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Don't know if anyone else has seen this but at some point today a brand new and unwanted Home Group icon magically appeared on my otherwise clean and pristine Windows 8 Desktop. If you get one and like me, don't want one...

I am very new to Windows 8. I only downloaded and installed the developers preview 3 days ago on Thursday. Many Windows users are talking about the new Windows 8 and are trying it out. So my curiosity got the better of me and I installed Windows 8. I did this by mounting the ISO file on virtual...

I am having trouble connecting from my work Win XP (Pro) desktop machine to a new work Win 7 (Enterprise) desktop to sync my work files to it. The XP PC can see my personal Win 7 (ultimate) PC that was upgraded from Vista Ultimate. Win 7 to Win 7 is ok. I have read and followed a lot of posts...

I'm trying to fix my girlfriend's Windows 7 laptop after she had a virus/malware infection. I'm pretty sure we've successfully cleared the virus (an updated/full scan with Malwarebyte's Anti-Malware in safe mode comes up clean). However, we have had no Internet access since the infection...

I don't know why this happens but setting a perfect lossless PNG as a windows background does not yield that same image windows uses as the background. Somewhere along the line windows seems to re-save it as a jpg with lots of artifacts and jaggies before using it as wallpaper. Is there some...

I by mistake unticked the option to hide disks with no media on and now even if the tick is put on all the usb ports and all the dvd reading writing devices are listed and I would like to hide em only if there is no media on them. So please if anyone knows how to fix this tell me. I don't...

Ok so here is my problem, my sound hasn't been working for a few weeks now. If if try to play a test tone from the control panel i get a message that says "failed to play test tone." However when i first turn on my laptop it plays the startup sound so i know it isn't a hardware issue. Here are...

Hi all, I hope someone can help. I have a few desktops I've built recently with Win 7 64 and I've noticed a white language bar across the top of the welcome screen (see pic). I've amended the Language and Region settings and copied the settings to the Welcome screen and system accounts but...

My system is: Asus G51VX-X3A Laptop Realtek HD Audio w/ latest drivers Windows 7 Home A few days ago, I noticed that the speakers on my laptop were no longer working. I could plug in headphones and the headphones still worked. After searching in other forums, others suggested the headphone...

I do not know if this has been posted before. XP Virtual on an W7 machine default full screen is 16 bit colour. However with the following regedit you can change it to 24 bit colour for full screen. Virtual Regedt This edit will get XP in virtual mode to run in 24 bit color Go to this...

Hi all, I'm having a problem that seems to be shared by many other users based on the number of forum threads i've come accross related to this topic. I'll describe it in some detail to avoid the usual advice which hasn't worked so far so please bear with me. I am unable to move files onto...

I'm looking for a way to change the functionality of the single click actions for files in Windows 7. As it is now, if you click on a file, it highlights it with a faint highlight. If I click it again it attempts to rename the file. This makes it a PITA to delete files if they are...

Hey guys, I have a Acer Aspire X1700 that came with Windows Vista installed. I upgraded to Windows 7 and now my dvd drive doesn't recognize dvds (ie movies, dvd games 'Starcraft 2'). I can play CD just fine. My desktop came with Optiarc DVD RW AD-7203S SCSI. I've tried uninstalling the...

Hi, Can someone show me how I can get rid of this warning (screenshot below) It even comes up for my startup programs speedfan etc. I have about 4 or 5 waiting for me on login! I have tried the IE options but have had no luck or did it wrong. I have looked on lots of forums but they all...

I have a SanDisc flash memory that has suddenly become write protected. The SandDisc saite suggested editing the Write Protect registry entry (for Windows Xp) at:- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE >SYSTEM > CurrentControlSet > Control > StorageDevicePolicies. But when I looked, the entry isn't there on...

I want to know how to change my registry in order to do the following: #1 Force all actions that would create/use/edit/modify/(any other verb) any file in the libraries folder to instead preform that action in the My Documents folder instead. #2 Git rid of the Libraries icon. In...

I have a rather annoying problem in that I installed my network printer, a HP C5180. Once I had finished the installation I noticed that the drive monitor Gadget had dissapeared from my sidebar and in it's place a HP printer monitor one had appeared. I removed the printer gadget and tried to...

Hi, I checked many web site about this question. I seemed that an Aero theme doesn't allow me to change the default white background color in Windows Explorer. There is a way for a classical theme, though (personalization->windows color->Advanced appearance settings->window). I don't mind...

Hello! I added a printer to my network (hp c5180) via ethernet cable. But problem accords when I try to map a network location (card reader 5in1 or sth like that, is used to read SD, xD, ms cards used in cameras) from which I d like to copy images, files in explorer without extra software from...

Hello everyone and thank you for taking a few minutes to read my problem. I installed Windows 7 Ultimate on my notebook (fresh/clean install). I hoped to get rid of the "limited connectivity" issue which I had with the BETA version. Well, I didn't. After a few minutes, my connection is limited...