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Hi everybody Link Removed - Invalid URL, I had a small problem with my laptop a few days back ,but it was fixed when I removed and inserted the battery. But the F drive was renamed to D drive automatically. I think this was the cause of the following errors, which i noticed when I tried to use...

There is some little software around to take ownership of files and folders in Windows 7. When I was installing Windows 7 Ultimate, I took ownership of all I could find. Then a few things no more worked and I had to reinstall... Luckily, I had almost only the basic installation done. I and...

Hello Do you find this to be comparable to ERUNT but for Win 7? Tweaking.com - Registry Backup v0.9.0 Beta is ready for testing Tweaking.com - Registry Backup is a free backup tool that will use the Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service to backup your. Microsoft recommends using the Volume...

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...

So, how many of you can relate to this story? Your computer has been infected by a virus, or it’s just running really slow, or you accidentally deleted a system file, or maybe you bought the computer from someone else and it still has all the previous owner’s junk on it. If you wanted to Read...

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Hey folks... I recently reorganized my computer and this included a fresh install of Windows 7 on a new disk. I backed up all my data on the old disk so that I could make sure I wasn't losing any important documents or whatever. I'm now sure I've got everything off the disk that I needed and...

Hi, I have been searching this forum for a while and feel a bit more lost that originally. I have a old laptop that I installed w7 on. I was getting slow, so I wanted to get it so empty as possible. I have backed up all my files. Now I want everything to go, and start with a virgin windows 7...

I'm trying to move my pagefile.sys to a separate hard drive, but to no avail. Let me be clear up front: I know what I'm doing. I don't need a list of ethics on why it's bad, or not bad, to do so. I don't care about one's opinion on whether or not it should be done. I'm going to do it. That being...

I have run sfc/scannow in win 7, and have followed instructions to run sfc at boot in command prompt, but nothing has solved the errors. i have saved the file sfcdetails.txt to desktop, and have extracted only the problematic parts and saved it in another file problems.txt kindly check the file...

Please help. I have one answer I can not find for a quiz. What is the default folder to which Windows 7 is installed? c:\Windows c:\Winnt c:\win c:\system Also, I was unsure of this one too. What is the agreement that you have to accept when installing Windows? Is it...

When I go to the root directory of my partition D: and enter CACLS * /T then the scanning of all my files and folders for Security settings starts. After a while the process reaches the (hidden, system) folder "System Volume Information" ...and abort silently. I think this is...

The scenario is as follows: A Win7 system has some problems and could NOT be booted itself. So I took an additional bootable repair or LiveSystem CD and start the computer with it. I have now a running WinOS and another dead Win7 e,g, on a partition C: on a hard disc. Now I want to...

Hi, I was surfing the web and watching videos when suddenly my laptop turned off and restarted. However, the restart was unsuccessful and I saw the BSOD. The blue screen didn't stay and the PC automatically started start up repair. It did not fix the problem. It gave me the option to go to the...

Hi there, Just randomly started getting BSODs today. Had a few of them now... at random times. BSOD error code: memory_management I can't figure out when it happens... sometimes when I close a program, sometimes in the middle of a game.. no idea. And it seems to have messed up some bits...

I've tried to run the SFC /scannoow twice and both times I get to 7% and I get "Windows Resource Protection could not perform the requested operation". I had this once before and resolved it, but I can't remember how. I've ran chkdsk twice and I still can't get past 7% on sfc/, so it appears...

Hi guys, I just registered to Windows 7 forums because I have a simple question. One week now a file called "END" with no file extension is located inside my System folder where I have my folders there. I didn't make this file at all, and I don't know how this file is there. :confused: Can I...

Weird link between an old HDD with Win 7 on it and the actual HDD with active win 7 on it Hello, I've experienced today a weird "error", that I even do not know how to search for it. Let me explain: I had win 7 (32bit) installed at job, and worked on it for more than a year. Two weeks ago I...

My hard drive fills up to within 5 GB of capacity without me taking any action. I run disk check and everything is fine until the next time I turn on the computer and the disk is full again. I ran a couple of malware tools and they found nothing. When I look through the directories I cannot find...

I had one of my regular BSOD (I'm quite sure its a RAM issue) and nothing unusual ever really comes from it, however today it screwed up my USB controller driver and now I'm perplexed as to how to get a fix for it. (Windows 7 64-bit) Windows recognises all of my 8 Universal Serial Bus (USB)...