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Hello, I've been using ubuntu linux as my only operating system for almost a year. The only reason I've been tempted to pick up windows again is for gaming. I heard good things about windows7, and went ahead an grabbed it. in windows, I've been getting blue screen errors and application crashes...

I have a weird.. error? happening with the image preview. Basically whats happening is, I'm taking pictures and cropping them down in photoshop, and then saving them as a JPEG. Now I can open the image in Photoshop, Picasa, Windows 7 Photo Viewer, Firefox/Chrome/IE/Any Web Browser etc, and I'll...

Hi, I was able to successfully save the sort order in windows file explorer by date....however, when i go into Excel and click on the open dialogue box it always reverts back to sorting by file name. Can anyone help here? Thanks, Ezra

Hey everyone I have fairly recently built myself a computer using the gigabyte GA EP43 DS3L motherboard. On the manufacturers website it says that this motherboard is Windows 7 ready and that it has an integrated realtek HD audio sound card. When I first set up the computer with windows 7...

Hello. I've installed W7 RC edition. But lately it have been running checkdisk at startup after a forced reboot (due to lockup or BSOD). And 2 times now it has deleted personal files like .mp3, .jpg, .mkv and stuff like that. Never had the problem with the beta 7100 version, so I installed...

When I start my computer (this has been happening for a month or so) it doesn't work, I have to disable then trouble shoot to get it to work. Here is a youtube video I recorded thanks.

Hi Everyone, System is completely up to date. I formated the HD and it will not read the recovery CD. I copied the recovery CD to a DVD and tried to boot from it. No good. Now what?

My .Net Framework config file got corrupted. I tried to delete my .Net Framework folder 2.0 but most of the files can't be deleted. Same with 1.0. I'd like to install ver 3.5 but it won't complete the installation. How can I delete the 1.0 & 2.0 .Net Framework folders and files so I can start...

Hi, I just downloaded and installed W7 and all is OK in that I can use the start menu and play with some of the apps. Then when the system needs to restart it allways goes to startup repair and cannot fix problem. Problemm Signature: Problem Event Name: StartupRepairOffline Problem Signature 01...

This came from the Microsoft Windows 7 Support Forums. Software Compatible With Windows 7 (32-bit & 64-bit) I am beginning this list with first hand knowledge as I have installed and used these programs personally. I encourage all members to add to this list, but please be sure that you...

Hi, Whenever I run windows update, it comes back with an error, "Windows could not search for new updates" error code 80244019. I've tried googling the error and all I get is the same error for vista, but the fix doesn't work on 7, and when I try to go to the windows update site, it takes me to...

Hey when i try to create a new virtual machine it says file could not be created but if i continue later i "seem" to finish until i run it when it loads up the DOS window and then gets stuck on DHCP ... Any suggestions thanks :) Seb

windows explorer and rundll32 has stopped working hi everyone. i have a horrible problem with my laptop (acer aspire 6290G). when i got it, it worked great but now, after several months, just yesterday i got the error, showing that windows explorer and rundll32 has stopped working. i checked...

I installed a second hard drive, formatted it, partioned it into 2. Then I decided to shrink my origial drive which was already had 2 partitions. I shut down and it rebooted just fine. But now I noticed these folders in the new E: partition: Boot bootmgr BOOTSECT.BAK I know these files...

Whenever my status is automatically set to idle after x number of minutes, I get this error "msnmsgr.exe no disc in the drive" with "Continue Retry Abort" and I must click it like 10 times for the message to go away. This happened to my friend also. I seem to recall this bug from along time ago...

Greetings All, Any help that you might give is greatly appreciated. I attempted to reinstall Vista Home Premium on a Dell Inspiron 1720. I did the normal backup of materials, and then put in the disc, instructing it to do a full wipe and then a reinstall. It said that it would reboot a few...

I can't restore my backed up files. Had to replace hard drive, and was using backup to an external hard drive, but can't restore?? Help!!

I have Windows Home Premium. No matter what settings I choose in Autoplay, Windows Media Center opens every time I insert a DVD. I've tried choosing "Take No Action." I've tried "Play with VLC." Doesn't matter. WMC autostarts every time. Autostart options for other media such as blank DVDs...