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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...