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I can't seem to open my folders or even Windows Explorer. It is pinned to my taskbar but the problem is when I select the window to be opened as its preview-window pops up, when I select the window I want to open, the window does not open on the desktop. When I tried resizing it, through the...

Hello, First of all, hello all. I'm new to this forum. I really hope you can help me with this annoying problem. Whenerver I do RIGHTBUTTON > PROPERTIES on an mp3 file it automatically starts playing that file from an instance of windows media player that is embeded in the very properties pane...

Need some help with this problem and after much Googling (an awful verb) i cannot find an answer. I'm trying to stop users from changing the Properties of Network Connections - in particular the IP Address. Using Group Policy editor i can set the relevant policies to 'Enable' and in Win XP this...

I have three machines on a wireless network. Two Lenovo laptops and one Dell Optiplex 960. The Dell desktop has an HP 8500 printer attached which I wanted/want to share. I was running XP on all machines and there were no issues. I decided to install Windows 7 on all machines once it was...

Where do I go in Windows 7 to find out what graphic card I have and if it needs to be updated. I remember on Windows xp you use to could just right click your desktop and go to properties. Thanks!

One of the things you may discover is that not all of your older programs/games/drivers will work under 7, and their 7 compliant versions may not be availabe. In this case, you can try install and run them in Vista (or XP) compatible mode. To run a file in compatibility mode: 1. Right click...

I can recieve but not send E-mail using windows live mail. I Found a web page from windows help that said to open live mail from START ..All programs .. windowlive mail .. click on TOOLS ..Account .. mail .. Properies.. server, but i do not find the tool tab. the problem is with SMPT not...

Well, I'm slowly getting through the really big problems, and now looking for ways to solve smaller stuff... 1. WHERE is my free space on Windows Explorer status bar? I've seen a bunch of complaints that it's gone, but none telling me how to get it back....... It's REALLY annoying to have...

I keep getting an error saying this and that about not being activated. I have the key but when I right click the Computer and then properties there is nothing in the Windows activation part that will let me type in my key. Any ideas? Link Removed due to 404 Error

Icons not appearing for some apps (solved) This just happened today. Icons for three applications are all of a sudden not appearing in the task bar. The only thing that shows is a generic icon that doesn't represent the application. I have gone into the program folders for each of these...

the toolbar that have the "organize" and view" and "system properties" is missing from my windows explorer how i can bring him back? Link Removed - Invalid URL

Hello I recently upgraded to Windows 7 and i noticed that the taskbar still looks like what you would see on Vista. I was wondering how i could change it. I already went to taskbar properties but there was but there was no options to change the taskbar. This is what it looks like...

Hi all, I'm curious if anyone else has run into something like this. I've had Windows 7 Beta and RC and now RTM on my home desktop and have had no issues whatsoever, however they were all clean installs. Now, I've gone ahead and upgraded from Vista Business to 7 Pro on my laptop. I haven't...

Is there anyway to tell whether the PC I am on is using a retail version or the RC? I have been asking around and have been unable to find a definitive answer. I have tried comparing winver, dxdiag, registry keys, and system properties under control panel and from what I can tell all are...

SOLVED - Oscdimg.exe is not a valid win32 application I hope someone can help..... I just purchased the Windows 7 ultimate student version with the intention of doing a clean install over my Windows 7 RC. I've been trying to make an iso using the instructions here in this forum, but no matter...

So I was going to change one of my songs ID3 tags the other day and I realized that not only do the ID3 tags not display in window's explorer, but they also don't show up in the details tab under properties. Also they are unchangeable via the properties details tab. I did a little looking on...

In XP it was as simple as right clicking the nic icon near the clock and selecting status, why is this excellent and user friendly feature taken away from us in vista and windows 7? Why are we forced to beat about the bush to do simple useful tasks? As a network Administrator this is extremely...

I used to place Properties button on Explorer bar near back/forward/up buttons. So I can click on folder/disk for example and then click that Properties button and their properties windows would appear. It is very convenient. In Win7 I can't do it. Is there any way?

I was wondering if any of you knew of an alternative to foldersize on XP that would work on Seven, I already lived for too long without it on windows Vista... It basicly showed the foldersize next to the foldername in windows explorer, at the same place as windows show the size of regular...

Hi! For some reason I can only click on some shortcuts and click 'open file location' and actually get to the files actual location.. for most shortcut it only opens the same folder as the shortcut is in (ie the desktop). If I open the properties dialog for the shortcut, the 'open file...