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is your computer connected to the 3g router via ethernet or USB? If its USB you may want to check for updates to your usb drivers.

Your browsing to shares on the linux server thats running Samba right? If so you may want to check out if there is anything special that needs to be configured in Samba for win7. you may also want to check out your netbios settings. You may need to manually check the enable netbios over TCP/IP...

Re: Greetings! I just upgraded from WinXP to Windows 7. I have a folder with a lot of files that have either plus or minus/dashes ("-") in the file name, sometimes more You may want to look at the search options. In control panel -> folder options, check out the search tab. There are a few...

You may check the website for your media player and see if there is a firmware update for it. Also make sure your NIC drivers are up to date. And see if there is a firmware update for your router...... Just a few things to check.

find the command prompt in your start menu and right click on it, choose run as administrator. Sorry Im on my Macbook right now, so I dont have very clear instructions, but I believe you will find the command prompt under start -> all programs -> accessories.

run chkdsk from an elevated command prompt

You can open two instances of excel by clicking on the start button and typing excel. once you get two instances running you can go to file and open in excel. There is a reg hack for this, but when I did it, it went back to normal after reboot.

Do you have UAC turned on? With UAC it should prompt your for admin credentials when you try to uninstall a program. Is this computer on a domain? or is it just a standalone PC?

click the start button and type this in the search box appwiz.cpl instead of hitting enter, hit Ctrl+Shift + Enter, this will prompt you to run the add/remove programs as administrator.

Have you tried going to tools and folder options and clicking "restore defaults" under the navigation pane options?

Try this... Control panel -> Folder options -> View -> uncheck "Use sharing wizard" Right click on the folder you want to share and go to properties --> sharing -> click advanced sharing Click the checkbox for "share this folder" (if this box is already checked, uncheck it and click apply and...

whats the application?

do you see the soundcard with the correct driver in device manager? Are the sound properties setup?

Agreed. Be very careful with these recovery programs, you stand a high chance of losing data. Your best bet is to boot to a linux live cd (ubuntu) and see if you can access your hdd like that. and if you can, you will be able to move your data to another hdd from there. By doing this you will...

does it happen everytime you open the browser or just the first time after you reboot. Like if you close out IE then re-open it, does the taskbar freeze?