software installation

Hi I use windows 7 ultimate SP1 64 bit. I tried to install a program tonight and got the following dialog box. You may not have the necessary permissions to use all the features of the program you are about to run. You may run this program as a different user or continue to run the...

Hi, I hope I picked the right forum category. I'm not computer literate so when my 14 month old PC running Windows 7 Home Premium failed to restart I took it to Staples for a recovery installation. Since bringing it home I downloaded Microsoft Security Essentials, then downloaded PC...

Hi! Ever since a botched encryption which resulted in me having to format a drive (not the main c drive), everything I download gives this message when I try to open it - "ShellExecuteEx failed; code 2. The system cannot find the file specified." I've tried changing the download location to...

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Hi all I was wondering if anyone could help me as I haven't been able to find a thread with my problem. I just put together a new system which includes... Sapphire HD 5770 1GB GDDR5 Dual DVI HDMI DisplayPort HDCP PCI-E Graphics Card AMD Phenom II X2 555 Black Edition 3.2GHz Socket AM3 6MB...

Hi This issue has been hanging around for months. I get a notice that there are updates for Quicktime, so I tell it to go ahead and it always fails with an error that says Getlasterror 5:! Today I decided to fix this so I did some research and found that it's a fairly common problem. I...

I have a triple boot system from a single hard drive with 3 partitions. Vista Home Premium 32 bit is in the first partition, Windows 7 Pro 64 bit is in the second partition and Windows 7 Ultimate 32 bit is in the third partition. When I boot Windows 7 pro it always shows up as drive E:. The...

Does anyone know why when I try to burn a movie i downloaded from the internet I get no sound??? I mean it works i get a perfect picture but no sound, when i preview it before i start the burn there is sound it works and looks great. The finish product however has no sound at all.....I have...

sir, I am a person who like to install different types of softwares.I had also installed softwares like speedupmypc,registeryBooster and driverScanner.The problem started when i scanned and tried to fix problems with driverScanner.However i was more cautious after that.After that my system...

I had for some time an application written to write configuration on a SD Card for an external device . For doing that I give to the user the possibility to format the SD volume: With Xp I had no problem, with Seven I have messages telling me I don't have the right to do this operation. Is there...

i recently tried to installl software for a blackberry storm 9500 and failed, after rebooting windows i am left with loads of unknown devices in the device manager and the software still doesnt work and i each time i remove the unknown devices from device manager, it either puts them back as...

Soo for ages i've been putting up with A LOT of BSOD and even more application errors my friend said you guys helped him out with his computer when it had similar problems (can't be sure of username). What I was told before I came here was to change my DRAM frequency as it was incorrect so I...

I'm going mad here trying to solve this one. I'm new to Windows 7. I've just installed it 3 weeks ago, and I'm still in the process of installing all my software and small mini-games (shooters, arkanoid-type stuff, bejeweled, etc). I've had virtually no trouble getting my applications to run...

...but rather than re-installing the OS ( W7 Ultimate ) and all software can I not simply make an image and copy it to the SSD, thereafter modifying the BIOS to boot from the SSD rather than the original HDD leaving the latter available for data only ? I gather I have to disable Prefetch, Super...

This is a bit of a long story I'm trying to fix. First... when the old xp program installs from disk onto my windows 7 64 bit computer. It installs like it should in the 32 bit "program x86" folder. And the program works no problem. The problem is that the update installed into the 64...

Hi, I just installed winbubble 2.0.3.7 on my system with Win 7 Ult. 64 bit. The install went without a problem. I checked the box to force login name and password. On reboot all login names and passwords do not work. I do have a tri boot system with XP S3, and Win 7 32, which currently...

I recently uninstalled AVG Software & intalled Fix-it Utilities 11 Professional. The problem I am having is to get Windows 7 Firewall back in operation. When I try to turn back on the Firewall I get the message. Windows Firewall can't change some of your settings. Error code 0x80070422. Does...

Using 64-bit Windows 7 ... Dell computer, Dell monitor. I can't find anyone else with this exact problem: Windows open BEHIND others. Three examples: (a) I'm installing a font. Explorer is open. Drag a font into the /Font folder, and a message comes up that says, "Font already installed; replace...

I have been trying to download some programs recently and they all come up with this same error. I've downloaded multiple things to my desktop and when i try to run them, a message pops up saying: These files can't be opened Your internet security settings have prevented one or more files...

A while back I posted about a problem I had here. Link Removed I now have an external HD and can fix this problem I am having. I need a little bit more information though before I go on. I am downloading the new version as I type. Should I just run a backup and save it on my external HD or just...