user issues

Here is my problem, I am getting locks appearing on my folders. Before you say its a sharing issue, please read carefully. I'm using an animation program (Newtek's Lightwave). When I go to save a file I like to create folders to save them in for better organization purposes. So, I click...

I have absolutely positively tried probably everything to install Windows 7 on my PC. I currently have Windows XP 32 bit and here is a list of the things I have tried: Format and clean install of Windows 7 Tried upgrading to Vista x32 THEN upgrading to 7 Tried upgrading to XP x64, then Vista...

Ok folks this one has got me stumped. Friend has relatively new install of live mail on win 7 home premium. It has a issue where when you click on the new to bring up the compose window the window will always open in full screen. Attempts to re size the window and closing it do not work. Now...

so i installed windows 7 and it made a backup of my windows xp folder when i installed. me being stupid though forgot to decrypt some files i have on my d drive. so i'm wondering is there anyway i can get them decrypted?

Hi, A few hours ago I created two one time run scheduled tasks using task scheduler. My problem is I can not view them. How can I find them? I urgently need to cancel them. Regards telmessos

Hello, I recently upgraded to Windows 7 from Vista on my PC. I have all my media files on a WD external HD. The problem I am having with media player is in the libraries.. When clicking "organize" then "manage libraries" and then "music" it just disappears and does nothing. If I follow the same...

Hello all, I hope some of you can help me with my issues. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Here are some system specs: - PC Brand: Hewlett Packard (HP) Pavilion - Current Operating System...

I apologize in advance if I post a question that has already been posted - but I'm kinda guessing that this problem has not solved yet but I'm hoping anyways.. [ My start menu bar - jump list tasks ] has been having problems recently. I've tried reinstalling (clean) windows and the problem came...

on the taskbar, pinned icons get mixed with open programs. is there a way to keep them all to the left like on xp's quick launch icons. anyone else have this problem?

hi, i m having a problem with all the OS except window XP and lower, i.e. when i insert any cd containg autorun.inf file in the cd/dvd drive, then it does not run the setup.exe file automatically. What's the hell? Everytime when i m in hurry and want that setup should run auto, then it does not...

I am the sysadmin for a WS2k3 network at a small school. All users have a "home" folder on the file server mapped as their R: drive. (Additionally, for students I have redirected their "My Documents" folder to their R: drive.) Under WinXP it worked fine. But with Win7RC I'm starting to get...

Over the weekend, reports have been piling up saying that iPhone syncing with iTunes doesn’t work for some users on Windows 7. The official Apple forums have several threads related to the issue , so it’s quite safe to assume the issue is real. Looking for a common denominator, it...

Hello, I have recently installed windows 7 64-bit on my computer. The installation has completed smoothly with no problems, however my folder oath drop-down list is empty. I can only add shortcuts to the list manually through the registry. Link Removed due to 404 Error Thanks in advance!

I am pretty new to Windows 7. I installed the upgrade (Home Premium) on my Vista desktop last night and it went pretty well. I noticed, however, that when I hover my mouse over open programs in the Taskbar it's not showing a preview of the window. Instead it's showing a box with a small icon...

Hi everybody, I'm a new member of this forum and I would like mention a very important issue about windows 7. This issue is related to the different software and programs and there compatibility with windows 7 system. I recently installed win 7 and i found difficulties with most of the...

So, I've done a clean install with the Win7 ultimate signature adition twice now. the first install was running awesome until i tranfereed my files and found a trojan so I started all over and did a second clean install this time it wanted to make 2 partions so i did that. have kaspersky 2010...

I am using dta(downthemall) and when try to download something with it now on win7 net becoms very slow, and comp actually it self is slowed down... somebody had a same problem?

tired to delete foldes such as my music my videos my other stuff ? :( Why W7 and Vista keep creating them after i deleted them ? Is there anyway to stop it ? Thanks in advance. Also is there a way to make preview pane to stay same size while resizing window ? if i re-size window to small...

I've recently made a clean install of Windows 7 - Pro - 32bit on my laptop. It's much better than Vista if you ask me but you run into a few problems when installing it. Most of them I got fixed, but 2 remain unsolved (until now?) 1. Windows 7 keeps having trouble to shutdown, I simply click...

Icons disappeared from desktop [solved] Hi, After booting my PC today I got an empty desktop without any of my files or shortcuts on it. The taskbar is still there and works perfectly fine, it still shows my wallpaper, and I can even see all of my stuff when I open the desktop in the...