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Two of my teachers gave me .doc files for something or another, and both of these files have a strange problem I've never seen before: Microsoft Word Viewer has apparently decided that it doesn't know what to do with certain text elements, and so it decides to display them in the MaplePi font...

@pcs: Bad idea. Something seems very suspicious about a site where every piece of text and comment is generic and every page looks exactly the same.

You did install Windows onto the new hard drive, right? Just making sure. =P To me, it doesn't sound like CHKDSK is the problem. It sounds like whatever happens after CHKDSK is locking up.

If the InstallShield process froze, I doubt you'll make things any worse by killing the process, so try this: Open up the Task Manager (Ctrl+Alt+Delete) and switch to the Processes tab and look for the InstallShield process. I don't know what it will be called. Hopefully it will say...

I don't think I fully understand the issue. Where does it say "unspecified?" Are you able to open the library? The "Libaries" on Windows 7 are virtual folders. What they do is show files from other folders on your system. You should be able to find most of what's in the Music Library here...

Try this: [1212] InstallShield error -5009 when installing software - Help Desk

It being a Windows message is highly unlikely, considering you're Link Removed - Invalid URL to ever say anything about this message. But that message reminds me of something: I interned for a short while at a company that used a software called LabTech to provide customers with tech support...

As someone who spends 90% of his time on the computer, there's a lot of stuff on it that I can't bear to lose. I ended up replacing my hard drive. It kinda worked out nicely; my new hard drive is bigger and quieter, and I was able to give Linux a much bigger partition this time. But I think...

Exactly what I was hoping not to hear. Except for cost, replacing the hard drive is about equivalent to starting all over with a new computer. Although I guess investing in something like one of those USB hard drive shells for transferring files could make it suck less, assuming that it will...

Really fun things happen if your laptop falls off the bed while you're asleep. In Windows, I can no longer log off/reboot/shut down normally (Linux, however, is fine). Also, if I put my laptop to sleep in Windows, it will inexplicably refuse to wake up (again, Linux can wake up just fine...

Mitchell:The closest thing I could find to CPU throttling was "Maximum Processor State", which was 100% for both battery and mains. Windows 7 has been reinstalled. All things considered, I now see that reinstalling Windows really isn't that painful of a process after all. All your files...

McAfee isn't disabled by Safe Mode either, so I don't think that's it. Being plugged in does not prevent it from booting. Saltgrass, I'm not sure what software you're referring to being on both computers. I went on online chat with a Dell representative. After discussing the problem, he came...

Still crashed under each of those circumstances. I also did a few other things: For one, I checked Safe Mode again to make sure, and it does not crash in Safe Mode. I also disabled charging in BIOS and was going to check whether or not it still crashed when plugged in, but I was interrupted...

This is a followup to the following topic: http://windows7forums.com/windows-7-support/42072-gadgets-load-improperly.html The gadget problem no longer occurs, but the general problem is the same: On my sister's laptop (an Inspiron 14), everything boots up fine but after a while of use, one...

I don't think it's possible. Microsoft does not have separate click options for files and folders (though that would be a nice feature). Perhaps you can try looking into other file explorers? The closest I can find is this registry hack. It disables pointing to select. Single-Click Mode...