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In 1981, IBM launched the personal computer. Although few recognized it as such at the time, least of all IBM’s execs, it turned out to be a game-changer. The IBM PC killed off its predecessor, the mainframe computer, a market that was also dominated by IBM. Who knew? Fast forward 29 years to...

How to disable third-party local shared objects (Includes A Video)

I have installed Windoes 7 and the Windows Sidebar has all the default Gadgets including Calendar, Clock, CPU Meter etc but I cannot install any others. I have clicked on the "Get more gadgets online" link in the Windows Gadgets window, downloaded several gadgets including...

Hi All, I have W7 running "fairly well" on my HP Media Center. So far I like it. I must admit to everyone first, that I'm a Mac User and have just received a PC. So much differences. So complicated. I'm setting W7 up to run like my PowerMac. Desk drive to allow seeing disks on the desktop...

Make sure you physically disconnect the internet when rebooting after an update!!: A friend of mine was doing some work in the Windows 7 OS and came across something unexpected... QUOTE Basically after digging through the coding & cleaning it up, i found another phone home, but this one only...

I guess in some event, the program files for a program were deleted. I now see the program listed in the "Programs and Features" window, and I really want to get rid of it, but every time I click it, I get a message that says: "An installation support file could not be installed. The system...

I am running a medium-size Active Directory domain, based on Windows Server 2003. We are starting to introduce Windows 7 clients in the domain, and I need a way to make so that Windows 7 boxes can receive instant messages sent by the domain admin using the classic "net send" command. Since the...

I want to be able to control what audio device any of my running programs use, but most applications dont have any option to change audio output device. Is there any way to control this in Windows 7, or with a 3. party program? My practical problem: I want to be able to play video+audio on my...

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Hello, I've putted my taskbar to the left verticaly but I would prefer to have start menu downside, not the upside. So solution for my problem would be to reverse the order of items on the taskbar. I saw some installation of win7 from countries, where they write from the right to the left and...

I have a difficult problem. I have tried several firewall softwares with W7. None of them (except own Windows Firewall) works correctly. Most serious problem is that if I run pcflank.com's quick test for firewall, test shows I have several ports visible and accessible from the internet! I have...

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...

Hi guys, Since installing Win7 Professional I haven't been able to use Instant Messenger. Everything looks fine, I can see my contacts online and they can see me but I can't message them. I'm wondering if it is anything to do with a firewall problem although I can't see anything untoward and...

Hi, ever since i installed windows 7 my computer has barely been operable. Almost every program takes around 20 seconds to load, all my desktop icons have been replaced by blank pieces of paper, and finally every program eventually stops responding and i am forced to restart my computer. I...

WordPad can now read and write both the Word 2007-compatible Office Open XML file format but also the OpenDocument specification that IBM and Sun have been advocating. Right click on an .ISO image (from Windows Explorer) and select "open with" and you'll see the "Windows disk image burning...

I am using Windows 7 in 5040x1050 resolution using Matrox TripleHead2Go. The problem is that taskbar live previews appear to be automatically disabled at this resolution (only windows titles are shown). When I am using 5040x1050, they look like this: Link Removed When I switch to...

hi, I wonder if there is any external, or "third-party", search engine for Windows 7, as, though the OS is a joy to use, I miss the search functionality there was in XP. Thank you

My Company is a microsoft partner and I have recently installed Windows 7 x64 RTM and its working well. My company is soon to be deploying Windows 7 to all new workstations and laptops. I am researching the best Imaging tool/software to take and deploy Windows 7 and Vista. I have researched the...

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but I've done a torture test on my Windows 7 32-bit machine. it consists of a Nvidia Geforce 6100 nForce video, Nvidia nForce Networking Controller, Hitachi 200GB drive TSST Corp CD\DVDRW drive, , AMD Athalon 64 Processor 3800+. I have installed 106...

I have been using the built in backup since I installed 7, yesterday I had to do a restore. When I navigated to where the backups were stored, the backup program said, "there is no information in this file." :( I tried all of the 10 stored backups, got the same message on each time. Now I have...