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Hi there My system waked randomly and I can't figure what is causing it. Control panel is set with disabled wake timers, and the lan and usb devices is set disabled wake up as well. Although the system is still wakes up randomly. When its happening I'm checking in the cmd powercfg –lastwake...

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...