file issues

I'm running windows 7 64 bit version 6.1.7600 Build 7600. I downloaded an Excel file from a trusted site and I can't open it. when I try to open it directly from the website I get messages like it's read-only, or already open, name and path may be invalid, or may no longer exist. Or, I can...

Hi I don't know if this is the right place to post but having looked around seemed best to me. My mothers computer recently failed. She had Vista installed on a striped raid array, unfortunately one of the disks failed, and she never thought to backup any of her data. However on the disk that...

I have purchased a group of PC's with Windows 7 and love them. One issue we are facing is that we can not open 2007 Microsoft Word or Excel files if they are on our external hard drives. They only open if they are on the C drive. Please let me know if anyone has come across this and how to...

Hi guys, My windows 7 was working really graet a few months but than (I think after an update, but not sure) I just couldn't save any files downloaded from any internet browsing programm. Mozilla shows that the files are actually downloaded but they somethimes don't have the same size as it...

When I download an Excel spreadsheet in Win 7 64bit, Excel 2007 cannot read the spreadsheet. If I download the same spreadsheet on a XP machine with Excel 2007 I can read the spreadsheet.

Ok, I have been having this problem for a couple days now and have searched countless sites for answers. I am not able to run Regedit, Regedt32 or any type of .reg script file. From within Windows, I get either Access Denied or can't find file. From an Elevated Command Prompt, after running a...

Okay, it's befuddling and distressing to me, which might not be saying much. I just got my copy of windows 7 today and installed it. Entered the product key and it was accepted. Everything seems to work fine. Then I went into the System area in Control Panel and noticed the prompt to...

SOLVED - Oscdimg.exe is not a valid win32 application I hope someone can help..... I just purchased the Windows 7 ultimate student version with the intention of doing a clean install over my Windows 7 RC. I've been trying to make an iso using the instructions here in this forum, but no matter...

Dear Windows 7-friends, i have a (little?) problem with my Windows 7 Build 7100. There are three files, that cannot be deleted (all of them on desktop) If i try to delete them, it opens a windows saying: "Recycling" (German: "Recyclen von...") This window won't close automatically, i...

I just installed windows 7 last night. I had saved the windows 7 installation file on my other hd and ran that one to install. Everything installed fine, but then when i would run it, it would say there are audio problems (that's correct and I know i need to deal with them) and that it could...

Hi there, I have a few questions. First off, I tried downloading the Win7 RC 64-bit via that download manager that you have to use. After the download, I do no see the .iso file of Win7 RC on my desktop(which I set as where I want to file to download). The only icons I see that are related to...

ok so basically i started getting this error yesterday i cant open any explorer windows MSN wont sign i dont know what other rights i have lost i have tried restoring permissions to my account VIA the Admin acc and VIA my own account and nothing has worked by the way the admin account has no...

When I open some specific folders windows freezes and i get the message "Windows Explorer has stopped working.". Then i click on "restart windows explorer" and it works fine. I havent noticed, but I think I get the error with folder where are .OGM files. I downloaded ogm file on my desktop and...

hi guys , i have 7rc. it worked fine a while but now almost every time i want to open some file it show "Windows cannot access the specified device, path or file. You may not have the appropriate permissions to access the item" and yes i am looged as admin and it was a clean install. XP is on C...

I've just installed Windows 7 on my Acer Aspire 5920. I have 2 partitions: C:\ D:\ I installed it on the C:\ drive. On the D:\ partition, the folders display, but the files do not. I've tried a few things such as Permissions, and Windows 7 cycles through the files as if it is changing the...

Recently installed the 32bit client and am installing the games I still play. Mass Effect is not installing. Any assistance from those who may have run into similar problems and found a fix would be greatly appreciated. Otherwise, if you have any ideas, I'm open to suggestions to try to fix...

Hey when i try to create a new virtual machine it says file could not be created but if i continue later i "seem" to finish until i run it when it loads up the DOS window and then gets stuck on DHCP ... Any suggestions thanks :) Seb

Although I've tried the registry edit in disabled sessions, whenever i try to open a media file in any folder, it says "windows explorer has stopped working" and restarts after the media file starts playing. Also, I can't turn off sounds even though i have "no sounds" applied. Those are my only...

Hello everyone! Since recently, this really annoying bug started to pop up. Every time I open a folder except my Desktop with an MPG ( or MPEG) file, Windows Explorer crashes. Even on my Desktop, when I drag my mouse on the file (and even not clicking it!) Windows Explorer crashes. At first...

To read pdf files, I have to save them first and then open using Adobe. Loading and reading no longer happens automatically and I suspect the problem has arisen since installing Service Pack 1.