AWS

Windows then tells you that there are no drivers for this printer! This is a standard bubble jet printer, Canon only supported them up to XP. Any ideas how to work around this? I know somwone is going to tell me to buy a new printer, well that should not be the solution everytime Microsoft decides to come out with a new version of it's software. I have not been able to find any drivers for this, any ideas? A little compatibility would go a long way. Jeff View the thread

When I hook up camera to computer it instantly says locating and importing pictures. After 10 minutes of loading and importing the computer screen says cannot locate new pictures or videos. Camera has pictures needing to download. I tryed second camera with same results. Nothing is being downloaded to computer. View the thread

I recently bought a new computer with Windows 7. I saved many important files from the old computer but can't access them from the disk in E drive to put back in C. The dialogue box says to drag files to save I want to open the files on the disk. How does Windows 7 do that? Thanks. View the thread

I have downloaded my photos & videos from my phone over the last year & this week transferred the majority of my photos onto disc. However, I have now looked at my videos and they are jumpy - the sound & pictures are jumping on all videos - videos from last year right up to the videos that I put on this month. Can anyone help me? View this thread

Original title: After running a free trial avg tune up, foolishly, I have lost my Sidebar entirely and I cannot find it anywhere. If you have any ideas please keep them simple! Many thanks. I am running Windows Vista Home and it is on auto update View this thread

I use Yahoo for e mail and don't like Windows Live mail. It overides my Yahoo when I try to forward files. View the thread

Hello, My Favorites are syncing nicely between my two Windows 8 Desktop Computers, but I am not getting any syncing with Windows 8 Desktop to my new Windows 8 Phone. How can I configure my Win 8 phone to get the same favorites ? Thank you John John View the full article

Hi, A bit less than a year ago my computer "by itself" decided to change a hiberate setting on me. It used to only wake from hibernate mode when I press the power button. Now it wakes from hibernation when I move the mouse, which I do not want it to do. However I also do want it to wake from sleep mode when I move the mouse so I don't want to disable the mouse waking feature entirely. What can I do so that I can only wake my computer from hibernation using the power button without affecting the sleep mode waking settings? Many thanks, Ewan View the thread

I bought a new hard drive for my PC , I want to replace the old one I have click free backup with total back including OP system. Can someone tell me exactly what I have to do? thank you. View the thread

Am using windows 7. Have not got the option to launch a CD from my D drive.I have to enter the files listed on the CD and launch that way. View the thread

Now I cannot view the videos on any computer or tv except for my own computer and when I try to save them to another program there are no other options in the drop down menu except or WMM. I am stuck in WWM and can not get out...why? View the thread

What do I do to repair it as cannot do so with Fix It. I have several updates pending, have lost Windows Live, my AVG is out of date. Tried various things but nothing at all works... Even my Restore program seems affected as can only go back a few days instead of going back weeks to restore points. I run Windows 7 64 bit op.system.. 4GB RAM and plenty of capacity available. Regds Bfdlad View the thread

All other updates installed without any problem, only this one fails to install. My computer is properly connected to Internet. "Enable/Disable Windows Features" dialog works properly(I can add/remove functions to/from windows without problem). I've tried the following fixes without success: run "sfc /scannow" : it found some minor irrelevant problems and successfully fixed them all run the "windows update trouble-shooter": it reports that it found some problems("detected potential windows update database error 0x80073712" and "must repair windows update componets", both were marked as "fixed") and fixed them all, but all it actually did was clearing-out my "installed update" list without doing anything helpful disabling all non-MS services using MSConfig.exe run "dism /online /clearup-image /restorehealth": this one gives error 0x800f081f "Either the repair source was not found or the component store cannot be repaired.", I've tried to use the "/source" switch to point it to a install source([extracted ISO]sourcessxs) but didn't help either. DISM log: http://aboyfg.sn2.livefilestore.com/y1moCa55aTdMwetCzhoATZkAKDJE38RCMjznD450FLov4tXF8azd_kGjs4Bjb_zVoHMdUuFVOA44UUjYywFzID6POWgMKMLtMH_/dism.7z?download&psid=1 View the full article

How do you delete folders and files that are not link to anything. When I do a search the files display but I can't delete them. They are not assigned to a folder as that fold been deleted. Bob View this thread

Hi, I did an upgrade install of Win8x64 Pro (final) from Win7x64 Pro. It all went very well and everything appears to work, however... I typically backed up in Win7 every Thu lunchtime using the Win7 built-in backup software (which I was very happy with) and I noticed yesterday that it failed. It says: 'A shadow copy could not be created. Please check "VSS" and "SPP" application event logs for more information. Details: Insufficient storage available to create either the shadow copy storage file or other shadow copy data.' I checked the application event log but there isn't anything VSS or SPP relevant. I have four HDDs. The boot/Windows disk is a 256Gb SSD (C:). The next two disks are in RAID Mirror configuration and form a single 1Tb fault-tolerant disk where data is stored (D:). Finally I have another 512Gb disk for backups (U:). I use the Win7 backup system to backup a system image and files on the SSD to U:. This is primarily in case of SSD failure as the D: drive is already fault tolerant. As the SSD is the boot volume creating a system image is very important to me, hence why I am not using the new Win8 'File History' backup system. I even tried reformatting the backup (U:) drive to make sure it had all space available for the backup, but that didn't help. I was searching for issues relating to this when I came across these threads: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/w7itprogeneral/thread/fce6950d-c06d-4dd0-a850-67022db4fe04 http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/w7itprogeneral/thread/ace0faac-a0af-4740-a331-2b14d604a846 Which seems to be very much the same sort of issue(s) on Win7. I ran "vssadmin list writers" as advised in one of the posts and it produced this output (I am only showing errors here): Writer name: 'System Writer' Writer Id: {e8132975-6f93-4464-a53e-1050253ae220} Writer Instance Id: {fe25ff29-c773-4265-a663-f13eab503010} State: [7] Failed Last error: Timed out Writer name: 'MSSearch Service Writer' Writer Id: {cd3f2362-8bef-46c7-9181-d62844cdc0b2} Writer Instance Id: {12940831-5c84-4a78-ab98-b8a6a37ff214} State: [7] Failed Last error: Timed out I also checked my System partition (on the SSD) using the Disk Management service. It seems to contain two extra hidden small OEM partitions, one on the SSD and the other on the backup drive. All disks/partitions are healthy. The System 'RECOVERY' partition on the SSD is 752Mb in size and 327Mb (43.5%) is free. I did try unchecking the "Allow files on this drive to have contents indexed in addition to file properties" box on the RECOVERY drive, but it complained about permissions for some files and in any event it didn't help with the backup problem. I do have one other outstanding issue, which might be related as the search service is one of the vss problems above: If I go to the Indexing Options ("Change how Windows Searches") control panel and click "Modify" then I get a message box which says: "Either there is no default mail client or the current mail client cannot fulfil the messaging request. Please run Microsoft Office Outlook and set it as the default mail client." I have Office 2007 Pro on the machine. I have tried setting Outlook as the default mail client, but this does not help with this issue. However, the searching of email seems to work fine within Outlook, although it seems to have been removed from the Win8 interface search (shame!). Anyway, the backup problem is the main issue and I am not exactly sure where to go next on this, so I would appreciate any help or advice. There are a lot of things that I could try in the threads I have pasted above, but they all seem quite risky (e.g. moving/recreating boot partitions) and they relate to Win7 not Win8 so I would like to be sure that whatever I try next is safe and likely to work, particularly as I don't have a backup to restore to if it all goes wrong. Anyone have any ideas please? Thanks, Phil View the full article

Everything on my screen is super-magnified: wallpaer, icons, etc.. even everything on AOL. I don't know what I hit, but it is making things difficult for games, going online, etc. Magnifier is at 1x. How can I shrink everything back to normal? View this thread

Original title: http://search.conduit.com/?ctid=CT3201318&SearchSource=48 How do I remove this annoying search engine from my Google Chrome borowser? I'm using Vista. I don't even know how I downloaded it. View this thread

I cant find msconfig on my Samsung laptop View this thread

Hi all, My computer automatically installed an update last night. Now the computer won't load Windows properly. It takes a long time to get to the password screen, then when I enter my password it takes a very long time to load and then does not load all the startup programmes, won't connect to the internet and won't really let me do anything. It works fine in safe mode although I tried to do a system restore and it said there was no restore point. I'm running Windows Vista Home Premium, Service Pack 2 Any help would be much appreciated! Many thanks Samuel View this thread

Every morning when I start my laptop I get a Windows Defender Warning - I have a "Severe" problem. Worm:Win32/Phorpiex.B It will not allow me to remove it so I tried downloading Malware protection - I ran the Full scan and it identified 7 objects (none which seemed to be this worm) - I deleted those and ran the Quick scan and it gave me a green light - no maliscious software. So I ran the Windows Defender scan and that said the same thing - no problem. But I still keep getting this pop up warning every morning when I log on ? Any help greatly appreciated, Regards, Shane PS. Not sure how this forum works so my e-mail if anyone can help is *** Email address is removed for privacy *** View this thread

I have windows vista home premium, i am having a problem with error code 8024402f when i try windows update . I have tried Mr fix it , 50195 ,50566 ,50203 ,50199 ,dns settings , 50267 ,50528 . It apears to be a connection problem but i,m damned if i can find it as the coputer say,s the conection is fine . Thanks for looking at this , EJ View this thread

I have Vista Ultimate but I'm not very PC clever ! When I try to watch a video clip etc it runs for a few seconds then stops - a second or 2 later the screen goes black for 1-3 seconds then it starts playing again !!! Please can you help ? Thanks Peter. View this thread

I have windows 7. When I try ro switch it off using the menu, the screen goes black with a white cursor and I have to restart everything using the plug.It starts up again in safe mode but then I have to restart it again to get it to work. Tengo windows 7. Cuando doy a apagar en el menu de inicio el ordenador se bloquea quedando la pantalla negra con un cursor blanco. Luego tengo que apagarlo con el enchufe y reiniciarlo. View the thread

When I try to order online, or register, websites come back with "please enter a valid email address", which I do many times, but no result. View this thread

i am trying to download a pdf file and open it. when i try to open it, my computer automatically opens windows media center. i can't figure out how to open the file from there. help! View the thread