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I have XP Pro installed on my primary IDE drive (C:) I installed a SATA drive and installed 7 Ultimate to it as a dual boot system. XP sees the drive as E:. When booted in 7 it sees the drive as C: and the XP drive as D: I have downloaded, installed and configured the XP VM plus the patches. The...

Hey everyone, Im not familiar with networks and Im having a heck of at time trying to figure out why I cant see the other computer on my network at my new job. I have run the network troubleshooter and it says that both computers are running the Network Address Translator. I have looked and...

Hi I saw a similar post for a person having a similar problem: Link Removed I just upgraded to Windows 7 Ultimate x32 this past weekend and have been tweaking several drivers. My main issues that I have isolated so far have been my Linksys WUSB54G v4 wireless that I downloaded the direct...

I purchased Windows 7 in three forms an ISO, 7 Professional and Ultimate. I tryed to install all three on an HP Media center. None of these would install.. it would set up to the point of restart and then nothing but a blank screen. In the past three weeks as I tryed each of these options I...

I have Windows 7 64bit, a Belkin router, and a Wifi usb card. I have a Windows Xp computer networked and shared on the router. I get my internet from the Wifi usb card. I would like to use the internet off the wifi card, but also still connect to my network and get files from the XP...

I just upgraded my home office computer to Windows 7 (from XP) All went reasonable well, given the age of my system. I had some difficulty getting it to play well with my graphics card but other than that I was happy...until I started setting up the home network. I got it to work, but...

I have four "upgrade stickers" for Windows 7 that I received when I bought Vista 64 Ultimate earlier this year. Unfortunately I did not install the stickers to Window 7 stickers to the various computers (or put them on the case sides and used the same case so they are all mixed up now that I...

I am wondering if Win7 introduced some odd kinks to the way remote desktop connections work? My objective is to securely access my Win7 desktop at the home office from anywhere via the public internet. Although I will have my personal notebook computer with me 90% of the time, as a lesser...

My new PC with Windows 7 is great, except for one annoying issue. When my machine sleeps, sometimes it awakens with a distorted and enlarged view. I work from home, largely with picture files, so distortion make the job difficult. The display and resolution settings haven't changed, but what I...

Hi All Have just installed W7 build 7600 on lappy. My SOHO network is as follows: Primary Router: Netcomm Broadband/Wireless/VOIP IP 10.1.1.1, used upstairs for phone and family computers, both wired and wireless Connected to Downstairs Office which has: DLink gigabit switch , used for XP...

I usually work form home and NEED to connect to a server at my work location. While at work, I sucussfully configured my remote desktop connection to my server. A task I had to verify before I spent the next week at home. Well, when I got home and tried to connect - it did not work?? I get...

I have had so much trouble getting my win7 / xp network to work. On the pre release version, I just ran the wizard on my xp machines and they could talk to the win 7 one with no problems. Talking the other way took some time to solve, but it eventually worked. Now I have the paid for release...

For several years, I've synced Outlook between my home desktop and my laptop using my Win Mobile 6.1 based PDA. The desktop formerly ran XP and the laptop formerly ran Vista. Now the desktop runs Win 7 64bit (3ghz intel chip; 4gb ram) and the laptop runs Win 7 32bit (2.16ghz intel chip; 4gb...

According to inside enterprise IT blog, Dell is starting to post Dell Certified Windows 7 drivers at Link Removed due to 404 Error for many Dell commercial desktop and laptop systems. Link Removed - Not Found In fact, not only commercial products for small and medium governments and enterprises...

I'm trying to set up a development environment at work. I'm the only one using Windows. Others have the environment set up on Linux and Mac. I'm hoping this is possible but I'm stuck on one particular issue that is driving me crazy! I need to connect to a shared network drive via NFS. I...

Hi I'm running Win 7 RC build 7100 x64 with the Microsoft Wireless Laser Keyboard 7000. I've found that the batteries in the keyboard are lasting only 2 - 3 weeks, compared to months at a time under Vista. I've found that Windows isn't shutting down the keyboard when I shutdown the...

Background: Windows 7 RC patched, new Dell Vostro 220 2GB RAM, 75GB HDD C:, 250GB HDD I:, 80 GB external HDD, optical (CD/DVD-RW) drives, floppy drive, lovely new Kodak ESP5 All-in-One inkjet printer, etc. Because the C: drive has everything on it, it is quite crowded. (It contains W7, W2K Pro...

Haven't seen this in any of the threads, so thought I would post it here. I have a small network running at home. 3 XP desktops, 3 Vista desktops, XP laptop, and a linux box all wired connections to a Cisco router. I also have a linksys WRT54G AP configured for WPA for my wireless devices...