third-party tools

Hi I posted here in the past about not being able to get my Epson Scanner to work in Windows 7 64 bit. I tried everything I could think of the several days, no luck. I did finally get it to work in a way using 3rd party software but not from Photoshop with all the options I was used to. But...

Hello, I just got my brand new computer today, it replaced an ancient HP Pavillion that was new around the time XP came out. My new computer is a Dell Studio XPS, and it has this Windows 7 on it, and I have a problem, so here I am. What my problem is is that I have this iPod, 5th generation...

Hi All, Okay well heres what I wana do , Basically I want to back up just one folder, everyday is there an option or a third party software to do it? Not the whole drive but just one folder , to an external HDD. Thanks all :)

I've discovered another idiotic effect of a form of "late binding" (the dumbest development idea of all time). In short, if a user wants to mute Windows Sounds to listen to some music (for example, Windows Media Player), then every other program on the system that has sound feedback enabled...

G'day. Trying to shrink my C drive to 40gb for Windows 7. I'm restricted to having it at about half of it's original size. This excerpt copied from sevenforums explains the reason for this. The size of the available shrink space can be restricted by the amount of space currently allocated to...

I recently picked up a new laptop. It came with W7 Home Premium 64-bit on a single partition. I want to do one of two things: 1. Repartition the 500GB disk so the O/S and programs use 60-70GB and have the rest available for "data" - the problem is the W7 partition tool won't let me get this...

I have a new computer less then 24 hours old. It is running win7 x64 home premium. It came , unknown to me with the entire suite of essentials. Now, I use live writer, photo gallery and windows mail on my previous computer and I new to try uninstall from control panel. I did this and the...

Hey guys, I am putting together a computer system to be used at bars and clubs etc. It is going to contain a piece of software that will be able to run music videos out of it. Basically I want to be able to boot the system into windows 7 and have it appear on the Desktop with my icons. The...

Sure, I know I'm going to get a lot of static for this, but here goes anyway: Left and right panes of Explorer windows are not synchronized. The inevitable result will be (and has been) that people will press the Delete key on the wrong item. This is a major design flaw which causes the loss...

Hi, I'm having this issue since I moved to W2008 R2 64 bits. I was using W2008 X64 before and it worked absolutely fine. As I'm using W7 X86 on my notebook since it was available on the MSDN website as a RTM version, I thought I would like to have a homogeneous working environment so decided to...

My son managed to get a virus on his pc, it then infected both computers, I cleaned it off his, but when cleaning it of mine, it crashed 7 completely, I can't even restore it using the install disk. Is there any way to restore a 7 backup using XP? I am trying to avoid, reinstalling. I know I can...

Hi guys, I was hoping not to have to join this forum but here I am unfortunately, meant in the nicest possible way. I have been running build 7000 for a couple months which was running perfect no problems at all except for that my system simply wouldn't hibernate. However, build 7100 came out...

A question: Originally Posted by jimbo45 Link Removed On some systems you still need to install the INTEL drivers rather than the pre-installed Microsoft drivers. Ignore message that says "Driver you are trying to install is older than current driver". After a reboot request run the coomand...

I have an HP laptop g60 120-us and now when I fire up W7 all I get is my HP boot screen then it cuts to the black screen of death, I suspect because I used 3rd. party software to change my loading screen, I need a way to boot into safemode or do a system restore from the selection of stuff you...

hi guys, I'm having some issues with sharing folders under windows 7. But let me first say that I use the german version of windows so my terminiology may not always be right (not to mention my english ;-)) ... I hope you get it nonetheless. So I'm describing the steps I did (numerous times -_-)...

I have always hated the standard cursors that come with any version of Windows so I bought a second party software namely Cursor XP from Stardock. I finally got it to work in 7. The standard settings in 7 do not allow you to mirror your mouse, ( switch it from pointing left to pointing right.)...

Is there a codec or some sort of add-on I can get to allow WMP or WMC to play HD Blu-Ray discs? If not, what's a good free 3rd-party software that you'd recommend, other than Corel WinDVD?