annoyance

So one night I was on my laptop. Somehow, my pillow, very gently, accidentally fell on the keyboard. For some reason, this caused my background to go back to some default picture, my desktop gadgets were gone, and other little customizable things (such as window colors and not hiding the...

Hi all: I recently had to do a clean install on my PC - 3rd time in as many months. I had a friend reinstall windows and he put the ultimate (?) on instead of the home premium. 1) Now when I start up I get a dos window that says this: choose operating system of press tab: Windows 7...

# annoyances Aero Snap, which lets you maximize windows or set them side by side by dragging them to the screen edge, is one of our favorite Windows 7 features. If you find it more annoying than helpful, here's how to turn it off. More » More...

The screen on my Acer Aspire 5943g often goes white after beein in sleep mode. Restarting it doesn't fix the problem. The machine is standing in one place all the time, connected with HDMI to a 24" monitor (I get picture on the monitor, but only white on the machine screen)...

This wasn't happening to me when I was on vista. It mostly happens in Lightwave 9.6 and Photoshop CS2. So the problem is that when I open a drop down menu in those programs the program either flickers a lot or it goes in the background and I have to alt+tab to get it back every time. It is...

in safe mode. Please help me fix this. It is really annoying. Thanks!

I have this problem on all web pages! When I click to go to the next page on a web site it takes me to the sites home page instead and in order to get to the correct next page I have to backspace and click NEXT again. Once I do this it work fine but it is so very annoying. Any help...

I purchased my current PC via Digital Storm (I'm not bashing, I love my PC other than this little annoyance it seemed to have shipped with) a couple of months ago, and ever since then, I've been having these random BSoD pop up. It first started happening after I shutdown my PC for the first...

I am trying to modify the attributes of a file (in this case the album title for a group of MP3 files in 1 folder). All I want to do is change one character. W7 (home premium 32bit) blanks out the whole box, and I have to type the all of the text again. Very annoying! XP it lets you...

ok, it's not the end of the world, just a real big annoyance. the playlist itself doesn't exist. i deleted it, emptied the recycle bin.... it is GONE. but WMP doesn't think so. it still shows up in the playlist pane. double clicking it does nothing. nor does "open file location" or...

Hey everyone. Ever since I installed TweakNow PowerPack 2010, whenever I put a disc in my DVD drive a shortcut to the disc appears on my desktop. It's really annoying. Will I have to remove TweakNow? Is there a way to disable this? Thanks in advance for any help. Yoshirocks

I have a HP HPE-300z running Windows 7 64-bit, AMD Phenom II X4 830 Processor 2.80 ghz, with 6gb of ram. I am using this computer at work. This pc is connected to a server from which I gain access to the firm's files and documents. This pc is also being used as a server by the other computers...

the auto translation is just SUPER anoying - i have to switch it off evrytime i come here - can't find lengauage or country settinga in my profile to switch it it off:confused:

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Washington - Windows 7 is full of surprises, but not all of them are pleasant. The things that typically annoy people the most when using Windows are prompts that distract or interrupt the flow or work or play. Link Removed

All of a sudden, I've got a very annoying problem where Windows no longer wants to connect to my wireless router via WiFi - UNLESS I change the router's encryption setting after each reboot. I attempt to connect to my router's hotspot and an error message says "Windows was unable to connect...

There is this white bar that comes up when I double click on to open my emails. It's as in the pic I attatched. When I hover over it with my mouse.... the icons will show, but I have to do this for every email that I open. Other than this little annoying thing, windows live mail 2011 works good...

For the last 4 or 5 times that I have shut our laptop down I have been getting the message not to shut down, 2 updates are being installed. Ther have been no indications that there were any updates waiting to be installed whilst using the machine. Each time I have powered up the machine it has...

Hello, Restarted and Windows 7 desktop icons are now partially obscured by what looks to be some kind of 'preview' page, or something (small page-like display at lower left corner of icon with a dog-ear on the top right). What happened and how do I get rid of these...it's annoying the %$#@*...

i Upgraded to windows 7 from vista. it was a free upgrade sent to me by HP. since upgrading, i am not sure how to explain this but when using my mouse it hangs i have to reclick within the program to get it back. even playing games it does that. it is quite annoying. i have purchased a few...