win 7

  1. Windows 7 Booting Windows 7 on a new PC from an old disk

    Hello, I recently removed the hard drive with Windows 7 from my old computer and connected it to my new PC, (which is running Windows 11). When I try to boot Windows 7 on that old disk through the BIOS, I get BSOD, and attempts to recover the system have failed. (I mean all the files inside are...
  2. Windows 7 Bignox virtual support

    The whole story in short is, I been trying for days to install a 64 bit android emulator in windows 10 64 bit 8gb ram core 2 quad q9400, gt710. It's not successful, as it's stuck at 99%, while if I install 32 bit android emulator it's working. So I dual booted with windows 7 and tried 64 bit...
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    Windows 7 Uninstalling stuff on Win 7...

    On my XP Pro it is possible to actually uninstall junk (both apps I install and the bloatware M$ pre-installed). How about with Win 7? Been doing a flurry of Google research trying to get familiar with this OS, before my PC arrives from eBay. So far as I can tell, with Win 7 the word 'uninstall'...
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    Windows 7 Host ID

    I have a Ceton Infinity 4 TV tuner card in my computer. I recently moved and had to get a new Cable Card but I was unable to pair it to the Ceton card due to not being able to get the Host ID of the Ceton card. Windows Media Center usually displays a page with this information but after 15 or so...
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    Windows 7 Graphics card for WIN 7

    I'm on my second NVIDA GeForce GTX 970 graphics card in 3 years and it's starting to act strange like the first one did before crapping out. Do the newer graphics cards work OK with WIN 7 Pro 64bit? I'm assuming they should be backwards compatible, right? I'd like to try something other than...
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    Windows 7 BSOD on Win7 SP1

    A couple of weeks back I suddenly started getting a PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA BSOD. I have run tests on the RAM, chkdsk /f on the HDD, and changed the page file to a large fixed size. However every day I am getting a bout 2 of these. I can leave the computer idle for days and not have a...
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    Why are there many "Allow" rules at first time WinFirewall usage? How to reset to initial rule set?

    After having used for some years another firewall I considered now to switch to MS built in Windows Firewall (in Win 7 Pro). So I deinstalled the old FW and enabled the MS WF. When I go now to wf.msc e.g into "Inbound rules" section then there are much to my surprise many "Allow" rules for...
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    Windows 7 CHKDSK is frustrating

    Whats up guys, since I wasn't able to copy files off of my external drive anymore, I decided to run chkdsk which hopefully will fix the problem. It has been running since 11 hours now and is still at stage 1 and 0 % which is frustrating especially, after a quick calculation, that it will be...
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    Windows 7 Windows 7 32-bit Fails To Boot Up, If Not, Freezes In Use

    Windows 7 Professional 32-bit Intel(R) Core(TM) 2 CPU 6320 @ 1.86 GHz x2 4GB RAM My Win7 started to freeze while I'm using the computer about a week ago. It accepts no input (no cursor movement, cannot type etc.). After a while it began to freeze up on boot up, at the same certain point (when 4...
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    Windows 7 DVD Drive not reading

    Hi I have a sony vaio vpcj12L0e computer and I did a clean install a few months ago and now my dvd drive isn't reading dvd's. It is running in Windows 7 64 bit Home Premium.Hope you can help. Thank you.
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    Windows 7 Network Problems

    Hello! i am using windows 7 with two different networks (.100.xxx - private server running windows server 2003) & (.1.xxx - Internet ). My IP settings are listed as follows: -----------------------IP SETTINGS---------------------------- DHCP ENABLED : NO IPv4 ADDRESS : 192.168.1.XXX...
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    Windows 7 Color management help

    I have a GTX 650. I'm not sure if it's a problem with the GPU or the OS. Every time my monitor or PC turns on or comes out of sleep, the color settings are reset to the windows default (a crappy washed out color scheme). I use the NVIDIA Control Panel to set my settings (adjust desktop color...
  13. Windows 10 Screen resolution messed up after upgrade from Win 7 to Win 10 - HELP!!!

    Hi. Everything was fine on Win 7 for last 3-4 years at least. I use a AOC LCD Monitor 1080p. As soon as I completed upgrade to Win 10, the screen size has gotten messed up. It badly needs to be stretched horizontally (screen is all squished up). I have gone into the monitor setup, the...
  14. Windows 7 Back to Windows 7 from 10 not booting!

    Hi everyone, I decided to wind back my install of windows 10 to my previous version, windows 7 after getting fed up with the start/cortana problem and having to reboot all of the time with f8. However, when it finally finished the boot menu came up with Windows 7 Windows 7 (recovered) Now...
  15. Windows 10 Mixed Windows Environment Workgroup Issues

    I work at a small non-profit that is running about 30 computers that range from Windows 7 to Windows 8. We are connected through a multitude of routers as the connections were established piece by piece. We are trying to set up a Workgroup or anything we can do to try and set up a simple...
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    Windows 7 Right-Click Context Menu Missing

    Ever since I updated a set of Windows Updated 2015Oct17, my Right-Click Context Menu missing. I'm currently running Win 7 Home Pro OS with a Logitech MK320 Keyboard+Mouse wireless. I followed the steps, as explained from technet microsoft com en-us library cc960925 aspx: to edit the registry...
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    Windows 7 multiple Windows Deployment

    Hi, I have the following problem. I want to deploy create a bootable Win 7 I want to deploy multiple Win7 PC´s. Until now I am using Acronis to Restore the different Win7 Systems. But I want to create a bootable medium with 4 different Win7 backups. During the boot process you have to choose...
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    Windows 10 Windows 10 install recover favourites from sys image?

    Hi all, First post in this forum. Long story short.... My easy upgrade from Win 7 to Win 10 was not so easy. Had to do a clean install of Win 10 after system upgrade kept hanging at logon screen. Have now recovered everything except for Internet Explorer bookmarks. I do have old system image...
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    Windows 7 a converter from DVI to VGA work for win 7?

    My monitor comes with DVI and VGA interface and I want to use both slots to connect to two computers with only VGA connection. I use a converter from DVI to VGA and connect my monitor to one of the computer (win 7), but when the computer starts, nothing displays on the monitor. Did I do anything...
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    Windows 7 USB auto open

    Win7, 64 bit. When I insert a USB into my desktop computer, it doesn't auto open. However, when I insert it in my Win 7 laptop it does auto open. I would like to set my desktop computer so it auto opens a USB.