desktop issues

Hey there, bit of a problem here.. When i go "Control Panel - Network and Sharing Center - Advanced Sharing Settings" and try to enable the "file and printer sharing" and click OK, it doens't save it.. If i go there again, the settings have just reverted back to disabled.. Anybody have an idea...

Greetings. This screen appeared : Link Removed Before windows loaded. Precursors to this included : All freezes for seconds\minute the unfreezes, sometimes while cpu 100% sometimes not. It also could freeze and show BSOD and start scandisk or something. It occured more often in-game (wic)...

Hi, I have encountered a problem that I can't seem to find any resolution for. I have attached a second monitor to my HD4870 which was initially set up to display on the right at 1280x1024 and it worked fine for the first few days however then it started to display a rather annoying bug...

I run windows 7 on an ASUS N81VG with smart logon. which allows me to identify facial recognition to log into my user accounts. I updated windows 7 and when i logged on with smart logon i saw that my desktop was naked and it had me logged on as a new user. all my files and icons are gone. i...

Hello all, I'm currently running Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit with all the updates, etc. My issue is that when I turn on my computer, when I get to my desktop, if I use my keyboard to, say, delete an icon, explorer freezes up. If I go into notepad and try to type, it freezes up. If I go into...

Recently after downloading some apps my system won't bootup properly it does go through the normal process but when it gets to the desktop and is loading it will crash and do the blue screen thing with a system dump, so I thought I would do a restore but it wouldn't allow that because there is...

My friend set up a guest account on his computer for me to use. Windows7 copied the administrator's desktop icons to the guest account desktop, where I deleted them. Deleting those icons also deleted them on the administrator's account. Is this the way it's supposed to work?

Hi all, I hope someone can help. I have a few desktops I've built recently with Win 7 64 and I've noticed a white language bar across the top of the welcome screen (see pic). I've amended the Language and Region settings and copied the settings to the Welcome screen and system accounts but...

I've had the Icon Packager installed in my computer and after the trial period ended my icons got messed up..The main problem is in the image.. Its like it has 2 of them the "original" and the image of <Programs and Features> from Control Panel.. -.- I tried some things but nothing could help...

Hola, first post on here so if I havent followed a particular rule before posting I apologise. I've had this laptop for 4/5 months or so and its my first W7 platform. Occasionally I got a few error messages when I was logging in, saying that cannot load profile and sometimes it wouldn't...

I am using Windows 7 Home Premium Edition in a Toshiba netbook. I created a folder on my desktop with a file in it. In Windows Explorer, I tried to move that folder into another folder that is in the Program Files folder. When I tried to do that, I received a message box, "You need to provide...

It wasnt used to be like this, and it only happened recently when I plugged in my ipod touch(which im sure isnt related at all). This would happen Link Removed due to 404 Error Dell dock would stop working (not responding), the bar down there cant be used at all. I can't right click on...

Hi, My computer was working fine until it started getting a BSOD after i changed the Language for non-Unicode programs from English to Japanese. And now i am only able to get on my computer in safe mode while starting it up normally causes it to get a BSOD as soon as i finish loading the...

Hi, I was trying to do a complete reinstall of Thunderbird and was trying to locate and delete folders which do not get removed after uninstall of Thunderbird. Anyway, I clicked something in C: Users... and everything on the desktop disappeared. So, I did a system restore to earlier in the...

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Okay, I'm running windows 7. I'm trying to open up a presentation file from office 2010, but I need to convert it first. On my other computer I can simply double click the item or just right click and click on "save as" and save it as a different powerpoint format. This computer doesn't have...

Hello, i'm new to this forum but I was hoping someone here could help me out as I'm unsure what i've done. Last week I turned off my desktop normally and there was no major differences that had been made whilst it was on. I leave my desktop for one week and the next time I logged on it...

So I turn on my comp as usual, but this time after typing in my password to my admin profile a message appears - "preparing your desktop" - which doesn't appear when my profile loads correctly. My desktop appears and my desktop icons, quickstart programs, wallpaper, all the user settings are...

First, Here are my computer specs. i7-920 GIGABYTE GA-X58A-UD3R LGA 1366 Intel X58 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard SAPPHIRE 100297L Radeon HD 5830 1GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.1 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card w/ ATI Eyefinity Technology OCZ ModXStream Pro...

Greetings .... :-| ________ Ok here we go.... Tried to download a... diving world record video from youtube ...with "flashgot" firefox plugin. Flashgot downloaded the video in boken incomplete parts (x2) to my desktop. Upon discovering this, I tried to delete the incomplete parts to the...