computer setup

I am running Windows 7 Professional on a desktop computer and Windows 7 Home Premium on a laptop. They both can successfully connect to the internet without a problem. The laptop connects through wireless and the desktop connects through a wired connection. These two computers, however, cannot...

Hi, I have two computers on my network, one running Windows 7 home premium and one running Windows 7 ultimate. Both computers are wired to my our router which is a Netgear wgr614 v9. I have already set up a work group and everything works fine, i can see the other computer and view the files in...

I have 2 hard drives in my computer. My C drive has xp on it. I want to do a clean install with windows 7 on the 2nd harddrive and make it my primary drive. I believe I will have to reformat the drive, it is a fat32. I want to keep xp in the machine and boot from it when I need too or be...

Ok I have 3 Pc's running Win 7 Premium. A laptop, a gaming pc and a media center pc. I have gone through each computer and shared my documents so i can move around video files/pictures/music to any pc from any pc, but for some reason I can't do it between all of the pc's. I can see the...

Hi ... I have 4 hard drives install on my computer , what I have done is basically installed windows 2000, xp and 7 on separate hard drives , each windows was done on itself without any other hard drive install . So basically one hard drive listed in the bios for each windows , yes I know I have...

I,m very new to this and have just ordered a new PC with Windows 7 to arrive in about 10 days. I have a good 18" LG1810B monitor and although I have tried to research the question - cannot find the answer. Is it possible to retain the old monitor and have the new Samsung SM-2443BW 24" as the...

Hello evryone. I have been searching allover the net ofr a lasting forx for this probem for days but to no avail: I have Seven home Premium, a Nvidia GeForce 988 GX2 and two 22 inch TFT displays. At first I had no issues at all runnig the two dispalys for weeks just after the install of Seven...

I have 5 computers on my network, the names are as follows: HOME-ND86E0MP1L (XP) JON-PC (7) LAPTOP (7) LILBIT-PC (VISTA) OFFICE-PC (7) HOST All are on MS HOME, all are set to share files, and all have Password Protect "DISABLED" Vista and 7 are having the problems, can't get Vista to...

Hi, I just built a new computer today and istalled windows 7 , hooked it up to my 24 inch monitor and was suprised to see a good portion of the native resolution not showing up leaving me seeing only a portion of the desktop ( no start bar or icons, just the clock and cpu meter in side bar ) I...

Hello, im having some serius problems whit my internett connection at the moment, It all started whit my old setup. i had an asus m2n-e sli motherboard and installed windows and all worked perfectly, but some days later when i start my machine i get the message: unable to connect to the...

No networking - new Windows 7 computer - TCP/IPv4 and TCP/IPv6 - Odd IPCONFIG results ----------------- The computer is Windows-7 64-bit. I'm on Comcast - cable-modem. The router is a DLink gaming router. I've bypassed the router - that didn't help. I've been stuggling with this for days -...

As the title says, can i fit one of these and install a fresh OS on it like Windows 7 for example or will i be just better adding the HDD to my tower case. I already have two HDD's in my system with Vista Ultimate 64bit and Vista Home Premium 32bit. What would i have to do if i fitted another...

I am trying to set up remote desktop with DynDNS but I just can't make it work when I try to access from a different network. Within my home network I successfully use the remote desktop and connect without issues. Also, using the DynDNS within my network also directs me to the router so I...

Ok so heres the overall breakdown of the problem. Computer 1 Windows 7 Ultimate 64 Bit Main desktop, games, music, TV shows. ASUS PN5-E SLI Core 2 Duo E7500 2.93 GHz 4GB DDR2 800 Ram GeForce 8800 GTS 320GB HD Main Drive 320GB HD Games 500GB HD Music 1TB HD TV Shows Computer 2 Windows 7...

Hi, I just took one of my blank hard drives and put it into my compaq presario desktop computer and formated windows 7 ultimate onto it. i have it setup as a daul boot computer. i have xp home edition on one drive and win7 on the new drive. i am not having any issues out of xp with the LAC. it...

A website I use for work was giving me problems. I contacted the company's tech support and they said in order to use their service in Windows 7/ IE 8 I had to run IE as administrator. This does the trick but I don't want to have to go through the step of "running as administrator" every time I...

So for dual boot .. install XP in one partition, 7 in another partition . Got it. Now I have two qts: 1. How do you choose at startup XP or 7? (sorry for such a noob qt) More importantly: 2. I want to install XP 32 bit in one partition, 7 64 bit in another partition. .. Can this be done? I...

Hi there. I have a dual LAN on my motherboard and windows 7 installed. No.1 is connected to the internet and no.2 is my LAN. I connect a second computer with windows 7 to the LAN with crossed Ethernet cable. I have internet connection and file sharing on both computers, however the host computer...

I have a dual LAN on my mother board. I've enabled the ICS in the sharing tab in the IPv4 Properties. 1=Host 2=Guest No.1 is my main computer and has 2 LAN cards on the motherboard. No.2 is the Media Center. I have a LAN cable to connect them. It used to work when No.2 had WIN XP. Now I can...

Setting up a new computer is sometimes fun. But installing tons of applications takes a while, so sometimes you set that aside and forget to install them, just to find you've got to read a PDF but you don't have a PDF reader. Or maybe you need to see a website, but you forgot to install...