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I am very much a novice, and to be honest liked the simplicity of XP. Last I bought a computer loaded with Vista and pretty much hated it from day one. Therefore with the launch of 7 I went straight out and bought an upgrade disc and installed on my PC. Low and behold, it's like frying pan to...

Sometimes when I boot my pc or bring it out of sleep mode I get a pop up that Live Messenger has failed to start. I can manually start it. How can I fix this problem? I'm a novice and I'm using W7 Pro. Thanks. J

Hey guys, I'm a novice with partitioning and formating etc, anyway I originally had Xp as my only OS, now I have windows 7 and Xp on dual boot. I want to format Xp off my disk, and I understand that the boot files located in the active boot (xp) will be lost, and I understand thats not good. So...

I have had windows 7 32 bit now for about a week and I havent experienced any issue that I wouldnt have dealt with in a previous version.. The only thing I'm not enjoying is that there isnt a flash plug in for firefox yet, hopefully they get their butts in gear and make one!:rolleyes: I have...

I did the W7 as an upgrade to Vista. I'm having major BSOD issues and constant auto-reboots, I can't seem to figure out what is triggering the BSOD, it just suddenly appears and then reboots the computer. I would like to reinstall W7 or go back to Vista, however when I try to run the...

I'm a novice. I've read lots of posts at this web site and figured I'd just ask those who seem to know more than I. With my limited knowledge, I've been in regedit & bios (big whoop!) a couple of times when instructed by tech support people but that's about it. I set up the home network and...

Just installed this build on my HP m9630f and can't seem to get the thing to connect to the internet. Says my NIC card is missing drivers. Have it on Dual Boot with Vista Ultimate x64 which works fine. Any hints, I'm quite a novice at this . Please be kind, no nasty pokes, I'm sensitive as...

Heya all Im thinking of buying a laptop with vista. However i want to dual boot it with xp my question are as follows: 1) Are there any issue realted with installing xp on to a vista laptop- to do with drivers i.e. as a vista laptop would have vista drivers than xp? I have some xp drivers...