annoyance

Every time I go to turn my pc on my monitor/tv seems to stay on standby and I have to press the reset switch several times before it works as anyone got any ideas what is going on I know it's not my monitor/tv thanks this is starting to really annoy me :mad:

Every time I open mail [MS Outlook?] I get a popup to enter my registeration key for Office. I entered the same 25 character key I used for Windows 7, but get a message that it is invalid. I have no intention of using Office. I just want this popup to go away. It takes three clicks to get out of...

If I have a window or application in the foreground and want to open a folder that is on the desktop (or in another folder) I have to triple click it to open it. Double clicking only selects the folder or file. For instance, if I have the My Computer window open and I want to open a folder or...

Habitually, I keep six or seven folders on my desktop and, when using XP, they would always remember their individual proportions and what part of the screen they were to open up on - that way I could always have several columns of folders side-by-side, with no overlaps, always with the same...

It seems to happen randomly, but I will be in a program (Media Player Classic, World of Warcraft and other games) and whether or not they are maximized I will randomly be "booted" from the program. For instance I will be playing World of Warcraft and I will be moving around or typing...

For some reason, I am getting an annoying ALERT sound every few seconds without any popups or anything to explain why. What is it? I tried to look up a Fault Log to see what program might be triggering the sound but I can't find a Fault Log in Windows 7. I am using the full retail release...

Is there a way to do that?? This is rather annoying!

Hello - I tried searching the forums and my search did not find my situation. I'd appreciate any help on this annoyance. With the exception of My Computer, Control Panel and Network, all of my desktop icons that start programs are obscured with what looks like a 'word' document icon. I can...

I am running windows 7 everything is fine except every time I play a game or run something full screen it minimizes. If it is a windowed app like firefox it will deselect itself and I have to reclick it to select it. It is very annoying mainly when I am playing games antypign as i dont realise...

Hi all, I'm curious if anyone else has run into something like this. I've had Windows 7 Beta and RC and now RTM on my home desktop and have had no issues whatsoever, however they were all clean installs. Now, I've gone ahead and upgraded from Vista Business to 7 Pro on my laptop. I haven't...

can anyone help a tech novice turn off the feature that automatically "clicks through" to a link when the cursor hovers over a link??? very annoying. hopefully you CAN turn it off. thx

Hello guys, recently i am experiencing icons problems. Some applications are loosing their icons in start menu. Windows live messenger lost icon also in the desktop. It is really annoyning to see the default white icon instead of regular. Anyone with same problem ?

Every time i open the control panel a message window opens saying that windows explorer has stopped working! Then any option that window offers resets my desktop and bye bye control panel!!! :mad: Very annoying problem... Anyone else have this problem and know of a solution or workaround...

I have an odd problem. I recently installed W7 Ultimate (RTM 7600) on my computer. This was a clean install on a drive that had Vista on it previously. Now, I had a home wireless network (named MHhome) setup on Vista. I expected I would need to set it up once again in W7. When I went to the...

Hello All, I have 3 monitors, the middle one is set as my primary monitor and the 2 at each side are extended desktops. All my icon's sit on the middle monitor including my start menu as it's set to the primary monitor. My problem is that when I download anything to desktop it doesn't download...

Greetings, my nick name is Loke. Please respond to this problem and help me solve it. Description of problem: When I select maps and folders, they have a gray line surrounding them. This is very annoying. Here is print screen: Link Removed Link for the image if not working above: Link...

when i select/deselect things i get that old selection border anyone know how to disable it ? Link Removed

ok i downloaded the beta about a month ago and it has happened about four times in the past two weeks. my computer will shut down without any warning and when i turn it back on it starts back up like normal without any error messages. it just really annoyed me last night when it shut down in...

Hello , when i boot and enter windows 7 , im getting the error "internet explorer has stopped working". Im using Chrome for browsing. I didnt even opened IE8. This message keeps on comming every 20 seconds after i closed the error. This is very annoying. :mad: Someone who has a solution to...

I have a large collection of DVD's that I like to watch on my computer, but I only watch them on WMC. Every single time I insert a disc it opens up Windows Media Player. So then I have to close it and open WMC. I went to my Auto-Play settings and there is not an option for Windows Media...