Essobie posted:

A couple of quick questions/gripes that hopefully one of you many helpful folks can hook me up with some solutions:

1) When I open Computer it automatically expands all the little shortcuts and bullshit under my User account name... more than half of which will bark at you that access is denied if you try to click on them. The main problem I have with this is that when I open an Explorer window what I want to see on the left side is a bunch of things I can single click on that take me to where I want to go--things like my C: Drive. Or my D: Drive. Or any other drive.

But because of this gargantuan list of things I can't even click on, the things I WANT to click on are pushed all the way to the bottom of the view. I find myself collapsing my User links every time I open Explorer and it's an extra click I can do without. It doesn't expand if you collapse it and then open a new Explorer, but the second you look in Documents or Pictures or anything that there is a shortcut on my User list to, it will expand that list (and then keep expanding until I collapse it again later).

I tried highlighting my User Name in the Explorer window and hitting Delete. It asks if I'm sure I want to delete "Essobie" from my Desktop, and that if I do and want to get it back simply re-enable it in Personalization under Control Panel. I think, cool... I'll just remove it totally. Hit Delete and... nothing happens. I guess that sort of makes sense since technically there isn't an icon on my actual Desktop named "Essobie" anywhere. From within Personalization under Control Panel there's nothing I can do to the user icon there either.

How do I not look at that stupid, useless list for good?

WebDog posted:

Here's a windows 7 bug that's thrown me.

By accident I deleted the favourites folder from my documents and it no longer wants to work.

The little yellow star is there, but no clicking on "restore favourites links" or adding stuff in there works.

The only method I can think of is creating a new user account.

Varicelli posted:

It has huge amounts of stuff I would hate to lose and its pretty impossible for me to backup the like 500gb of poo poo I can't/don't want to lose.

Nizox posted:

So, with 4gigs on the mobo, and 1 gig on the GPU, i have 5 gigs of ram, only 4 of which can effectively be used?

In a 32bit distro of course.

BangersInMyKnickers posted:

Windows defender is also there to do the occasional one-time scan.

mcsuede posted:

iTunes 10 stuck a Quicktime shortcut to the top of my start menu and IT WILL NOT GO AWAY. "Remove from this list" does nothing. loving Apple. Any ideas?

FalloutGod posted:

Am I just a jackass or does anyone hate how expensive windows operating systems are? I'm still rolling around on XP cause I just can't bring my self to drop that kind of cash on a god drat piece of software. Especially when that software is on millions of computers already so I don't see the need for such a high price. I also "need" the best version of it cause I feel like I'm crippling my self somehow not buying the most robust version. Even if I may not need half of the features it provides. I think I am just a jackass...

YggiDee posted:

What's the learning curve with moving from XP to Windows 7 like? I'm getting a new computer within the week and it will finally have an OS made in the last ten years. I've basically never interacted with Vista or 7 in any significant way, but it's time to move on, I figure. Am I going to spend several days cursing everything for being different or do angels come out the screen and give me chocolate?

DrBouvenstein posted:

That being said, how well will Win 7 Pro run on a netbook vs. Home Basic? I'm probably getting a N450 CPU, and the RAM will be upgraded to 2 Gigs...is it even worth it? Is Home Basic 'good enough'?

Fuschia tude posted:

spanko posted:

Click here for the full 1118x840 image.
What is this poo poo? Clicking the link brings me to some MS page that says to reinstall windows.

evale posted:

I'm running Win7 on a laptop. A few minutes ago, at exactly 1am, the transparency on the taskbar turned off and the computer started running very slow. A restart seems to have solved this problem.

I looked around on the net, and a recent Intel HD graphics update might be the cause. Anyone have a problem similar to this? The update was through Windows Update.

Revol posted:

I was even getting unexplained sudden desktop crashes in Portal 2 until I right-clicked and ran the game as administrator.

Awia posted:

So I have this odd bug in Win 7, occasionally at midnight GMT my theme will revert to basic and the temperature of my Graphics card will shoot up 20 degrees. It only lasts for about 2 or 3 minutes but it's still rather annoying.
It doesn't happen every night, but when it does it happens at midnight.

Red_Fred posted:

I have a quick question about making a batch file to rename some files.

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Is this possible?

Captain Novolin posted:

I've noticed that when I put my computer to sleep it doesn't prompt for a password when it wakes up. It's sitting in a pretty public place and I'd like to have it lock when it goes to sleep, but not need a password coming back from a screensaver, since I always put it to sleep whenever I leave the room. How can I get it to do this (on win7 home premium)