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Every two to three days, I have been losing my internet connection. When I reboot my computer, the connection comes back. Usually, I just hibernate my computer. I did not have this problem the first two years I owned my computer. When I had a disconnect, I hooked up my computer with a hard...

Hello. I've just applied a 3rd party theme for my win7, chaging many background to a grey tone, but it also changes the backgrounds in MS office applications like Word and excel. I would really like to have them white without having to uninstall the theme. So is there a way to maybe exclude...

Windows 7 Forums continues to provide information and discussion to millions of people around the world. In that tradition, we continue to develop some great features that become available through third party development, our own work, and from our affiliation with the vBulletin Pre-Release...

Consider the following scenario: You have a computer running Windows 7. Two or more PCI-e graphics adapters are installed and are in a Linked Display Adapter (LDA) configuration. You utilize a third party application to change the configuration or... Link Removed

Previous builds of Windows 8 featured a registry setting that made switching back to a Windows 7-style interface, complete with Start Menu, a simple task. Sadly, this tweak doesn’t work in the recently released Consumer Preview. However, there is a way of getting it back, if you don’t mind using...

:o Thank you Bill Gates for being a great human being as my Windows 7 build 7100 ultimate is still fully functional and is the work horse of my computing life. Yes that is correct..Build 7100 that I made to function without the two hour shutdown and Aero is still fully active. not giving away my...

Why is it that so many Western Digital products suck at what they do? Every time I tried using a storage device by WD it's been acting up. One time a drive wasn't even being detected by a computer (or other computers I've tried it on) and now this new 1 TB external drive is not wanting to...

Fixes an issue in which Windows Media Player 12 does not correctly play some AVI files that were created by a third-party application or by third-party hardware in Windows 7. This issue occurs when the AVI files include an AVI super index chunk. More...

Quite a few people here use MSE and recommend it a lot. I understand MSE is going to be part of Windows 8. I know we won't really know until Windows 8 comes out but I've got a couple questions. If a person wants to install a third party AV is the MSE going to cause a problem. We all know you are...

Severity Rating: Critical Revision Note: V1.1 (December 13, 2011): Corrected the kill bit information for the HP Photo Creative ActiveX control in the section, Third-Party Kill Bits. This is an informational change only. There were no changes to the security update files or detection...

Hey everyone, new here. I know that Windows 8 has built-in anti-virus. I read a lot about this issue. The best recommendation was to install third-party anti-virus. What is most recommended?

Fixes an issue in which third-party extensibility applications for Windows Media Center that start DVD playback stop responding in Windows 7. Link Removed

The third-party application you try to install does not behave as expected on a system running Window Vista or Windows 7. Microsoft engineers will use this Application Compatibility Toolkit (ACT) to remediate. Link Removed

By Paul Thurrott With developers now tearing up the Windows 8 developer preview and looking for hidden gems, we’re going to soon see an amazing number of utilities aimed at improving the Windows 8 experience and, in some cases, making it work more like its predecessors. While I can’t endorse or...

After reinstalling and disabling Metro, the Task Manager opens, but is blank. Wondering if anyone else had this issue. I can use a 3rd party Task Manager, but the Windows 8 one was kind of cool.

Hi, The external harddrive that I have been doing back-ups to with the Win 7 back-up utility has failed and no longer functions. I want to back-up to a different drive but Win Back-up seems to be fixated on the old drive that no longer exists (I pulled the USB cord). The "Mange space" link is...

Link Removed My concern is that while it really does look like a really nice user interface with rich features and functionality, is it actually faster. When moving files about from one place to another in explorer, it was never much of a concern what it looked like while it was happening. My...

The Terms of Service agreement was recently amended to further explain additional DMCA and posting guidelines regarding third-party copyrighted content. That information can be found at Link Removed due to 404 Error Any member who created an account on Windows7Forums.com and acknowledged...

All versions of Microsoft Windows include a tool for disk defragmentation. The Windows Disk Defragmenter tool is a limited version of the Diskeeper program from Diskeeper Corporation. Disk Defragmenter does not include all the features available in the... Link Removed

The Microsoft Tellme team is working with the Bing, Windows Phone, Kinect/Xbox, Azure and other Microsoft teams to add new speech-centric capabilities to Microsoft and third-party products in the... Source: Yahoo! News