In the address bar in any explorer window, whenever I click on the down arrow, or start typing in a url or file location, a history of all previous locations and urls appears. How do I remove this history? Note that I am not talking about Internet Explorer address history - this is in a folder window. I've tried using deleting history using internet explorer and a bunch of software available on...

I know how to turn on the Windows Sidebar in Vista -- but, is it possible to do that in Win 7? Many thanks for any help!

In the last few days everytime I press the Enter Key, Windows Media Center Opens up. Ive tried all I can think of to try and get it to quit, but still nothing. Any suggestions? -thnx

Every time I fire up the computer it prints a test page on the Laserjet 2200. I have my laptop and the wife's desktop on a home network. Is there something in a startup menu that I can disable? Running Vista on the laptop, XP Pro on the desktop.

my laptop had a crash and i sent it for a repair service.. but i receive the laptop with a blank screen after loading.. im able to load things like internet explorer but im not able to go in 'my computer' or any system related folders..

Hi! A weird problem. I used to have 3 USB disks (dynamic GPT) running fine under Vista Ultimate. Then I made a fresh Windows 7 Home Premium install. Noticing that it didn't recognise my disks (and other problems as well), I decided to go back to Vista Ultimate (using Windows.old). But now the original Vista Ultimate installation didn't recognise them either! They have status Invalid in Disk...

Hi all, I am using windows vista. I cannot run divx AVI file in my media player. Please advice me. The error message is " this type file cannot run' Pls help With thanks Pol

I've read that in Vista, there is no way to turn off Autoupdate in Java SE. With XP you could do it in Control Panel. I have Vista with the latest Java SE. I could find nothing in Control Panel. There is no Java icon in the System Tray - if there was, I could set up the autoupdates from there. Is there still no way to turn off the Java Autoupdate in Vista? It's possible I will have to wait...

Hello, I noticed in my explorer there is a Q drive. local disk When i click on it it says access is denied I have no usb drives in. When i bring up computer management I see a blank volume which is 39 mb anyone know what this is? thanks

I am helping somebody fix their PC (Vista Home Premium on a Gateway laptop) via Windows Remote Assistance. The first time that we used it (after some success), after a planned restart, I couldn't reconnect and the remote user's keyboard would result in gibberish (e.g. type one letter, get something totally different on the screen). We needed to rebuild the PC anyway, so this just prompted us to...

Hi All I just got the new updates for my Vista Biz OS. Problem is that it won't show the name of the updates that it is going to install, it just shows that they are 5. Now, I need to know *what* I am installing before I do that, right?

A guest wants to use his company laptop to print on our network. How is that done if his computer is not part of our domain? He would need no other netowrk access than to the printer. I tried adding the printer as a network printer using \\10.10.x.x I also added it as a local printer then tried to add a TCP/IP port of 10.10.x.x but neither recognized the IP address. This procedure worked...

I have a shortcut on my desktop for a My Book external hard drive (F:), which opens all the saved files on it (i.e., pictures, music and videos). It has worked fine up until recently. When I click on it now, it opens partially (you can see the bottom and side scroll bars), but then it hangs and i get the message "not responding". i get the usual 3 options to close the program, wait for it to...

I cannot locate a NG for my question. I am new to this movie editing stuff and realize this may not be the place to ask, I'm sure someone can point me in the right direction. Using Windows Movie Maker I am attempting to make a video movie brighter/lighter as it is very dark. I have read the MovieMaker Help Webpage and can see this can be done but after reading it numerous times and many...

Hello. I have a problem, that on Windows-7, I see the folder with the full path, but I cannot copy+paste them (each subfolder is seperated, as it is a component, and I want to copy the folder as old phasion style, I.e c:\program\files\windows) Thanks :)

Hi, I am trying to set up the Remote Desktop Web Connection but all I am getting is a blank page after entering the password for my Router Configuration manager. It never asks for the Active X to be run. I have installed the Remote Desktop Web Connection program and the security update and opened Ports 80 and 3389 on both my router and firewall. Anybody have any ideas what I am doing wrong,...

Hello, sorry if this is posted in the wrong topic. I require some assistance please. My laptop was on the other day and I left it on it's screensaver to go do some jobs around the house and then I returned about a half hour later to find this message on my screen. "*_Windows_Boot_Manager_* Windows failed to start. A recent hardware or software change might be the cause. To fix the problem:

I'm trying to move some custom shortcuts from my "User" profile Start Menu to the "All Users" profile Start Menu. Unfortunately, all of the folders in Vista that contain what appears to be the "All Users" profile Start Menu give an "access denied" error when I click them. Where is the Vista equivalent to the Win XP's "All Users" profile Start Menu?

What to think about SR app's? Depends on who you ask. To me, it is just an alternative way to create text. Some advantages, some disadvantages over the regular keyboard way of creating text. There are two modern speech app's that Vista users can