windows 7

Windows 7 goes End of Life on Tuesday 14JAN2020. No more updates and patches unless you've paid for the corporate extension. I take it everyone is prepared?

I have Windows 7 and two commands have not been working for months now. I can't call up the Task Manager nor can I do a Screen Capture. 1. Ctrl+Alt+Delete does nothing anymore. I can bring up the Task Manager by searching for it and it does work that way but it is a hassle. 2. Ctrl+PrtSc no...

Windows 7 and Virtual PC are incompatible with the AMD multi-core processors. There is a "Hot Fix" available but after trying the fixes here, (except for the hot fix) my machine is working weird--I am continually having to re-activate a window that I am working in, even though I uninstalled the...

So I had to rebuild the OS and after I did that I started getting a BSOD, associated with Norton. I got Norton free with XFinity's "Constant Guard", Not too thrilled with it, and I downloaded Malwarebytes for a trial. Seems good enough. Now the trial has ended and all I have left is the...

Okay, this post is mostly a vent and plea for sympathy since I've got the problem under control (excepting one oddity which you'll hear more about later), but any advice -- other than "get a Mac", "get Linux", and the like -- is more than welcome. Computer details: I'm running Windows 7...

Since the update a few days ago, my mouseover tooltips in things now take forever to go away. Also the start menu task bar is sometimes nonresponsive. Windows 7, anyone else experiencing this? My work comp, with XP, also updated that day, doesn't have the same issue.

So this may seem strange, but I've only even bought computers that either ran Linux or had Windows already installed. So I've never bought a Windows disk. I'd like to install Windows 7 as a virtual machine on a computer that's running Ubuntu. Does anyone have experience with this? Is it...

OK, so I have a new computer for the store, which is great because I have a crapload of problems with this present machine. So I've been tweaking it for setup to replace this old computer. The old machine is a Windows XP machine, the new unit is Windows 7. Fine and dandy but today I went...

Yesterday, I had to do my first system restore on my PC and alles gut but one weird thing has begun to occur- every five seconds or so, my cursor blinks and I get the cursor pointer with the CD/DVD icon attached. It's not a catastrophic problem but it kind of makes me feel like it's disturbing...

Am I the only one who is thoroughly irritated by the way Win 7 organises (or disorganises) files? Why does it display all the files in a sub-folder aggregated with all those in the root? How can I tell whether a file is in the folder or in the root? Then, when I want to open another file...

This normally happens with Warner Brothers CDs: http://www.windows7update.com/warner-brothers-cd-distortion-and-windows-7.html All of my WB CDs have failed to play or rip properly on the new computer. I just shrugged it off, since I have an older computer that can rip those CDs. The files then...

Saturday night I got done working, and shut down my machine, and turned power off at the strip Sunday, it wouldn't boot. Tried the "Repair" function (Without the disk) IT would come up to the login screen, but keyboard was functionless. Replaced keyboard. No change, Tried to boot from Norton...

It seems my laptop while accessing the internet fine does not want to play with the other computers on our home network. So I can no longer print from it or use shared drives on desktop machines. The settings are all correct at least in the basic and advanced network settings in the control...

My employer just migrated my work machine from XP to Windows 7. They DID NOT use Microsoft's "Easy Transfer" tool to migrate program settings. Instead, they just made backup copies of everything from the "application data" folder and hoped for the best. :mad: I had made dozens of...

Hello all! I have a problem that perhaps some of you smart, kind people can help out with. I work at a large engineering firm and one of my jobs is to make sure that all of the engineering software runs smoothly. Anyway, now there is a serious move to change all of our PC Operating Systems...

If you click Start and then Games, you'll see a box in the lower right corner that says "Check your computer's Performance Information". Underneath that you'll see "Current System" followed by a number. What's your number? You can also find it in Control Panel by selecting Performance...

My father still faxes things from his computer. He used to like WinFax, but it doesn't seem to be terribly compatible with Windows 7. And, the built-in "Scan and Fax" seems to be inadequate for his needs. Can anyone recommend some good, feature-rich Fax software, for Windows 7?

I put together a completely new computer this weekend and dropped an OEM version of Windows 7 on it. I'd considered buying a pre-built system with Win 7 already installed, but decided it was better to start from scratch. It's hard to make physical upgrades on custom cases like from HP or Dell...

got a new Blu-ray playback +CD/DVD burner. Plextor PX-B-320SA AMD Phenom II/4g memory (PC-8500 DDR II) Graphics ATI Radion 4650, 1g pci e ddr-3 class memory) issue: Trying to play blu-ray disk, power DVD 8, Windows 7 "had to change color scheme back to windows 7" click o0k, shuts program down...

I'm trying to do a clean install of Windows 7. I select the language on one screen, select the time on the next screen, then the screen comes up where I can check the box to accept the license terms. Except I can't check the box! I can move the cursor around, but clicking on the box does...

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/windows-7-family-pack-upgrade,9218.html I think this only encourages piracy. Microsoft finally offers a family pack (3 OS upgrades at a discount price) and then kill it after it sells out. Great move especially when other OSes that consumers could install are...

"Windows 7 'took ideas' from Apple" (And please lets not get into any mac v pc, Apple v Microsoft fanboy crap.) I've been using Windows 7 as my main PC's OS since it was released and my secondary PC is a Mac running OS/X and I have to say I really can't see what MS is meant to have borrowed...

Happy Windows 7 Day Everyone! I have been using it. I love how the superbar looks and acts. I love the feature where if you have clutter you can minimise all other windows by just shaking on the window you want. It is not a bad OS.

Just installed Windows 7 (64bit - Home Premium) on my new PC and I have a few question as and since I know some of you regulars have been using Win 7 for a while what better place to ask some questions*? Search - in Win XP I was using Windows Search and had a toolbar in my taskbar so I could...

Windows 7 has been RC1 for about a week. I'm completely happy with it. Anyone else out there using it?