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Hi everyone, ------------------------------------------------------ Edit: by the way it's my first time posting on these forums, so hello everyone, nice to meet you. Hopefully someday I can be on the other side of the support role for this OS ;). Thank-you in advance for reading my post and...

My laptop, an HP Pavilion dv7-1120em (Intel Centrino 2), originally running Vista Home and upgraded to Windows7 Home Premium (32 bits) in December, stopped showing my USB jump drives about a month and a half after the upgrade. In the beginning, I had only one jump drive and, when it became...

First 3 downloads of the iso weren't complete...I didn't notice until I tried 2 burns. Then I resorted to downloading elsewhere and after 3 more downloads I got the right file(verified by hash) for 64 bit Windows Pro English. Burned the iso to my thumb drive fine, seemed to install fine and...

Hello, I'm new to this forum but an experienced user of windows systems. Recently i started to have this strange problem with windows desktop search: When trying to search the entire index, not a specific location on the disk or inside MS Outlook, there are no results what so ever. Take a look...

I currently have Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit installed on my system. Was dual booting Windows Server 2008 on a second hard drive. I just put Server on the other day to play around with to get familiar with it and it has been working fine. I adjusted in 7 to make it the primary OS so Server would...

I had a setup of Lineage 2 Interlude on this path C:\Users\ExTaCy1337\Desktop\Folder\FORMAT\Format\ExTaCy1337\Lineage II Installers\LineageII_interlude_client\ And I was running the setup and nothing was happening... when I movied LineageII_interlude_client to C:\... like...

Trouble with Dual Boot two installs of Windows 7 on different partitions - SOLVED I am a musician and use my computer for my recording. I also use the same machine for everyday use. In order to keep my music system clean and optimized, I would run a dual boot of Windows XP. I successfully...

I just built my first computer. Specs are in my profile. I can get into BIOS and the motherboard's onboard OS. BIOS recognizes both my HDDs, both my optical drives, all of my RAM (3x2GB), my CPU, etc. I have the most current version of the BIOS. I can not install Windows 7. I have tried 3...

Ok, I've searched all over every forum I can think of and I can't find anything anywhere. I apologize if this has been answered on this site; I couldn't find it. My C: drive has been displaying a size of around 60 gb with 40 free even though it's a 300 gb drive. I thought the issue would...

Hi there! I have a Dell Axim X5, using Windows Mobile 2003. I have Windows 7 Ultimate x64. Before that, I was using Vista Ultimate x64, and had no problem connecting my Axim to my computer. Now, I am trying to make my Axim work with Windows 7. After much hassle, I successfully installed...

Over the course of trying to fix my pc, I've ran into problem after problem through the installation and getting to the point I might just simply go back to a fresh installation of XP; far too much hassle for something I was looking forward to. First of all I'd like to explain my problem, My...

I'm getting this error in my event log every so often as my network connection crashes. Name resolution for the name <www.XXX.com> timed out after none of the configured DNS servers responded. I have to reset my network card (disable and then enable in Device Manager) in order to get a...

I have tried to install windows 7 64 bit on a asus k50ij running vista 64 bit. I am installing from an upgrade disk that was mailed to me because i bought the laptop shortly before the release. The installation always hangs at Copying Windows Files 0% I ran the upgrade advisor and uninstalled...

Hi, I recently installed Windows 7 home premium 64-bits. I upgraded it from a Windows vista business 32-bits. That was not trivial, but it worked fine. Problems came when a driver "classpnp.sys" made the system halt. Repair programs did not work until I copied another file over the driver and a...

I had no problems with the first two computers that I upgraded from Vista to Windows 7, both were 64bit systems. I'm having post upgrade problems with my 32 bit machine (Sony Vaio VGN-NR430E). THe machine did fine with the compability check for Windows 7. Problems: 1) Some icons on the...

I finally got Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit upgrade to do a custom install from Windows Vista 32-bit. I was one of the ones that got that DVD/CD message every time. I'm not going to go into a bunch of detail, but this is all I did: Get Link Removed do what it tells you, takes about a minute. See...

Evening, My grandfather has a Dell inspirion 530 that is hanging and then BSOD'ing when shutting down with windows 7. Here is the memory.dmp: DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE (9f) A driver is causing an inconsistent power state. Arguments: Arg1: 00000003, A device object has been blocking an Irp...

I tried to use StarDock's Bootskin Vista, but it removed the default windows loading animation and failed to replace it with the new one. It then failed to restore the default. I uninstalled it with no luck - the files have been changed. I then tried running various restore programs found...

Since upgrading from Vista to Windows 7 I've got a problem with games folder, namely over 500 icons with no name, that I can't click on or right click and delete. anybody have any ideas how I might get rid of them? I've attached a screenshot of the folder to illustrate what I mean Cheers...

Hi, I recently downloaded Windows 7 Professional 32-bit and when I run the "Win7-P-Retail-en-us-x86" it gets about a third of the way through "Unloading the box" when I get an error message saying "An error was encountered. Unspecified error". Does anybody know why I'm getting this message? If...