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I use details as my default folder view, which works fine except for folders that only contain media files like photos or mp3. In these cases the view changes in order to show thumbnails etc. (which I also disabled). How can I prevent this view switch and tell the explorer to stick to details view. […]

My Del Dimension E521 running Windows 7 puts itself in sleep mode each night — despite the fact that I have chosen a power option that specifies NEVER Each morning I find the monitor blank and I have to hit the power button on the PC at which point Windows “resumes”.  The system event log

In a nutshell, my Windows 7 Ultimate PC intermittently drops its Internet connection.  Why? Background:  My PC is wired to my ADSL modem/router which is directly connected to the phone line.  I also have wireless connectivity turned on within the router for a laptop to connect wirelessly. Every few hours or so, when using my

The pictures below explains it well, but it seems Windows will not let me place a 8.16 GB .vhd file on a flash drive with 14.6 GB of free space. Solution: It’s formatted as FAT32. The largest size file supported on FAT32 is 4GB. You will have to reformat the drive as NTFS or ExFAT.

I installed Windows 7 fresh and installed SP1. Now, when I try to check manually for Windows Updates it just hangs on the Checking for updates screen. I tried running the tools in How do I reset Windows Update components?, but this did not fix the issue either: No matter what I do it just

After updating to Windows 7 SP1 I updated with every new update that came out, but there were problems with the last two: UPDATE: In the updates history I have found a lot of updates failed: What can be done? Can I manually update? P.S. I was offered a fix for this: Windows6.1-KB947821-v12-x64. Should I

I am trying to install Windows 7 Professional x64 from a bootable USB stick.I have used the Windows 7 USB DVD Download Tool to create the media from an ISO. The machine boots from USB fine, and enters the Windows installation wizard but then I get an error stating:   A required CD/DVD drive device

I just put windows 7 on my work laptop and im setting it all up like it used to be. But i cant remember what option i changed to stop my internet traffic being tunneled over the VPN connection. I only want to connect to exchange and intranet over VPN. Solution: I found it, it

I have clean install of Windows 7 x64 with two SATA hard drives. When I open My Computer, I can see only the drive where Windows are installed (and all partitions), but I don’t see the other one. When I go to disk manager, I can see that both drives are detected and the one

On my Windows 7 PC the system becomes locked after 10 minutes of inactivity. Usually I would find this setting next to the screen-saver configuration. The setting is grayed out, however. I think this is because of corporate group policy. As I am an administrator on this computer I should be able to reconfigure the