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I wanted to put my themes that I put together and use them in Vista, but since Vista and XP don't have the "Slide Show" feature, I had to look for a 3rd party app. I found one that works pretty good, simple download, easy to use and light on resources. Link Removed - Invalid URL Here are...

My OS is 32bit Win7 Pro. In Windows Explorer, when you right click a file, a drop down menu opens showing options to choose. I'd like to add another option on that menu. How do you do that? (It was easy in WinXP.) Please let me know if this request is more appropriate in another forum. Thanks.

I'm trying to get a good Win XP routine to work in my new Win7 Pro 32-bit OS. I need to open a document with an application in a non-conventional way. I'm encountering two problems. In Win XP you could specify one or more applications to open a file type (i.e., a file of certain extension)...

General VMware Product Options: Guest operating system selection Memory settings Debugging mode CD-ROM drive polling Disk options Remote disk access Using full-screen mode System timer Process scheduling Graphics mode Full details: Link Removed due to 404 Error

Hi, When i click on a specific spot near the bottom left-hand side of my screen, right-click options appear for no reason and they aren't linked to any program. (i can keep clicking at the spot the clicking close and nothing happens. The options will disppear and then reappear if i click on the...

Hi there , I was used to having a right click search (a particular) folder in Windows XP , now in Windows 7 , I can't right-click a folder and enter a search (key word) ... How can I change settings to have the option to right-click search in Windows 7? I of course noticed the search box in...

I just purchased a new laptop. I’m using Outlook 2007 and Windows 7. When I click on ‘contacts’ (lower left side of Outlook), they are alphabetized, and are listed with First Name- last name. This is what I want to see. The ‘Current View’ checked is ‘Outlook Data Files’ But when I open a new...

I'd noticed my Skype status wasn't being displayed anywhere on the web, So I set out in search of a solution. It turned out to be a simple setting I'd missed, go figure. So here it is: Open Skype, navigate to Options, then to Privacy. :)

Link Removed When you want to customize your workstation (and sometimes, even your server), you usually turn to "regular" configuration tools such as Control Panel applets, the computer's registry, command line tools and even the computer's local Group Policy. In most cases, using these...

Hello, When I open a Macro-Enabled speadsheet I get the security warning notification bar appearing but then when I click on the options button to enable the macros that choice is not available, (unlike when I do the same thing on a Vista machine). I have attached a copy of the dialogue boxes...

Hi can anyone tell me what the little window is called on the left of the control panel? The one with the options inside it. It is sort of like the equivalent of the Folder viewer in windows explorer... Also my main question is how can this be customized? my reason for asking is that my version...

hi all, when i press the 'windows' button to shutdown, instead of seeing the 'shutdown' option, i see a 'hibernate' option...............why? :confused:

As the title says, I am having issued with the indexing. It will index many e-mails, but get stuck at some number (currently, that number is 7,329) So i do "delete and rebuild index". the Indexing Options window freezes for a while, and then it unfreezes, with the status of "waiting to receive...

In my "wisdom" when faced with the news of multiple burgarlies in my area over Christmas, & I then had to leave the house unattended for most of Christmas Day, I determined to beat the beggars should they decide to try my house, and went and hid my brand new Win 7 discs!! Unfortunately and...

My installation of Windows Live Mail automatically checks for and retrieves email even though I have set it NOT to do that. In Tools - Options - General I unchecked "Send and receive messages at startup" and "Check for new messages every [time is grayed out]" Yet the program still...

Have you ever wondered what else lies under the hood of that new Windows 7 laptop you got recently? The clever folks at CNET have found a simple hack that will grant access to all of those options in one easy-to-set-up shortcut. Link Removed - Invalid URL

When I initially installed Media Center, the default visualizations worked. Subsequently, I installed some visualizations that all worked in WMP. But now when I try to view a visualization in WMC I just get a black screen. I have checked that the visualizations are enabled in the WMC options...

Hey I recently purchased Windows 7 Ultimate and installed it on my desktop pc and my laptop.. But now it is saying that windows cannot be activated on my laptop. Is it possible that the key was only available for one pc? If so, what are my options? Thanks PS- If I need to buy a...

Hi all, I've installed Windows 7 Professional several weeks ago and it is mostly running just fine. But there are also a lot of options not working. For example, nothing happens when I: click My Computer -> Properties In the windows update screen, when I click the installed updates link...

Hi guys few days ago i faced a problem on ma system n i thought it's gna go away by the time but more that week nothing was changed whenever i try to use the Mouse right click options on the desktop or any other folder... this Message appears : Link Removed due to 404 Error Can any...