user settings

In Windows XP, I can access my start menu through C:\Documents and Settings\...\Start Menu Where is the Start Menu for user and All Users in Windows 7? I tried opening that folder by right clicking on the Win7 start menu and clicking "Open Windows Explorer," but I can't find the resulting...

Our company recently upgraded two PCs on our network to run Windows 7. A third machine still runs XP. We use Quickbooks for our accounting (etc) and all access the same Qbooks file accross the network. When we start up the PCs and first log in to the Qbooks file, the XP PC automatically...

Well i got transparency working on my User correctly and perfectly, but i have another user for "Randoms" users, if somebody wants to use it, and i make it sure its working fine, but i realize the "Transparency on the Task bar, arent working, and when i click on "Color of the Windows" to...

Hi Some help please. I am using Win 7 Pro & Office 2003 Prior to 7 i used XP Pro and in order to setup my company's custom email signatures i copied a couple of HTM files & folders into (I think) docs&sett .. app data .. micrsoft .. signatures Does anyone know how to do this in 7 ? Thank you

Overview Agood solution for XP users. This software installs Windows Easy Transfer on a computer running the 32-bit version of Windows XP so you can copy your files, photos, music, e-mail, settings, and more to a computer running Windows 7. If your computer is running another version of...

Is there any way to change the backspace key behaviour so that it is keyed to "Up one Level" rather than back?

Not sure if this is a Windows or Word problem but didn't have it in XP so presuming it's the former. I have a couple of folder's worth of documents associated with Word okay but which now don't show their document properties when you hover over their titles in Windows Explorer. :confused: It...

Hi guys, I already installed windows 7 on some machines, but now i'm facing a strange problem. I installed a windows 7 on a friend computer and after the installation and after the first initialization that configures the video card and the user settings, windows restarted and know i cannot...

I was trying to edit my PATH environment variable and accidentally deleted it. Is there any way to recover it? If not, is there anyone out there who can tell me what the default path variable should be? I'm afraid to turn off my computer without fixing this as I'm not sure if it will be able...

I want to move my custom.dic (dictionary) from my XP computer to my new Windows 7 computer. Would someone tell me where the custom.dic should be installed? I did a search for it in my Windows 7 after adding a few words but was unable to find the path. Thanks!

When I attempt to change my user account picture, nothing works. I click on pictures that I want to change to, the picture highlights, but the picture won't change. It's as if I am not double clicking on the picture at all. Any thoughts?

When I try to load desktop gadgets I get a notice saying Desktop gadgets are managed by an administrator. Thats me. What do I need to do ? Had no problem with it in Windows 7 RC, now I have the finished system I have spent two days getting things to work and I am nearly there, just this and my...

Hi. I installed the Windows 7 7100 RC on a second hard drive, such that I'm prompted to choose an OS when I boot the computer. When I boot into the Windows 7 OS, none of my programs from the other drive show up in the Programs list--no games, no Firefox, etc. I can still access those files...

When I put my pc into sleep mode its just wakes up after a short while by itself. Is this a bug or some setting I need to change

Hi, i work in the IT Department and I have just installed Windows 7 on a laptop, this has laptop has then been put on the domain and been setup accordingly I have come accross a problem where i just have a blank screen as the background as GP we should all get an image which is copied to all...

This tutorial will show you how to increase or decrease the height of the Start Menu in Windows 7 without displaying recently opened programs and without displaying sub-menus. Many users would like to change the height of the Start Menu in Windows 7. There are many reasons for why a user would...

Is there a way I can change the Show Hidden Icons thing back to the previous style, where it expanded to the right instead of opening a box above the taskbar?

Among new features of Windows 7 is Snap (or Smart Window Arrangement), where Snap functionality enables end-user to move a window toward the top of the screen to maximize the window to fill the screen automatically, or drag the window to the edges of the screen to resize and expand the window...

Is there anyway to change it so that if you click and drag a file from one folder to another it will cut and paste it instead of making a clone of it?