home edition

I am thinking about buying Win7 but want to clarify the feature "XP Mode". As you know Win7 Home contains in contrast to Windows 7 Pro no "XP mode". So I wonder what exactly this "XP mode" is. If I take Win7 Home then install VirtualPC and install WinXP inside as a guestOS VM. Is this the...

Sorry I know it sounds stupid but I dont have a Home CD but I have a Home key, can I use the Windows 7 Professional CD I have to install it then activate the Home key (I understand I will loose for features) Has anyone done this?

Hi, I've got a problem with my racing-wheel and win7home. At first I had win7enterprise and the latest driver for the wheel and there were no problems. Now I've got win7home and the problem accures: windows doesn't see the wheel when I want to change the settings, eventough the wheel is working...

I am having a lot of trouble with Windows 7 booting. Here are some details: - single hdd machine (750GB); single partition - Win7 64bit home edition - I am getting the disk boot failure message on boot (nothing in particular changed) - booting from the win CD, repair seems to run ok but...

I tried installing Chinese IME using the Control Panel --> Change Keyboards and other input options. However, after selecting the required IMEs and keyboard input methods, I am not able to see the language option toolbar at the Task bar. I have selected the location for the language bar. Didn't...

I've got Win7 Home on a laptop, I've installed Virtual WiFi from the microsoft site, and I now have a second, virtual, wireless adapter. How do I get it to connect to a network? Every time I bring up my networks list and choose a different one to connect to, windows uses the real wireless...

i am trying to upgrade my other laptop from vista home edition to windows 7 and i get through the install fine untill the later part. It installs everything and gets down to where the "complete installation" part is and it restarts, But when it comes back up the install just totally starts over...

Hello everyone, I want to thank this community for such a well maintained website. It is really helpful. I want to let you know that EASEUS Partition Master Home Edition v 5.0.1 will not create partitions out of the unallocated disk space I made in my hard drive using this application. When I...

I am from India. I am planning to buy Windows 7 Home edition for my use. I am a freelancer working from home and need to often go for 'remote desktop connection' to work. I would like to know whether Windows 7 will restrict me here in any sense (I am currently using XP). My question basically -...

We have a peer to peer network with a standard linksys wireless router. I am sharing a printer connected to a desktop computer running xp home edition. Printer works from the desktop. My laptop with xp home edition prints to the shared printer with no problem. A laptop with windows 7 successful...

Hi, I currently have windows 7 home edition 64-bit. I have the current adobe flash player. I go onto youtube alot, and sometimes, it makes me reload the flash player, and i can't watch any videos. Help!:(:confused::mad:

I own Dutch home edition windows 7 on my new laptop. There is no speech recognition module that came with the software. Is it possible to use the English version SAPI 5.1 with windows 7? (installing with compatibility mode XP) I use software that only uses English speech recognition, and works...

Hello there, My name is Rick and I've made an account for posting this problem. Today I was going to get my hair cut, so I left my PC on (with Windows 7). Anyway, when I got back 3 hours later, my PC was on standby mode. I activated my PC and suddenly I get a message: "Your Windows 7 is...

Hi there, I have Win 7 Home Edition and on my former OS (Win XP Prof.) I had several shortcuts linking to some batch files. So after new installation of Win 7 it copied the shortcuts back on the desktop of Win 7. These shortcuts are working fine so far .... BUT .... now here it comes: I am also...

Hi, i have this little problem with remote desktop. Link Removed due to 404 Error check out that picture attached. As you can see there are two "System Properties" side by side left one is mine (language is finnish) and right one is copied from "how to set up remote desktop." Every single "how...

Hi there, I purchased Windows 7 home upgrade version on advice from a sales rep. I had been using windows Vista Home premium so I was advised the Home upgrade copy of W7 would be all I needed. Upon purchasing and installing the upgrade, I later realized I could no longer perform backups to a...

Haven't seemed to be able to find my answer easily and quickly, so I thought of asking here. I have Windows XP 32-bit. I have a 64-bit processor. I do a lot of gaming, and I've heard that a 64-bit processor could be bottlenecked by a 32-bit Operating System. Therefore, I'd like to...

We have a desktop computer that we had a licenced copy of Windows XP Pro installed on it. I ordered an upgrade copy of Windows 7 Ultimate for the desktop and Windows 7 (Full) Home edition for our laptop. On the desktop I correctly installed Windows 7 64 bit on a new computer disk, clean install...

I installed windows seven a month ago it worked good for a few weeks now my computer starts running 80% cpu and 80% ram constintly without any programs open. computer specs asus G51vx Intel(R) COre(TM)2 Duo CPU P7350 @ 2.00GHz 2.00GHz 4 GB ram 64 bit windows 7 home

Link Removed - Not Found Windows XP Mode (XPM) is a pre-installed and pre-activated licensed copy Windows XP SP3 as guest OS .