Topics Tagged with windows-7

The start button does make a comeback, sort of, in Windows 8.1 but it's still not enough to satisfy the die-hard 'I got Windows 8 but miss Windows 7' brigade. Not least as when you click the Windows 8.1 start button it doesn't pop up the old folder-structured start menu that many people miss so much, but instead it just takes you back to the start screen which those same folk have such a dislike of. Of course, if you right click the start button in Windows 8.1 it does produce a start menu of sorts, with one-click access to …

I use Skype frequently for voip. After I reboot, and for an indefinite time after, everything works fine. But eventually my microphone (Dell built-in) stops working. The party at the other end no longer hears me. It's not just Skype. Windows Sound Recorder doesn't pick up anything. Neither does Audacity. My thinking is that some app is grabbing the device and not releasing it. Is there any way of determining if this is the case? If so, is there a way to determine what app is responsible?

Hi, I am not able to "run as different user" in my windows 7 (domain login) machine. For example if i'm trying to start iexplore (run as diff user) It returns the error : "The system cannot find the file specified". Please help me. thanks in advance.

. Monday - 26-May-'14 - . Using Windows Live Mail - I often send a cc to myself - The message in "Sent Items" is OK. The message in my InBox is BLANK . except for the Address & Subject. . What "options" or "preference" or ??? WhatEver ??? do I need to change to allow me to receive copies of my own sent eMails? . My wife's computer receives the message all OK. .

Problem: [b]Windows Vista/ Windows 7 User Account password corrupt / Forgot password.[/b] IMPORTANT: “DO NOT PERFORM SYSTEM RESTORE FOR THE FOLLOWING ISSUE, BECAUSE IF THIS ISSUE CAUSED AFTER WINDOWS UPDATE THEN THIS ISSUE WILL REOCCUR” SNIP Solution: 1. Boot from the windows vista DVD 2. Get into Windows Recovery Console 3. Open command prompt 4. In command prompt you will find “X:\source>” 5. Change it c: drive using command c: and hit enter 6. Then type “cd windows\system32” without quotes and hit enter, you will get c:\windows\system32> 7. Rename the osk.exe and cmd.exe using following: Type command : [quote]“ren osk.exe …

I am running Windows 7 Ultimate 32-bit. I am now getting a window coming up saying: 'The application was unable to start correctly (0xC0000142)' when I run almost any program. A second click brings that program up normally. My searches on this error number imply that there might be something wrong with the registry, but I do not want to run any kind of registry cleaner until I am sure that is where the problem is. My scans for malware have not turned up anything. If it is the registry what should I use? If it isn't, where do I …

Hi. I have a Windows form and when it loads focus should be on a combo box. This works correctly but the visual indicator (dotted rectangle) does not appear on the combo box though it has focus. I can confirm that the focus is there as I am able to select using the arrow keys. I have tried using combobx.Focus() and combobx.Select() but none of them worked. Can someone please help and advise. Thanks

I have a new windows 7 64bit machine. OS and all software already installed, running swell. But my old 32 bit xp machine has my big, monster file drive with all my music, pix etc. Can I just pop that file drive into the new box? thanks!

Hello all, I have a weird problem. I have created an application in VB.NET 2010 on my PC which runs Windows XP Home Edition SP3. Upon testing my application, I found out that my app does not run on Windows Vista and Windows 7. Just to help, I was searching this site when someone had posted that there is a problem with shapes and file system. By the way, I'm on .NET Framework 4.0 Thanks in advance

Hello Everyone, For an important personal project I am focusing on Vintage Computers Items for Packard Bell. I have tried all around my state for Packard Bell Computers, Master CD, Restore Diskettes, and Documentation. If someone out there will be able to help me, it will be well regarded. Thank you for your time.

so heres the code import pyHook, pythoncom, sys, logging file_log = 'C:\\LogFile\\log.txt' some other non important stuff here so the issue is that everytime i try to run the program it says that pyHook is not a module. I have downloaded it for my system but it still doesnt work, I have also downloaded pyWin. the error says Importerror: No module named pyHook But I installed it correctly from this website http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#pyhook and installed pyHook‑1.5.1.win‑amd64‑py3.3.exe I have win 8 64bit using py3.3 and have an amd processor but it wont work. If anyone knows how to fix this I would …

Burned DVD will NOT play. Err. Msg: "Disc Error", Please eject the disc. Playback feature may not be available on this Disc. PLATFORM: Win7 Pro, XP Three different players external to any server connection give the same basic message. All are less than a year old. Commercial discs play fine. Regardless of type, the discs play fine IN the server but no where else. WHAT'S BEEN TRIED (AND DIDN'T WORK) The same compilation has been retried several times. The compiler's setting has been changed from PAL to NTSC. The DVD+R was changed to DVD-R. (Player Manuf. notes that only the …

Dear, I am using windows 7 32 bit directly connected. i want to conenct my other machine running windw 8 ( 64 bit) to windows 7. where , windows 7 = directly conencted windows 8= on network Kindly help !

I setup Merge Replication between SQL server 2000 and Windows 7 64-bits. It setup successfully and working fine in LAN and WAN. But the replication will fail after run few times successfully in WAN. The error msg :"The process could not not connect to distributor ''. SQL server does not exist or access denied." Please help. Thanks.

Hi all, I have a Windows 7 64 bit client that is running a 32 bit of software and so needs a 32 bit ODBC connection to the database. I of course ignored the Administrative Tools > ODBC manager because that will open the 64 bit and instead went to c:\windows\syswow64\odbcad32.exe to input the system DSN connection. I went through the wizard and when I went to select the database got a message to say the server could not be accessed. I checked on the DB server that the SQL service was running, that the firewall had all necessary ports …

Hi! I bought a new laptop and it brought Windows 8, which I totally and absolutely HATE. It also did not bring a numbers pad, which I need for my work. I have since found out that I could get a numbers pad to use it through the USB ports. The problem is that Win8 for the most part ignores those ports. I cannot use flash drives with it, just as I'm able to do with my old Vista laptop. And researching online, I found the same complaint from other users. I know there is ahack for it, but I …

Hi Guys I just registered my domain with hosting services and all, how can I join my PC running windows 7 ultimate x64 on my domain? Server software? I am Kinda new with this whole level.

Hi. I have a c# project created in Visual Studio 2010. The project runs successfully on Windows XP 32bit but I get an error when building on Windows 7 64bit. The error is as follows: Could not load referenced assembly "C:\WINDOWS\system32\stdole.dll". Caught a FileNotFoundException saying "Could not load file or assembly 'C:\WINDOWS\system32\stdole.dll' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.". When I change the path of the assembly from C:\WINDOWS\system32\stdole.dll to C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Visual Studio Tools for Office\PIA\Common\stdole.dll, the project builds successfully. Can someone please shed some light on this? Thanks

Hello; I got some kind of infection or something last week, which caused my virus software not to update, and finally my computer to totally crash and would not reboot. I successfully recovered my system from an image (it was one level up of messy from actual system restore - which never works, why is that?). Now explorer.exe crashes and restarts whenever I right click on files in explorer (not folders, they work as normal). This is true whether I click a file in a folder, or a file appearing over the Windows button. I need the right click for …

i am having a bsnl wll phone model no ct800p with a usb port for connecting the same with my computer operating with windows 7 and while i am trying to connect it for internet it shows the driver not installed and the device manager doesnt shows the modem. How can i add my modem with the OS WIN7. If possible how can i download the modem driver files free of cost from internet. Viswanathan.R.Elayidom

one of my computers has this problem. All r configured the same way. W7, one user, **Admin**, on C drive All other users on D drive All systems r up to date. Network printer hard wired to router. All have the same printer drivers installed. I believe the following symptoms r correct, but I may have missed something. It is all very confusing. Logged on as a std or admin user (not **Admin**) When I try to print from this one, from Word, Excel, Outlook, Wordpad, or a PDF file the job flashes in the print queue for 1/2 sec …

I know with linux when I want to change the color code I can type in echo -e \033[COLORm] Is there an easy way like this to change the color in windows scripting. I tried @echo off REM This program will list all the colors REM Selected by user input set /p color=Enter the color you would like to use to display the sentence Hello World: if %color% == [Blue] color 01 Echo "Hello World" Pause Exit 0 Why can't I simply type in color followed by the code But I had no luck, I'm still new at this. Any …

hello friend.... i got problem here, im trying to reformat my hp 4-1035TU ultrabook, but it didnt show any partition for my computer and its ask for driver. someone know how to solve this issue??

i cannot install microsoft .net framework on my laptop. please help :) this is on the log file: OS Version = 6.1.7600, Platform 2 OS Description = Windows 7 - x86 CommandLine = C:\cd9eff67eee9832dce41e970dae2\\Setup.exe /x86 /x64 TimeZone = Pacific Standard Time Initial LCID = 1033 Using Simultaneous Download and Install mechanism Operation: Installing Package Name = Microsoft .NET Framework 4 Setup Package Version = 4.0.30319 User Experience Data Collection Policy: Disabled Number of applicable items: 10 Exe (C:\cd9eff67eee9832dce41e970dae2\SetupUtility.exe) succeeded. Exe Log File: dd_SetupUtility.txt ServiceControl operation succeeded! Exe (C:\cd9eff67eee9832dce41e970dae2\Windows6.1-KB958488-v6001-x86.msu) failed with 0xc8000222 - (null). Final Result: Installation failed with error code: …

Hi - Some time ago I upgraded the old box (Alzheimers in the hardware) and jumped to W7HPx64. The new box has an i5-2400 CPU, FWIW. My problem is that it came with VisualC++ 2005 and 2008, but nothing later. VC++ 2008 has two x64 files and one x86 file. And, as usual, I need to add new versions. But, when I look through Microsoft's VC++ pages, it's confusing. Apparently, it's only for x86. But I can get VC++ 2010 SP1 which gives me a vcredist_x64 file? And there are some other updates, including a Security Update... So {what|which files} …

Windows 7 system has a default administrator account that is created during the installation of Windows 7 or setup already for you on a OEM (ex: Dell) computer. By default, the built-in administrator account is named Administrator, and is disabled. Log as that account you will have complete access to the computer and can make any desired changes and will not be prompted by UAC. [B]This will show you how to enable Windows 7 default administrator account[/B] Warning: if you enable the built-in Administrator account, it is recommended to create a password for it to help keep it secured. [B]Option …

my computer has user admin whic i have not created at all and same time i was attoltted as a guest user, by this till tody i login as guest, even after cliking on admin user id dose not ask for any password and desktop gose whitish, i think my computer has been hacked, even i can not access my D Drive with showing message that i am not admisible to do so because of User Admin.

Hi, I am trying to get Outlook 2007 to work on one account. At present three users have email accounts. Two are working properly. One is not. The not working account opens and then goes into a Not Responding state. It worked earlier in the day. The computer is a Dell 490 running Windows 7 Pro 64 bit. There is also a problem with Word 2007 which won't open document files. Detect and Repair has been used and cannot find a fault either with Office or the PC. Microsoft's Search for a solution option pops up when Outlook as a …

Good day all, and thank you for this awesome site! Please could you help? I have an app that I regularly improve, and have sold to many clients. Until just befoire Windows 7 all was fantastic, but now I am running into security / access errors! My app would check for a newer version when connected to the internet. if one is available, it would ask the user to update. Then, my app would copy the new exe to app path, tne run a batch that will delete the existing exe, and rename the new exe to same name as …

I made great progress this morning in resolving a number of problems that were plaguing my Win7 laptop. It was difficult to find good info about how to resolve these problems. I can provide more details if anyone needs them. Here are the bare bones: * **High CPU** There are a number of common programs that churn the CPU. These are known problems but the Software companies don't seem to care. **CONDUIT Search Protect** From what I've read, this is almost like a virus. Softronic Download service has an agreement with them and include this in their 'Express' downloads. If …