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Hello members and for those that have just joined or are just visiting, to Windows 7 Forums. What Browser do you use? Comments on why, are welcome, but not necessary. Out of my own curiosity, I made a little comparison of the top 3 browsers, Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer10, ie; CPU...

Hi I'm using Mozilla Thunderbird for my e-mail client. I'm annoyed by getting all the duplicate Link-back posts (some going clear back to 2010) mixed in with all my other stuff. While trying to figure out if there was some way to block them, I found that I can make a folder in my inbox...

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Hi i have a PC with intel DH61WW Motherboard and windows 7 Ultimate installed on i and i have a USB Modem Connected to this PC, whenever the Modem is connected to this PC windows won't shutdown it stucks on shutting down windows and i turn it off by pressing the power button for 10 seconds but...

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Hi, I'm new to posting here but have sifted these forums for months and read multiple threads here and other forums about this kernel power problem. I've been getting this error since I originally swapped my boot HD from a SATA to an OCZ agility 3 ( yes I've also read their forums and problems...

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I was trying to upload a graphic to one of the threads in the forum and the wait symbol kept running. I checked the allowable file sizes to see if it might be related, then checked the size of the files I was attempting to upload. These numbers seem a little strange, so if anyone has any...

Uploaded some photos to a dedicated file on my pc from my camera. I used to be able sort them into their dedicated files, but today I tried and I couldn't do it. The same happens with my emails if I want to save them to their dedicated folder, ie:friends info etc. Read on another forum that...

Hello everyone and welcome to Windows8Forums.com :) As of September 10th, 2011, there has been two legitimate builds of Windows 8 leaked on the internet. Both builds were leaked by an HP employee who recently lost his job, hence why there have been no builds since July. The two builds leaked...

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I am the sole user of my computer and log on as the Preferred User. Whenever I want to open My Documents, My Pictures, etc., I have to first select Desktop, then Preferred User (I am the ONLY user and I have already logged in as the PREFERRED USER), then have to select I My Documents, etc. Is...

Posted in incorrect forum: Running Win7 on a hard drive installed 4 months ago. Left my Win7 upgrade disc with vendor and they loaded. Getting BSoD 2 - 3 times a day. Had tech at work (he's a Linux freak and did it begrudgingly) check hardware and all seems acceptable. Ran 'verifier' for...

For the past while when accessing (Logging into) the forums and the website it comes up say "redirecting" "click here if the webbrowser doesn't Redirect you" I wait for 20 Sec's then I get an error, or even click the "Redirect" link I get the same error, It only happens though in Peak times on...

Hi, I recently purchased my HP Pavillion dv5 laptop, and it has windows 7. I have another Windows 7 laptop as well. However on this laptop, whenever I press the f1 button, the help menu appears. The f2, screen dims, f3 screen brightens, so on and so forth. This woulden't be much of a problem...

I have two hard drives, each has two partitions, XP is on C and Windows 7 is on the second hard drive. XP was installed first. then 7 in a dual boot. When I am in XP I can see all the hard drives like normal. When I am in Windows 7 I cannot see the C drive with XP. Windows Explorer only...

I recently installed a new MB and I keep getting the bsod stop error 0x7b. I understand this is because my new motherboard has a different chipset. I have tried running a startup repair and chkdsk neither of which helped. I was wondering if there is any way besides a clean install to fix the...