desktop issues

Bizarre, running new RC Build 7100 for ~2 weeks, then this... On reboot after windows update, June 8 2009, notebook drives C+D are visible but not accessible! Notebook boots to win7, but impossible to install things from desktop or drill down through folders past desktop. re non existant disks...

Hi all, I installed Windows 7 x64 Build 7201 and after setting the folder options I could reboot the PC but I couldn't get Windows Explorer or Internet Explorer to work. If I click on the icons for either program the desktop will remain the same. If I continue to click on either program the...

Hi, I just started use Windows 7 rc. When I am logging in to the user account everything is black. So I have to open task manager , then open C://Programfiles and etc to open files or games. The whole deskop is black, and only saying "Windows 7 Evalution copy build 7100" in the righr corner...

Is this a bug that I’m experiencing now with W7 RC? Okay here’s how it goes: I installed W7 RC at home, then later I joined it at our domain at work. Everything is fine and dandy. I didn’t experience any problem whatsoever there. But when I returned home, I tried to use...

Heloo friends new to this forum and this is my first post....... I am facing a strange problem and have been looking for a solution but cant find one........ My problem is..... whenever i boot my PC or restart it......it reaches the desktop and everything seems fine.......but the moment i try...

Hi, I installed 7RC from MS, all went fine, I've not done anything unusual in the setup, all updates are installed, graphics ok etc. I created the initial account admin account, then from that a second admin. Changed to that admin account, set it up etc, and created 3 other Standard accounts...

Don't know how this happened but I deleted a coulple of files from my Documents Folder (Documents, Music, Pictures, Recently changed, etc.), and the whole Folder ended up in the Recycle Bin. I now have an exact duplication of my whole folder in the Recycle Bin. If I delete a file from the copy...

Hi, this problem has been killing me all day/night. I'm running Windows 7 build 7000, the 32 bit version. I tried to install Daemon tools yesterday, but that failed. I continued to install Alcohol 120. I noticed that the SCSI virtual driver installer kept freezing and crashing during my...

Has anyone experienced problems using dual display on Windows 7? On my system everything seems to work fine, but after a while and not always, the primary monitor starts to present random errors, like duplicated parts of the screen horizontally copied in other areas. Minimizing the window, does...

Hi. I have had 7 installed on my laptop for a while now and desided to install it on my HTPC. This computer has not normal monitor, but use my Samsun 32" LCD TV as a monitor. When I installed 7 there is a "black" stripe about 1" wide on the left side of the monitor before the desktop/taskbar...

I have begun having an occassional problem.. Been on Windows 7 for a few months now, and a problem JUST started happening in the last week or so. Every now & then, my desktop is completely black, no wallpaper, no icons, nothing. I have my taskbar, and any programs show up fine.. I can even right...

Hello, I am running Vista Home Premium with a quad core machine. Being an artist the main programs I use are 3ds max, photoshop, and of course a web browser (in my case Avant). My problem is that at certain times (and it is very random) things just start going haywire. I am not sure if this is...

For some reason, anytime I drop a file on the desktop with a .exe extension, I can no longer delete that file from the desktop. Actually...I can delete it, but as soon as I hit F5 or e.g. log off and back on, the file simply reappears. I can only delete a .exe file permanently in Safe Mode. I do...

I just installed Windows 7 on a new partition on my home desktop. I now get MEMORY_MANAGEMENT and PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA BSODs right after logging in to Windows 7. When I get the BSODs, there is no filename associated with the error, just the above general errors. I can reproduce the...

Hi all, I am having a problem with my Win 7 Beta. Everytime I boot the machine the system won't continue booting after I entered my login password. A blank desktop with the revision number appears as well as the mouse cursor (can be moved). But after this nothing more is loaded. I cannot...

My wife turned the on screen keyboard on by accident. She is running Vista SP 1 on a Dell desktop. In researching this issue I found one incident that was posted in 2007. I followed the steps listed in that discussion forum. I followed the steps even though the screen displays were slightly...

Hi everyone I have a dell inspiron 1525 with windows vista home premium.its in good standings,almost brand new,since i have like 4 months already with it.The prblem is the following. All of sudden when i restart my laptop it restarts fine,but when it goes to the desktop,it has a blank...

hey all, i just got a computer with windows already installed and am already hating life. first of all, when i download music files from the internet they go straight to my desktop as a shortcut, i tried fix this by going to "default programs" and putting it on windows default settings, but it...

Is there a utility for removing trojans that will run in Vista 32 Home Premium? I have found none. I have a trojan Spydawn and can't remove it. I'm not that tech savvy but I can follow instructions if a manual removal is possible via boot to safe mode and instructions made simple idiots like...