I installed a CAD program that reset the .SCR file type to open with Notepad. The .SCR is used with Screen Savers and I cannot initiate the Screen Saver that I use, it wants to open in Notepad and not execute. How do I remove or reset the file type protocol to a specific program? There are...
I recently installed a fresh copy of Win 7 Home Premium on a Dell Dimension 8400.
Apparently everything is fine up to now, except that I can't get any power plans to work.
The display does not turn off and the sleep mode doesn't kick in, not even the screen saver works.
With XP Pro I had no...
Our media pc keeps bring up a window with the following message -
"Windows Media Player Library
Make media files show up in Windows Media Player Library"
It offers three options - advanced, next, and cancel. Clicking next has it detect for errors, then just sit there and keep detecting, not...
All MagicJack customers have received a new update that disables Win7 screensavers, displayOFF, and sleep mode. They know they've done this. They are saying they can't reverse it. So if you have MagicJack, you will not be able to use your screensavers, or have any sleep or displayoff settings...
Hello,
I recently bought a new HP Pavilion desktop with Windows 7 Home Premium factory installed and installed some of my old games on it. Well, for the past week or two I've had this rather annoying problem where I leave my computer on for an hour or so, come back, wake the computer up only...
I have: Win7 Home Premium (since October '09), 64bit Dell Inspiron 518, ASUS 24" monitor. I use Avast! "protection"
For about 4 days, I've not been able to invoke any screensaver, display OFF or SLEEP. I've changed all settings for these actions and changed back. I've started up (with) Clean...
Hi I just installed Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit. Things were working well for a week and now my win7 installation just hangs after the welcome screen with a black screen and mouse cursor. There is no CPU activity. The mouse moves. Using any keyboard shortcut key cntrl-alt-del etc... doesn't do...
1. screen saver: why does the Windows "background" image remain on screen when the screen saver is running? This has never been the case with previous Windows!
2. Why is there no "title" (in title bar) on windows such as Windows Explorer?
Thanks for any insight.
A spyware application that surreptitiously scans chat logs and hard drives of unsuspecting Mac users has found its way onto three of the more popular download sites, security researchers said Tuesday.
Dubbed OSX/OpinionSpy, the spyware is distributed through software available on sites...
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Win 7 was installed on a brand new PC about 3 months ago. This week my screen saver stopped working for no reason at all. I have tried every known fix, all to no avail. Has anybody else had this problem? If so did they find a solution
I know Im not losing my mind, but I have to continually reset my screen saver every time I reboot my laptop. When I reboot the screen saver dose'nt come on, and when I check the settings none is selected when I know I selected a screen saver and pressed apply but windows does not remember the...
My Winodws 7 Ultimate keeps forgetting screensaver settings after reboot.
I use screensavers such as fliqlo and dropclock.
In fliqlo I`ve checked the 24 hour box, but after reboot it has been removed.
In dropclock it shows that it isn`t registered and I have to type in my email and activation...
I have recently done a clean install on my laptop of Windows 7 Professional.
So far I am satisfied with what I have seen except for one thing. I miss my Windows Vista photo screensaver. The one that windows 7 has is typically the same, except for it does not have the option of applying...
I set the screen saver in the control panel to "Ribbons" then hit APPLY and OK . After each shutdown and restart sequence, screen saver is reset to "none". :confused: How do i set my screen saver to stay permanently and not be reset at each startup ?
I'm so mad I could SCREAM!!!!!! I have a new computer that I started up today. UNlike WMP on xp which worked very intuitively and easily, I cannot put all my music into wmp on 7. I have tried and clicked and tried and cannot find any logic to how this is setup. Prior to removing the old...
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I did a clean install of windows 7 professional over the Windows Vista Home Premium that came on my laptop (a XPS M1530) and it appeared to go smoothly. Once the install was completed I was having trouble with viewing screen savers and playing games (that I had played many times on my computer...
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In the past 2 weeks (once in a while) when waking my desktop from screensaver I have to enter my password 2 times ( 2 differant windows). Anybody herd of this? Or any ideas? Thanks funnnyfarm
Greeting to the ppl at W7F.
I going to jump right into this. If my question seems trivial I sincerely apologize.
I have attempted to install 4 or 5 different files over the past few weeks and I get this same message every time.
"The version of this file is not compatible with the version of...