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I just purchased a new Windows 7 PC (HP Pavalion e9280t, Windows 7 64-bit operating system). I would like to put the PC into sleep mode after 1 hour of activity. However, after the PC goes to sleep, after I wake it up, whenever I attempt to open any program or application at that point, the PC...

I all, I have a problem on my Windows Vista that began afetr the purchase of an external Hard Disk Freecom. A few days afetr the purchase I disconnected it while it was writing and, since that moment, every time I connect and disconnect it, the PC go to freeze mode for 5 minutes. The same...

I have a saulabi joystick I use for street fighter 4. Here's a link to the product if you've never heard of it. Link Removed On my old comp, I was dual-booting win7 and xp and the joystick worked just fine in xp, but in 7, only the stick would respond and the buttons wouldn't. the stick...

I have installed Windows 7 Home Premium (64Bit) as a clean install. Everything works but my Logitech wingman formula force driving wheel. I have previously used this with Windows 95/98/XP and Vista. It is automatically detected when plugged into a USB port and installed without extra software. I...

Hi folks, Happy Thanksgiving. Win 7 RC (build 7100) I have an Acer notebook with bluetooth (see my sig for specs). It has a switch on the front right of the machine to turn the bluetooth on and off. Because I don't use bluetooth I have it turned off and also have no drivers installed for it...

Hi. I have recently encountered a problem with WMP 12. When watching a movie or a TV-series file the media player exits fullscreen automaticly. When watching a 1h 30m film the fullscreen exits about five times during the whole movie. I have excluded the wireless keyboard and mouse by...

I have just installed a copy of windows 7 ultimate (signature edition). However when i start up the computer, all i see is a black screen. Does any one no why this is happening? I installed this OS last night, and it was able to start up properly (open up to the main windows screen). I then...

CoH: ToV won't install for me as once it gets to %100 it fails and says the parental controls won't let it install. I am the admin and never have turn on the parental controls before, hack, I never even bother going their until now. I have try running the game as admin and even setting it to win...

Hi, Wether doing an Upgrade, or a Clean Install, they both freeze at the last step. By freeze, I mean frozen, mouse doesn't move, no dots moving, no motion on the screen. The screen is like a picture. I tried disabled USB devices through the BIOS, clean boots, copying the contents on to the...

I'm using Vonage Companion and I have a Skype phone plugged into a USB port. For some reason when WIN 7 goes to sleep it drops the drivers for the phone. So I unplug it and plug it back into the USB port and it would work fine. Later I found out I could go to the control panel. Click on Hardware...

Hi everyone! I'm having some real issues getting Windows 7 to run on my computer. I managed to half solve one, but the torment continues and I haven't really got any idea why. Background: Clean install of W7 from download, followed by DVD, on a PC which was running XP Home perfectly: Intel...

Hi First time poster. I am trying to upgrade idealy from vista 32bit to Windows 7 64bit. My pc is well up to spec. i even uninstalled all software recommended by the adviser. I bought windows 7 home upgrade on saturday, I have been trying since to install it. About 20 attempts so far...

I have installed Win7 RTM on a second disk. I use a bootloader to boot to the second disk. The install goes really well. After the install is finished and I am presented with the desktop for the first time. The Sleep (Hybrid Sleep) mode that is the default works fine. Windows goes to sleep...

Hello I understand that Wondows 7 Enterprise is more secure for business users, ie employees cannot use usb devices to download company secrets etc? I bought a USB modem so that I can connect to internet wirelessly outside, and it will not load, could this be related to the above? Thanks Ted

Just wondering if anyone has a solution or also experienced an issue with hibernate waking itself up. It used to be a bad problem when other PCs on the network were wakened, it would trigger the Windows 7 PC to wake every time. That doesn't seem to be an issue anymore, and it was fine for a...

I have windows 7 ultimate (64-bit) Build 7100, and I have installed XPmode and Virtual PC and everything works great. There are a couple of applications I have to use in XPmode, but for the most part I have no problem connecting a disconnecting devices to my XP Mode VM using the little VM bar...

Hey, I am having an issue with my Windows 7 install that just popped up last night.. The issue seems to be that it’s "stuck" in sleep mode. The PC was on this morning when I checked it - all lights, fans, HDD seems to be spinning up etc. but no video output signal. The machine looks...

I am running windows 7 x64 I have Comodo Internet security (antivirus and firewall) Radeon 4850x2 And it recently started doing this. I have the PC networked to a home server running windows server 2003, and recently changed my login on this pc to match the user I created on the windows...

I have this webcam Link Removed Before with Windows Vista Ultimate x64 I was able to use it without problems, but now with Windows 7 Build 7600 x64 I can't make it work. I have the originals drivers and I've checked the manufacter webpage but none driver seems to work. Any ideas? Thanks in...

I have a multi card reader which works fine in other Operating systems(xp & ubuntu) but for some reason win.7 turns off just before the system loads. I contacted the chip manuf.(alcor) to try & get firmware update or driver but was told none was needed. It doesn't show up anywhere so the system...