Recent content by sgitlin

I apologize for the fairly skimpy information I'm able to supply, but this is coming from a friend who is not too savvy with computers. Prior to a few days ago, when she opened a .pdf attachment sent in an email, it opened fine. Now, when she tries opening a .pdf file, she gets a couple of...

Cybercore, thank you very much for your reply. It's exactly what I was looking for. Stew

My friend just bought a new netbook computer with the Windows 7 Starter OS. When we tried to play a DVD with Dolby sound, no sound was produced. Doing a little research, it appears that the problem is that Starter doesn't have the Windows Media Center component which would provide the codecs...

I tried a cold restart and that seems to have solved the problem. This did not work when I tried this previously so I have no idea why it worked this time.

Under 'Indexing Options' it shows 1,000+ items indexed, and 'Indexing Complete'.

I found the below problem on another forum and it explains the problem probably better than I could. I have the exact same problem as described, 30 seconds to a minute to create a new folder in Windows 7 Explorer, and then the same thing again after entering the name of the folder. I've also...