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Home group in windows 7 pro keeps becoming active after I leave the home group. After reboot it is active again even after I disabled it. Anyone have any ideas what might cause this. I had to disable it in the services to get it to stop becoming active.

Every time I try to create, rename, or move a folder I get ITEM NOT FOUND. Tried registry edit suggested by Fazil M on July 13 but I cannot navigate to "Folder Descriptions" in the registry key--list stops at Explorer. There is no "folder descriptions." Running Win7 Pro 64 bit. Don't have time...

Hi all, im new here so bear with me if I didn't post this in the right place. Here's my question...I'm currently running a falsely-activated copy of 7 Ultimate 64bit. I'm thinking about buying the upgrade to Windows 8 pro 64bit. If i do the boxed upgrade will activation be successful in windows...

Getting the message after Sysprep stating "Sysprep Fails After Deployment With: Windows could not finish configuring the system...." This is a new out-of-box Lenovo T530 laptop, it came pre-loaded with Windows 7 Pro. I pulled laptop from box and inserted our Windows 7 Pro SP 1 disk and...

I was wondering if anyone has a List of Keyboard Shortcuts for Windows 8 Pro. I just installed it today and that would be very helpful in the navigation.

Hi all I was wondering if the price for Consumer Windows 8 has been announced? I know that Windows 8 Pro will cost 40$ but i haven't heard anything about the regular Windows 8. This is just of pure curiosity, and i am sorry if this has been answered before, but i couldn't search it up, and a...

OK, so I'm going to do a clean install on my new Lenovo laptop (as soon as my new 500gig hard drive arrives, where I will keep the OE drive as is!), and someone was telling me about "Activation Backup and Restore" software. This supposedly allows me to do a clean install without having to...

OK, so I got this k00L, brand new Lenovo 12.5 in screen laptop with Win 7 Pro 64bit, i5 Quad 4 2.6gig, 6 gig DDR3 Ram... nice little portable machine. But, I hate the crap that's on it that Lenovo put on there. It didn't come with just Windows, it has numerous manufacturer programs that I...

My wife likes to play many of the kinda outdates games like Solitaire and stuff like that, you know games that you don't need a fancy joystick for (although she has one of those for an airplane game she never used) Now that I've gotten her a new Win 7 Pro x64 computer... is there a place to...

I hope somebody can help...... I want to buy a modest laptop but with Windows 7 Ultimate. (I am a one-man business, keep my business on my laptop and take it away on business every week and want good security: I have read that Bitlocker will give me that.) The problem seems to be that most big...

Upgrade to Windows 8 Pro for $39.99

Some information from the blogging page re editions of Windows 8 Reference: Announcing the Windows 8 Editions

I'm using Windows 7 Pro. I have remove the login pw in my user account now I do not need to do the login and able to use the computer right away. But I found I am using the computer as a user not administrator. How can I skip the login screen and go straight into desktop as administrator. How...

i have a new, 120gb solid state drive i want to install windows 7 pro, 64-bit on. does windows 7 take care of whatever formatting is needed automatically? does it let me pick allocation size and type of formatting (e.g. NTSF versus another type)? thanks.

how much hard drive memory does a W7 64-bit pro take up? thanks.

This is a great time to upgrade your Windows 7 Home Premium install to Pro at a fantastic price! Newegg has it (and will sell out fast) of this great deal. And Free Shipping! Pro offers more than Home Premium, including XP Mode (download from MS required). No formatting or reinstall required...

Hello all, I have been trying for the last several days to re-install an HUP Office 2010 Pro Plus (DVD) on a new install of Win 7 x64. I switched from XP where Office 2010 worked fine. When I first tried it I repeatedly received the error code 1920 (osppsvc). So, after searching numerous MS...

Hi I have the above brand of LAN on a ASROCK Z68 Extreme 4 Mobo. Router: Netgear DG834G The whole computer is about 7 months old and as per another recent thread it has a fresh install of Windows 7 64bit Pro. However since the reinstall an issue that also existed before continues to annoy me...

Terrible File Sharing Performance on Windows 7 Pro x64 SP1 I am experiencing horrible network share performance with Windows 7 Pro x64 SP1. I have two PCs connected directly with a gigabit ethernet cable and static IP addresses. PC#1 hosts a CIFS/SMB shared folder. Yesterday, I was backing up...

Hello... I'm having trouble with my Sony Vaio VGN-FW520F with the Function Key not working i tried looking up the drives from the Sony US website and cant seem to find it. I had updated my Windows 7 Home Premium to Windows Pro and cleared my hard drive in the process. :confused:Thank you for the...