windows user experience

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This is a fresh install of Ultimate on a newly built Computer. Asus Z97, 16 Gig, Asus 240 Gig SSD, Seagate 2 TByte HD, Asus Ge Force GT-640 running 3 Samsung monitors. Win Experience Index of 7.1. 9 out of 10 times the system wakes up just fine. Every 10th time or so, the system seems to be...

I found out that Retro UI is a good app as a start menu. The reason is that it allows you to still use the start screen if you want to and adds a task bar at the bottom of your start screen. So, you can use the start screen as an improved desktop. I could be wrong so please correct me if I am...

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I just installed a 750 GB internal SSD and migrated many gigabytes of data to that drive after initializing and formatting, and as part of this process I used Microsoft's "Relocate" option of the Music folder properties. This was a very bad decision. The interface options did NOT correlate to...

Hi, I have tablet acer iconia w500 and I think that my processor is very slow. I can see in performance / windows experience index that my processor mark is 2.7 (min.=1 max=7.9). Please, how to fix this problem, because my desktop comp is 3 times faster then tablet. OS on tablet is win 7 home...

Hi there, My name is Dan and I have finally installed Windows7 on my XP machine. Its taken me some time but this is no doubt the best OS Microsoft have made in a while. Now..... Knowing my stuff I decided to search around and purchase just the product key from a legit site as I already have...

I just have to say it, my Windows 7 experience has been less then great... In fact its been horrid. I have built my first computer just recently from the ground up with my own choices in hardware, nothing is defective and yet Windows 7 has been giving me nothing but issues. I honestly dont see...

Hi I've been clearing out some clutter from my PC (as I do on a regular basis), when I accidentally deleted the 'Recycle Bin' icon from the desktop. I can't do a restore because they've all been cleared out and I've run 'Registry Repair Wizard' to clean up the registry. If I go into the...

I am really hating Win7 right about now... Here's a regular daily duty for me. I put a camera CF card into a USB reader and put it into the USB slot. I then create folders on a hard drive for each day of photos that was on the CF card, and I drag all the Monday stuff from the CF into a Monday...

In XP, when I double-clicked on a file (.jpg, .wmv, etc.), it would open the applicable program on top of the explorer window that given file was in. Now, in Win7 (x64), when I double-click one of those files, the app. (Windows Photo Viewer, WMP, etc.) is opening behind the explorer window. Is...

Cannot "CTRL+V paste" into selected window if nothing is selected in that window. But i have more This is now i thought Windows 7 would be like. Wonder if we could post a request to MS to get it this way or somewhat give us more working space and remove some of the annoying features...

Last night after all the troubles with getting W7 Pro 64bit installed, I finally managed to do it using a USB. This morning I start installing all my programs and I noticed that my "Windows Experience" number was 1.0 (it had formerly been 5.0). I assumed this was down to it not recognising my...

Hi All, Running the Windows 7 Ultimate now and only one issue to do with my graphics card. I've seen similar posts here but no resolution yet. Here's my setup: Windows 7 Ultimate (32 bit) running on a Shuttle ST20G5. I've flashed to the latest BIOS (but that was released in 2006!) GeForce...

Can anyone help....? I have tried moving the default locations of the Vista special folders now a few times by using the move location route. All seems to go well until at some point, something goes wrong or I do something wrong and I find a whole host of files being copied over when I know...

I'd just like to check whether I've got everything right here - it's been a long time since I built a PC! Here are the key elements: ASUS ATI RADEON HD 4350 512MB DDR2 TV-OUT/DUAL DVI/HDMI AMD PHENOM II X4 QUAD CORE 940 BLACK EDITION 3.0GHZ SOCKET AM2 BIOSTAR TA790GX 128M AMD 790GX...

The new taskbar has some great features, Aero Peek and Jump Lists are two things I really like. However, here is the big problem lets say I have a few chat windows open and they're all hidden behind another window (lets say Firefox) If someone sends me a message the chat icon flashes to...

Hi guys I tried making a Bootable DVD from the 7048 build and then do a Clean install -- this fails with "A citical file couldn't be loaded" -- I KNOW my DVD is genuine so I assume that it's probably something with the way I was trying to create the BOOT record. I stripped the boot record off...