Recent content by Seventy Nine

Well that's 1 to Microsoft and a big 0 to Fry's. It sounds to me like you should change your supplier (who was it .. Fry's as in Fry's Electronics?). Sounds to me like they sold you a dodgy bit of software (are they actually supposed to be selling or distributing pre-release versions of...

It was a Rainmeter skin that was I was working on and it was working just fine until I installed SP1 with the newer (?) version of WMP 12. I can't see what WMP would have used the registry key for anyway so maybe they just decided it was a waste of time having it write the currentmetadata...

Seems to me that Windows Media Player version 12.0.7601.17514 that comes with SP1 does not write the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\MediaPlayer\CurrentMetadata key any more. I was using it to get the WMP track title and album art in a Rainmeter skin but the registry entry seems to have...

The "First Boot Device" and "Hard Disk Boot Priority" did work flawlessly with the "OnChip SATA Type" set to IDE. The problem was when I set the "OnChip SATA Type" to AHCI. Having gone a little further down the Integrated Peripherals page in BIOS I found a separate "OnChip SATA Port4/5"...

I'm trying to do a startup repair of Windows 7 x64 on an SSD but can't boot from the CD-ROM while in AHCI mode. I have set CD-ROM at the top of the boot order in BIOS but this is just ignored and the computer boots from the SSD with the knackered version of W7x64. I read somewhere that when...

Freeware Tweaking Utilities - Sunrise Seven I'd hate to see this thread die with only 6,430 views so I'd like to re-vitalise it with yet another FREEWARE tweaking utility in the form of Sunrise Seven. It may not do a lot more than any of the others mentioned above but it does work very well...

Before re-installing Windows 7 I suggest you try the following: 1) Click Start Orb -> type 'Cmd' -> right click Cmd and run as administrator -> type sfc/scannow -> wait a while till that has finished and then reboot -> see if problem solved. 2) Click Start Orb -> Control Panel -> Programs...

I used to use AVG but moved to AVAST after a number of false positives and problems downloading the AVG updates. AVAST works just fine as far as I can tell.

I, like many other people, think that Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat X Pro have become extreme bloatware for the occasional home user of PDF files. All I want is something to read PDF files and print PDF files from Microsoft Word and Excel. I don't need extras like form filling, commenting...

Thanks Cybercore but when I tried that with Firefox 3.6.1.2 I couldn't see the GetIt button or even the old Gray icon to download videos on UTube. I couldn't even download videos by manually pasting the URL directly into Orbit. All very frustrating so I'm going back to NetVideoHunter.

I've tried a number of Download Managers over the years and am currently using the NetVideoHunter 1.4 add-on for Firefox 3.6. NetVideoHunter has a little icon in the status bar which allows you to see what is available for downloading and it seems to work just fine with all the file types on...

The problem is with the WinBubbles installer which seems to be a Win32 version. To get WinBubbles working on a 64 bit OS you can try the following: 1. Download WinBubbles 2.0.3.7 (version 2 build 3 revision 7) from here. 2. Unzip the WinBubble2037.zip file and open the resultant...

I suggest you first disconnect both the 70GB Raptor and your old 500GB HDD so that you can do a clean install on the new WD caviar black HDD. Boot up and go into the BIOS to make sure that your DVD drive is 1st in the boot order. Boot the computer from the Windows 7 installation DVD and follow...

WinBubble Freeware Tweaking Utility WinBubble is freeware utility offering a comprehensive range of tweaks that are well explained and easy to apply. You can download the latest version directly from the WinBubbles download page. It takes a while to load but once running it's easy to...

Windows 7 is the best new release since Windows 95 - I just love it. I even forgive the microsoft engineers for wasting my time and money with that load of **** called Vista