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Fixes an issue in which a mapped drive is displayed incorrectly as a disconnected drive in Windows Explorer when you use the non-persistent flag to create the drive mapping. This issue occurs when you use Group Policy Preferences (GPP) to manage the... More...

I couldn't find a thread about this application, and wanted to know a few things about it before I install it. Will it make all kinds of changes to my system when I install it, or will it leave everything default, and let me choose what to change? How will this affect non Microsoft...

Hi, I'm new here and hoping that someone might be able to point me in the right direction. I currently use XP but I am interested in upgrading to 7. I have spent dozens of hours researching Win 7 online, but my big questions do not appear to have easily found answers. (1) Do all menus in...

I by mistake unticked the option to hide disks with no media on and now even if the tick is put on all the usb ports and all the dvd reading writing devices are listed and I would like to hide em only if there is no media on them. So please if anyone knows how to fix this tell me. I don't...

Hi. If you are using IE9 and are trying to save a download, you've probably noticed that your not given a choice where the file will be saved to. It is automatically saved to a specific file. When I want to save a download, I prefer to save it to the desktop. Does anyone know if it is possible...

When I start a DOS batch file *.bat procedure then a cmdprompt window opens with the default number of columns and rows. In old WinXP I could pause the batch script and change the number of columns/rows of this terminal/cmdprompt windowa as well as other parameters like font size. AND...

I don't know if this problem has been dealt with before, but I'll post it anyways. On my laptop, when I create a background theme the options for the diaporamas aren't showing. Even when I actualy make one, the options are not showing. know they are there, I saw the, ONCE. And even before, they...

Can either of these be changed (if there is even a display name)? Or is there a way I can make my name look different inside the actual threads? Second, if I don't like my username and I can't change it, could I just make another account and stop using this one? Thanks.

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Windows 7 has surpassed its decade-old predecessor, Windows XP, to take the crown as the top OS in the U.S. Link Removed

There are still a lot of people out there running Windows XP, whether it’s because they prefer it, or they’re stuck in an office or other workplace that doesn’t support anything but it, or they rely on applications that only run in Windows XP. Still, slowly but surely, Windows 7 has been...

Winodws 7 has surpassed its decade-old predecessor Windows XP to take the crown as the top OS in the United States. Link Removed

There are still a lot of people out there running Windows XP, whether it’s because they prefer it, or they’re stuck in an office or other workplace that doesn’t support anything but it, or they rely on applications that only run in Windows XP. Still, slowly but surely, Windows 7 has been...

Men prefer their cars beefy or fast, while women go for lower price tags and higher miles per gallon, according to a survey released on Thursday. TrueCar.com, which studied data from 8 million purchases in the United States last year, found BMW AG's Mini had the highest percentage of female...

I have 3 HP Multi-media keyboards. On my Vista system the programs for the multi-media keys are displayed in a grid in the Control Panel section Keyboard. In the Windows 7 Control panel Keyhoard the grid is there, but is blank and there seems to be no way to change any thing. It appears to me...

Hi all. My question is regarding keyboard shortcuts (ctrl-c=copy, ctrl-x=cut, etc.) and Language Packs. I am currently living in Latin America and can only buy the spanish version of Windows 7. I know that if I get "Ultimate", I can download an english Language Pack for free, so it'd be as...

Hello all, I was hoping someone here could help me with the default settings on a new Window 7 install. For some reason the default region is set to the UK instead of the US. This is causing problems with the keyboard setup and date format. Is there a way to change the default region for all...

Hi When my wife logs into her Comcast home page the local news and weather are set to Philadelphia Pen, unfortunately we live in Ada Michigan. No matter how often we change it to the local zip it always changes back when Chrome is restarted. It doesn't do this on my computer in Chrome...

I've changed the location of my Chrome user profile folder, and created a shortcut which has –user-data-dir=”d:\new chrome user directory location" appended to its target. But when Chrome is opened any other way than via this shortcut, for instance when launching a web page file saved to my...