annoyance

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...

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...

About a week ago these weird "cd box" image started to show up as a miniature icon on other programs (see picture). If that wasn't enough, my Winamp player icon shows as Security EssentialS !?!?! (second from right bottom corner) Anyone have any idea whats going on here? It's not fatal for my...

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...