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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…
According to this article from Microsoft, zeros are written to an entire disk when it is formatted (not using the quick format option) in Windows Vista and newer versions of Windows. My question is the following: Does this also apply to Windows 7? The above article from Microsoft does not specify Windows 7 under “Applies…
I’m using two network connections, and I tried using the “route” command so that when I access a specific internal IP on my LAN, it would use connection 1, anything else would go normally through connection 2 (which doesn’t have access to my LAN). The problem is I have a bunch of internal IP’s that…
I am trying to open the command prompt for the directory that the shortcut icon is currently located in. However, I want to be able to move this given icon to another directory (using my mouse to drag it into a new folder in the Windows Explorer) and be able to double click it to…
Possible Duplicate: Transparent Command Prompt in Vista? Linux and other *nix based operating systems usually have an option for transparent command window displays. Is there a way to get this kind of eye-candy in Windows 7? How can I make my command-window background transparent? Solution: Take a look Console. It’s an open…
I have no clue, but lately I’ve been having this problem. After running my workstation suddenly something destroys PATH and lots of stuff stops working. Initially, my path had MANY directories listed (I use Windows 7 as a development box) and after some time, I only had 3-4 directories listed in my path left. I…
