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I have been seeing a disturbing ammount of talk on the web, and it could have been there and I ju st didn't notice, about *d3d9* files issues. People talk like DX10 & DX11 are just upgrades to the DX lineup. That is not the case at all. Just because Vista comes with DX10 and 7 with DX11 doesn't...

Hi, Setup is other PC use a username and password to access user C:\Users\Public\Folder. I have no issues when win 7 PC connect. I can see the win 7 machine in workgroup network and am able to ping the win 7. However Vista PC throws out the basic Access denied. Thanks in advance for your...

I am trying to install Windows 7 on a laptop that previously had Vista that would not start. I deleted the partition and formatted the C:. Now when I place the Windows 7 disk in during the boot, it will start reading from it and then the below message will be displayed BOOTMGR is missining...

Built new puter and installed Windows 7 Pro.....backed up old system before system went south (had Vista on it)...had been using Mozilla Thunderbird........backed up profiles (including old mails, as far as I know) specifically.......both system back and profile backup on external drive on new...

I have a strange problem that is just occurred about a week before, my problem is I have a domain name and every computer (almost 50) and users are listed in active directory. About a week before when i tried to attach usb on one of the laptop (having windows 7 ultimate attached with...

Hello. Today we’re releasing six security bulletins – one Critical-class, four Important and one Moderate – addressing seven issues in Microsoft Windows, Visual Studio, and Expression Design. We recommend that customers focus on MS12-020, our sole critical-class bulletin, as...

My home network has XP Vista and W7 so I never bothered with Home Group. Are W7 and W8 Home Groups compatible? Just curious really. Joe

When I first got Windows 7, I got the Home Premium upgrade from Windows Vista rather than doing a fresh install. I purchased a legitimate copy and downloaded the upgrade from DigitalRiver. At the time I chose not to buy the backup DVD, but now I have a reason to do a fresh install of Windows 7...

I am unable to log into my laptop I am using an older Dell with Vista SP2 now.and evidently having trouble with this keyboard. I can't get past this point so I have to ask for ya'lls help from up here. Could someone please help me? Any help is appreciatedThank you. Joanne running...

Hi, I have installed Windows 7 HP but I get a problem when the computer boots up. It stops with a 30sec timer and asks to choose an installation between.. Windows 7/Vista/Server (Pointer) Windows 7/Vista/Server Windows 7/Vista/Server (Debug - Def mode) Windows 7/Vista/Server (Debug -...

Over the course of many years, our website started from early beginnings. Once known as Windows Vista Forums (winvistaforums.com), the website spent almost three years counting down to the release of Microsoft Windows Vista. Several years later, that site acquired Windows7Forums.com, and over...

I'm in hopes someone has experienced this and found a resolution: I am upgrading a Windows Vista 32 bit hard drive in a new build I have with Windows 7 64 bit OS. The hardware more then exceeds the recommendation requirements for 64bit but I'm curious if I have a bad disk (purchased from a...

Hi, Not sure if this is quite the right sub-forum, but none of the others quite fit the bill either. Anyway, I had great success with this forum (and Elmer in particular) in diagnosing and helping to fix the problem with my desktop. I'm now going for the double whammy and hoping for similar...

Hi all, Wish my first post was for better circumstances, but here it goes! My wife uses a Toshiba L305D-S5895 laptop I bought a few years ago (2009?). Anyway, it originally came with Vista x86 and I quickly removed that and put XP x86 on it. I've recently (last weekend) upgraded to Windows 7...

Just upgraded Vista to W7 32bit I used Winmail with Vista, had the message about no email client installed with W7 What is best advice here, need to recover all my mail folders. A quick Google shows that Winmail is but hidden, do I mess about and try & enable this? Or is there a better...

I upgraded a laptop from Windows vista 32 to Windows 7 home premium. I have updated all of my drivers. However now I have a screen issue where images, or icons or the top bar on this web page get distorted and most often is cleaned up as soon as I run my mouse pointer over the area. I am not...

Hello....1st of all I apologize my bad English. I had Vista on this PC and it started to get bluescreen, so I installed Windows 7 32bit Ultimate and I still got Bluescreen on start up, Internet almost everywhere.... I bought new Ram memory´s and Bluescreen loses like 40% away.... Now I...

I recently went from a Windows Vista Notebook to a Windows 7 Notebook. Tethering has always been easy with Windows Vista and my T-Mobile HTC Dash 3G. But now with Win 7, no WiFi on/off switch, connecting to the Win 7 Notebook by USB, and going through the same steps: Start>Device...

I started to post this in Networking, since my issues first became apparent when I was trying to do networky... stuff... but the more I've tried to resolve the issue the more problems I seem to uncover. Basically I am at my parents' house for the break. I have my computer, PC2, running Windows...

I've had a history for the past few months of BSOD at shutdown, I am on Vista 64-bit. home premium. Computer always restarts after BSOD, then is able to shut down normally. I seemed to have fixed it in the past by resetting the restore point, and then more recently thought I had fixed it by...