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    Windows 7 Intermittent Windows Explorer Not Responding.

    My problem may be the same as a lot of others that I've seen reported but here is my version. After booting I move the cursor to the 'Start' button and the hour glass appears. After several clicks I get the message "Windows Explorer is not responding" followed by another message about problem...
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    Windows 7 Windows 7 will not let me log in

    IBM Lenovo ThinkPad T500 My issue is that I am left at the "Windows 7 Professional" logon screen - I have the "Ease of access" icon in the lower left hand of the window, and the red Shut Down button in the lower right - I can move my mouse all around, but when I click on anything nothing...
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    Windows 7 Cant adjust screen brightness!

    :confused: Just bought a brand new Lenovo ThinkPad W500 with Windows 7 64 bit, found I couldn't adjust the screen brightness. When press the Fn key for adjustment, the sun logo for brightness will display on the screen, and the bars which show the brightness extent will increase or decrease...
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    Windows Vista Enter Key not working in Vista

    Dear Members, I'm running Vista - Home Premium(SP2) on a thinkpad X200s. I installed Microsoft Security essentials(MES) yesterday.Although everything was working well for sometime, the "Enter" key suddenly stopped working. I've tried un-installing MES, but still can't get the Enter key to...
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    Windows Vista Vista on IBM Thinkpad R31

    Alright, its an ancient laptop, but with a bit of luck (and pleasantly to my surprise), Vista actually installed on it. However, after getting around the initial celebration, I noticed that there were a couple of MASSIVE problems :'( 1. For some reason, I can't increase or decrease the screen...
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    Windows 7 Lost right click function

    I've been running Win7 RC1 build 7260 for more than a week on my ThinkPad x200s -- without any msg. or other warning I've lost my right click functionality in Win Explorer and my PowerDeskPro programs -- now when I right click on virtually anything I get a msg. that Win Explorer is shutting...
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    Windows 7 High CPU Utilization

    I have a Lenovo T61 ThinkPad (Core 2 Duo 2.00Ghz & 2Gig RAM). I've installed the Windows 7 RC and since then my CPU usage sits on a minimum of 50% and often spiking to 100%. Under Vista SP1 I never had this issue (I did an upgrade and not a clean install - I suspect that this could be the...
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    Windows 7 W7 extends my display every time I close my laptop's lid

    Hi, I have a ThinkPad T400 and I'm dual-booting Vista and 7 (but I only really use 7). In 7, when you press Windows+P, you get 4 display options: Computer Only, Duplicate, Extend, and Projector Only. Since I just have one laptop screen, I obviously want Computer Only. But every time I close...
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    Windows 7 ATI Mobile Redin 7500 IBM Thinkpad T42

    Were do I find the drivers for that video card?
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    Windows 7 T30 Thinkpad laptop - no wireless

    I have a old T30 Type 2367-84U laptop with .5gig mem . Windows 7 is up and running but the system does not recognize the wireless network built in card. From the Lenovo site, it sounds like its a Cisco Wireless LAN Mini PCI card but I dont know for sure. The Intel Lan port is working fine...
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    Windows 7 I want external display on at all times on my ThinkPad R61

    I'm using Win7 x64, build 7068 on a ThinkPad R61 (nVidia Quadro 140NVS) with an external display connected. I used to have Vista x32 and it was set up so that my external display was on at all times and the laptop's display was always off. Using the Win+P shortcut I set the settings to...
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    Windows 7 Excessive processor usage

    Since a few days, I've notices the one of my cores is running at near 100% usage all the time (build 7068 on Thinkpad T61p). Seems to be the SearchFilterHost.exe, it uses in average 45% of processor power, according to the resource monitor. Normal? Any suggestions? Just wrote in another tread...
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    Windows 7 Windows 7 can only show basic theme (non aero)

    Hi all, I have installed Windows 7 but it has no aero theme like in the attached picture although it can in another laptop. I use Lenovo Think Pad Laptop with: - 2GB Ram - 2.0 MHz Processor - 512 MB VGA (NDIVIA CARD) Can you help me??? Thanks a lots.
  14. Windows 7 desktop wallpaper turns black?

    I'm having a problem where the desktop wallpaper slide show always turns black after certain period of time and waking up from hibernation. Changing the resolution sometimes helps, so does logging off and back in. It's a pretty annoying problem, anyone else experiencing the same thing? btw, the...
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    Windows 7 Windows Media Center powers off...

    Is there a setting for Windows Media Center to prevent it from powering off the computer after some inactivity? I was listening to an album of MP3s, and sometime after it finished, my ThinkPad T42 powered off. I have the settings in "Power Options" set to go to sleep after inactivity, not...
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    Windows 7 Cannot type in the activation code! Keyboard + mouse dead during install??

    Upgraded a plain vanilla version of Vista SP1 on my Thinkpad X61t and after finishing copying all the files it rebooted as Windows 7 and then asked me for the activation code. The problem is that the mouse cursor is stuck in the top left corner and the keyboard doesn't respond! If I try to...
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    Windows Vista Cannot connect after wake up

    Hey all, I am new to the forum so please excuse the lack of Vista knowledge. I am running Vista Ultimate on a T61 ThinkPad connecting wirelessly to an Asus WL-600g. Everytime my computer wakes up from standby, hibernation, or boots up from a shut down, i lose internet connection. i am able to...