desktop issues

Hi, I downloaded a Zip file from the internet and extracted the content. I no longer needed either so I grabbed both the Zip file and the content file and dragged them to the recycle bin. It asked me if I really wanted to delete both files I said yes and apparently deleted the files. But...

Hi Guys, Just wondering whether anyone has experienced problems with recovery from Sleep. I have a laptop, with Vista & Photoshop CS3 and a desktop with Photoshop CS5. Prior to installing Photoshop on both of these PCs, I found that I could happily close down my PC, and subsequently restore...

Anything I download or move to my laptop "disappears" after the action is complete. For example, I will download a PDF file using Firefox...watch it download onto my Desktop and simply vanish after the download completes. The "Open" and "Open Containing Folder" are grayed out also in the...

I can't delete a huge 80 megabyte file from my desktop. It hangs up and says preparing to recycle but never does. I left the computer on all night and in the morning it was still "preparing to recycle" the file. I tried moving it to another folder but a window comes up saying thats it's "moving"...

Chrome crashes to desktop randomly. I installed Firefox but it has the same issue. I only started having this problem a couple of weeks ago (chrome used to work fine before) Any ideas? Already tried reinstalling Adobe Flash I'm using Chrome's latest version and my Os is Windows 7 Ultimate x64...

Hi, I've recently bought a new Acer laptop with windows 7 pre installed, but within the last week I've noticed that itunes can't connect to the itunes store and i can't access my norton antivirus from the popup on the desktop. ive tried reinstalling itunes, but to no avail. i tried to install...

I am experiencing problems running Windows 7 (desktop background is frozen, gadgets and utilites files are missing etc.) yet when I create a new user account then log onto that, Windows 7 runs fine (fix suggested by Cybercore). My question is, can I simply transfer settings and files from the...

I have a problem that seems to only effect the 32 bit version of my IE. When I run it, it automatically creates a file on the desktop. This file is unknown to windows and is differently named each time. Currently the example I have for you now is IÛt. The names that it creates are usually close...

hi i facing this problem, no desktop, no icon, cant right click on my screen n after i restart my laptop it show only My documents.n in my control panal i cant go in to taskbat n start menu n folder options, i using win7 ultimate. i try everything but it wont work...:frown::frown::frown::frown...

Specs: HP Pavilion p6130y RAM: 8GB Chip: AMD Phenom X4 (Quad Core) Operating System: Windows 7 Home Premium 64-Bit (Upgrade) Problem Synopsis: Windows 7 Blue Screens when I do the following... Attempt to transfer files from one USB Hard Drive to Another Download more than one file (normally...

Hello, after restarting, without any known resone some (not all) programs load very slow 30sec to 3 min. but they finaly loaded. when they loading the desktop and computer freezing . when i try to do another action the desktop get black until its release. menu's also freezing(all programs...

On Vista I coud use my ftp program go to one of my sites and drag drop a file to the desktop. On Windows 7 it makes a folder every time I try to do it and the folder is always empty? What gives?

Hi, I recently purchased a new Dell Studio desktop with an Intel Q8300 and 6GB RAM. I missed the quick launch from WinXP so I enabled it but have a very annoying issue; it takes 8 seconds for the programs to populate the quick launch bar. Any ideas how I can speed this up? Also, on a...

"windows cannot search for new updates" win7 ultimate/activated, this is what i get? what is going on and i figure i cannot be the only one having this problem. [CODE 80072EE2] ERROR win7 ULTIMATE will not update no matter what i do. i have built desktops in the past, delt with more issues thru...

Hi I recently updated my desktop machine from Vista to Windows 7. I have been using a Dell 968 to print. Following the upgrade, when I try to print anything other than a test page, the printer initially gives a status of printing but then this rapidly changes to "Deleting - Printing -...

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...

I want to migrate my email from OE6 on my XP system to live mail on Windows 7. Easy Transfer has no separate option to just move email, so I went through the migration selecting the option that moved a lot of stuff I didn't want moved including settings and my desk top stuff. After making a...

I have installed Windows 7 on two machines (laptop and desktop) on a home network. When I go into Sync Centre and click on "Manage offline files" nothing happens. This is the same for both machines. Previously when the laptop was running Vista and the desktop was running Windows 7 this was...

So my Desktop computer died and I pulled the HDD out of it to get files, but in order to do that I had to take ownership of them through Win7 on my laptop. Now if I were to plug that HDD back into the Computer, after I get it fixed (I think it's the Power supply unit or the motherboard) will it...

I just got windows 7. I downloaded a file. It's sitting on my desktop. I cannot delete it. If I move it to the recycle bin, nothing happens. If I right-click and press "delete" I get an error message that says "the file is no longer located here". It's says the file has 0kb. If I try to rename...