restoration

Im sure this has been a common problem, however this is what i noticed: After I installed Windows 7 home premuim, I proceeded to reinstall a few of my apps (navyfield, ventrilo, teamspeak, and firefox). every thing worked fine except for one freeze :S I then got to dorm room and tried to...

hi my win 7 been running great,but i have noticed some of my desktop icons have changed to mmm! a white page with the top right hand corner folded down with a sqare box in the centre 3 little coulured icons that are to small to read. how do i get my original back oh this is on the desktop and...

I installed windows 7 3 days ago and its been working fantastically as a replacement for windows vista. Today however windows 7 starts misbehaving. The toolbar, windows anything managed by "explorer.exe" refuses to work. It hangs for about 10-20 minutes before doing the action you requested...

Hi, I'm using Win 7 Ultimate and I recently created a system image that I now want to restore it. I have 1 HDD that has been partioned into 2 drives and when I system imaged, it believe it only imaged my C: which has Win 7 on it. Now, I just want to make sure before I restore the image that...

frequently, when in wmc in win7, mc will crash, it seems to mostly happen when i hit the back button on remote. the only other time it's crashed on me is while copying files in ReiserFS back to NTFS. it's a pretty old program, and i accidentally, thinking i was in another window, tried to open...

Hey guys and gals, newbie question coming up :razz: How do i get Vista back :confused: I did backed up from vista when i download the Windows 7 RC but have some how managed to loss the folder where i kept it, but i have still got the windows.old folder. Can i do anything with this ...

What exactly is a backup image for windows 7. I hear it being talked about. Is it like a huge backup so not just files but the whole system. So like i could take a image of my laptop and put that image on a completly new laptop. Does it like copy the whole hard drive?

Hi all This to me seems a HUGE HUGE vulnerability in some current AV packages. I've got an ISOLATED machine which I use sometimes for specific AV testing. Anyway I decided to "Infect it" deliberately with some spyware and a key stroke trojan and then take an image of the system with...

Hey, you know how when you install Windows 7, there are default items on the taskbar? Well, the libraries button has disappeared, and I cannot get it back. If i right-click on libraries, the pin to taskbar option does not exist, and if I right click on a shortcut, the option still does not show...

I decided to upgrade from build 7048 to 7057 using the upgrade option. Everything went well, but now I can't seem to find the option to send feedback anywhere. Any ideas on how to go about doing that, or was that removed for build 7057?:confused:

The ear phone jack has stopped working on GW laptop M6307 running VHP. I have run every test available to me and restored to a date when I know it was working...No dice. When plugging in the jack the speakers still play with no sound in the phones. There are no signs of a loose or bad...

Hey there Windows7 Forums, Today I decided I was going to modify my computer which involved chiefly, the manipulation of .dll's in the system32 folder. The .dll's I know I manipulated were themeservice.dll , themeui.dll, and uxtheme.dll. In order to do this, I had to change ownership of the...

I really need this question answered, not because I am going to downgrade from Windows 7 right now, I just want to be prepared come late July. My Original OS was Windows Vista w/ SP1. I downloaded and installed Windows 7 on my laptop using a Upgrade installation because I have no other way...

I really liked the desktop pictures (themes) when I first installed 7, but since its beta and we're supposed to be trying to break it....I mean we're s'posed to be trying our favorites softwares on it I tried a registry cleaning tool from uniblue. It "cleaned" up all those themes and how! Now I...

hi, i have windows vista home premmy and my computer is a custome built hp(hewwit packard or what ever) and one of the fetures on my computer is when i reboot the computer i have a option to restore it to factory condition it is a full wipe im not sure if it has to do with the partitions but my...

Hello friends. I'm new here. But I gotta say the forum looks fantastic. Looks like there is quite a few helpful people here as well. So, so far, I really like Windows 7. I think it's fast, pretty, and all in all, well done. I have very few problems so far. And this is the only one I...

As i tried to sync my ipod it was only syncing 3 songs in 5 minutes. Tried a restore on the ipod the firmware loaded to the ipod fast, but the restoring from the computer is taking forever. The ipod has to wait on the computer for everything, and its taking forever. Any Ideas?

Hi... Whenever i play a video... movies in .avi format.. IN FULLSCREEN..the contrast of my LCD screen decreases automatically,,, and when i exit FULLSCREEN mode. it restores to original contrast...how do i stop this from happening

Hello guys... I use Dell Notebook with Vista Home Premium. I have 250 GB of HDD and i just recently shrink C: drive from (220 GB) to (180 GB) but i can't carry on after shrink. It said "There is no enough space available on the disk(s) to complete this operation" or something like that. I...