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    Windows 7 Active Networking - win7 always redefines a corrupted one

    Hi, I have been experiencing some networking troubles since 4 or 5 months ago and I still couldn’t find any solutions because: I’m not able to reproduce it; I can’t identify its cause; I haven’t been able to determine the key words to filter my searching for solutions. So, I’ll try to describe...
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    Windows 7 Local admin username/password

    Hello all, I work in IT and I run into a problem quite often where we know how to fix the issue but we are unable to because they cannot get connected to the network. We use static IP's as a standard for all computers in order to organize and prevent from being able to used outside of the...
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    Windows 7 New laptop , windows 7 over windows 7

    My son in his haste, installed the system disk and loaded windows again. Now I have a folder windows.old created. Can I just simply copy folders back to root drive? There is no restore points to go to ,the laptop is new. I have reloaded most of the drivers but there are some programs in the...
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    Windows 7 BSODs while playing battlefield 3, randomly and idle

    Hi, I've been getting many BSOD's recently, theyre occuring randomly, when PC is idle or lots of them when playing battlefield 3 (those have been reduced significantly by increasing GPU fan speed to manual 70%). I've tried: Cleaning up registry Cleaning up HDD Reinstalling GPU Link Removed...
  5. Windows 7 Drive Map Alert

    I am running windows 7 pro 64 bit desktop....I continuously get a popup message titled "Drive Map Alert": The drive map server cannot run because you are running another application that has exclusive use of port 80. To continue, you must locate the application using port 80 and close or stop...
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    Windows 7 Task Scheduler - how to get it to work!

    How to use the Task Manager in Windows 7 Professional This is VERY troublesome. There are numerous comments and suggestions in various forums by frustrated users unable successfully to fight their way through the myriad of options that do not work seamlessly. What worked so easily under XP...
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    Windows 7 since 04/30/2012 i'm getting

    BOSD while playing such as starcraf II or Skyrim... this happens once or twice a day. Anyone can help me to solve this? ================================================================================ StarCraft II (B21029) Time: 2012-05-06 14:31:14.992 Exe: F:\StarCraft...
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    Windows 7 TerminalServices-RemoteConnectionManager Event ID: 1057: The relevant status code was Object already

    The computer is Windows 7 Professional 64-bit edition version 6.1 Build 7601 service pack 1. The computer is not in a domain environment. I believe this may be a security issue however I completed an in-place windows 7 upgrade to try and fix the problem but after all of the windows updates...
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    Windows 7 Optimize Win 7 For Crucial M4 SSD

    Turn AHCI on Trim on: cmd/fsutil behavior query DisableDeleteNotify=0 System Restore to Off Drive Indexing-Explorer/right click SSD drive & select properties/Disable “Allow files on this drive, etc. Paging File=Right click computer/adv...
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    Windows 7 19 BSOD crashes in the past 4 month. Mostly 0x1A, but also 0x24, 0xE4, 0x19, 0x9F

    I had 19 crashes in the past 4 month. A computer is 13 month old. The first BSODs happened on 27/12/2011. The exact statistics: 0x1A MEMORY_MANAGEMENT - happened 10 times (the 5 most recent crashes were 0x1A) 0x24 NTFS_FILE_SYSTEM - 4 times (the most recent happened 3 weeks ago) 0xE4...
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    Windows 7 unexoected BSOD results in Crash Dump

    Hello everyone, I have recently had many crash dump files it appears in c:\windows\minidump. I am uploadin it here, for these who many wish to review it. However, i cannot specefiy what the cause of this problema may have been.:( Some one can help me, please? System Information (local)...
  12. Startup Type property in the DHCP Client service is changed to Automatic in Windows 7 or in Windows

    Fixes an issue in which the Startup Type property in the DHCP Client service is changed from Disabled to Automatic after you install KB 979346. This issue occurs on a computer that is running Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2. More...
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    Windows 7 Disappearing mapped network drive madness

    We have a small netwrok with one workgroup. We recently added a new machine running wn7Pro 64-bit. We had to fiddle for days with it just to make winXPpro and win2kPro workstations and their drives visible to it. That should be out-of-the-box automatic functionality, but it isn't because Win7Pro...
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    Windows 7 netsh mbn show interfaces results in command not found on Win7 64Bit

    Hi, I'm trying to run "netsh mbn show interfaces" from a .bat or .jar file on a Windows 7 64bit system but every time I run my file, it results in "The following command was not found mbn show interfaces". When I run that same command in a cmd.exe prompt, the result is correct and as...
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    Remove Grub in Dual Boot System

    Let me begin by saying I think Mint 12 is a terrific OS, which I am using on several computers. But I have computers on which I use Music Bee in Windows 7 for my music files and want direct boot to Windows without any disk space devoted to Mint. I spent several days looking at complicated...
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    Windows 7 Massive Physical Memory Usage on Windows 64 bit

    Why does my laptop use around 2-3GB of physical memory for NOTHING. I know my skype, Msn, and TS3 lauch on laptop start, but that should be just about it. Atleast form anything that takes much memory. Even those 3 dont take much. i just turn it on and it instantly uses that MUCH OF IT. How do...
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    Windows 8 W8 Apps won't install: "Why didn't this app install?" message

    Just installed W8 32-bit on an Asus F8P-X1W laptop with Intel I7/ 2 Gb mem + 150 Gb disk. The O/S installed perfectly & Windows update works fine. However, when I try to install apps such as "Ashampoo FX", "Finance", "Solitaire", "Maps" etc., the install fails: The sequence is...
  18. Windows 7 Changing Boot

    FYI: This is due to folks asking about changing things in a duel-boot scenario. An OS was installed then, another, hence the dual-boot... we'll call them 1 & 2. NOW, they want OS2 to exist and boot w/out OS1 The following is a way to do it: I had a dual-boot, Windows 7 x86 & x64. x86 was the...
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    Windows 7 Moving Users Directory

    Hey, This might be a complicated question, because I have already followed a specific process to move my users directory. It worked, and it worked well! But I am now concerned because I think Windows sees my Users directory as belonging on both the SSD and the other hard drive that I have it...
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    Windows 7 MSCONFIG entry in registry

    I would like to clean up my disabled entries in MSCONFIG BUT there is no entry for it in the registry HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\MSConfig\ on my desktop. there is on my laptop. When is MSCONFIG hiding these things??? How do i get it back????????