user settings

My installation of Windows Live Mail automatically checks for and retrieves email even though I have set it NOT to do that. In Tools - Options - General I unchecked "Send and receive messages at startup" and "Check for new messages every [time is grayed out]" Yet the program still...

1) If when dragging a window you bump the top edge of the screen it will make the window full screen. Since I never like to use full screen this is very annoying. How I turn it off? 2) Sometimes when attempting to move the cursor the screen will scroll instead of the cursor moving. What causes...

I was in the user settings earlier, and accidentially removed the admin privilages on the only account which had them. I've tried booting to the last known good config, but with no success. Does anyone have any suggestions? I'd like to avoid reloading 7 if at all possible.

I don't want to automatically update Windows when there are new updates and therefor i've set Win Update to letting me know there are new updates and then manually selecting which ones i want to download. This is causing Windows to show a small flag in the system tray with a message about...

Hello all, I would like my laptop to do something different after stand-by and sleep modes. After the one, I would like it to prompt for a password and after the other I would like it to not. In Windows 7 is only one option, and it affects both stand-by and sleep modes. Is there a way to...

Hey! I am not quite sure where should i post this thread, so i post it here. The problem IS NOT with Windows Media player. WMP works fine! the problem is that it automaticly starts with W7. and that i cannot turn it off. Even when i shut down the process, after 2 sec a new one starts! is...

so i just upgraded to windows 7 and went to play a dvd with windows media player 12-- now before when i was using vista it was wmp 11-- there was an option under playback to 'disable full screen controls' -- when this was turned on if i was in full screen and moved the mouse the scrollbar and...

Hello, yesterday after rebooting, all my view setting got crazy! here are the list of changes that made: *no wallpaper on desktop, only icons and taskbar on black wallpaper. *cannot add or change wallpaper, even default win7. without any error massege *clear type got uncheked in view...

Hello all, I am currently looking for a way to make windows 7 always hide *.sfk, sfl, and .vf.bak files which sony vegas creates everytime you save a video file. When you do a bunch of video editing and audio mixing it puts these files in the same folder as my renders Its very annoying...

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?