media files

I have windows 7 Home Premium (64 bit) it came installed on my laptop (PB Easynote LJ71) and I dont have the disk. I done a system restore today, and now I am faced with a nice black screen with a mouse cursor. I've seen a few topics on different sites like this so I am sorry but my time with...

I'm running Win 7 (upgraded from Vista), 32-bit, and my speakers are Conexant High Definition SmartAudio 221 on an HP laptop. My speakers have been cracking/popping whenever I play much of anything (YouTube to Netflix to DVDs to media files), and they crackle through the laptop's speakers...

I've used a program for video editing and creating projects in Windows XP. After moving the completed projects and their associated media to a new windows7 pc; the links to the media are no longer accepted by my application. THe old paths to the media would have been something like...

I want to share media files with my roommates. I can set up the sharing permissions easily enough. However, I want to be able to share other folders on my computer so that I can access them from my netbook. I don't want my friends accessing these folders though. Is there a way I can password...

Hi I have a problem:( I want to reduce the size of downloaded media to fit on a standard DVD-R. I thought DVD Shrink would do that but I can't get it to access any file on my hard disc. My OS is Windows 7 64 bit and use Windows DVD Writer to produce the dVDs. To reduce the size of the...

Hi there, I did a search on google and through these forums search function but all I can seem to find are topics about vista and backing up problems, and a few things about install problems. I did find a link to a microsoft hotfix for my problem, but it was only for specifically 4GB+ of Ram...

Hi, My main Windows 7 PC is no longer appearing from the other PC's under Explorer->Networking->Computers. As a consequence, this also means that it's not visible to my WDTV Live which I use to access media files from the PC over CIFS. This PC is the only one on my network which is running...

Whenever I attempt to copy a picture or music file to my USB drive or to a CD/DVD, I receive the following message for example: "the file IMG_1303 has properties that can't be copied to the new location. Do you wish to continue?" How can I remedy this problem?

I'm sure I have all the codecs because the files play in wmp, but the thumbs in all three thumb views still show the app pic

Hi I have managed to get my Zensonics z500 media player to show me the media folders on my windows 7 machine, in the video library, but the files have no contents. If the original file on the PC had an AVI movie that file showing on the z500 is empty. It originally worked fine in the old XP pc...

Is there any way to access data entered into the Summary Tag under Windows XP, (for all files... not just pictures and music) in Windows Vista or Windows 7. Windows XP allowed you to enter custom data for just about every file type. For non "media" files the flowing default attributes are...

Hello, I recently upgraded to Windows 7 from Vista on my PC. I have all my media files on a WD external HD. The problem I am having with media player is in the libraries.. When clicking "organize" then "manage libraries" and then "music" it just disappears and does nothing. If I follow the same...

Hi, using Windows 7 Home Premium, Installation ist about two weeks old. Problem: I have media files (films, to be precise) on a hard drive. Often, I want to change their location (e.g., move films that are lying around in root to a common folder with the name of the director). 80% of the...

Hi, I have a WD 1TB external drive, and I keep all of my media on that drive (movies, pics, music). I have set all of my libraries to point to the folders on the drive where I keep all my media, however, Windows Media Player will not load anything, and when click on organize, manage libraries...

Windows 7 RTM x64 slow data transfer speeds Greetings, I'm experiencing weird problems, I have Windows 7 64bit RTM (latest) installed, with latest critical updates from MSDN. Now I have 2 HDD's 500 GB one is split into 2 drives C (200GB) D (the rest) and the other drive is full 500GB for my...

I haven't had luck with streaming recorded tv over the internet :( I've searched these forums (and others) with no luck. Both machines are running the RC (build 7100) and both have been secured using my windows live id. I even installed a codec pack on the laptop and I was able to play one...

Hi, I'm a newly installed Windows 7 user. I've migrated from XP and so am currently finding out about the new features of Win7. Windows Media Centre is one of those features and having used TVersity to stream my media files over the network I thought that I'd try and give WMC a go and see how...

Hi, I'm using build 7100 on all machines involved. I have a home group setup and all of the computers I'm talking about have successfully joined the home group. I have one desktop computer at home. I have a portable which moves around. My networking is DSL -> NAT/Router/Wireless Access...

I used the temporary internet files very often on Windows XP. It was the easiest way for me to grab images, xml's, flv, swf, mp3's and go on and on. Now I have windows 7 (version 7137) and when I look in the TIF folder, there are no jpg's, no flv's, no swf's and so on. I was wondering if those...

I can't play some song in windows media player of windows 7, but with the same song I can play it well in windows media player 10 of windows Xp