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    Windows 7 Open most programs gives me an error.

    I hooked another internal hard drive up to my computer. I already had two drives installed one SSD that has Windows 7 installed and one 1TB standard drive. I use the SD drive to install programs and keep files. After I installed the 3rd drive it changed my SD drive letter to letter E: and gave...
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    Administration authorisation

    Anyone can help? I have a problem to change the authorization to change/edit in Windows 7, system (I am trying to install the wampserver, and I need to change the local host, which need a permission) The Box which usually can be changed, was impossible to changed. How I can changed this? Thank...
  3. MikeHawthorne

    Windows 8 Can't open Comcast home page in Internet Explorer 10? And malware issue?

    Hi This it weird! I can't open my Comcast Home Page in IE? When I try I get a message saying that... "A problem with Comcast web page forced Internet Explorer to refresh in compatibility view". If I persist Internet Explorer crashes. I'm not seeing this with any other web page. I can open...
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    Windows 7 Windows 7 Black Screen Even In Safe Mode! .......Please Help !!

    Recently i installed and uninstalled some software! suddenly a warning message appeared which said to reboot computer. i reboot it and now it shows nothing but a black screen after windows 7 logo i tried to log on from safe mode but its the same thing. i have tried load default settings from...
  5. Drew

    Windows 8 What's so great about Windows8?

    A wee anecdote (w/ a moral): Now, to approach this in my own way & maybe, hopefully put a message across... People often ask me, what's so special about Windows8. OR, "I can't see any reason to want it over what I have" OR "that damned UI & those blasted APPs" OR why is it any better...
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    Windows 7 Bypassing Network Admin

    Hey everyone, I recently got an HP laptop from mom's work with Windows 7 Pro. She is a teacher and her school was giving away old laptop's to make way for the new ones. Thankfully, she was able to snag one for me, since my old HP died. The problem that I am coming up against is that I am...
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    Windows 8 Vista to Win8 ?

    Hey guys, I dual-booted Vista and Win 8. I created a small ~20GB partition where I have my Windows 8 Release Preview. Now I really like it, because Vista is really slow compared to any other OS. Windows 8 is blazing fast, but I have programs on my Vista partition. I make music so I use Ableton...
  8. Medico

    Windows 8 Real World Win 8 experience: My Wife

    I created an Up To Date Image of her Win 7 HP OS for restoration if necessary. I would not think about this installation, or any major changes, without first creating an Image of the OS. I installed the 90 day Evaluation Copy of Win 8 Enterprise on my wife's PC last night, including all her...
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    Windows 8 ATI Radeon HD 4200 Series Driver and CCC2 Fix for Windows 8

    After much research on this issue I am pleased to say I found a fix that works. This method may also work for other ATI radeon HD cards as well. Follow these instructions closely and be sure not to deviate to much from them. I just installed Windows 8 Release Preview on my laptop, and as...
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    Windows 7 “Run as Administrator” does not work

    I am running Windows 7 64 bit in a multiuser environment and one of the users needs 2 programs that, for some unknown reason, require administrative privileges to run. I am the administrator and when I am logged in I can run the programs, however, when the user attempts to run the program while...
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    Windows 7 How to set back the administrative access for my log on account

    Hi, I have disabled my Windows 7 log on prompt option, in order to run my "Auto Power on" application to log on automatically and schedule to start my torrent application. I have achieved disabling the Win 7 from asking from log on user name and password by Go to Start and type netplwiz in the...
  12. News

    Reduce system restarts after you update to Internet Explorer 9 in Windows 7

    Describes a Windows 7 update that makes a required system restart less likely after the Internet Explorer 9 installation process finishes. More...
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    Windows 7 Which is the best operating system window 7 or Linux (Ubuntu) ?

    I personally prefer windows 7 instead of Ubuntu, because we can install any software in windows which is external and in Ubuntu we cannot install any software externally but their is not any requirement of any antivirus with Ubuntu. Can any one help to sort out this conflicts things?
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    Windows 7 Help Needed: BSOD 'PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA' on Windows 7 Ultimate

    Hi everyone, I'm new in this forum, so I'm hoping I'm posting in the right place and with the right piece of information, but I hope someone will be able to help me. I've had a notebook (asus N51V with a T9550 and 4 GB of RAM with Windows 7 Ultimate) for over three years and I've not had any...
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    Windows 7 Does repair disk include all software on the computer at time disk was made?

    I apologize if this question has been answered somewhere else, or seems too simple, but everything I've been reading about repair disks/recovery disks/etc has me completely confused. After I got my new laptop, I installed antivirus, windows updates, etc, removed bloatware and installed the...
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    Windows 7 Windows 7 SP1

    Ok, so I am new around these parts but I have a reason for singing up here. I have a Dell Laptop with a bit of problems and I think I know how to proceed but would like to get some feedback from forum members before I go spend a lot of time repairing the laptop. First a statement of the...
  17. geoffbyrne

    Windows 7 'Handle is Invalid' error *only* on .DOC files

    I'm new here, guys, so don't shoot me down in flames if this has been covered. I've checked the search, but didn't come up with anything the same. I've just re-jigged the Good Lady's PC - it had some sort of virus. Wiped it & re-installed Win 7 Pro. Put back most of the stuff that was there...
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    Windows 7 Crashes When Unplugged After Sleep Mode

    I've been having an ongoing (about 2 months) problem with my laptop getting the BSOD after returning from sleep mode, specifically when unplugging it. When returning from sleep mode, the screen will take longer than normal to turn back on and show the log in screen. After that, it seems like it...
  19. J

    Windows 7 Windows 7 switch from 32 bit to 64 bit.

    I have a computer that I bought refurbished and they loaded the 32 bit version of Windows Home Premium. I need to run the current version of Photoshop and it only runs on 64 bit. Need to do a clean install and I have no problem with that since their are very few programs on the computer. My...
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    Windows 7 Administrator account cannot take control or change permissions to system folders

    I'm running windows 7 ultimate and am trying to install some software off of a secure server at a remote location to my hard drive. The install fails every time because the my user account (an administrator) does not have full write permissions to the program files directory. I have tried...
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