A Windows XP help forum. PCbanter

If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the FAQ by clicking the link above. You may have to register before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below.

Go Back   Home » PCbanter forum » Microsoft Windows 7
Site Map Home Register Authors List Search Today's Posts Mark Forums Read Web Partners

Post New Thread
Threads in Forum : Windows 7 Forum Forum Tools Search this Forum Feed Icon
  Rating Thread Reverse Sort Order / Thread Starter Last Post Replies Views
"Desktop icons" folder by Stan Brown
I've got Win 7 Home Premium with Aero on a Dell laptop, and have started doing some customizations. I have a folder on my desktop called "Desktop Icons". I...
November 11th 10 02:23 PM
by Paul Go to last post
3 459
"Desktop Recoverey" : Can't Make It Work. by (PeteCresswell)
Running fine on my XP machine... greatest thing since sliced bread. First time I tried to install it on the 7 machine, I mistakenly installed the 32-bit...
November 9th 13 12:19 PM
by J. P. Gilliver (John) Go to last post
4 925
"Desktop" window in Win 98, Win XP, Vista, Windows 7, etc. ? by Dr J R Stockton[_7_]
When my WinXP PC was set up, it had, by request, a window in which the title bar read "Desktop" in non-bold and there was only a Close button. The body of the...
January 30th 14 11:57 PM
by Dr J R Stockton[_7_] Go to last post
7 478
"DISK n": How to force assignment? by (PeteCresswell)
Rebuilding a Windows 7 PC. Lots of drives, so I want some rhyme/reason to the names/drive# assignments. I seem to have stumbled in to making the System Drive...
(Multi-page thread 1 2)
October 12th 16 12:04 AM
by Brian Gregory Go to last post
16 676
"Do you want to allow the following program to make changes to thiscomputer" by D[_3_]
I recently installed Win 7 on a new build. I had run Vista briefly in BETA, hated it went back to XP. I understand the aim of UAC, as well as the levels at...
(Multi-page thread 1 2)
March 29th 11 10:53 AM
by Flint[_2_] Go to last post
19 579
"Error Editing Value" by OREALLY
I'm trying to remove (edit out) all WMP context menus but some give me this message: "Error writing the value's new contents." (I think I brought this up...
July 4th 15 02:19 AM
by Paul Go to last post
2 402
"failed insufficient permissions" by john
I am running Windows 7 Home Premium SP 1 Lately I have been getting the above message, "failed insufficient permissions", when trying to delete some photos....
March 1st 14 07:55 AM
by VanguardLH[_2_] Go to last post
5 552
"FDISK" type Tool With Winows 7 by [email protected]
Hi, I have been using Windows 7 for a short time. I still use older Windows OSs such as XP and 98se. Does Win7 have a "FDISK" (Win98) type tool that...
(Multi-page thread 1 2)
August 7th 14 12:24 AM
by Gene E. Bloch[_2_] Go to last post
25 1,071
"Fix it" Life-cycle by Dick K
Microsoft sometimes release temporary "Fix it" solutions to urgent problems in advance of corresponding patches. Is there any rule governing whether or at what...
June 23rd 12 09:58 PM
by s|b Go to last post
9 618
"gaming" hybrid hard drives? by Aj St. Johns
I've recently been considering updating one of my desktops to use a SSD drive. Problem is the expense. For a 500 GB drive, the costs I'm seeing are still a...
December 18th 16 08:26 AM
by Char Jackson Go to last post
4 344
"Get Windows 10" Icon On TaskBar: How To Get Rid of It? by (PeteCresswell)
I had disabled Windows Update service and Background Intelligent Transfer Service, but still wound up with this scary "Get Windows 10" icon on the system's...
November 11th 15 05:57 AM
by Char Jackson Go to last post
4 463
"Go/NoGo" on Thunderbird live links by Tony
In XP, live links in Thunderbird emails were "click and go". In Windows 7, they *look* live (correct highlighting) and right clicking on them has the "Open...
December 11th 14 12:07 AM
by John Aldred Go to last post
3 353
"God Mode" in Windows 7 by Stan Brown
While searching for answers to the "Desktop Icons folder" problem I just posted, I ran across an interesting article at Cnet called "Understanding Windows...
(Multi-page thread 1 2 3)
August 10th 11 09:55 PM
by Gene E. Bloch[_2_] Go to last post
44 592
"Gorilla" USB flash drive painfully slow by Aj St. Johns
Within the last year, I picked up a couple of these "rugged" drives to use with both my Linux and Win 7 OS. The big issue I've noticed with them is that...
December 20th 16 03:02 PM
by PAS[_2_] Go to last post
13 531
"GPT Protective Partition"? by J. P. Gilliver (John)[_4_]
A friend has just bought an external drive - 500G, from Tesco; nothing special! It doesn't show up in normal explorer, so presumably isn't formatted. When...
(Multi-page thread 1 2)
February 25th 17 05:52 PM
by Mr Pounder Esquire Go to last post
18 955
"Hide empty drives in my computer folder" by Derek[_5_]
If there's no disc inserted on my D: drive, the drive doesn't appear in my "computer folder", even when I leave the "Hide empty drives in my computer folder"...
(Multi-page thread 1 2 3)
October 22nd 10 12:55 AM
by Gene E. Bloch[_2_] Go to last post
41 536
"Hide extensions of known file types" won't stay unchecked by nukid
"Hide extensions of known file types" won't stay unchecked on a fresh OEM install of Windows 7. It did stay unchecked with previous versions of Windoze (XP,...
(Multi-page thread 1 2)
March 30th 13 10:34 PM
by Dave-UK Go to last post
17 983
"I understand...why Anonymous hounds you...You have an ugly attitudeDustin" by Anonymous
http://al.howardknight.net/msgid.cgi?STYPE=msgid&A=0&MSGI=+%3CXnsA1B480DD3FA0AB7Z317AGDTEHHI8AJ283%40127.0.0.1%3E https://tinyurl.com/ycwnryua "Signe"...
March 11th 19 06:30 PM
by Anonymous Go to last post
0 2,002
"Icon Layout Keeper" not working on Windows7. by Peter Jason
I downloaded this for WindowsXP to restore the desktop icons whenever they became scrambled; which was often. Now I find that the desktop in Windows7 has all...
February 22nd 11 12:22 AM
by Gene E. Bloch[_2_] Go to last post
13 318
"In-camera" JPG Files Treated Differently Than "On-disk" JPG Files by croy[_2_]
When I hooked up my wife's digital camera to my Win7 computer, I decided to look at some of the photos before copying any to the Hard Drive. I use IrfanView...
(Multi-page thread 1 2)
October 20th 10 05:43 PM
by Ed Cryer Go to last post
15 381
Post New Thread


Display Options Currently Active Users
Showing threads 21 to 40 of 9555 37 (0 members & 37 guests)
Sorted By Sort Order
From The
Forum Tools Search this Forum
Search this Forum :

Advanced Search

New posts New posts More than 15 replies or 150 views Hot thread with new posts
No new posts No new posts More than 15 replies or 150 views Hot thread with no new posts
Closed Thread Thread is closed  
 
Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

vB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off






All times are GMT +1. The time now is 05:34 PM.


Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.6.4
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.
Copyright ©2004-2024 PCbanter.
The comments are property of their posters.