pentium

right, a while ago i dual booted windows 7 onto my vista running laptop and it works perfectly. It is a huge improvment on vista, it is faster, better designed and its new features are very useful. Because of this sucess i know am trying to dual boot it onto my xp running desktop. Unfortunatly...

Hi guys, as i didnt find any real answers about this, i will ask in my own post. From my experience with win7 x64, for me the best version was 7000, no doubt about it. Since i installed RC1 x64, on the same system, i get unstable system. Sometimes windows explorer stop responding, for...

I'm using Windows 7 on my PC with no issues. My wife however has a bit of an older system (that I upgraded recently) and it has been having issues. Many times with the computer left on, she'll turn on the monitor when coming back and there will be a message there about Windows recovering from...

Ive never used a 64bit OS before. I was just wondering what advantages it might give me over a 32 bit system? Im running an Intel Pentium D 3Ghz dual core duo so as far as I know I should be able to run the 64bit version right?

Hi folk just thought Id drop in and say hi. Im new to Windows 7 (but definatley not new to computers). Not sure if this is the right place to put this - but here goes. I thought Id just give my first impressions of 7. After having a lot of trouble getting it to download (it didnt want to know...

Brand Dell Model Optiplex GX270 Processor Brand Intel Processor Type Pentium 4 Processor Speed 2.4 GHz Installed Memory 512MB Graphics Card Intel Extreme Graphics 2 Hard Drive Size 40GB Optical 1 CDROM Floppy Yes Ethernet 10/1000 Front USB Port(s) 2 Back USB Port(s) 6 Case Style SFF

i made 6 discs all at low speeds 4x with different programs, when i boot from disk it says loading windows and it loads a bunch of files, then i get the windows 7 loading screen and what seems to be a desktop with no icons (Blue) then it stops and Nothing. What could i be doing wrong? Old...

Hey, i recently upgraded from windows XP to windows seven. When things are working i love it and was hoping it would be the answer to the new popularity of the dumbed down mac's , but I have been having a problem that makes me want to scream and leaves my computer just barely operable. The...

I have had Windows 7 since the original beta was released and recently (about a week ago) updated to the release candidate... Immediately the OS seemed glitchier than the beta copy that i had. After i updated the system began to go to sleep and then i couldn't wake it up with the keyboard or the...

Hello, Well over the last or so I have had some issues with Windows 7: "All Programs" not showing: I installed some games and they showed up until I restarted and they were gone with everything else. I have read about this bug and I don't seem to think anyone knows just why it is happening...

I have an older SB Live! 5.1 card (model SB0060) and couldn't get the sound to work. Ran the driver in compatibility mode for WinXP SP3, and as admin, and it installed fine, when I played music the lvels were going up/down... but no sound from my speakers (and yes, everything connected just...

hi there, so I switched from Windows XP to Windows 7 last week and I've been getting random frame rate drops..I got pretty good frame rates in Windows XP and didnt get any choke at all..in Windows 7 my frame rates are around 50-60 (which is fine) but they randomly and frequently drop to like...

I have a HP Pavilion a1023c, with an Intel 82915G/GV/910GL Display adapter. It has 128 meg allocated memory from the RAM. However I cannot run the windows Aero visualizations. I thought that the minimum was 128 to run Aero. Anyone know if there is a way to run Aero on this adapter? My Specs...

I have a Promise Technoligy INC. Ultra 33 PCI card on my system. It holds 2 80gb WD HDDs. I have a 20gb and a 160gb hdd on one IDE Cable and a DVD Drive and a CD/DVD Burner on the other. So I need the card for the extra 160gb of space. My problem is, no drivers are available for it so I'm out a...

Been reading a lot about windows 7 and the new hardware. Wondering how windows 7 runs on slow machines like pentium 1,2,3,4, ect.

I have a windows 2003 server with Plesk installed. It keeps crashing and requires a reboot every couple of days. Here are some of the event logs: (screenshots) Link Removed Link Removed Link Removed Link Removed As you can see in the screenshots, I'm basically getting the same 3...

I'm running Compaq Presario CQ40 with the following hardware: Windows 7 build 7057 Intel Pentium Dual CPU T3200 @ 2 GHz RAM 1 GB The problem that i'm having is that windows constantly changes the battery indicator to show that i have little or no juice left even when i'm plugged in...

Now after installing windows 7 on my machine the windows experience index is not calculating in middel of process it says something like hardware not found. i installed the windows 7 7057 build on desktop with d101 intel mb and pentium D processor 3.06 GHz and mother board was set dead..... on...

gday I'm using version 7057 Beta, it looks very good and high def is brilliant, however Windows 7 is very slow loading to desktop getting stuck on Loading welcome screen for 2 to 3 minutes before loading desktop with pauses when loading devices and software, these pauses cause system to not...

I got the Windows 7 64 bit 7057 ISO and I burned it to a DVD-R disc using Imgburn. I have installed Windows 7 before using this same method. When I boot from the disc i get a black screen with the blinking _ on it. The drive spins a little, and then stops. And it stays blinking. Here are my...