win7

  1. Windows 10 Succesful windows 10 installation...with a caveat!!!

    Hi and I hope this brings to light some of the installation woes Ive seen from many users. The only tried and tested way I found to do the upgrade...IS TO DO A CLEAN INSTALL and to use the windows 10 ISO tool. This requires also doing a clean install of the operating system you are...
  2. Windows 7 Why did Camera Uploading switch from Picture Manager to Dropbox?

    Running Win7 SP1. I'm used to having Picture Manager automatically open and import photos from my camera when it got connected. Apparently, this changed recently and photos are now getting stored in Dropbox/Camera Uploads. I like it better the old way. Can I get it back?
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    Windows 7 WebDav, or something like that?

    Hi I run Win7 ultimate. I have tried to set up IIS and WebDav, no good luck with this. :-| What I`m after to do is, I want to share my files and folders on the internet and on the web. i have this machine running all the time, so I could say I want it to be my own "cloud". The main issue, is...
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    Windows 10 USB 3.0 ports not working

    I upgraded in-place from Win7 to Win10, and now my computer will only recognize devices that are plugged in to the USB 2.0 ports. I already tried going into Device Manager, uninstalling the drivers under "Universal Serial Bus Controllers," and restarting. I'm using a Sager NP8130 laptop.
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    Windows 10 Internet slow after win10 update

    Anyone else experiencing this? Upgraded from Win7 home professional to win 10 today. First thing I notice is I cant stream streams which I ususally have no problem of streaming multiple windows of without loading all the time. Went into an online game where I discovered my ping had almost...
  6. Windows 7 Access my Win7 HTPC remotely to initiate torrent downloads?

    Can anyone point me in the direction of information about whether it is possible to access my Win7 HTPC remotely to initiate torrent downloads? Thanks for any help.
  7. Windows 8 problem involving uefi, bios, win8/win7 dual boot!

    In a nutshell - got a new Samsung ultra laptop, don't like the way the disk is structured and lack of facility for creating recovery disks so wiped the 500gb hard drive which is formatted to gpt, repartitioned to give me a 50gb partition for win8, 50gb partition for win7 and the rest reserved...
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    Windows 7 Searching emulater for booting Linux *.iso systems inside Win7

    Occasionally I got bootable *.iso images which contain a Linux system with some additional software. Ok, I could burn these ISO images on a CD/DVD and boot from them in order to test the software. But I could imagine that there is something like a Linux boot emulator (similar to QEMU under...
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    Windows 7 Wireless Network Adapter Not Found

    I have a Toshiba Satellite A665 Laptop with Win7 Home. When I look at "Intel MyWiFi Utility", I receive a message saying "No Intel Wireless Network Adapter was Found". Is this adapter on a board that would be installed in the laptop? Could it have been removed or not installed in the first place?
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    Windows 7 URGENT: Windows won't boot after old hard drive erase

    Hello. I have a dell dimension 9100. I have two drives on it, a ~160gb drive that came with it with xp, and a 500gb drive with win7. I put the win7 in myself and had been using that. Finally, I decided to erase the old drive with xp on to install linux on it. After erasing the old drive, my...
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    Windows 7 Asus Laptop coudn't connect to wireless router from far - WIN7

    why do i have to place my laptop very near to the wireless router in order to get the signal? Please help. Will this be driver related issue? or the wireless hardware inside of my laptop? Because i remember i drop the laptop once. I have another laptop, where it is able to detect the wireless...
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    Windows 7 SSD drives and Premiere Pro videos

    I just installed a 240 gb SSD corsair ForceGT Sata 3, primarily to boost Premiere Pro 5.5 performance. I have decided not to use an additional hard drive for a scratch disk, since it would not be as fast as the SSD drive. I have an additional 1TB 7200 hard drive. Now I was wondering, in terms...
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    Windows 7 Netbook Wireless Problems

    First of all, hello since this is my first post here ever. I recently bought a netbook and now it dual-boots on Win7 and some Linux distro. The problem I'm experiencing is whenever I need to connect to my wireless network at home I have to be nearby the router, if I try going upstairs I lose...
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    Windows 7 Windows backup "The backup failed." error

    I have a Win7 64-bit system and have been successfully using Windows backup on an approximately monthly basis. I ran it before going to bed last night and woke up to a "The backup failed." when I tried to create a system image of both of my hard discs. The error is "Incorrect function...
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    Windows 7 Recover Deleted Win7 OS Partition

    The other day I accidentally deleted the local hard disk partition (contains win 7 OS), instead of the external thumbdrive. Now there are no partitions that exist on the drive at all. The data and files are in there but are in a non allocated space.. what is the best way to reverse this mistake...
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    Windows 7 Comodo Free Firewall

    When I try installing the 32 bit Win 7 version I get the following error message "This installation does not support targeted platform" :demon:
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    Windows 7 Do screensavers in "*.scr" files still work under Win7?

    From good old WinXP I have a couple of screensavers which are packed into a *.scr file. Do they still work under (64bit) Win7? Where (in which folder) should I copy them? Peter
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    Windows 7 Printer settings are lost after logoff with Win7 Roaming profile

    I have a user that has a problem with the printer settings being reset every time she logs in to one PC. She has a Win7 Roaming profile. Both PCs are running Win7. It works fine on her PC, but when she roams to the front desk the label printer always has the wrong paper type. We can change...
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    Windows 7 Remove-Hide Right click context menu vertical line.

    Is there any way to remove or hide the vertical line in right-click context menu under Aero theme for Win7? SS below. Thanks.
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    Windows 7 Win7 Install Error BSOD IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL

    BSOD Error during Clean Install of Win7: Stop: 0x0000000a (0x983ffff0, 0x00000002, 0x00000001, 0x8bc8394b) System: HP Pav 525x Desktop Intel Celeron CPU 2.4GHz 1gb DDR SDRAM PC2100 in (2)512MB Sticks Intel 82845G/GL/GE/PE/GV Graphics Controller Realtek AC’97 Audio (on board) Realtek RTL8139/810...