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    Windows 7 Feint screen? inverter?

    On a brightness scale of 0-10, my Asus laptop is a .5 I can only see it with room lights off. A friend told me it might be the display inverter so I ordered one. However, it will take a month from Hong Kong. Does this sound like the right approach? Or is there something else that could cause this?
  2. What Happened to Blogs?!

    It has been decided that it is best that we transfer our blog system into the forums themselves. This will allow members to view, and in some cases manage, threads they have already created, create new ones, and allow for better visibility of your messages. A conclusion was made that the blog...
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    Windows 8 Blank icon that doesn't disappear

    Hey guys, so i'm having this problem: Link Removed See that blank icon with no description? I can't erase neither find out how to clear it. It is there since i uninstalled toshiba music place, but somehow the name of the icon disappeared also. How can I erase that icon? Thank you for your time
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    Windows 8 Not Displaying Wireless Networks in Networks Charm

    My Lenovo y580 is connected to my wireless network but no other wireless ever show up in the Networks Charm. My wireless network that I am connected is not displayed either. This does not allow me to pick up any new networks when I leave my home. I have tried a lot of basic things but nothing...
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    Windows 7 Windows 7 Network Issue

    Hello, I am near my wits end with Windows 7 networking! I am running Windows 7 home premium on my desktop which I am now using for my business. I have a folder containing my files that I share over my network to 4 other computers, also running windows 7. If a network user creates a file it...
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    Windows 8 I cannot see my whole network

    I have shared folders on my XP, 7, and 8 Machines. Homegroup is turned off, and disabled in services. I cannot see my entire Network on my Windows 8 machine, in Network and Sharing. Only the "Basic" network shows, and there is no option that I can see to view the entire Network. I had shortcuts...
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    Windows 8 How do you display your computers hidden files and folders in Windows 8?

    I have a 127gb solid state hard drive. I only use it to run my programs. All saved files are sent to other internal hard drives. I just happened to notice today that I only had 7gb of space left on my C drive. I did a quick check and found that I only have 44gb of programs and files that appear...
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    Windows 7 Ubuntu dual boot: grub crash caused missing partitions and HDD memory. Windows problem

    Hello there. I have posted this issue on a Ubuntu help forum, but everyone seems to be suggesting that this is indeed a windows error. This is a copy and paste of my problem. ------ hi there. I haven't messed with ubuntu in a long while, because of this problem. what happened was i had ubuntu...
  10. Windows 7 Can't see my data drives on the network

    I have two computers on homegroup but I can't see the data drives on one of them. I have both data drives shared and when I go to network I can see the computer and when I open it up all it shows me is Pinter and shared docs.
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    Windows 7 Disappearing mapped network drive madness

    We have a small netwrok with one workgroup. We recently added a new machine running wn7Pro 64-bit. We had to fiddle for days with it just to make winXPpro and win2kPro workstations and their drives visible to it. That should be out-of-the-box automatic functionality, but it isn't because Win7Pro...
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    Windows 7 Window focus - visibility

    Is there a better way of showing which window has focus? At present when a window gains focus this is shown by the top bar changing from a grey-blue colour to a blue-grey colour. _John Sampson_
  13. Windows 7 Making blank drives invisible?

    Hi I have 6 (2 internal, 4 external) hard drives, 2 CD DVD drives and one of those drives that read every kind of media card. My external drives don't show in Widows Explorer unless they are turned on and they are always off unless I'm using them. So it normally shows my 2 internal drives and...
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    Windows 7 User cannot be seen in Homegroup or network

    Hi, i recently notived that i cannot see my current logged in User on the network either in Homegroup or on the network itself. I can share other folders and files and see them but not my user...any ideas? Thanks
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    Windows 7 1 pc not listed / identified in Homegroup

    I have an issue which I can't find anything obvious on. I have 4 Windows 7 machines, 1 x W7 Pro, 2 x W7 Home Premium & 1 x W7 Starter all in the same Homegroup. The W7 Pro machine can see all the others under Homegroup in Windows Explorer All 3 of the others can see each other in the same way...
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    Windows 7 SP 1 Update Win 7 64bit

    I have attempted several times to update SP1 Is there any tool to fix,have tried update readiness tool ,update repair tool and even upgrade of win7 but errors stop installation. SUR Check log file shows errors:- :confused: Checking System Update Readiness. Binary Version 6.1.7601.21645 Package...
  17. Brain Teaser

    This is just a little game some might enjoy. I'm going to give you a riddle and the first person to solve it has to, well you don't HAVE to, but it would be nice if the person who guessed correctly puts up their own riddle. Here goes. I am usually seen at night but sometimes during the day. I...
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    Windows 7 Windows 7 Drives in My Computer

    I have many Windows 2008 R2 servers running as my DCs. I created a drive mapping group policy on one of the 2008 servers to map my network drives in my AD environment. My Windows XP machines work great 100% of the time. In Windows 7, this is not the case. I cannot see the drive letters...
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    Windows 7 Networked computers not visible automatically

    I have two desktop computers and a laptop networked together by Ethernet cable. My main desktop computer is connected to the other two through my BTInfinity Hub and then through a switch in another room. I am finding that computers are not showing in the network maps when first switched on...
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    Windows 7 Networking 3 Windows 7 computers together....

    I am not sure if this has been answered elsewhere... I am only finding information about networking windows xp / vista / etc to 7 computers. I have 2 desktops and one laptop running 7. The desktops are running 7 Pro and the laptop is running 7 Home Premium. Originally I had a printer hooked to...