desktop issues

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...

What's going here? When Windows 7 loads in normal mode, there is no desktop, no icons, no cursor, nothing except a blue background with the Windows logo. I can press CTRL+ALT+DELETE and I get a black screen; pressing enter or esc will bring it back to the previous state. What the hell? Safe mode...

I am not too sure whether this was a TMM problem or was it my graphics card... But I am sure that when i had TMM disabled in Vista it fixed this issue so in Windows 7 right now, whenever I close my laptop lid (while connected to an external monitor) it moves my desktop to the the external...

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...

Hello all, i would like to thank everyone in advance for helping me with this problem. The issue is that when i play games on windows 7, if the resolution of the game is smaller then my desktop resolution i get black bars either on top or on the side (depending if the game is widescreen or...

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...

Help guys! I have a 32bit signature edition of windows 7 ultimate and i did a clean install by formatting my hard drive. I got through the first steps of completing installation (expanding files, etc.) and after the first boot where the windows logo shows up and displays "starting windows" my...

I have a few issues with sleep on my desktop machine that is running Windows 7 RTM. My machine consists of the following: [DFI JR X58-T3H6] [i7 920 D0] [12GB OCZ OCZ3B2000C9LV6GK] [Corsair CMPSU-750TX] [Windows 7 (64bit)] [EVGA 280 GTX][OCZ Vertex 30GB x 3 in RAID0] I'll start with the most...

I just installed Windows 7. I can't seem to manually change the order of icons in my folders. I am bound by using the sort by name/size/date etc. How do I just change the order by drag and dropping the items?

I'm using Windows 7 RC, and i have a problem. My Computer has 2 user accounts , and when i go on mine,windows opens the desktop and shows 4 script errors with a IE explorer icon. Link Removed - Invalid URL It looks like this just with another URL, error and the numbers. Can anybody tell me...

Sooooo I have no idea why this file will not delete. I had a simple .wav file called welcome.wav It was placed on the desktop When making a copy of it, (the copy was on the desktop, too) I accidentally named it "welcome.wav." If you can't see, this copied file had a period at the end of it...

About 10 seconds after arriving into the desktop, screen either goes black or white and stays that way. I'm hoping something is wrong because I believe the going blank thing wasn't supposed to be happening until next year or at least after the official release. Please help, I have work to do...

i tried installing w7 64 bit rc on a new 500 gb wd sata drive .my mobo is a gigabyte ga p35 ds3l .in belarc advisor it says its 64 bit ready.w/ the old hd installed .what happened when i installed the 64 bit on new drive the desktop is a light blue screen .when i try to get to anything from the...

I have noticed a lot that I cant delete folders, usually on my desktop. I have found a workaround, because it appears its mcafee that is "locking" the file, by going to the services and stopping all 3 mcafee services, then deleting the folders, then turning the services back on. Does anyone...

Hi, I have 3 computers, W2K Server, 2 x Windows 7 64bit (laptop and desktop). From the laptop I can access the C$ share on the 2k server. From W2kServer I can access the C$ share on the laptop From Desktop Windows 7 I can access the C$ share on both server and laptop But I cant access the...