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  1. Amazon offering $50 Windows 7 handsets, AT&T do buy one get one free

    If you are considering buying a Windows 7 phone then there’s a few offers about. The best one at the moment seems to be AmazonWireless which is offering the Samsung Focus, HTC Surround, and LG Quantum for $49.99 each with free shipping and no activation fee. AT&T has an offer starting on the...
  2. Microsoft's Windows 7 Phones Lock SD Cards

    A support document for the Samsung Focus reveals that Microsoft will "lock" flash cards to the phone, preventing them from being used in other devices. More...
  3. Video review: Samsung Focus Windows 7 Phone on AT&T

    Today's the day if you want a Windows 7 Phone here in the US. ATT has 3 models, two of which are in stores today: the Samsung Focus and the HTC Surround. T-Mobile has the HTC HD7.The Samsung Focus ... More...
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    Windows 7 IME disappearing from the taskbar.

    I've been using IME to type in Japanese, but I'm having a weird problem with it. It will run on startup fine, (I've seen the ctfmon.exe thing, and I have it running) but the IME panel disappears any time I bring focus to any application other than the taskbar/start menu. It used to work fine...
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    Windows 7 How to stop connecting to new wireless connections???

    I have a wireless router in my home, with 4 computers connected to it. The only Win 7 computer is constantly annoying me with "Connection to a new network established. Do you want to create a profile?" popup messages. Now while these messages only last 5 seconds and self-disappear, the message...
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    Windows 7 How to- force focus power point viewer

    Hi everyone, long time reader first time poster. I was wondering if its possible to force the focus of a program to the front of the screen. Ie. I've set IExplorer to automatically open .pps files in the viewer not the editor. But if you have other programs (besides IExplorer) in focus at...
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    Windows 7 Minimizing problem

    Help whenever i Minimize the game i can't open it plz help whenever i want to do something else i need to shut down the game plz help
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    Windows 7 My window disappeared

    I wanted to work on two windows side by side and I dragged one window to the left of the screen and it took up half the screen and then I dragged the other window to the right of the screen so that it would take up the other half, and I guess I dragged it too far and let go and it stayed there...
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    Windows 7 keyboard or touchpad issue

    Im running windows7 rc on a toshiba satellite m40 laptop. All is largely fine except one issue... Randomly while typing - at random intervals the focus will move to the beginning of the line or a previous line or to a different field... its like ramdom clicks are being introduced from the...
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    Windows 7 Making Files that are Opening Take Focus

    Hello, I hope you are doing well. When I open some types of files, such as image files (e.g. jpeg, gif), they appear in the taskbar and blinks there, telling me that it is open. However, I would like all files that I open to take focus and show up right away, instead of having me click on the...
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    VIDEO Desktop flashes. loses focus

    Hey guys,: I have a highly annoying problem with my freshly installed Windows 7 Home Premium and I hope, someone here can help me. The Desktop and the Windows Explorer seem to switch focus all the time. If I klick on the Desktop, an explorer window will start to flash constantly. If I try to...
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    Windows 7 Annoying Window Focus

    Am I alone in hating the way Windows 7 handles windows focus? I guess in a way it's good that a dialogue doesn't pop up in the middle of typing or clicking, resulting in an unintended answer to the dialogue, but too often I find myself missing new windows. Say for example a website has a...
  13. Windows 7 Jumping taskbar problem

    Hello, I have a problem with the new taskbar in Windows 7. I have installed Windows and then I installed a lot of programs, so I can't recognize if something else than system does it, but let's say I have quite known and legal programs installed, so they should not to do this problem...
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    Windows 7 Windows Explorer problem with switching focus

    I'm having a problem with windows explorer after clicking item on the navigation pane explorer doesn't switch focus to the folder list on the right it's still focusing on the navigation pane. Same thing with picture preview pane (Alt + P). You may not notice this problem if you are using a...
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    Windows 7 Program window has dissappeared?

    So I've been using alt.binz for a while now and then lately for some reason windows 7 won't bring the program to the front. I minimize it and everything and nothing seems to work. If I hover over the icon I can see the program in the preview thing but that's it. I don't see any way to move a...
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    Windows 7 Window focus issue

    Unlike previous versions of Windows I do not have automatic change of focus when I open or close an application. For example: if I'm browsing a pictures folder and I open one of the pictures it doesn't automatically make Picture Viewer the active window, nor does it make the folder I opened the...
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    Windows 7 Chrome Tabs

    Anyone know how to make each google chrome tab show up in the mouseover? Right now it just shows the focus tab.
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    Windows 7 disable windows previews.

    hello. there is something that i want to disable but don't know where to. when you hover on a tab in the taskbar there is a little windows preview. the preview is fine, but when you hover on the thumbnails preview, all windows is minimized and the focus goes to that window. that's what im...
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    Windows 7 Window muting when out of focus

    Hello, Currently I'm running 2 3d games. When I switch from one to the other the audio for the other (now out of focus) mutes. If 2d applications such as flash or windows media player are playing audio, the sound for the 2d app is played regardless of window focus but the 3d app will lose...