windows setup

About a year ago, I did a clean install from vista 32 bit to Windows 7 professional 64 bit. Everything went smoothly and I had no installation issues. A couple of days ago, my hard drive crashed so I put in a new one and used my computer's recovery cd to load windows xp back on the system. I...

Hello Win 7 x64 I think this is a form of networking but if I should be in sodtware, kindly switch me to that forum. I have watched videos and read helps about the above but to no avail. I want to be able to work on a file or folder on my win 7 x64 desktop while at my win 7 x64 laptop. On...

I have just built a system with the following specs and Windows is crashing after rebooting during the install process: motherboard: MSI H57M-ED65 CPU: Core i5 760 RAM: 4 x 2GB Corsair XMS3 DDR3 Boot drive: WD 500GB SATA Additional drives: 4 x 2TB WD SATA GPU: Zotac GEForce 9800GT RAID...

Hello everyone, Got a problem with a fresh install on my laptop like the title says. Normally I can always figure pc related problems myself but this is my second night trying to fix it and I"m about to give up. So my last resort is to create a topic here, hopefully someone can help me out...

I got this computer back in June of this year... Ever since I get Blue Screens (even in initial setup - which I was able to complete sucessfully!) on cold start up. It usually happens about 1-2 minutes after logging on and running any program. Originally thought it was a memory problem -...

I have Windows 7 Home Premium 32 bit (x86) , trying to install on x64 architecture (dual core atom proc). I am trying to boot from the DVD, with the Autounattend.xml file on a USB drive (Mushkin 8GB, light blinks when accessed, so I know it is being read from). I have also tried using the file...

I want to install Windows 7 ON (not FROM) a USB key (instead of disk) and run from it. But without VirtualBox or VM Player or something. Directly to the USB key. But how? ...so please help :(

Hi, I really hope someone can help since this has been driving me mad. I have a number of issues but this is the first one, and the one thats stopping me progressing. I am using a USB stick to boot the PE environment and it goes through no problems. The machine joins the domain when in...

Tale of 2 Computers Dell Dimension 4700 Pentium 4 4gb Ram Windows 7 Home Premium 32-Bit. Boot Time: Power on to Starting Windows Screen 8 seconds Power on to up and running 38 seconds Home Built System ASUS P7H55D-M EVO Motherboard Intel i5-750 CPU 4gb G-SKILL Ram...

I'm trying to do a clean install of Windows 7 on a newly-assembled PC. Windows 7 boots fine, but it cannot find a hard drive, even though BIOS sees the drive. Here's my specifics: - I am using a Gigabyte GA-H55M-UD2H motherboard. - My LG blue ray player is connected to SATA2_0. It works fine...

Ok after four failed installations on four different computers I have finally resolved the problem thanks to a little suggestion that had escape me every single attempt. THANKS AGAIN KEMICAL! So here are the steps to solve the problem: (well, is more a walk around than a solution but hey!) IF...

I'm a 7 newbie. I wish to setup a Standard user account without password for visitors. I will employ parental controls to limit access to most programs. How do I edit the Start menu of the newly created Standard user account so that the restricted programs are not visible? At the moment, the...

Why Autounattend.xml remove these menu? Link Removed due to 404 Error How do I change to keep them?

Just bought the student discounted Windows 7 Home Premium. I did the upgrade method after it finished downloading. After the install was almost complete, a message came up about having to restart the computer, so I click OK and it restarted. Now it's on a continuous rebooting loop: before W7...

hello all, I received purchased a copy of Windows 7 via a student discount through journeyed.com and received it today (despite it being days before the official release date). i popped the disc into my computer, did the Upgrade Adviser, but once I clicked on "Install Now" and error dialog...

I'm currently trying to dual boot Win XP 32bit, and Win7 64bit. I have separate partitions on one HDD for each of the OS and I currently have XP pro installed without any problems. i've burned the Win7 ISO at x4 speed to ensure I get a good clean copy and I've booted from the DVD and stared...

I'm trying to work out how to change the location of user folders both for existing users and for new users. Basically, I have a OS partition with OS and programs, and a data partition that I want to store all data on! Please help, as so far I'm stumped! I also want to completely remove the...

Hi Mods . People seem to be having problems with sharing / networking printers all over the place so here's a general method that work 99% of the time to connect almost any mix of OS'es (Windows) and printers including "Network" printers -- perhaps you can make this a sticky. First part -...

When installing I get this! setup was unable to create a new system partition or locate an existing system partition. See the setup log files for more information. so where are the setup files????? lol If I could see them then maybe I could figure it out!