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I have been have been having problems to remove any residual program footprints from an old install of Cyberlink DVD Suite. It was factory installed when I was running Vista 64bit Ultimate then upgraded to Windows 7 Ultimate. The main problems are removing Power2Go and PowerDirector from my...

One of the things you may discover is that not all of your older programs/games/drivers will work under 7, and their 7 compliant versions may not be availabe. In this case, you can try install and run them in Vista (or XP) compatible mode. To run a file in compatibility mode: 1. Right click...

I am having problems Setting up Password Protected Folders on a Home network.. Hoping someone here might be able to Answer a Few Q's. Info: I have 4 Pc's Acer Aspire Laptop (win7)/ Custom made XFX game Boxes(Win7) / x2 Old Dell Boxes (XP pro) All 4 are connected by cat5 to a Linksys 5-port...

Yes !!! Cubase 4 run in Windows 7 Two days ago I tried to upload my Cubase 4 Original in my new Windows 7 ... and achievement! the problem is that I do not remember the name of the two. dll you asked me, but I do remember is that those 2. dll are in the OLD WINDOWS folder (System 32)...

Hello all, first time I have posted, but I am stuck. I am attempting to install Windows 7 Professional on my machine but am experiencing extremely slow (2 hrs) install. Then when it did install it took 20 minutes plus to boot up. I have tried removing all the RAM but one stick, using just a...

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...