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  1. Windows 7 Windows 7 Professional x64 Bit Help

    Hi there, I am allowed to download Windows 7 Professional for free since Auckland University is part of the Academic Alliance Program. Link Removed Link Removed - Invalid URL They are only providing the x64 bit version of Windows 7 Professional at the moment and I am wondering whether it...
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    • 64-bit academic alliance amd athlon auckland university compatibility drivers graphics hp pavilion installation laptop operating system performance professional ram tech support upgrade vista drivers windows 7 x32 x64
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: Windows Upgrade and Installation
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    Windows 7 Windows 7 stops at the "Starting Windows"

    Hows it going guys? I recently just had windows xp service pack 3 32bit on my PC but then I chose to upgrade last second, literally, to Windows 7 64 bit build 7100.0.090421. I downloaded it straight from Microsoft using their downloader, burnt it using a dvd-r writer and imgburn @ 4x speed. And...
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    • amd athlon bios settings boot issues compatibility dvd burning error message graphics card hard drive installation os upgrade pc specs repair safe mode screen freeze service pack system restore troubleshooting upgrade windows 7 windows recovery
    • Replies: 57
    • Forum: Windows Upgrade and Installation
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    Windows 7 WMP 12 pwns my CPU :-(

    Since using the Win7 Beta (and now the RC), I've noticed that "wmplayer.exe" will occasionally run in the background without being explicitly started by the user. This wasn't much of a problem, but I thought it was odd. Since installing the RC, however, WMP often (>50% of the time that I am on...
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    • amd athlon beta cpu usage dual core media player performance process management resource hog resource management software issues system performance tech support user experience video playback windows 7 wmp wmplayer.exe
    • Replies: 4
    • Forum: Windows Help and Support
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    Windows 7 Windows 7 Background Problem

    I have an issue with Windows 7 changing the color/contrast/brightness of images set as a background. These images have the correct color/brightness when viewed by any other means (Windows Image Viewer, GIMP, FF, IE8), however, when they are set as a background it appears the brightness of the...
    • cancerous86
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    • amd athlon background brightness color calibration color settings contrast desktop display settings distortion gimp graphics card image issues internet explorer lenovo monitor nvidia photo viewer ram screenshots windows 7
    • Replies: 7
    • Forum: Desktop Customization
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    Windows 7 Radeon x1300 pro issues

    Hi, just to start these are my specs: Windows 7 64 bit Build 7100 AMD Athlon 64 3700+ Asus AV8-XE 2gb DDR pc3200 HDD 1- 40gb IDE HDD 2- 300gb SATA Memorex 16x DVD ROM Drive ATI Radeon x1300 pro Creative SB X-Fi Xtreme Gamer I noticed that my card falls under legacy software support from ATI...
    • easytech101
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    • amd athlon ati black screen creative sb display adapter drivers error message gaming gaming performance graphics hardware issues installation legacy support performance radeon system specs troubleshooting visual artifacts windows 7
    • Replies: 5
    • Forum: Windows Hardware
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    Windows 7 Media player and cpu usage

    I just installed Windows 7 RC on my main computer. I use it to hold all my music and video files and serve them up to two Xbox360's and a laptop. Windows Media Player has been scanning and updating my library non-stop and eating up all my cpu. Wmpnetwk.exe is the culprit. It makes my computer...
    • knaveman
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    • amd athlon bugs cpu usage external drive fixes hp pavilion library feature media player performance service management solutions streaming windows 7 wmpnetwk xbox 360
    • Replies: 4
    • Forum: Windows Help and Support
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    Windows 7 Another Creative Sound Blaster driver issue

    Yo 'Windows 7 Forums', I've recently installed Windows 7 on my computer, anyways cut a long story short, I've searched through the net downloading 'Sound Blaster Live 5.1 drivers for windows 7 or x64 Vista drivers), and tried to install them countless times, ill get either a error message saying...
    • m0rgz
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    • amd athlon audio issues compatibility creative daniel k driver installation drivers error message gaming audio legacy hardware onboard audio sound blaster sound card support troubleshooting upgrade windows 7 windows forum windows xp
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Windows Hardware
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    Windows 7 All games crash

    My problem is that whenever i start a game, the screen goes black, and all audio disappers. This happends to Lord of the Rings online, Age of conan, settlers 2 10th anniversary, and even OpenTTD i've tried reinstalled all those games, and my gfx drivers, but nothing seems to work. Oh and i have...
    • Gorash
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    • amd athlon audio issues black screen crossfire game crashes gaming troubleshooting graphics driver radeon hd3870 reinstall system specs
    • Replies: 4
    • Forum: Windows Games
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    Windows 7 My Music folder not accessible

    Hi, new to the forums with a issue regarding my files back in XP. I'm dual booting the public beta Build 7000 (32 bit) with XP Media Center Edition (SP3, 32 bit). Each OS resides on a separate physical drive. AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ Asus M2N32-SLI Deluxe 4 GB RAM GeForce 7900GS AVG Free My...
    • lavergne.4
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    • 64-bit access denied amd athlon asus m2n32 avg data recovery dual boot file system folder properties geforce 7900gs help request libraries operating system permissions public beta storage issues tech support windows 7 windows xp
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: Windows Help and Support

  10. Windows 7 nvlddmkm.sys stopped responding but has recovered

    This annoying vista bug persist on my copy of Windows 7 Beta. The screen freezes, goes black, restores - starts showing choppy graphics and frequently gives me a BSOD. My setup : AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000 Gigabyte GA-M750SLI-DS4 4 Gig RAM Gigabyte GeForce 8600 GT 512Mb w SilentPipe 450W PSU, but...
    • mmisztal1980
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    • amd athlon bsod choppy graphics driver issues error error message gigabyte graphics card hardware issues nvlddmkm.sys patch performance power supply screen freeze software update system restore troubleshooting vista bug windows 7 workaround
    • Replies: 20
    • Forum: Windows Help and Support
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    Windows Vista no control panel

    hi all, ive just installed the latest vista update (27/08). however after restarting my computer i now cannot get access to my control panel. I try to open it, and it opens the windowm but after 2 seconds i get the error message 'windows explorer has stopped working'. then explorer restarts an i...
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    • amd athlon control panel error message file explorer home premium ram system restore troubleshooting update windows vista
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Windows Help and Support
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    Windows Vista Media Center Partial Sound

    Hi all. :) I'm using RC1 build 5600. Despite my pretty old specifications, it works pretty well! Anyway, I'm finding Media Center to be amazing. All media in one place! Unfortunately, I do not get sound for the recorded TV samples, DVD playback or for the "set up speakers" test sound. The rest...
    • g6672D
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    • amd athlon audio issues audio settings dvd playback geforce4 listening issue media center multimedia old hardware performance recorded tv software compatibility sound card sound test speaker setup system specs troubleshooting user experience via ac'97 windows rc
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: Windows Help and Support
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    Windows Vista Upgrading My AMD Athlon XP System: RAM and Hard Drive Improvements for Gaming

    My current pc is as follow... AMD Athlon XP 2600 + 2.13 GHz 512mb of RAM Nvidia GeForce 6200 (AGP 4x) with 256mb of video memory I know I haven't got the best computer out there.....but I am planning on upgrading my sytem soon with more RAM....I will be adding up to 2.00GB of RAM:cool: So once...
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    Windows Vista Vista RC1 Experiences so......

    Hi, I downloaded RC1 this past weekend, and tried it first on a Asus A7XNX Deluxe with 512MB, AMD Athlon XP 2500, 120 HD, ATI 9600 AGP, DVD RW. It found the unallocated space on the HD (55MB). Setup a dual boot with XP PRo SP2 just fine, taking about 30 minutes to first boot to Vista, then...
    • grizzlednewbie
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    • amd athlon antivirus asus a7xnx drivers dual boot epox kt600 experience rating firefox hardware compatibility performance rc1 scsi setup update windows vista windows xp
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: Windows Upgrade and Installation