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The Windows 11 Calendar flyout—our beloved digital companion to the right of the taskbar—has always had a rather odd blind spot: it couldn’t, for the longest time, tell you what time it is. Let that settle in for a second. The digital calendar intended to check appointments, birthdays, and the...

Windows 11 Beta is aiming to turn frustration into relief with its brand-new Quick Machine Recovery tool—a feature that, if it lives up to expectations, could transform how boot issues are handled on your system. A New Approach to Boot Recovery For many of us, encountering boot issues on Windows...

I have been having trouble with my new laptop it is a Dell Inspiron 1318. It has a Intel Graphics card (My problem). I was able to play These games on it in Win7's Beta but now that I have the full version I am having trouble.ALL of my games don't work. They don't even display an error. I have...

Last night I installed the Win 7 RC and unlike the beta which ran fine, I am having some serious driver issues. I have an EVGA GeForce 8800GT connected to an HDTV which is my only display. At install the display was OK but the screen was not resizable and the edges including the start menu were...

I have been using Beta 1 for a long time. When I was using B1 I was moving the gadgets way off to a side of one of the screens I have but now its automaticly moving them for me when I get too close or to far away from the end of the screen. Is there way to make them totally free again?

Hello. i have a couple of Speed-link medusa usb headphones, and there seems to be no way of getting them to work properly in win 7 beta. When i plug them in, Windows automaticly installs drivers. However, the channel mapping is totaly wrong. First, it detects as 7.1 sound (with no other...

I'm having a problem with Media Center playing TV from my Pinnacle PCTV 801e SE USB Stick and DVDs from both Media Center and Player. This was all working at one point and I changed absolutely nothing when it started doing this. I currently get the error: "Decoder Error: The video decoder has...

Greetings. This issue frustrates me to no end, i very much hope you can help me out. I downloaded the Empire Total War demo from steam, but when i try to run it, it only shows the first screen (the ones who played Total War games, know it, the one with total war logo, creative assembly, sega...

I have Windows 7 on a dozen home, office and family computers but wanted to try a lite version on an old HP 510 laptop and Gateway 700 with limited 528 ram. I downloaded the popular Windows.7.Beta.Build.7000.LiTE (1,43gb) from the web, it activated with MS Win7 key and works perfectly on both...

I upgraded to the beta from Vista. In Vista, I never had any memory related problems. Since starting with the beta, I began getting out of memory errors. I looked into it, and realized that for some reason, there is no longer any paging file in use. The problem is that I can't do anything to get...

I'm trying to do a clean install of Windows 7 build 7000 32-bit (downloaded from microsoft.com) on a 30 GB partition. During the "Completing installation..." phase, I get a pop-up with this message: I looked in the logs, here are the last lines of X:\Windows\Panther\setuperr.log: Any idea?

I have Windows XP and I did a clean install of Windows Beta 7 (it was a legit copy, not that that makes a difference). I have a Compaq nc6230. I was too lazy to make a partition, so no I can't dual boot into XP again My issues are for example, I hear no sound because my computer no longer...

Hey guys, Just wondering, but will the public beta be openly available to everyone or is it just a selected amount of people? Jamie

I am running the beta 2 build 5384 on a Dell E1505. Performed a clean install then adding other programs. Some where along the way some of the internal links have stopped working. When I start the Control Panel fomr the start menu the window and frame comes up but it never fully loads; click...

Hello, After countless hours searching online and into the depths of Vista, I've nearly given up. I cannot figure out how to disable the occurrence of Windows Vista Beta 2 automatically locking the computer after 10 minutes of inactivity. I've completely disabled any sleep features, and the...