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I'm running Windows 7 Pro on a Dell Inspiron 1720. I have desktop slideshow enabled and pointed to a folder of my favourite pictures. Occasionally I will force a switch to the next picture from the desktop context menu item "Next desktop background" which appears between the "NVIDIA control panel" …

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Hello! After moving the router and making my stationary computer "Wireless" - that is to say giving it an wireless network (A LevelOne WNC-0305USB connected to an Asus RT-N16). Just few days ago, I got loads of problems with slow internet connection and sometimes it kicks me from the network, …

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please help my computer has a problem it is a Toshiba's computer the problem is i cant connect with the internet, when i open wireless, it says connected but in fact it's not so can anybody help me with this problem thank you for your help

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hi all, i was asking my lecturer about how to make a batch file which can only be executed and not viewed and he told me that i should try to package it, does anyone know anything about that?

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We want to do Travel Planner as our major project. Can we take information of the route define by the user in google maps??

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I'm having the same problem described in this, unresolved, thread on MS ANSWERS: [url]http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-hardware/mouse-scrolling-stuck-with-wireless-mouse-windows/ad41e351-d5f3-4a31-98f3-018e81dd3e9e[/url] I have a MS Wireless Laser Mouse 6000 v2.0. Windows 7 Professional 64-bit. Most dropdown controls and scrollbars will behave as if the mouse button is being held down. I should note the keyboard will often …

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Upon booting up my laptop today, Avast started showing me an alert for a "Malicious URL" even though I had no applications started and had not yet performed any actions. The popup message indicated that the site trying to be reached was 68.178.232.99/wpad.dat and the process trying to reach it …

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Hi, still worry about the speed of your [url=http://www.laptopspark.com]netbook[/url]? There are some tips which can help you speed up your netbook without uprading it. A few software setting can lead to massive performance gains. Yes, you can start here: Run a virus scan regularly Most of us will consider that …

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i tried to setup a wifi network using my samsung wave S8500 phone through the mobile AP setting. however when i tried to connect it to my windows vista laptop it showed that the access was 'local only'. On further investigation I realized that the IPv4 connection was local and …

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[rant] Its so damed confusing and difficult to use. I spent three days trying to install something on my Fedora 11 machine that would take me no more than about 10 minutes in Vista (or any other version of MS-Windows). As an example: wxWidgets. I couldn't even successfully compile their …

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Hi all. I have long been a fan of AVG free but recently it has been causing headaches. 3 times now my windows 7 ultimate 64bit laptop has been unable to start up correctly. I have had to boot it into safe mode and uninstall AVG free in order to …

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Hi guys, thought this info would be useful. A new malware or virus named Windows Simple Protector gets auto installed in the system. It shows some fake scan results and forces you to purchase the application. When this program is running, all other programs are closed and nothing can be …

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I recently bought a second-hand Vaio VGN-TX5XN laptop from which the original hard drive had been removed. I have several other identical models which have served me well and whose components I have freely swapped around. On first acquiring the latest TX5XN, I put in a hard drive from another …

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Hey guys, Can anyone tell me what I missed in the following code? I've tried everything that came up to my mind, but I can't pass this error. Let me give you some context. My friend and I are making this program that is supposed to send message through command …

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Tomorrow I have to recover some information for someone on a non-working computer running windows 7. I can't get to safe mode, get it to boot normally or do a working startup repair, but I can get to the command prompt using a program I have. How would I use …

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I keep on getting an error message " the internet has stopped working, a problem has caused the program to start properly, windows will close the program and notify you if a solution is available" but when I right click on the internet Icon on the taskbar and click on …

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I have a BYO computer and it has been running great with windows vista ultimate x64. It has a Phenom II x4 945 processor and 8 gigs of ram and Radeon HD 4850 1GB DDR3. I'm trying to update to windows 7 ultimate x64 and it installs correctly until I …

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Hello everybody! I have a Dell vostro 1520 (OS: Win 7) with no internal mic, and used a headset. I used VoIP and even speech recognition on my system. But all of a sudden the microphone doesn't work. The mic is recognized but when I tested it with sound recorder …

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Running Windows 7 on an HP p6644n desktop. Whenever I re-boot, I get the following error message: [I][B]Please set registry key HKLM\Software\Microsoft/.NETFramework\InstallRoot to point to the .NETFramework install location[/B][/I] This is affecting my printer connection as well as other operations. When I troubleshoot the problem, I get a message saying …

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i recently instaled windows 7 but it frequently restarts and sometimes de screen flickers. before i had windows xp and it didn't have any problems. also windows doesn't see one of my partitions. i have 2 hdd split in 5 partitions. it also gave me a blue screen once and …

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Alright, I concede that I need some expert help with this one. I've spent hours on Google just to find suggestions that don't work or make the problem worse. Here's the scoop. I filmed a movie for a drama class I was teaching, and then used the Windows movie maker …

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I have a laptop--Gateway P-6860fx. The operating system is Windows Vista. I was using my computer. It froze. I hit CTRL+ALT+DELETE. This message came on-- Logon process has failed to create the security options dialog Failure-Security Options I clicked OK. The screen became blank. The computer was unresponsive. I unplugged …

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I've run java programs in Command Prompt before and it worked, but today I tried and it's saying: 'javac' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. I am running Windows Vista and have four (4) files under Java: jdk1.6.0_23 jdk1.6.0_24 jre1.6.0 jre6 Umm, …

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I have a Hp pavillion dv 2000. My harddrive crashed recently and i purchased a new one and installed it. I put in my windows vista cd, and it comes up fine. The installation starts up fine and around 50 percent in.. this happens to the computer- [IMG]http://i51.tinypic.com/1zeuzjb.jpg[/IMG] Please help …

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I backed up a Vista 32 bit system to 2 USB flash drives using "Windows Easy Transfer" After I had performed the backup, I re-installed Windows and installed all of the updates. Now I want to recover my user data. When I plug in Flash Drive #1 I get a …

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Dear friends. I have a Windows 7 Ultimate x64. Y run a system check up on my computer every day, but today as I open the command windows it said that was disable by the administrator. I'm the administrator so, how can I re-enable the command window the way it …

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Hello all, I am have a text file with a list of windows services. Is there a way to check if the computer I'm working on has a specific service installed(Currently Win7 but needs to work for Vista and XP too? I want to do something like this: [CODE]bool found …

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Hi - quick question, if I have Windows XP 32bit running on a computer can you upgrade to Windows 7 64bit Ultimate just by buying the Upgrade package from a site? Or do you need, say a basic version of Windows 7 before you upgrade?

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About a month ago I bought a brand new HP Pavilion DV7. Everything was working great until this week. It started slowing down, freezing for a couple of seconds, being slow when starting and as I was browsing the web today, Windows suddenly shut down to a point where a …

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I have windows 7 installed in my laptop.Can I install Linux as well keeping windows 7 as it is?If yes how to do it?And once I installed it, will I be able to set separate security settings to the two?

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Hi all, I re-post my previous thread I sent 2 days ago, because I am still having this problem with a php email application: the code works fine, sends email messages and picks up the attachment and its path as well, but instead of placing the attachment to the attachment …

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hi i want to block some sites so that my younger siblings can't access them , how to do that?

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I have a 4-yr-old Sony Vaio laptop with a Blu-Ray player/CD burner combo. It stopped playing a few months ago and my laptop is out of warranty. Besides, the dealer where I purchased it is 90-minute drive one way (I'll never do that again!) I'm running Windows Vista. The device …

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I am running Excel 2007 on Windows 7 Ultimate Edition 64-bit. I was sent a spreadsheet which uses the earlier Excel format (97 to 2003). I can open and edit it fine, but when I save I get a message saying that I am using features which are not compatible …

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Hello, I need to bypass the administrator password on a Vista PC: disable it/reset it. Additional problems: This must be done in the same session, as the machines have Deep Freeze. This also means I can't boot other OS. What could work is booting off a cd/dvd/usb, getting the password …

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I'm having a problem with the backup for Windows 7. I get an error message "The backup application could not start due to an internal error. Class not registered (0x80040154)" I recently installed Windows 7 on a new hard drive, I'm backing up to a new external hard drive.(both 1TB) …

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I am trying to rework some older code for Windows Vista and 7 (and other platforms as possible). I have almost all the source code (C and C++) but my developer did not make it clear which code was used to compile and link to make the 32 bit executable …

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I'm about to [URL="http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/whats-included-in-windows-7-service-pack-1-sp1"]install SP1 for Windows 7[/URL], it seems like it includes a lot of already-installed improvements but it also promises to include "improvements to features and services in Windows 7, such as improved reliability when connecting to HDMI audio devices, printing using the XPS Viewer, and restoring previous …

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hey guys.. i have a Dual core althon 2.2ghz abit motherboard 2gig ddr2 800 1tb 250gigs 160 gigs graphics cards 1 DVD Writer and ps 400w 2 fans when i turn my pc it boots but when the log in screen of windows comes it shuts down by itself.. i …

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I am getting several BSOD's, and it is very random. I dont know what i have to do. Please help me. I have got system_services_exception, page fault in non-paged area, klif.sys, win32k.sys, ntfs,sys BSOD's. Please help me and tell me what i should be doing. Thanks in advance :) Crash …

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PC - Dell Studio XPS with Vista. This would, quite rarely, give a BSOD - which as you probaly know can be, to put it mildly, a bit "annoying". I upgraded to Win7, partly in the hope of fixing this. It didn't. I now get either a BSOD, a spontaneous …

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I don't know why my window 7 (64 bit licence) ask to restart window explorer . what wrong with this window . help me !!

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Hi, i'm trying to write a batch file that that copy the 10 first lines from a text file (myfile.txt) and paste it to an existing file(target.txt) at the top of the text. So i tried this after searching in google but it doesn't work as i want. [CODE]@echo off …

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My Samsung R159 won't startup. It was working perfectly this morning before I left my house - before I left I put the laptop to sleep and wasn't in the charger. When I came home I turned it on, during the loading screen just before the login screen, it went …

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This is the message I got when I turn on my laptop: LoadKey failed with error 1392(STHIVE #0). After I click on the ok button, the start up repair cannot repair the problem after attempting. The resulting problem is given as below: Problem signature: Problem Event Name: StartupRepairV2 Problem Signature …

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I have this problem since 3 months. When I turn on my laptop (toshiba A215 s4807) only cooler starts and nthing more (no display, hdd etc.) so I have to wait like 10 minutes with laptop turned on like that and than turn it of an turn on again and …

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If I open any webpage in IE it will only open in half size I have toclick the button to open it to full page

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running vista with all service packs installed,my problem is when I start the pc from cold will not boot up,if i press the restart button it will boot no problem and works fine any help please

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Hi All, I have an office desktop using xp. Recently I bought a laptop running Windows 7. I set the laptop up for the wireless router ... no problem there, the internet is visible, but I can't see my xp machine, which is connected to the router by network cable. …

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