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A couple days ago my Old Asus laptop got infected somehow. The wireless adapter is not working properly. When I go into the Device Manager, I get the big paragraph that ends with "(Code 52)". Pressing F8 during boot and then selecting "Disable Driver Signature Enforcement" works to get the...

In the first installment of this blog series we looked at the various options at your disposal to store your app’s local data. In this post we will be looking at how that local data can be shared, both between apps and users. When an app is installed, the system creates a per-user app data...

I have Windows 7 Home Premium and I cannot get the print spooler to start or stay started. I have tried the regedit, cmd. , Services.msc, Msconfig. to no avail. It's bizarre. I tried installing a new printer and it printed the text page ok but refuses to communicate or recognize the printer. It...

I found this interesting post over on this forum on how to run MSN Gaming Zone. That's the Internet games,Internet Reversi, Internet Hearts and other games that comes with Windows XP on Windows 7. Source:Last post on the thread...

I had a problem with snap.do becoming installed on my win 7 machine. Ran uninstall, ccleaner and spybot which removed the problem, however the name snap.do engine still remains in control panel features and programs. I have also done a registry edit and can find no software relating to this...

Hi, Sys: Windows 8.1 Pro clients attached to MS 2003 server domain. (yes I know its best to have a higher win server version with 8.1, but i do not have that currently) Ok, so the problem is that roaming profiles and folder redirection work but on only SOME of the windows 8.1 clients!!!! How...

Hi all, im new to this site and i dont usually do this sorta thing. However i am struggling a lot with this and it is causing me to stuggle doing course work. When saving documents the Browse box that normally pops up wont. When i attempt to save in publisher it wont let me and comes up with...

How do I change the amout of storage reserved for SystemRestorePoints on partition D? Is there a Registry entry for that? As I found out the current number of days my RestorePoints are kept is 90 days. How can I increase these number of days? Is there a Registry entry for that? If I change...

I tried resizing an jpg with Paint to use it as logon screen and before to save it a message showed saying that i will lose the transparency of the file but I save it and applied anyway. My mistake cause since then, whatever I tried, I can't restore or replace that ugly thing that I created. I...

I've been trying to repair the computer at work, so any requests for system information and such will have to wait until I get back there, which is why I want to post this now. Basically, it's running a 32bit Windows 7. We were having a problem with browser redirects in IE and Firefox, so I...

There are MANY Threads around the Internet, how to change Icons: Change shortcut icons, change folder icons, change windows icons (for a specific file like jpg). But what I want to change, is a icon of a .exe. Strange, that I can't find anything about that. Everyone is explaining about...

Hi everybody ::- ). One thing which has me perpetually angry at the ALT+TAB application selection window in Windows 7, is that after a time (about 1 second) it hides the window I triggered it from, replacing it with the window of the currently selected application. So let's say I'm typing...

Everytime I shut down my computer and turn it back on the windows aero theme reverts back to basic mode. I have tried going to personalize and changing it there but it doesnt do anything and I even went into the registry and edited it and that still didnt do anything. I downloaded the latest...

I have a set of PCs which if connected to a windows network will make all computers on that network default to ipv6 when resolving names. This happens even if IPv6 is unchecked, if the ipv4 binding is set above 6 in the advanced properties of the network card. If any of these PCs joins a...

I installed a program the other day that messed with my Windows Explorer. Now no folder will remember it's View options (Large Icons, List, Details), they all reset to their default. As you can see it's nothing to do with Libraries. Neither the 'Shell Fix' nor editing the registry at...

Allo, My Optiarc DVD RW AD-7203A drive refuses to recognize any sort of media I put within it. I am unsure of when this problem occured (because I rarely use the drive, which begs the question of how in the world can it stop working), but I do know that nothing I have tried has helped me. I've...

Today a little problem cropped up as I tried to watch a youtube video. As soon as I go to open it I got a sound loop crash (sounded like buzzing) and when I went to login it would crash on the windows 7 'jingle' at the login screen. This started happening the restart after I did a windows...

Since I first purchased my Toshiba laptop (running windows 7 32 bit) I have been suffering from exceedingly long login times. My computer sits at the login screen for at least 30 seconds before changing to the welcome screen displayed after login, after that it takes an additional one minute...

Is there any way to complete turn off the taskbar thumbnail previews? I'm on classic theme. I tried the following, but it's just delaying not disabling them.. HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced Set ExtendedUIHoverTime to 99999, then restart explorer.exe.

Works laptop, have admin rights. I set the Power Options to Balanced but within a few hours it's back to the corporate one. I presume this is a group policy setting somewhere. As I have full admin rights, is there a regedit to stop this? Cheers (p.s. not interested in the debate if I should...