http://www.pchelpforum.com en Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:23:03 GMT vBulletin 1 http://www.pchelpforum.com/images/styles/pchelpforum/misc/rss.jpg http://www.pchelpforum.com http://www.pchelpforum.com/windows-vista-7/81027-two-questions.html Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:54:03 GMT Just upgraded to a new PC with Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit and I have two questions. The first is how can I disable those annoying security... Just upgraded to a new PC with Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit and I have two questions. The first is how can I disable those annoying security warnings whenever I try to open a .exe or similar file? I never found that useful in XP and I highly doubt 7 will change that.

My second question is how can I make it so that all folders in Windows explorer are viewed as a list? I don't see any *apply to all* feature and its annoying having to change the view every time I open a new folder. ]]> Browncoat1984 http://www.pchelpforum.com/windows-vista-7/81027-two-questions.html http://www.pchelpforum.com/windows-vista-7/81024-installed-epson-cd-now-wont-boot-up-help.html Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:15:30 GMT Hi, my gf just installed a new Epson printer using the cd that came with it and when it completed and she rebooted her laptop, as requested, she gets a message along the lines of 'Computer may not be booted. This may be due to a recent hardware of software. Please insert Windows recover disk'.
i tried the first of the 2 recovery disks that my gf made when the laptop came (the instructions were to do this as it didn't come with a recovery disk)and the screen i got was blank apart from the message: This Pc is not supported by the system recovery disks. You will not be able to continue with these disks'. Just so you know, when we do reboot the laptop, one of the messages reads:
File: /Boot/BCD
Status: 0x000000f
Info: an error occured while attempting to read the boot configuration data.

Is there no way to get into safe mode so i can uninstall the epson software please? ]]> buel10 http://www.pchelpforum.com/windows-vista-7/81024-installed-epson-cd-now-wont-boot-up-help.html http://www.pchelpforum.com/windows-vista-7/81016-black-screen-after-login-into-desktop.html Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:56:40 GMT i just got my win7 and got it install on my PC i got a black screen after it log on to the desktop and i went do some research and found out that ... i just got my win7 and got it install on my PC
i got a black screen after it log on to the desktop
and i went do some research and found out that
it seems like win7 does not match up XFX980GT
graphic card.

does anyone has the same prob as me?

sorry 4 my english:)
]]> yongchuan http://www.pchelpforum.com/windows-vista-7/81016-black-screen-after-login-into-desktop.html http://www.pchelpforum.com/windows-vista-7/81015-vista-freezing-after-2-10-minutes.html Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:35:27 GMT I recently bought a brand new laptop (Toshiba Dynabook, part of the Satellite series) with Vista Home Premium (updated with service pack 2) installed... I recently bought a brand new laptop (Toshiba Dynabook, part of the Satellite series) with Vista Home Premium (updated with service pack 2) installed on it. It had been working fine since I purchased it a month ago, however two days ago it began freezing. It would freeze but audio and video application would still run. Everything would freeze and I'd have to do a hard reboot. If started again it will run from 2 to 10 minutes before this happens again. It will run error free in safe mode, however I cannot connect to the internet while in safe mode. I have tried running it without internet, only battery, no battery, running no programs, etc. but all produce the same effect.

I have read of similar problems on here and tried all that was suggested within them. I tried clearly out the start up of all unnecessary programs, repairing the registry, running antivirus software (AVG and Norton) which found no viruses, turning off ReadyBoot, and updating all the drivers. It is now running slightly longer before freezing now, but it has not stopped the freezing.

I desperately need my computer for work. I can't loose any of the data on it. Any thoughts or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. ]]> Cambert http://www.pchelpforum.com/windows-vista-7/81015-vista-freezing-after-2-10-minutes.html http://www.pchelpforum.com/windows-vista-7/81002-i-am-going-sue-paragon-partition-manager.html Sat, 21 Nov 2009 06:00:15 GMT I just installed the trial for the Paragon Partition Manager, and after reinstalling, THIS is what I get? "BOOTMGR is missing. Press control alt delete to restart"

THE ****

Are you f'ing KIDDING ME? You have NO idea what line you just crossed, Paragon. I am SUEING YOU. In the meantime, could I get some help on this issue, and FAST please?

Ok what if I installed the windows recovery tool onto my USB. What should I do with it?

PLEASE HELP ME!!!! ]]> GravitySphere http://www.pchelpforum.com/windows-vista-7/81002-i-am-going-sue-paragon-partition-manager.html http://www.pchelpforum.com/windows-vista-7/81000-prevent-vista-eating-up-my-memory.html Sat, 21 Nov 2009 05:02:37 GMT I wanted to know why vista keep eating up my memory. I did not install anything. Everytime I look at my memory it keeps getting lower and lower. Is... I wanted to know why vista keep eating up my memory. I did not install anything. Everytime I look at my memory it keeps getting lower and lower. Is there i can prevent it from taking my memory. ]]> gh063 http://www.pchelpforum.com/windows-vista-7/81000-prevent-vista-eating-up-my-memory.html http://www.pchelpforum.com/windows-vista-7/80998-somethign-wrong-my-system.html Sat, 21 Nov 2009 03:47:16 GMT Hi all the expert here, I'm currently running Windows7. Previously Windows Vista, Windows XP.

Recently I'm facing a problem which my system slowing down, getting more and more serious. Whenever I open a file it took me 5-10 second!!!! Also whenever I open a file, msn, any tiny tiny software, my CPU usage will run up to maximum speed.

I have scan my computer, totally free of virus, spyware, malware,worm. I did defragment, scandisk. Everything works fine.

I even reformat my computer for few times. Well, after reformat, it works fine. Means everything is just smooth. After few days, it getting slower and slower, Previously it happen in Windows Vista as well.

Could it be my hard disk is going to dead soon? I haven been using it for 4 years and can it almost open 24/7. Whenever I reboot my system, I can clearly hear the hard disk spinning sound, it sound like something crash on it.

Or something wrong my my RAM or Processor?

I'm really fed-up as I can't do my work and don't know where to look for the solution and has no idea what is going on. I hope you can help me out and thank you in advance!!!! ]]> kivor http://www.pchelpforum.com/windows-vista-7/80998-somethign-wrong-my-system.html http://www.pchelpforum.com/windows-vista-7/80994-problems-vista-theme-other-thngs.html Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:15:37 GMT helloo everyone, hope you can help and make sence of what im asking, my windows vista was working fine till i installed sheild deulex 10 antivirus... helloo everyone, hope you can help and make sence of what im asking, my windows vista was working fine till i installed sheild deulex 10 antivirus then had a blue screen with loads of writing on it then my laptop switches off..anyway went to it next day it came on but the settings were changed?? it changed from windows vista to window classisc and i cant change it back and my google toolbar is missing when im online and it wont let me download another one i did do a restore on it before this happen..thanx if you can help:mrgreen: ]]> drago http://www.pchelpforum.com/windows-vista-7/80994-problems-vista-theme-other-thngs.html http://www.pchelpforum.com/windows-vista-7/80973-dual-boot-win7-xp.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:52:20 GMT I'm having an issue that I was hoping some wise folk here could help me with.

I'll point form the synopsis and everything should make sense:
2 drives (several partitions each)
I had XP installed/working on the first partition of drive 0 and everything else was games/storage/etc.

I bought and installed windows 7 (home premium x64) on the first partition of drive 1 and everything worked great.

I'd boot up and get a menu for loading "windows 7" or "older version of windows"

When i'd boot windows 7 the drive 1 partition would be C: and the partition from xp would become D:

When i'd boot to XP the drive 0 partition would be C: and the windows 7 partition would become D:

exactly as I wanted it. I could boot back to xp and have everything the way it was and I can play around in windows 7 without affecting it.

It has been going well for about a week. (windows 7 has very few problems even with older games and it makes all my games run much smoother).

Today I rebooted after a minor video issue (set resolution wrong and my screen wouldn't work) and now there's no menu for starting XP.

If i set it to boot from drive 0 it just goes into an endless cycle of reboot (which seems to happen JUST before the boot menu appears)
I can set it to treat Drive 1 as the boot drive and then it will just boot to windows 7 without going to a boot menu.

Nothing was installed or changed. since yesterday when it booted fine.

any ideas? ]]> Lem0ns http://www.pchelpforum.com/windows-vista-7/80973-dual-boot-win7-xp.html http://www.pchelpforum.com/windows-vista-7/80971-maximum-memory.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:54:24 GMT I am trying to understand the memory in my PC as I don't think I'm using it all.
I did a system check using a freeware called System Information for Windows (SIW) and this is what I found:

System Summary
Physical Memory 3183 MB Total, 1052 MB Free

Memory Summary
Maximum Capacity 1024 MBytes
Maximum Memory Module Size 2048 MBytes

Slot 1 Capacity 2048 MBytes
Slot 2 Capacity 2048 MBytes

Belarc also suggests
3184 Megabytes Usable Installed Memory

This is where I keep going round in circles.

Usable Installed Memory or Physical Memory 3183 MB Total suggests to me that this is the total amount that the system will use even though it recognizes 4096 MBytes are installed? Is this a true statement.

Someone once suggested that the rest is taken in overhead but I tend not to agree as we are talking about Physical Memory not Allocated/Unallocated Memory.

3184mb is about the total that a 32bit system can use but I have a 64bit system and that leads me to think I'm not getting the full potential.

I would appreciate some input on this

]]> lucianp http://www.pchelpforum.com/windows-vista-7/80971-maximum-memory.html http://www.pchelpforum.com/windows-vista-7/80963-display-driver-nvlddmkm-stopped-responding.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:22:51 GMT This problem started for me a few days ago out of the blue. I hadn't recently installed any new programs or drivers. It began with just the screen freezing for a second and then returning to normal with the error message "Display driver nvlddmkm stopped responding and has successfully recovered." I was running an EVGA NVIDIA 8800GTS 640MB card at the time. Nothing on the computer is overclocked nor has it been. Then the next day the error started to happen more frequently so I upgraded the drivers to the most recent release 191.07 WHQL. After this I started to see a lot of screen artifacts and began to run some diagnostic tools like FurMark, each time I tried to run this it would eventually freeze up the OS, resulting in either a BSOD with nvlddmkm.sys (0x00000116) to blame or just freeze up the screen and never come back until a system reboot. All of the temperatures were always within operating ranges. I tried cleaning out the drivers and installing various releases, as well as pretty much every posted solution I could find, but nothing helped. Attached are some of the pictures of the artifacts I was seeing. I decided to contact EVGA who told me to RMA the card as it was under warranty. Since there were graphic problems in the BIOS they thought it had to be the card malfunctioning and not the drivers, etc.

I thought all would be well and good from here, So i popped in the only spare graphics card I have which is a BFG NVIDIA 6200OC PCI. Unfortunately the problem continued to some degree. I no longer have the graphic artifacts, but I am still getting the "Display driver nvlddmkm stopped responding and has successfully recovered." error whenever I try to do anything even minimally graphics intensive, for example looking though the pictures I posted at a fast pace, or even run the Windows Vista performance rating diagnostic. I decided to go ahead and do a fresh install of Vista, and even with that I am still getting the error message. Note that the OS was current with all updates in both cases.

I was hoping it was simply a defective graphics card, but even with a new card and a clean install of the OS, I am still getting the error message. All of the images are from when the 8800GTS was installed. I have done all the basic stuff like checking the HDD, RAM, virus scan, etc. Does anyone have any thoughts as to what could be causing this problem? Please let me know if any other information might be helpful.

Thanks,
KevSC1

DXDiag can be viewed here: Share Text simply - ShareText.org

Images of the artifacts:










System Specs:

Motherboard: Asus Striker Extreme
Processor: Intel Core 2 Quad Core Q6600 @2.4GHz
Memory: 4GB Patriot (2 x 2GB) DDR2 800, PDC24G6400ELK
Hard Drive: 2x Samsung 500GB HD501LJ, and 2x Samsung 500GB HD501LJ in Raid 1
Graphics Card: BFG NVIDIA 6200OC 256MB PCI (Was EVGA NVIDIA 8800GTS 640MB PCIe)
OS: Windows Vista 32-Bit SP2
Sound Card: Onboard, SoundMax
Power Supply: Thermal Take 700W W0106RU
Cooling: Swiftech H20-120 CPU Cooling Kit With Apogee GT
Monitor: Acer 22" Widewcreen X223W, Running at 1680x1050
Browser: FF/IE8
Optical: 2x LITE-ON DVD-RW SATA LH-20A1L ]]> KevSC1 http://www.pchelpforum.com/windows-vista-7/80963-display-driver-nvlddmkm-stopped-responding.html http://www.pchelpforum.com/windows-vista-7/80951-hello-problem-here-windows-explorer.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:47:34 GMT Hi. Here's a little video of what exactly keeps happening:

100_8225.flv video by pezoids - Photobucket

Windows loads up, then states that Window Explorer has stopped working, then windows explorer is restarting. This keeps happening over and over.

Windows will not start, tried several Restores, still nothing...

Running Vista 32 bit OS.

Any idea what I can do here?

Thanks in advance,

stirgy

:smash: ]]> stirgy http://www.pchelpforum.com/windows-vista-7/80951-hello-problem-here-windows-explorer.html http://www.pchelpforum.com/windows-vista-7/80937-pictures-were-destroyed-after-upgrade-win7.html Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:12:26 GMT i recently upgraded my Windows vista business to windows 7 pro... when i transfered my pictures from an external hard-drive, they were all messed up... i recently upgraded my Windows vista business to windows 7 pro... when i transfered my pictures from an external hard-drive, they were all messed up (as in contrast, a part of a pic shifted to one side, head detached from body etc)

how can i fix them all up?

#!# ]]> lukmander http://www.pchelpforum.com/windows-vista-7/80937-pictures-were-destroyed-after-upgrade-win7.html http://www.pchelpforum.com/windows-vista-7/80912-access-2007-automatically-assign-content.html Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:50:32 GMT I am creating a database and wanting to create a dropdown for the location of our offices. When I select a location I then want it to recognise and... I am creating a database and wanting to create a dropdown for the location of our offices. When I select a location I then want it to recognise and automatically fill the address fields previously assigned to the location. Can anyone help!!!!

Thanks ]]> mwilso41 http://www.pchelpforum.com/windows-vista-7/80912-access-2007-automatically-assign-content.html http://www.pchelpforum.com/windows-vista-7/80898-quick-response-windows-7-my-hp-laptop.html Thu, 19 Nov 2009 02:48:07 GMT Hi, I need a quick response. I have windows vista sp1 currently running on my hp pavilion laptop/that has a multi touch tablet. I want to install... Hi, I need a quick response. I have windows vista sp1 currently running on my hp pavilion laptop/that has a multi touch tablet. I want to install windows 7 on my laptop. But I was wondering. I use my laptop wirelessly all the time to connect to the internet. So, If i Install windows 7, will I already have the wifi internet driver installed? And also, I have a multi touch laptop, as well as a finger print scanner on here. If I installed windows 7, will the finger reader still be read? and for the multitouch feature, will I have to download and install the driver? ]]> musicv22 http://www.pchelpforum.com/windows-vista-7/80898-quick-response-windows-7-my-hp-laptop.html