startup issues

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    Windows Vista I cannot start windows vista! Pls help

    Hi all, I have a problem with my laptop since this morning! I wanted to start it up as normally but it didnt want to start windos well, there was just a blue screen with a window "SETUP REPAIR" i have tried to solve it on my own but im not really into that suff , so now when i run my laptop it...
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    Windows 7 Boot(OS choice) menu lost after XP reinstallation

    I was running XP on C and Windows 7 RC(7100) on E drive in my computer.After formatting and reinstalling XP on C drive,the 0S choice menu during startup is not appearing and XP loads automatically.The name of E drive before Xp reinstallation was Windows 7,and now it is Local Disc(E:).Not a...
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    VIDEO Wired Internet Not Working Startup [Video Included]

    When I start my computer (this has been happening for a month or so) it doesn't work, I have to disable then trouble shoot to get it to work. Here is a youtube video I recorded thanks.
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    Windows 7 Windows 7 - Solutions for boot problems.

    for all thoes people who are experiencing this problem, i have a few tips that worked for me. Solving Windows freeze on startup....(this can happen when even booting from the startup disk, it has nothing to do with any drivers or software related issues) If you have sprung upon this problem...
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    Windows 7 Start Up Issues

    Hi Folks, I have an issue i need assistance with. I have a VGN-N130G. It came with XP (MCE). Installed W7 the other day. It seems to have an issue at start up. It goes into the Windows start up screen and just gets stuck there. It did the same with XP and now its doing the same with the...
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    Windows Vista Booting problem (bad one)

    Hello guys, Im writing here because this is my last hope , i really pray that you can help me!! Something like 2 months ago i started having problems with Vista...my PC is brand new and haven't had any problem , but then all of a sudden things started going wrong: My operating system ( Vista...
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    Windows 7 Blue screen on startup in all modes

    I installed RC1 (64bit) a couple months ago and it was working great. Today quite randomly my computer froze. I held the power button down and turned it off, but now it won't start up again. At first the only thing that happened was the computer would turn on but the screen would show nothing. I...
  8. Windows 7 Preparing Desktop..... Delay Every Boot

    My computer was slower than normal to boot for a while, it would stay on the Welcome... page for about 12secs (a long time). I turned on verbose messages, and it turns out, its "preparing my desktop" on each boot. Two questions 1. What possible reasons could there be for such a thing? 2...
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    Windows 7 more page file questions...

    following the advice on this board, i moved my page file to a different drive, and since then, whenever i restart win 7, it begins with an error message saying that it made a temp page file because of the conditions at start up. first, why would it do this, especially when i pointed it to...
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    Windows 7 dual boot problem.

    Problem: The windows doesn't boot. It gives me the first screen and goes directly to a blank black screen with a cursor. There are no options at this point but to hit ctrl-alt-del and restart the computer. After restarting, on the first screen, there's an option to enter BIOS setting by pressing...
  11. Windows 7 Started off fast... getting slower, now it's glacial!

    Okay, I'm getting fed up with my Win7 RC installation already. I just clicked a program off the start menu, and after nearly an entire MINUTE of waiting for the app to launch, I found it had opened 3 times - Windows was responding so slowly that it kept the Start menu open after I had clicked it...
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    Windows 7 can't start any program that uses UAC

    Hi, I recently downloaded Windows 7, and i already found my first problems (after 5 minutes of working on it): i can't start any program that uses UAC (so this means no regedit or anything) so what do i do?
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    Windows 7 Nothing loads... help!

    Heya, Yesterday I shut off my PC all fine, went to bed, woke up and started up the computer again. When I started it however, nothing was working as it should. Everything goes fine, I can get into Windows 7 without any problem. But then my software starts loading. Nod32 starts up, OppenOffice...
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    Windows 7 How do you mjake a bootable Windows 7 disk?

    HI all. topic is self explanitory. How do you make a bootable Windows 7 disk. I have the ISO files but when I try to make a disk it will not boot. Using UltraISO I was able to burn what I thought was a bootable disk, but on startup the screen just goes black and I';m stuck with a blinking cursor...
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    Windows 7 How to Completely Uninstall Windows 7 from Dual Boot with Windows XP

    Guys, I would like to uninstall W7. I installed my W7 on Drive E in XP machine (drive C). For your info, Everytime I boot my computer, there are two choices of OS:, XP and W7. Unfortunately, in BOOT.INI in XP, there is no such a choice of W7 startup that I can delete. Any help will be...
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    Windows 7 Minor Gadget issue

    I'm pretty sure no one else posted this so far, but i've recently i decided to check the box in a couple of gadgets "Always on Top" and on start-up, only a few of these gadgets end up on top until after i put them in focus. if it's any help, the gadgets are that are doing this are: "Control...
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    Windows 7 Win7 not working any more

    I have installed Win7 x64 several days ago and it worked very fine, but jesterday i did not "shutdown" my pc, but tried to send it to "sleep" instead. Damn! It is totally broken-down! When i first tried to start after this, i choose the "start normal" option", all i got was a black screen, so i...
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    Windows 7 ? about multi-boot

    I have windows vista and windows 7 installed on separete hard drives. Everytime I start my computer it starts windows 7. What do I have to do so that I can choose witch OS I want to boot?
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    Windows 7 Boot order is Mess up

    Hi ... What to do if you installed XP and W7 on one hard drive with each OS having its own partition afterwards found W7 not to your liken and decided to remove the OS by formatting that partition , how do you get XP to load up normanly again ? Because after formatting that partition were W7 was...
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    Windows 7 Windows 7 Dual Boot Issues: Gadgets, Explorer Crashes, Permissions, and DVD Problems

    ok i installed 7 as a dual boot with xp and i have some questions 1st is how do i get my gadgets to start with windows ? 2nd where are gadget settings ? when i search in start menu and click on anything to do with sidebar or gadgets nothing opens. 3rd i have had to go into task manager several...