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Hello, We recently upgraded our home computer, a Dell Latitude E6500, from Windows XP to Windows 7. Everything is working fine except for the installation of our printer, an HP Officejet 6310. I downloaded the full feature software and drivers and successfully installed them, even printed a...

I am using a homemade computer with an intel chip on Gigabyte board with 8 gigs of ram using win7 professional. I have had no trouble with updates since inception Jan 2010.But the following two updates will not install automatically or manually.. Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 Update for...

New here... Got a problem that just plain doesn't want to go away. I have Win7 Pro X86 on an ASUS M2N series motherboard, AMD X2 4200 processor, plus the usual SATA drives, usb keyboard + mouse, nvidia 8400 graphics and Acer x193w monitor. When this setup works it works perfectly... It worked...

Work PC: Windows XP, Dual Core E5200 2.5Ghz, 2GB RAM Home Desktop: see Link Removed The PC at work, although much slower than my desktop, seems to launch basic programmes like Google Chrome and MS Word much faster than my faster home desktop. I have no idea why. Originally, I thought it was...

My computer has fallen victim to the unidentified network problem. My computer is a homebuilt desktop running Windows 7 64-Bit Home Premium. The problem has cropped up several times before, however I've always been able to fix it by "just" re-installing Windows (the upgrade option, not the...

Hello Everybody, Is there any way I can connect to my PPPoE internet before Login. I want it for team viewer. I always use my home pc remotely from office. but if I want to restart or switch user then it get disconnected. Actually teamviewer has option to start it as windows service. So I am...

I had windows 7 pro 32bit in stalled on my computer for months. It crashed wiht a nasty BSOD after trying to install ad-aware. I was unable to restore windows to an earlier time until I checked the disk for errors. I was unable to check the disk for errors as there was a software problem...

I used the right-click mouse button to select "share with nobody" on a personal file. It did not ask for a password or anything else to allow myself in. Now the file is locked and denied excess to myself. What is the procedures to undo this? This is a home computer and I was just trying the...

Howdy all: I've seen some threads elsewhere on this problem, but found nothing that I could follow to fix it. I cannot believe that Microsoft would sell an OS that will not allow a computer user to edit/save something as simple as a notepad document on his own computer. When I try to save a...

Hi I just started useing Win 7 and had my nwe PC all set up and working the way I wanted and then a friend asked if Win 7 had the media center and I checked and it did so I started it and messed around for a few min and then quit. Now I don't have 5.1 anymore, just the frount 2 speekers. All of...

Since I had a catastrophic system failure, this is going to be my first build, sort of. My psu or mobo died. Did some trouble shooting and some phone calls to HP and found out that psu is OK but mobo is deceased. I turned on my PC and checked some emails for about 15 minutes and loged off then...

Can someone explain how technet works? I called them and asked the same question. A very helpful lady told me I could download an ISO of any of the MS software up to 10 times and that each ISO has 10 activation keys. That makes 100 copies for my own use of each of their software titles. Is...

Hello, I Have Recently Done a Clean Install of Windows 7 Ultimate x64 Retail. I have literally tried everything but just do not understand why i Have A complete Freeze at Random Times( This freeze will have everything on the screen completely frozen and the mouse will move for maybe five...

I have recently installed the full 64 bit version of Windows 7 on to my home PC. Everything has gone smoothly for the first week or so but yesterday a strange problem started happening. Every 30 minutes(on the dot!) the speaker on my motherboard will give two, short beeps. This has been going on...

Hello enthusiasts, I have a problem where any port I enable in the registry for Win7 RC Remote Desktop is useable for a few seconds until the Cryptography Service latches on to it! It then becomes unuseable for remote desktop. This keeps happening no matter what I change the port to. Has...

So I'm currently running 32 bit XP right now, and was wondering if my computer would be able to handle the new Windows 7 64 bit. Here are my known specs... Link Removed AMD Athlon 64 X2 5400+ Dual Core Processor 3GB P2-6400 DDR2 Memory 500GB 7200rpm SATA Hard Drive 16x DVD+/-RW Dual Layer...

Hi all I was reading the article on the RSS feed - W7 slipping in the Polls. What a load of TOTAL non factual utter piece of Bovine Scatology. For a start the number of downloads is NOTHING like the number of computers W7 is installed on -- I must be testing this on around 20 - 30 machines...

I have Windows 7 on a dozen home, office and family computers but wanted to try a lite version on an old HP 510 laptop and Gateway 700 with limited 528 ram. I downloaded the popular Windows.7.Beta.Build.7000.LiTE (1,43gb) from the web, it activated with MS Win7 key and works perfectly on both...

Hi guys Is it just me on a Monday or have MS deliberately disabled RDP on Vista Home Premium X-64 -- If so this is zillions of steps backwards as most people I know usually want to connect to say a Home computer from work (or vice versa). There normally isn't any problem using your Home computer...

I have Win7 installed as dual boot on my home PC now and I have 1 problem. I have a Gigabyte GA-X48T-DQ6 mobo and on it a 2TB raid. The raid shows up fine in Win7 and I can browse the file system etc, but, I can not write to it at all. Any thoughts?