technical issues

Hello all, this is my first post, hence apologies for whatever rules I may have violated because of my lack of familiarity. Now, to get to the point: I have been using W7 quite nicely until I realised my Windows Explorer hangs occasionally when I am running Chrome, IE or Safari (I first...

I bought the Windows 7 professional 32 bit, done step by step guide to change from XP. Installation went well in the custom installation-message appeared for the computer to restart to complete installation. Windows 7 screen appears and the thoughts are that it had installed. "The computer...

Hey, Some people, including me, have experienced problems when using MS Sidewinder Force Feedback 2 in Vista. This joystick seems to work properly when it is plugged for first time. However, if you choose to, for some reason, unplug it and later re-plug it, Sidewinder loses its force feedback...

After having windows 7 installed on my computer for several days without incident it seems now that whenever I try to do anything with a file large enough to not be copied instantly (either moving it, copying it, or deleting it) explorer.exe will crash and restart. Attempting to empty the...

Can anybody help. I've just installed windows 7 and I am trying to convert wtv file recorded in media centre to dvr-ms file. The first time I did this it worked perfectly fine. However, since then the program seems to have stop working? The program starts converting the file then after a while...

I just installled windows 7 Everything worked fine , except my sound card ; Sound Blaster Live! 24 bit In fact there are drivers in creative's site,that i downloaded and installed This sound card is connected to my Sony amplifier through spdif In WinXP everything worked like a charm ; all...

Hey all, I have been using Windows 7 beta since it came out, it has been great absolutely no problems until i got a new work laptop that came with Windows 7 Home Premium. I poped in a DVD with content that i need on the laptop, it is 93% full. I started the copy, just regular windows...

Hi, I ran the windows upgrade adviser and it told me I could install windows 7 fine, when Windows 7 officially came out I downloaded it from my preorder email I received, no problems so far. As I went to install I got an error mentioning I was not using an ACPI compatible computer. I also have...

My computer occasionally bluescreens with nvlddmkm.sys (nvidia graphics driver) when I boot on windows 7, but this time it somehow corrupted the hard drive, and it wouldn't boot. Even when I tried to boot on XP it would bluescreen with NTFS.sys as soon as the login screen should appear (never...

Windows 7 RTM x64 slow data transfer speeds Greetings, I'm experiencing weird problems, I have Windows 7 64bit RTM (latest) installed, with latest critical updates from MSDN. Now I have 2 HDD's 500 GB one is split into 2 drives C (200GB) D (the rest) and the other drive is full 500GB for my...

Hey guys, I'm a win7 user since June and untill now i did not have any major problems....but... I turned off my computer last night-nothing special- and this morning i got the first error that you see attached. I tried to start the services manually but with no success. Should I reinstall my...

I just installed Windows 7 x64 on my new Desktop machine: Dell Precision 690 - 2 X Intel Xeon CPU Dual Core 5050 3.0GHz 667FSB 4MB Cache - 2 X 2GB of PC-4200 - 2 X 500GB 7200 RPM Hard drives - 1 X NVidia Quadro FX3400 256MB PCI-E This machine is more than capable of running Windows 7, but I...

I recently bought a DELL STUDIO 1555 on June 12. Since Free windows upgrade is for the systems purchased after June 26 i am not getting a upgrade. I am from INDIA. I contacted Dell Customer Service here. They said i cannot purchase it from them also. Actually they had very less information...

First off, windows 7 is SWEET. A new glossy OS with great looks and great speed. Thank you microsoft (those are uncommon words...). I first got 64 bit. It was sweet. Until I couldn't get internet. Crap. That's kind of important in today's computing world. I tried everything. I have a...

I've been running the beta since it came out.......also Kasper 8.0 beta since it came out. Well, Kasper recently expired.....so I went to delete it. My Win 7 CRASHED AND BURNED. So far I have not been able to revive it. I see no mention of these items together on this site. I do not know if...

Hey guys, I have not been able to update my RC of Win7 I ran Norton and made sure all is well and unfortunately is not. I attatched some screen shots of what happens when Itry to update: Link Removed due to 404 Error Link Removed due to 404 Error I tried restarting and get nothing...

I am trying to install windows t RC on my HTPC. I already installed it on my office computer and it all went smooth. but when i tried to install it on my HTPC in the living room i am havign problems. it always gets to the "expanding files" portion and at some point during this process the...

I have a HP PSC 1350 All-in-One. The printer was sucessfully detected when I installed Windows 7 Beta. Recently I formated the harddisc and installed a fresh copy of Windows 7 RC. Now even though PSC 1350 is detected as Scanner the software does not detect as Printer. As such I can scan by...

Hello all, Does anyone have a solution to the unholy mess that is the way that windows 7 handles logon scripts when the user is a local administrator? To be fair Vista is no better, but Windows 7 seems to have changed things again and not for any gain that I can see. My GP logon scripts...

Hello, I thought I would give windows 7 a go about a week ago on my Home system and loved it so much I've decided to install on my "carpc" that's fitted in my Toyota Hilux :) The install seemed to go well just like it did on my Home system, with even the touch screen being found, only problem...