software installation

My 13 year-old has a fairly new laptop, (3 gigs ram, dual core) running Windows 7. I don't know if it's 32 or 64 bit. She is living with me after a divorce, so we both have little info. What happens is, it begins to boot into win7. After it reaches the animated Microsoft logo, it simply...

No Beta OS should ever be installed, except as, follows: 1. On a spare machine 2. Virtually 3. As a dual-boot. 4. Run from a USB stick Never as an Upgrade or replacement to an existing, current, non-beta OS. Never on a production machine. Nor, BTW, can one move from 1 Beta of an OS to the...

Bought MS Expressions Studio 4 Web Prof. Can I download it onto 2 computers? Does anyone know? It doesn't say on the box if it restricted to one activation ie 1 computer. I have 2 computers.

Hi all First time posting here but I made sure to read all the threads on how to post first so hopefully I got it all right. I've gathered all the information required for BSOD and attached the zipped file. I've got kind of a weird situation for my BSOD's. I'm using a Acer AO722-BZ610 netbook...

Hi I am a dad who wants to give his rebellious pre-teen daughter some control on her laptop, like update iTunes or install games, but she cannot do such as a Standard User. I initially setup her laptop with both of us (dad and daughter) as admin users. I wanted to be an admin user to help...

Hi I am a dad who wants to give his rebellious pre-teen daughter some control on her laptop, like update iTunes or install games, but she cannot do such as a Standard User. I initially setup her laptop with both of us (dad and daughter) as admin users. I wanted to be an admin user to help...

Hello, I have built quite a few computers in my life, but tend to stick to a cookie cutter layout with AMD AM2 / 3 / 3+ based systems. I have NEVER had a bsod from anything other than an occasional finicky program. So I hear about this new AMD APU, and it just sounds awesome. Maybe I shopped...

Hey everyone, Background info: My company uses blank CCID cards that store a name and number on them and we use them with our handset devices so clients and customers can vote and interact with our software. We have been using windows xp to read and burn our smart card's internally and...

I play Minecraft a lot, and many of the mods that I download use .zip to open. So I used to do this before, but for some reason I uninstalled 7-zip, so I tried re-installing it. The file that I use to open .zip files is the 7zFM (7-zip File Manager). But whenever I try to set that application as...

Hello, I was watching a video on a news website yesterday when I suddenly got a blue screen. After restarting, I checked the Event Viewer and found the following BugCheck error: "The computer has rebooted from a bugcheck. The bugcheck was: 0x0000003b (0x00000000c0000005, 0xfffff80002cb027e...

I am setting up a brand new laptop with Windows 7. I have not used Win 7 before. I have set up two user accounts, both "administrator" accounts. I have downloaded Google Chrome using one of those accounts, but when logged on as the second user, I cant see the Chrome shortcut, or find the program...

Hi, first post (and I have searched for an answer) so be gentle! I have Windows 7 Ultimate, and I use my PC for general use, gaming, and web development – each of these currently done through a separate admin account -> simply so that I can personalise them for their purpose, i.e. desktop...

Windows 7 Support, I'm new to any Forum posting and I am not certain of Forum protocol. However, my problem is with Movie Maker Live downloaded from Windows Live Essentials 2011. I can create a profile, add pictures and music start playing the movie and the timeline stops and the program...

Hi, I am having an annoying problem that I would appreciate some help in resolving. I have deleted and reinstalled a game program, now, three times. Prior to the last installation I went thru and defragged and used disk cleanup. I got the same results: Instead of installing new files from the...

Hello all. I've got a question and a half for you. Is it possible to set up a program server on my home network with Windows 7? If so, how would I go about it? I have 5 desktops on my home network. 3 are running 64-bit Windows 7 and 2 running 64-bit Vista. I would like to have one of the...

Hi I've been using computers since DOS but this weekend I went to help a friend who is the same age as I am 73 buy her first computer. How hard it was to buy one is a story by itself, a certain retailer initials BB is about as organised as a, well they are really disorganized. I really...

Hello- I have to re-install Windows 7 because I had some problems with my computer due to loosing my password and having to go through the back door to enable the administrator and create a new log in. It ended up causing problems with some of my documents and other things. Also, I got it when...

Could someone please help me to sort out problems with windows media player.12/wmv9 (?uninstal/reinstal) on my brand new computer. The colours are garish, contrast is over-the-top and obviously wrong. This happens with *any program playing wmv files *any video file (wmv,avi,mpg) played by wmp...

Hi there, I am newbie here, nice to meet you all. I have font issue in my windows 7. For example, when I opened some software like Itunes and Youtube Downloader, some fonts in both software would appear in "Courier New" which they are supposed is "Lucida" fonts. I'm not sure whether this is...

I just recently bought an HP Pavilion p6730f BV533AA#ABA Desktop PC - Intel Core i3-550 3.2GHz, 6GB DDR3, 1.5TB HDD, DVDRW, Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit. Right out of the box it started acting a little touchy. I bought to get a project done for a client, so immediately I installed Adobe...