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I have recently (two days ago) purchased a brand new HP Pavillion g7-1365dx Laptop, with Windows7 Home Premium installed. I had never touched the settings for update..was set to automatic to begin with. Now for the good stuff. After uninstalling alot of "junk" they included with computer, I...

I have an issue pertaining to admin permissions and read-only files. It seems all my files and folders are read only, and when I remove read only it automatically reverts back to read only when I check again. I am administrator with full privileges. Sometimes I get a prompt saying 'i need admin...

Posted on other forum as well, there was a problem with the hl.exe proccess (counter strike 1.6) When i did all the steps here also received bsod when first started the ram program(thats why ram suspicious) this is all the information zipped: no cpuz screenshot, instead a speccy reports. your...

Hi All, In the explorer window, in the left (navigation) pane, I move the list of folders up to see what I need and when I expand a folder it moves everything down and opens with the folder at the bottom of the window So I can't see what is in it. I have to move the folders up again, expand the...

My W7 integral fax & scan installation worked great for years. All of a sudden it would only print to a PRN file (print to file is NOT checked.) I removed fax & scan from the installed components, and after six or so hours of fooling around, finally deleted REG entire entries...

Hi, I have a Gateway Nv79 laptop computer Windows 7 64 bit 500 GB harddrive 4 GB Ram Intel(R) core (tm) i3 CPU m330 @2.13 GHz My laptop frequently crashes and i hav e no idea why. It never satay on fore more than 30 minutes before it crashes. someone plz help me, this is so frustrating is my...

I hope I'm in the correct section. I was refered to this site by another. Great community. To the problem. I was trying to set up a guest user account for others to use my laptop for school work and I tried to block areas of my computer by editing the permission or security. Without paying...

Hi, i have windows 7 64 bit sp1, and when i check for updates it checks for updates with no results. I have let it run overnight and still nothing. It says checking for updates with the green line going back and forth, but never gets any results. Can someone help me with this it is very frustrating.

Hello. I'm not sure where else to turn because I've tried googling this for last few days and have had zero luck. I ordered parts from newegg.com and have been trying my first PC build. It's been a complete nightmare and pure frustration since I spent over $1,600 on it. When I try to install...

Hi all, I have a Sony Vaio VGN-AR51SU Laptop which was running Windows Vista 32 Bit. I purchased windows 7 and installed the 64 Bit version. Everything seems to work fine apart from my Matshita BD-MLT UJ-220S Bluray burining drive. The laptop only sees it as a CD Rom. the device appears with...

Hi, I have been on the edge of chucking my computer out the window for hours, and the only support I get from colleagues in my masters program is "Get a mac!" Anyway, yesterday I was working on something in CodeBlocks and when I went to build my project, I got stuck in a loop of "this project...

After getting ti 2010 working initially in new windows 7 install, I now get the dreaded "program stops working" which appears to be the new BSOD for windows 7. This happens at initial launch and sometimes into point where I select location of backup folder. I've tried reinstalling about a...

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Well, I really have never seen anything quite like this. When I boot up my PC and it gets to the desktop, a program window pops up and the mouse and keyboard will not work. Therefore, I cannot clear the program from the desktop or go anywhere to run scans or the like to see if the problem is...

Victor is fed up with his job and needs Windows 7 Forums now more than ever.

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Hi, I'm not computer savvy and I have joined this group out of shear frustration. I don't even know if I'm in the right group, but here goes. I've had my HP desktop for 2 years without a problem, now I'm getting this message (see title) in the bottom right corner. I've contacted HP and...

We have our Server running Windows Server 2003. We have 2 other desktop computers running XP and a laptop also running XP connected. We replaced one of the XP computers with a brand new Windows 7 computer. I am connected to the LAN just fine and when you click on "get online," it's says that...

Odd issue here: I have two Win7 laptops and a Logitec bluetooth mouse. When I pair it to Laptop 1, it works fine as long as I don't ever connect it to Laptop 2. (On rare occasions it will become unrecognized even if I don't pair it with the other laptop. While that behavior may be related to...