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I tried upgrade my laptop (Acer Aspire - 5935G) from Vista too Windows 7. When the installation is almost done, it requires restart, but when restarting the computer the computer turns black , after the Acer and Win7 startup thingy. I've tried to run via safe mode, but it cant finish the...

I just recently purchased a Sony Vaio Laptop with windows 7 already installed. I have been having trouble downloading anything. When I attempt to download something I get the following error: part could not be saved, because the source file could not be read. Try again later, or contact the...

Hello, i am having a extremely alarming problem, i can not access my external HDD!! I had bitlocked it, which was EXTREMELY stupid, and 93% into the encryption, it decided to stop, and now it just gives me an error to keep checking the disk i could just pause it before it had an error and...

Installed 64-bit Lightroom 2.5 on new Win-7 box. Entered serial numbers and LR started OK, but when I close LR and restart, it asks for serial numbers again Lightroom Forum provided the link You must enter your serial number each time you open Photoshop Lightroom 1.x, which gives registry-fix...

Where are the Microsoft Tech support people On this Forum? There are problems with Windows 7 and want the real tech support people to answer the questions as to problem that have been found with this program. I have posted two major problems with Windows 7 and not ONE PEEP from Microsoft tech...

Hello all, so happy to be a member of this great forum. Two problems that i am having at the moment. 1. Upon booting, boot is good, somewhat fast though I receive a splash screen telling me "Install failed"; i check okay and voila, no problem...just irritating. 2. shut down is really slow. I am...

Hi! I'm gonna modify the folder in Windows XP called "Default User", in Windows 7 called "Default". (=I'm gonna do it in W7 :p ) What I have modified: -Change the desktop background -Change screensaver -Change the who of the systemicons thats supposed to be shown -Change site...

Hi! I want Explorer.exe 32-bit on Windows 7 x64 Ultimate RC. What can I do? Thanks! NOTE: I need it because the 64-bit explorer hides non 64-bit stuff like GMail Drive shell extension.

About 10 seconds after arriving into the desktop, screen either goes black or white and stays that way. I'm hoping something is wrong because I believe the going blank thing wasn't supposed to be happening until next year or at least after the official release. Please help, I have work to do...

Hello someone has put in a password into my computer as a joke but he forgot it not very funny now :( Now I can't get in and I don't want to whipe it Please help thanks!

Hi, Im new around here and I am not really good with computers/techinical stuff so I got some questions to ask. Would appreciate it if people around here are willing to help me. The thing is that recently, I found out that I qualify for some MSDNAA thingy and could get to download Windows 7 RTM...

Help is needed for geting backed up files from w7 to vista. hey all ive installed vista back becuase i have been having probles with vireses and worm holes ive backed up all from windows 7 and whant to get the files from the backup to be restorde to vista but how do i get the files to be put...

Hey guys and gals, newbie question coming up :razz: How do i get Vista back :confused: I did backed up from vista when i download the Windows 7 RC but have some how managed to loss the folder where i kept it, but i have still got the windows.old folder. Can i do anything with this ...

Everytime I log in, I get a "Windows Activation" screen, saying activate Windows now the activation period has expired. Then it gives me the option to activate now or activate later, why is this? I have the windows 7 release cand. and isin't it supposed to expire in like 2010? Please help...

I realise this will make me seem somewhat dinosaur-like, but for a very good reason, I would like to install Win 7 on a Fat32 partition. I cannot find any way to do so. Can anyone provide a means to do this, even perhap using Partition Magic or Acronis etc to convert the partition to Fat 32...

So I know this is not exactly the right forum to post this problem. But I hate people who join a forum just to post a question and never come back. So I figured since I've used this forum previously and had lots of help, I should try here again. So here is my dilemna, a few months ago, I all...

SOLVED: Can't sleep, restart, shutdown; Explorer won't refresh (Solution on last post, but the short version is that I had to use the Device Manager to "Uninstall the hardware" for my built-in SD card reader, so that Windows just forgets that the hardware exists. I can't use it anymore, but...

For the past several days I've been trying to find a solution to get several older network cards- Brand Name, and NO-Name working with: WINDOWS 7 RC 7100 (32-bit) (Was very surprised that Windows did not pick up the below cards- as many hundreds of thousands of these cards were probably...

When i download windows 7 in the download manager it says cannot remove .dlm from file because it is being used by another applications. What should i do so i can install windows 7

My .Net Framework config file got corrupted. I tried to delete my .Net Framework folder 2.0 but most of the files can't be deleted. Same with 1.0. I'd like to install ver 3.5 but it won't complete the installation. How can I delete the 1.0 & 2.0 .Net Framework folders and files so I can start...