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I screwed up my laptop with W7 royally. I updated my free virus detector and it downloaded a toolbar I did not want. I uninstalled it, I went up to settings, addons and unchecked it and it was STILL THERE and it would not let me search on Google. OK so I did a search for Toolbar cleaners and...

Using Windows 7, my "C" drive is a small solid state drive and all I wish to have on it is my Win 7 operating system. My "D" drive is mechanical and 500 Gig so I would like to have as much as possible on that drive. How do I move my Favorites folder to my "D" drive and have it always...

Microsft recently made this statement regarding the use of IE10 64Bit: Much thanks to Neowin.net. How to enable 64 bit IE10 for the desktop in Windows 8 - Neowin

I log onto a site using IE9 (for some reason this particular site doesn't work properly on other browsers) and it kept remembering my username and password. I went into the internet options and changed the the autocomplete setting to not remember passwords or data added in forms, as well as for...

If you run Windows 8 on a desktop PC you are going to want to tweak Internet Explorer to avoid the Metro version of the browser. Link Removed

Hello all. How can I restrict an user (with limited access) in Windows 7 from closing ie9, I want ie9 to alway open in kiosk mode uncloseable, but i want user to be able to close the new ie9 window that open from a link. And how to disable or remove the minimize button on ie9.

The dual between Metro and desktop editions of IE10 can be tamed, says Microsoft Link Removed

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I am using W7, home premium on 1 year old HP desktop computer. Recently, I was having trouble accessing videos from you tube, email and other sites. I had been using adobe flash player 9 and I was told to upgrade adobe flash and to get version 11. I installed version 11 but it would not play...

I do a web search and visit a selected site, there after I return to the web search page. Previous viewed websites are highlighted in purple, and non viewed website are blue. Maybe I'm going color blind, but sometimes it's difficult for me to distinguish between purple and blue. How can I change...

Hi I just installed win 7 for the first time. And i want to ask about EI 9 and blurry text. When i open IE 9 then on some site sthe text seems a littel blurry/fuzzy Actualy this text im writing here has a small blurry look. I tryed to disable smooth edge text and i did severals cleartype...

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I am trying to get to like IE9, but am aggravated by the over-enthusiastic tooltips popping up all the time. The favorites menu (under the star icon) is practically unusable. Does anyone know how to turn off the tips popping off all over the place? It may sound like a minor annoyance, but...

1. Internet Explorer 9 -> Press 'Alt' to access menus -> Tools -> Internet options Link Removed 2. Internet Options -> 'General' tab -> Change how webpages are displayed in tabs -> Settings Link Removed 3. Tab Browsing Settings -> Enable Quick Tab (Ctr+Q) Link Removed 4...

Hi I have asked this question on several forums including the Chrome forum here, witch no one ever looks at, so I'm giving it one more try in hopes that someone has run into something like this before. My wifes laptop will not keep the zip code set to our area in Chrome. Everything that...

Whenever I came back to these forums I have to re-enter my login name and password. Other forums offer an automatic re-login with the login name and password stored in the local browser cookie. I HAVE enabled the cookie windows7forums.com but the auto-re-login does not work. Is...

IE8 is not remembering what I type in search bar. Also nothing is being remembered that I type into web pages ie user names etc. I hate to mention XP again but I could fix it there, can't find a way round it with 7 though. Thanks.

A little background for those who wondering what is Direct2D and DirectWrite Hardware Acceleration Direct2D : Direct2Dis a hardware-accelerated, immediate-mode, 2-D graphics API that provides high performance and high-quality rendering for 2-D geometry, bitmaps, and text. The Direct2D...

Since installing Windows 7 and IE8, I've noticed that whatever was last copied to the clipboard gets pasted into the search field when I open Google. I'd love to stop it doing this but I can't find a control anywhere. Does anyone know how to turn this off?

In my old laptop with W2003, autocomplete worked well when I typed my email address in an email-address box (after typing the first letter, several email addresses I use would show up and I just selected the one I wanted). My new laptop with W7 doesn't do that (I am using IE for browsing) and...