error handling

I've been having a problem which seems to be quite common among many Windows 7 users. I'm currently running Windows 7 Ultimate and it's been fine for about 3 weeks. 3 days ago, it started shutting down on me randomly when i'm playing games. No BSODs, no warnings, nothing. It's as though the...

Hello, I send this already to 2 msn emails. I bought Windows 7 Home Premium. I have activated wga when I try to download windows media player 11 (to see wga status; it says Genuine Microsoft Software). But then it keeps me validate this over and over again (when restart). At Control Panel...

find the file from server... However, if I right click it and save as it works fine. Also, when I click the link and it doesn't prompt me it actually downloads as I can look in C:\Users\USERNAME\Documents\Downloads and the files are there. Any ideas what's going on with this? I've turned...

hi, I will try to keep this brief.. I am not a programer, just a hack.. but several years ago I created a project that is still going strong and increasing in sales as time goes on.. Not being a programer I purchased and use access developers tool kit for access 97 which takes care of the...

So I am having a very weird issue with Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit.. If I open Safari 4 or Internet Explorer, the taskbar crashes (if I leave the window open or minimize it, however it doesn't crash if I close it completely).. and then I hit CTRL+ALT+DELETE and the taskmanager also crashes and I...

I have an old Microtek scannmaker X6EL that refused to work "twain error" the driver appeared to be fine just refused to scan through any programs. I found this program VueScan that worked prefectly. This program is not free but beats buying a new scanner. You can use the program to test for...

Hi recently installed windows 7 on my brand new pc as my primary and only operating system , was working for about two hours, installing all my drivers and so on . The problem I think stems from the partitions I tried to create using the built in windows 7 software, anyway a hour later I...

Hi ALl, Searching the forum didn't turn up anything relevant, so here goes. I've got an MFC C++ application that uses CreateFile() to open a bluetooth device mapped to a virtual com port, and it isn't working on Windows 7 for com ports greater than 9. In fact, specifying the com port as...

This isn't a huge issue, but it certainly is an annoying one. I set up a data partition which contains all of my music and common files. I clean installed the 32-bit version of RC 7100 on a separate partition, and the 64-bit version of RC7100 on yet another partition. Vista 64 remains on its own...

I downloaded Windows Live Mail because Windows 7 RC1 does not come with an email client ATM. When I went to setup my email account I made an error typing the smtp address needed for sending email..... i want to delete my original email account and start over from scratch....Anyone know how to do...

Hi, I have an application, written by me, that's crashing in windows 7 (works in other Windows incarnations). Is there a way of telling Windows 7 to create a crash dump file when the crash happens? The only report I've seen so far is which module and address it fails at, but there's no content...

Background: I am a developer. I write Windows software for a living, have done for many years. And this problem has got me flummoxed :( I've written a simple Windows service. It was working just great on Windows XP. So I ported the source code across and recompiled it. No problems experienced...

Hi All, Well, typical Windows rubbish. Dose anyone know why, oh why Medal of Honor - Airborne won't install? I don't get any error messages, it simply dose NOTHING... well almost. I can start the setup, enter my CD key, then it tries to install PhysX (v 7.x.x.x), extracts files, loads...

I'm running into a strange problem. I have a simple C# console app that calls an external web service referenced within my VS 2008 .NET solution. The web service is defined as a service reference, per the vendor. The service requires login credentials to be sent as part of the SOAP header...

Problems, Problems. I am running Windows 7 7100 x64 version. Everything is great, except..... I use a small program called TWX Proxy (you can search for it on web). It's used as a helper for an online game called Tradewars. Basically, I use a telnet program (usually ZOC) to connect to...

I'm using Visual Basic Express and trying to store code, templates etc on a folder on Windows Home Server. It appears that a "//server/...." URL is 'not trusted' by vb.net. I don't seem to be able to access any of the quoted .NET Access/Security tools from Windows 7 beta. Any ideas?

Hi, I am new to this forum. I have one question when i am working with cmd command. My laptop is running on Vista Ultimate 64 bit. When i am running a batch file in cmd prompt, it is asking "press any key to continue". When i pressed any key, the command prompt window is disappearing and not...

hey there when ever i try to burn movies or music or any files to a cd it does not work and i have a cd burner and all the stuff needed but it still wont work so if you guys could plz drop some hints that would be greatly apreciated thanks sincerely, tsalamat