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maybe a few weeks back my laptop with windows 7 hung up on boot, so I just powered it off and after the start up recovery ran (finding no problems) it booted. No more boot problems until today, it booted pass the window logo to the black screen just before the blue screen login, but just sat...

With the announcement that we can expect the next preview iteration of Windows 8 as early as the first week of June, what would you like to see and then what do you actually expect to see? Does anyone but me think that if we are expected to swallow this new start screen, as a first, if not...

Many of us, who like to futz around with our PC's, not just appliance operators, like to get into our Control Panels every once in a while. But Win-8 doesn't make that as easy as it was in XP. However there is a way to get to the control panel in Win-8. Here's one way: From the Metro screen, ...

Hello. This wierd problem accured to me today. Yesterday I was playing, surfin on my PC. Now when i tried to start windows it would not come pass the loading screen to my desktop. It will just restart the PC over and over again. I have tried to repair windows with my install CD but it cannot...

When installing Windows to a drive greater than 2.2TB you receive Error 0x80042468. This will occur if you install Windows 7 and manually try to create one partition using “Advanced Drive Options” during setup. Link Removed

I accidentaly tripped over my laptop cord while booting. The computer was not harmed, but the adapter unpluged from the laptop and the laptop lost power while booting. Timeline of events: 1) I tripped over the cord 2) laptop lost power while booting up 3) I pluged the laptop back in 4) I...

Ok, my computer had been having problems before but now when i'm booting up my computer I get the blue screen that's says unmountable_boot_volume right after the starting windows screen. I cannot get windows to start in safe mode or any of the other advanced boot options. The only time I don't...

Perhaps one of the most annoying features of any version of Internet Explorer, including version 9 is smooth scrolling. While it does make scrolling very well... smooth, it's also annoying when using the scroll function of my touchpad. Disabling it is a dire task - until you figure out how...

Hello, I hope someone can help me. I have a problem I wasn't expecting. I am using Windows 7 Home Prem and have used the OS software to create a back up image of my hard drive onto an external one, no probs so far. I then go into the repair computer section on boot up that has a restore from...

The small 200MB partition actually holds Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE), which only available from DVD installation disc in previous operating system such as Windows Vista (see how to launch WinRE on DVD). The partition holds system files and bootable files that are essential to boot the...

If you go run msconfig and then to boot you'll find at the bottom right something that says timout and 30seconds filled in. What does this mean? that my computer pauzes 30seconds when starting up? and also in advanced options you can choose max amount of ram and max proccesses. Should I change...

i recently just built my own computer and got windows 7, and when i try to install windows 7 it says there is not hard drive found to install it on. i know there are a lot of threads already about this topic but iv tried almost everything and nothing seems to work. my specs are- asus m4n78 pro...

Cant Instal O.S to HD Hi does anyone know how to solve this error. windows/system32/winload.exe status 0x00000e9 unexpected I/O error I tried to install windows 7 on a older Asrock 775Dual-VSTA Board, however it keeps failing to instal. After i get past the part...

Just bought the student discounted Windows 7 Home Premium. I did the upgrade method after it finished downloading. After the install was almost complete, a message came up about having to restart the computer, so I click OK and it restarted. Now it's on a continuous rebooting loop: before W7...

Hello, I'm trying to prevent my monitor from going into sleep mode when the computer is not being used. I changed the power options in Control Panel to never turn off monitor and never turn off hard drives then I went into the advanced options and changed the setting to never turn PCIe...

Anyone else notice you have to go into Advanced Options to select a quick format of the C: drive before installing Windows 7? The first time I installed the RC version on my XP computer I had a artifacts left over from XP that caused problems. I was told by a friend to reinstall and go into...

Zoo Tycoon 2 does not work with Windows 7 (and from the research I've done, Vista as well) due to RAM issues. Following the steps below fixed my problem. Error Message: You need at least 256 MB of system memory to run Zoo Tycoon 2. (xxx MB detected). Problem Resolution: 1. Open the start menu...

Hey Guys, I installed Windows 7 x64 today and when i opened the system information tool, it shows 3.25GB usable. So, i checked with task manager and it shows the same 3326(3.25) to my surprise. How is this possible on a x64 OS? Memory mapping is on 32 bit if i am not wrong... Have been...

In msconfig Windows 7 is set by default for 1 processor. That strikes me as being wrong if, like me, you have a Core 2 Dual processor. I have 2 processors and not 1. You can change this in msconfig so that Windows 7 sees how many processors you have [1,2,or 4] at startup. This will speed up...