computer setup

I have been using Win7 RC1 on a spare computer for a couple of months - quite happy with it. Bought Win7 Ultimate last week and installed it on a second drive in my main computer as a dual-boot with XP Pro. On boot up I get the choice of "Old operating system" or "Windows 7", which is...

Hi all, I have Windows 7 installed on my computer. For some reason I keep getting the "setup is preparing your computer for first time use" on every boot. Everything works fine. No data is lost it's just the message. windows works fine after that How can I stop it?

I have another issue. Before I got windows 7, I was this current setup: AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+ 4 x 1GB Kingston Value ram DDR2800 running in dual channel (While the model number is the same, 2 sticks are low profile the other are normal height) Biostar TA690G-AM2 motherboard ATI-Radeon HD4830...

I have 3 drives C:\Windows7 D:\Stuff - Windows Easy Transfer backup X:\WindowsXP External SATA backup I have installed Windows 7 twice and I cannot get it to boot from C:. I get errors saying the boot manager is missing. I have to boot from X: and select Windows 7 from the boot manager. I tried...

I have a Sony Vaio VGN-FW140E with a broken LCD that I am attempting to put 7 onto. After the second restart, the restart that leads to you inputting your username, computer name, password, and date time, during the OS install the signal stops being broadcasted to the external monitor that I...

I have Windows 7 Home Premium and have been using it on my Del 720 XPS with no issues for a month now. Today, while browsing, the screen flickered and the resolution dropped to 1024x768 and my sound stopped working. I have installed, un-installed, and re-installed all of the drivers from...

Hi, I just got Windows 7 Home Premium OEM on a brand new computer (Fresh install). Install went without a hitch. However, I started noticing that whenever I startup the computer, the "Performance Options" Window pops up on startup. I believe it has something to do with the virtual memory. I...

I just installed a Dell OEM copy of Win 7 on two computers. One is my Asus P6T Dlx Ver 2 i7 920 rig and the other is a Dell Insperon 1501. Both machines have the " key and the @ swapped. It is driving me mad. I am a student and need these keys to be correctly placed. By the way I am in...

Okay I have three computers all running Windows 7 and WMP 12. I followed all the steps in the documentation to configure sharing and streaming, both in Windows and WMP, on all three computers. I can access everything I've shared on any of the computers, and WMP shows my other computers media...

Hi guys. Ok, so I've had this computer for something like two weeks now. Put it together myself and the set up is as follows: Asus P5KPL SE Intel Core 2 Quad Q9400 2.66GHz 1333MHz OCZ 4GB (2x2GB) Gold XTC DDR2 PC2-8500, 1066MHz Gigabyte Radeon HD4850 512MB 500GB Hitachi Deskstar P7K500 SATA-II...

I installed Win7 on my computer by installing on a 'new' hard drive, after removing the drive that housed XP. Is there a simple way to transer certain program files and settings to W7 without buying a specialty program? I didn't know about the "Windows Easy Transfer" before I installed W7, so...

I have been fighting getting Windows 7 RC 1 to install for 2 days now. Tried 3 different burned copies of Windows 7 RC 1 in a couple of formats due to a CD/DVD Driver issue. So, I decided to totally delete any partitions on the computer that I am installing it on. That's right, no partitions...

I have 2 hard drives, the first has Win 7 RC1 and the second has XP and Vista in their own partitions. The Win 7 boot loader gives me the choice of Win7, Vista and XP when I boot up. The question is: If I install Ubuntu onto the second HD in a currently unoccupied partion, will GRUB (which is...

W7 hiberfil.sys and choosing fonts Well, I had my W7 x64 setup as I like it, all worked fine, that is with not a problem. As we know some x32 programs will and do work in W7 x64, so with that i mind I installed Spybot. It seemed to go well so I resumed my computing. I restarted the computer and...

I have 3 computers on my network running Windows 7. I created a homegroup on one, and successfully connected to it from another. On the third computer, however, I'm having some problems. If I try to join the homegroup the normal way, I get the message "Windows cannot set up a homegroup on...

I deleted all my hard drive partitions and formatted my hard drive to wipe it clean. Now when I try to install Windows 7 onto my computer, the DVD boots and the installation begins. The installation will complete the "Copying windows files" task in seconds, but sticks at 0% on "Expanding files"...

So, I'm completely out of disc space on my C: drive. It's a 40GB IDE drive. To compensate, I've installed a 110GB SATA drive, which my computer recognizes as drive E:. I'm trying to stripe these drives (Or get Windows to freely write data across both of them as if they were a single drive.)...

Hi I have a new computer system that had no OS and have installed windows 7 rc on it and it is running fine.Can I install vista on a new partion with out removing windows 7 ? thanks Jdwing

I have 3 hard drives on this workstation. I use Boot Magic to boot into Win98 DOS, Win Me, W2k, XP. hd0 had WinMe (1), W2k (2), XP (3). hd1 had Win98 DOS on partition 1. I installed Win7. I wanted to install on hd0 but there were no more available Primary partitions, so I chose hd2 (sata)...

Hi recently installed windows 7 on my brand new pc as my primary and only operating system , was working for about two hours, installing all my drivers and so on . The problem I think stems from the partitions I tried to create using the built in windows 7 software, anyway a hour later I...