update. I just checked and the 1909 update didn't take. The problem remains. Any reasonable suggestions will be appreciated.

This is a weird problem. I am running Windows 10 Pro, 64 bit on a Lenovo laptop that has 2.3 GHZ Intel I5 processor. I am currently running version 1809 of Windows. For some reason when I went to start the computer for the first time in a couple of weeks the desktop came up with icons that...

I gave my sick brother a computer and a clean, new, unused copy of Windows 7 Home Premium a couple of years ago so we could communicate via email. He installed the OS and we communicated regularly. My brother recently passed away and I got the computer back. I cleaned out a lot of the...

I had Win 7 Pro running on one SSD and something screwed up the registry in a minor way so that a few things didn't work right any more. I added another SSD and installed a second Win 7 Pro copy on it to run the two copies in a dual boot config while I got the second installation up to speed to...

Hi Rubberboot, My problem occurred a long time ago and looking at the date of my original post I think I was probably using a beta copy of Windows 7. Since installing the RTM version of Windows 7 I haven't had any great problems installing any software. If you have a legitimate copy of...

Thanks for your reply. I didn't mention it but I am running 7 Pro. 32 bit. I can't imagine the difference in bits being the root of my problem though. It sounds like I installed a corrupt file somewhere along the way. Thankfully the problem is more of a nuisance than a show stopper. I guess...

When using windows explorer I normally use the dual pane view with all folders shown in the left pane and a specific folder is opened in the left pane. While in something like My Documents where there are lots of sub-folders shown in the left pane I have run into a problem that is caused by my...

Office 2003 won't install Thanks for the suggestion, it was a good one. However, I was having so many little problems with Windows 7 that I formatted the partition it was on and reinstalled for the umpteenth time. I guess the stars were all in the proper place this time because about all my...

Turn off UAC Ran into the same problem on several occasions. The problem here is one of language, they tell you that you are logged in as administrator but you really don't have full administrative privileges thanks to User Access Control. You can got to Control Panel/Users and click on...

Just tried to install Office 2003 and first I got a message that the CD was unreadable so on a hunch I tried it from the command line. This time I got a message about no log file found so I tried again with a /L on the end of the command line. This time it started fine and then threw up an...

My primary computer passed the readiness test for Windows 7 using the beta utility on the Microsoft site. The computer has a good running XP Pro installation on it on one of two available SATA drives. The second drive has 3 large empty partitions on it so I decided to install Win 7 build 7100...