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Hi everyone! I have a problem that’s making me want to pull my hair out, sorry if there is already a topic on this as the search function on this site would not work (database error) and Google returned nothing specific. I recently got a new PC with Windows 7, which is turning out to be a bit...

Hi. I was wondering if anyone is familiar the weird object on the bottom right of my screen. It seems to have no effect, apart from bothering me. It cannot be clicked or selected any way I have found, and it appears overtop of whatever window I open, whether it is just my desktop or my...

my dad and i have a account on the laptop gateway nv52 but i am a limited account and my dad is a addminitrator but my dad will not tell me his password so i can change my limited account to addminitrator. please help me. i want to delete my dad's account when i am a limited user.

I am running Windows 7 Home Premium and want to delete a specific folder. It shows in a Recyling Window that there is some activity and identifies 1915 items and 165 MB but it never finishes and I have to force it to stop. The folder I am referring to is a user folder named "Bob". I had deleted...

Hi, I am new to the site, and I must say there is some very useful information! I was however unsuccessful in finding a solution to my problem, so I was wondering if anyone could help me?? My problem is basically when I select start, all programs then click say "Microsoft Office" which will...

someone please help, my computer has decided that it wants to lock me out of my main hard drive, c:\ an says its not accesssible , access denied, and the system administrator has blocked you from running this program, i dont know what iv done, and its dun me good, if i cant get access back, i...

Greetings, my nick name is Loke. Please respond to this problem and help me solve it. Description of problem: When I select maps and folders, they have a gray line surrounding them. This is very annoying. Here is print screen: Link Removed Link for the image if not working above: Link...

Hi everyone, I happened to disable my 'Administrator' account from the group policy editor. I have two other accounts, one, a standard account and another one, a guest account. Every time I do something that requires administrator privileges, A dialog appears asking 'To continue, type an...

plsssss help me on this, i already turn off my restore point because i have a little size of hardisk. the capacity of my hardisk is 80GB but still my hardisk space decrease from 62.0GB now 61.9GB i dont want that to be happen i am very sensitive about my hardisk space because my hardisk is so...

ok so i've been trying to make my USB drive bootable for windows 7.. and i get all the way to the part where i type /nt60 X: in the command prompt and it says the the bootsect.exe is not a valid win32 application... i did some googling on not a valid win32 application and it said files were...

So, I'm completely out of disc space on my C: drive. It's a 40GB IDE drive. To compensate, I've installed a 110GB SATA drive, which my computer recognizes as drive E:. I'm trying to stripe these drives (Or get Windows to freely write data across both of them as if they were a single drive.)...

I just installed Build 7100 and find that Outlook Express is not listed in the All Programs entry from the Start Menu. There are instructions for setting it up, but they start out by having me click on the non-existent "Outlook Express" entry. Anyone know where it might be hiding?

Yesterday, I spent the whole day downloading the new Windows 7. I was completely excited. Until, I started installing it. This is my problem. None of my keys are working. AND it is asking me for the activation keys, since it says it EXPIRED. ...I JUST GOT THIS TODAY, practically. Now, I'm...

Updated 2-1-09 Here is the situation: I go to a website that has contact information. I click on the "e-mail me name" and instead of there e-mail address poping up I get the following error message: Could not perform this operation because the default mail client is not properly installed."...

Anytime I restart by clicking restart on the start menu or when a program wants to restart, vista will reboot and and just loop in a reboot mode constantly until I press the power button on my computer and turn in off that way and then when I turn it back on it's fine and boots into windows...

Hello everyone first time on this site and forums ok down to business :D when u unclick UAC is there away to stop the Red Sheild icon pop up every time i know you can hide it but it always there if you know what i mean i was hoping that someone had a solution ! Thanks Spider

Now that I have Vista I find I cannot load the software for my Brother DCP-340CW printer. The windows web site has no help nor does the Brother web site. Has anyone got round this problem without having to reload XP or buy a new printer?