shutdown issues

JUST received my NEW laptop (Dell-studio) with Windows 7, and CANNOT open Windows Media Center, also getting explorer.exe error when trying to shut down computer. sounds, CDs aren't working (obviously, as I can't get wmp to respond to anything. I have to constantly hit cntrl+alt+delete to...

Why won't Windows 7 work on my HP Pavilion a6720y desktop PC? I have searched and searched for an answer to this question. Thus far I have not come up with anything. The computer, since I upgraded to Windows 7 from Vista, seems to have error after error that was not present before the upgrade...

Prior to the Windows updates of 12/15/09 I was local administrator, now I am a standard user with my previous profile wiped out. And my Shutdown and Restart items are greyed out. Any ideas out there?

I recently made a post about the sleep issue, but to rephrase, I was having trouble with my Acer Aspire 4810T sleeping when I closed the lid, but I managed to fix it by changing the properties for my wifi card so that it would not wake up the computer. The other day I downloaded a driver update...

Well, I have stepped in it this time and boy could I use some help. Setup an XP/7 dual boot on two partitions on same drive. All good. Removed XP boot entry with easybcd. All good. Set 7 partition to Active. All good. Booting to 7 worked fine with the old XP partition still on the disk...

windows 7 is installed on a hp7700 machine...and works fine, but if i try RESTART it wont boot??? If i use shut down it goes down and stays off as it should, and if i power it on again it boots up and everything works. The only problem is when i try to restart...it goes down but somehow loses...

Running an old but reliable HP dc7100. Installed Windows 7 Ultimate 32 bit. Runs fine, no hardware issues at all except needed to install a graphics card to get Aero effects to work & had to change the sound drivers to get the sound working. However since the original install the restart option...

I have an Abit QuadGT IX38 mobo, latest BIOS, but they are out of the mobo business and I don't expect any new BIOS revisions. Can't even find their US support site any longer. Anyway, the trouble is, I can put the pc to sleep apparently fine the first time, but after waking it up, it will not...

I upgraded my 32 bit Vista Home Premium to 32 bit Win 7 Home Premium, using info from the Win 7 Upgrade Advisor download & the Toshiba Win 7 Upgrade Assistant download. The install was seamless, but it took about 4 hrs. I then ran Windows Updates, & updated my ATI catalyst control manager (as...

Problem: My computer fails to go into Sleep mode, and it also will automatically restart about 1-2 seconds after shutting down. This issue initially arose when I had the RC installed. During that time, I had been able to Sleep the computer just fine, but one time it seemed to randomly fail...

I've been having a problem which seems to be quite common among many Windows 7 users. I'm currently running Windows 7 Ultimate and it's been fine for about 3 weeks. 3 days ago, it started shutting down on me randomly when i'm playing games. No BSODs, no warnings, nothing. It's as though the...

Hello there, folks! Been running build 7600 of Windows 7 for a while and it kind of crapped out on me last night. Here are all the problems that started last night It wont shut down ( sat on "Shutting down..." screen for 12 hours today) The Notification Area only loads a couple of icons, no...

I upgraded from Vista to Windows 7 last night and ended up with two control panel icons on my task bar. I called Microsoft and worked with them for 2 1/2 to three hours and I still have the icons and now my machine takes for ever to shut down and everytime it reboots I get and error that it...

I ordered a Windows 7 Home Premium Family pack about 2 months ago and it arrived last week. While I wasn't expecting it until October 22, I figured "why look a gift horse in the mouth". However, when I try to install it I hit a problem. I had Vista Ultimate installed and attempted an upgrade...

A friend installed W7 RC on my son's computer and it is now suddenly shutting down. I read some posts online that point to Windows 7 being sensitive to Video card heat so whenever he watches a movie on his computer his video card heats up and windows shuts down. He never had that problem with XP...

Recently built new PC. Installed Windows 7 RC build 7100 64bit. Issue 1: Sometimes boot takes 10+ minutes. Sometimes won't boot past "Windows is Starting Up" screen. Sometimes boots in under 30 seconds. Issue 2: Sometimes takes 10+ minutes to shut down. Sometimes Won't shut down past...

I left my computer (running 7 RC) on over night because it was downloading and installing SP2 for Office 2007. In the morning the computer was off. I imagine the power went out some time during the night because when I turned on the computer, I get a screen stating that there was an improper...

I installed windows 7 7100 x32 on my laptop (Acer Aspire 5535) and my experience has been great, is just 2 of the most important features are not working or taking lots of time: 1- The computer is not shutting down: When is going down stucks on the shutting down message and never goes down...

So this happened yesterday. I was playing GoW for around 20 minutes, and then the game just froze. No sound, and a frozen picture. So I decide to open up task manager and end the process. Following this, I re-open the game, play another ~20 minutes, and then the same nonresponsive screen shows...

HELP! Lately I have been experiencing some problems with my Windows 7 copy. It is sometimes having problems on startup. I see the whole screen, but it is as if the system is just not responding. When I then manually shut down the computer, enter password and so on I get a black screen (it...