desktop issues

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...

Hey guys, recently my desktop which has XP installed in it is not working properly. i hadnt switched it on for some 1-1.5 months as i was moving to a new country. the desktop is running on Pentium III. It switches on, and then after loading the desktop (start menu, icons), it switches to a...

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...

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 everyone, I have this annoying problem with my desktop computer running Windows7 Infinity where it will reset itself to the welcome screen every 2 minutes or so when I don't move the mouse regularly, this has been going on for some time This doesn't happen however if I am playing a movie...

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...

brand new pc, nothing installed yet, but sometimes I get only desktop image, and nothing else. power down boot only thing that works to restore desktop.

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?