technical issue

W7 x 64 user here. My 8 year old was messing about on my computer and suddenly I cannot see any of my libraries, my favourites and even the link to My Documents has vanished from the Explorer. My sticky notes have also vanished. I am the only user on the computer. However when I go to...

I need help with Media Player 12 in Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit. I have albums in my Library containing mp3 and wav files that have come from my tapes recorded on my Revox B77. I have always been able to paste my own albumart to the Album icons in earlier players without any trouble. Here are...

Hi, i had posted earlier, turns out requesting 64 bit from the Hp is useless. Plus they charge you 20 pounds for shipping. Where as i just found students can buy the upgrade windows just for 30 pounds. I still however have a question. Just to clear it out so i dont end up blowing my cash. (...

Hello all: My W7 started to switching tasks without being requested to do so. It happens by it's own, no action required whatsoever. Now I might be writing here, next char I type might en up in my MSN chat window which was minimized. At first I thought it was related to a key o keys...

I did the upgrade on a new ASUS laptop from Vista Home premium to Windows 7 yesterday. I chose the new installation following the ASUS upgrade guide to get a fresh install. The installation itself went fine. However, now on start-up the black recovery screen comes on and I have to choose...

Habitually, I keep six or seven folders on my desktop and, when using XP, they would always remember their individual proportions and what part of the screen they were to open up on - that way I could always have several columns of folders side-by-side, with no overlaps, always with the same...

Hello everyone, i have a Toshiba Satellite laptop running Windows 7 Home Premium - 32 bit. I started typing, using my left shift button and all the sudden a box popped up just as i was hitting enter. I briefly saw Filter keys on the title before the window disappeared. After that, my keyboard...

Hi. I have 5 hard disks on my computer (four SATA internal + one external). I was able to get disk management in W7 to work one time. It reported one of my hard disks incorrectly, telling me I have a 2 Teribyte drive when I do not have it. I attempted a reformat (NTFS, default). Anyway, after...

Hi, I paid £30 for the Windows 7 Professional Upgrade as I'm a student. Yesterday I bought a new 500GB HDD and some more RAM to use for Windows 7. I downloaded the files from the link provided in the e-mail I got, and extracted. I was then given a strange error message, which upon Googling...

Since upgrading from Vista to Windows 7 I've got a problem with games folder, namely over 500 icons with no name, that I can't click on or right click and delete. anybody have any ideas how I might get rid of them? I've attached a screenshot of the folder to illustrate what I mean Cheers...

I just got Windows 7 last night from the Houseparty as I am a host, I installed it last night as well and attempted to get it all back to normal. Everything flows beautifully except one snag, my music. I do have 3 different hard drives (one 1TB, 1 250gig, and 1 80gig) all of my music is stored...

This has been going on since I downloaded the OS. Everything works fine, except when I want to "Save Image As" to save an image to my computer, or upload a picture, for say, an avatar. When I try, my computer shows that it's going through the process, but then it stops and doesn't do anything...

I hawe error when i pushed continue or new game. It crashed after loading. I downloaded driwers for nvidia installed them and game worked !!! :eek: !!! Next day disame error, i instaled druvers again, and it worked. :eek: So now i hawe to reinstal drivers every time after reboot :(

I have a HP Pavilion (DV3-1124CA) laptop. After I did a fresh install the sound stops working after I resume from sleep mode. I have to restart the computer for sound to work again. I have the latest sound drivers and did the bios update but it didn't resolve the problem.

Hi All, I just upgraded to windows7 and now when I play left4dead it minimizes the game back to the desktop when I hit escape, escape should bring up the in-game menu. Has anyone else had this, I've read this occurs on other games too but I'm not sure how to fix it. Thanks a lot, Russ

Here's the skinny: I downloaded the RC over the summer to try it out, alongside linux mint. I like it so much that I've decided to abandon the linux distro for now and let Windows 7 take over my whole hard drive. The one thing remaining before falling in love is the lack of standby mode. The...

Hello! I have experienced a problem in Windows 7 that I have never encountered before (in Vista or way back in XP): Some windows appear behind the taskbar instead of below it (my taskbar is located at the top of the screen, and has been that way in previous OSs). I'm at my wit's end as to...

I installed Windows 7 RC x64 last week and noticed in the system properties it says "Installed memory (RAM): 4.00 GB (3.75 of usable)". The strange thing is, I only have 3 gigs of memory installed.

Installed Windows 7 last week and realized that unless the laptop is plugged in, I cannot read the display. It looks almost like it's brightness/contrast gets put on the highest level and I cannot make anything out. Sometimes it will fade back to correct if I don't have any programs running...

Hi people, I noticed that its not possible to edit the tags and properties of video files in windows 7. Did someone else encounter that problem? Would appreciate your advice.