annoyance

Hi, When i click on a specific spot near the bottom left-hand side of my screen, right-click options appear for no reason and they aren't linked to any program. (i can keep clicking at the spot the clicking close and nothing happens. The options will disppear and then reappear if i click on the...

Hi,new to the forums here.:p Anyways, I have windows 7 ultimate, and every time i boot up my computer, a bunch of folders open up, including "Documents", "Libraries", "Networks", "Control Panel", and everything on my desktop. this is really annoying and I am wondering if there is a way to fix...

Few days ago I install some updates on Windows7 and a problem appear: when I try to rename, create or move some folder it appear windows that says: "Could not find this item" bla bla. The item (folder) is there and when I click Try again everything is ok. The operation is completed. But this is...

This is not an issue but an observation open for discussion. Ever since installing Win 7 home in December of last year I have my computer boot interrupted at least every month by a dialog box "informing" me that I may not have a genuine copy of Win 7 and requesting my input to verify that I...

Hi, there's this annoying feature that show you the progress of movies or downloads directly in your taskbar. I know it might be usefull to some people, but it's just annoying to me... Is it possible to turn this off? For example: Link Removed due to 404 Error

im sorry if im posting in the wrong place right when i open my pictures why dose it not actly show the image it puts a default display picture over it and i have to actly open the picture to see it, its realy annoyin me now and could any won tell me how to get it so the actly picture image it...

Hi can anyone tell me what the little window is called on the left of the control panel? The one with the options inside it. It is sort of like the equivalent of the Folder viewer in windows explorer... Also my main question is how can this be customized? my reason for asking is that my version...

I upgraded Vista Ultimate to Windows 7 Ultimate with no problems - except for an annoying problem that the window size and location is not remembered for an app on the desktop when I restart the program. Even when I simply minimize the program, e.g. IE or Outlook, when I restore the program...

So, maybe I'm wrong, but as a previous user of XP I remember that when I had explorer open and I right clicked a file it would select that file and I could copy, paste, view properties, ect. However in Win7 when I right click a file it opens the general context menu for the entire folder I'm...

Have a Win7 machine on a Win2003 Server and have to relogon every morning. This morning I had to restart the whole thing. My XP machines don't have this problem. I have included two snips of the error messages I get when I try to get to the server. This is very annoying. Thanks for any help...

I have search forum and my controlpanel for any setting for the most annoying feature ever. When iam in fullscreen (world of warcraft) and click on stuff, it somehow senses that there is a window behind my current window and i get a circulated arrow icon, if i click again that window behind...

I own an HP HDX16 laptop running on Windows 7 Home Premium x64. I have the power setting set so that the laptop "does nothing" (doesn't hibernate/sleep) when the lid is closed. When I close the lid, the laptop constantly makes this "blip" sound which is quite annoying. I usually have to crawl...

Hi, i recently bought windows 7 and downloaded some customised mouse cursors. I saved it as a scheme and all is well... until I shutdown the computer and start it up again; it goes straight back to the default Windows 7 cursors! Is there any way to solve this, as it is getting quite annoying...

Hi About 3 weeks ago i did a clean install of windows 7 ultimate x64 over vista, and i have had several annoyances at times which never happened on vista. The first problem is a bit weird and i don't know what could cause it. Basically what happens is i would put my laptop to sleep and when i...

I just purchased a new laptop with windows 7 and noticed that if I have my mouse pointer over a menu, file, link etc. it is either opened or closed depending on where my mouse is. To me this is a pretty annoying setting. Does anyone know how to turn it off?

Hi all, i've a small, but very annoying problem with windows seven 64 bit. i dont know how to express it by words, so i'll just show you the movie recorded by me. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxfNwm_dLxk see? here's the problem. its not as smooth as it should be. when im minimizg or...

Hi all i'm having a problem with blu ray playback and windows aero. im using Cyberlink DVD9 Ultra for blu ray movies and it always disables windows aero. there is an option on the cyberlink programme to stop it doing this but it does not work, i contact cyberlink and they said to speak to...

Hey everyone. I have a problem with W7 that's really annoying me. Last week, I upgraded from Windows Vista Home Premium to Windows 7 Home premium. For some reason, my laptop keeps going to sleep despite disabling sleep mode in the power settings. I should also point out that it happens...

So, I'm using Windows 7 at the moment and am trying not to let it annoy me all the way back to XP. Here's the deal. Windows 7's so called "super bar" (although it's really more like "super-annoying bar") constantly goes into some kind of tooltip frenzy. Random buttons (one at a time, mind)...

Hello, First of all, hello all. I'm new to this forum. I really hope you can help me with this annoying problem. Whenerver I do RIGHTBUTTON > PROPERTIES on an mp3 file it automatically starts playing that file from an instance of windows media player that is embeded in the very properties pane...