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Well I'm about to either uninstall windows7. Getting very annoyed with this whole network, file sharing, and print sharing. Wish I could click 2 buttons, Then poof I can print and share files. Guess not seeing that home group is Win7 Only. Here's what I got. Computer A(MX2): Is running xp...

Can anyone tell me what the default Path in windows 7 64 bit is???? My mistake i deleted what stod there before.. Its under my computer properties advanced systemconfig I need the default code otherwise i need to reinstall windows

Hi, I have been unable to find a solution to this problem. I have 2 active networks, one through a router and another directly from a modem, I would like to make the router connection the primary one. Right now every time I enable the 2nd NIC or turn on the modem and the 2nd network become...

I just purchased a new Windows 7 PC (HP Pavalion e9280t, Windows 7 64-bit operating system). I would like to put the PC into sleep mode after 1 hour of activity. However, after the PC goes to sleep, after I wake it up, whenever I attempt to open any program or application at that point, the PC...

ive been racking my head over this one... i recently upgraded my desktop to win7 pro 64bit.. everything works fine and all but for the life of my my laptop which has xp pro sp3 is unable to print on the shared printer i have setup on my desktop.. this is how its setup.. samsung ml-2010 is...

Local Networking Judging by the number of requests in this forum (mine included), it's not as straight forward as uSoft would have us believe to set up a local network in Windows 7. This is my solution to my problem which prevented me from accessing a newly purchased Laptop - unbeknown to me...

Take it for what it's worth...This is from CNNMoney Website. What code (under advanced settings) are they talking about? Is it "custom install"? That isnt a "code". What is the "code" and where does one type it in? Users of the new operating system say the upgrading process is buggy...

Hi everyone! i am using Windows 7 professional. i wanted to install Linux, using unetbootin. in fact unetbootin creates a boot option and we have to choose that option to install Linux. After installation, when we boot Windows unetbootin promts to uninstall and it also removes boot option for...

I have just recently installed Windows 7 on my laptop that previously had XP on it. The other computers on the network as well as other systems (aka Wii and PS3) all can read on the network, but for some reason my laptop refuses to connect using that WEP key. Is there really an error with the...

I'm trying to setup file sharing between a Windows 7 and Vista. In Windows 7 I go to Network and Sharing Center > Advanced Sharing Settings and check Turn on Network Discovery and Turn on File and Printer Sharing, however whenever I click save settings it doesn't apply. I go back to Advanced...

Hello, this community is real cool and smoothened out my test transition to Win7.. But I've had a prob that wont go away, here it goes: Im currently running Windows 7 build 7600 ver 090713-1255 x64. I've configured my Windows 7 homegroup with other PCs in the network on my Thomson Speedtouch...

I'd love to set this machine up like I had with XP and a touch screen. There was an advanced tab on settings that included a drop down box so that I could adjust scrollbar size, text, icon sizes etc. Win 7 have this config tool?

This may be easy for someone, but for me...I'm stumped. I had xp pro 64 bit on my system then loaded Win7...all was fine at Boot time. Then my trial of xp pro was about to expire so I loaded another 64 bit xp on my 3rd partition. When I tried to Boot it automaticly went to the ltest version of...

I've got Win7 beta 7100 networking with a public wireless network and a private LAN. I have two network adapters. The wireless network has to be set to obtain an IP automatically. In order to enable Internet access via the wireless network and file sharing via LAN, the IP on the LAN adapter has...

Hey, I need to know if it is possible to turn off ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface) in Windows 7. I know this was possible in XP and wonder if im able to do it with 7. Your help will be greatly appreciated! ------ Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate 6.1.7000 Build 7000 Sony VAIO laptop

I bought an HP laptop and installed Windows 7, 64-bit in order to test it. I've noticed something rather annoying with the power options which may be a bug in the software that others are experiencing as well. Allow me to explain my situation: I use my laptop at work and connect an external...

Ok, So I've been having the Ethernet disconnecting. I often was when I had multiple applications running at a time, getting Webpages/Streaming/downloading from the net. Haven't had a chance to try LAN yet. so dunno if that would have done it too. But the Ethernet would disconnect, In the Start...

Hi, I have an annoying issue with the Window animation (maximising / minimising) option in Advanced settings. Basically I like the glass / transparency / aero peek functions but window animation drives me nuts and slows things down. I turned it off soon after install, but occasionally it just...

Hi all, I came to this forum in order to get a solution for my problem. As many know and some would know now, when the drivers are not available for Windows 7, the NIC will just return a APIPA i.e., 169.x.x.x IP. We all thought this is a driver issue, but how do we find whether it is a driver...

I'm trying to work out how to change the location of user folders both for existing users and for new users. Basically, I have a OS partition with OS and programs, and a data partition that I want to store all data on! Please help, as so far I'm stumped! I also want to completely remove the...