Right click the task bar and select "Show desktop".

 

That's two steps...

Any way to make a shortcut of THAT as a button on the toolbar?

 

There's a way to get the old quicklaunch bar on the windows task bar.

http://www.mydigitallife.info/2009/0...-in-windows-7/

 

I've gotten much more accustomed to the win7 show desktop on the right. I really don't even need to look. I just pull the mouse down and to the right and I'm there, then just click.

Stogie did you see my reply about making a link with the icon?

 

hit win key + D or something less permanent hit win key + space

 

Unfortunately that works poorly for multiple monitors. I really hate where they put it in W7.

 

 

Yay, it worked!

Thanks.

 

didn't think about that, good point. That must be a buzz kill. winkey shorcut as stunna suggested ftw.

 

Worked! Awesome, thanks.
Ditto
Did now, thank!

 

I'm not sure if this belongs here, but when I turn on my laptop its been saying "AML not responding" then it says searching for solution and goes away. What does that mean?

And I dunno if this is related but if my laptop stays on idle for a while like an hour or so, it will just freeze and when I come back the mouse works but nothing will open, then a window eventually pops up saying windows is not responding and I have to shut down the computer by holding the power button and restart it that way. I dunno why it does that also.

Can those two things be related?

I think I may have to restore my whole computer. Not sure though.

 

What is aml? And is it saying explorer is not responding or is it specifically saying windows? Don't paraphrase when asking for technical help, we need to know exactly what it says

 

We need FACTS DAMMIT!

OK, I don't, cause I will probably ignore this thread for the next three days, but Stunna needs FACTS DAMMIT so Whiskers can solve your problem!

 

I'm pretty sure its windows but next time it happens I'll check to make sure and I'll let you know

 

Alright so it happened again, and this time I took a picture of it. Its' Microsoft windows that's not responding.




And this is what pops up whenever I turn on the computer



I'm thinking about doing a complete restore to my computer, I need to go home to get my hard drive though and I'm not going home till the weekend soo until then hope this doesn't ruin anything.

 

Is that a Sony VAIO?

http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic...pped-working-1

 

www.pcdecrapifier.com

use it to get rid of all the crapware you don't need, like those shit Sony apps!

 

Yes I have a Vaio FW139E, I tried uninstalling Vaio launcher, but I'm currently having problems deleting any of my VAIO crap on my computer. I recently was having a problem where my computer was overheating and I saw that I had many processes running so I pretty much deleted all that non-essential VAIO crap on my computer. It helped but did not solve the problem, so I decided to restore the computer to an earlier date and that solved the problem, but now if I try to delete all that VAIO crap on my computer it doesn't work. I dunno why i just get an error message.


So do you think my windows crashing is due to all that crap thats on my computer?

 

Turns out AML, whatever that thing is turned on at startup and I disabled it. So lets see if my computer freezes in the near future. I hope that was the cause so hopefully it doesnt happen again

But I kinda doubt that was the reason...

 

Holy shit! I was starting to think you had some virii or something but this just happened to me too! Except for the AML thing. I got the same error as this



and I had to power it down. hmmmm, I'm on the case now! I'll let you know what I find out.

 

Wow thats weird. Let me know what you find. Was your computer Idling when it did that? Thats what happens for me, I'm not using the computer for about an hour, I come back and boom nothing works.

 

It happened right when I resumed from sleep. I checked event viewer and the problem reporter and found nothing yet.

 

So it wasnt that AML crap freezing my computer, which means its not some sony application doing it.

 

did this laptop come with win7 or did you upgrade it?

 

I upgraded in december.

edit: and it started freezing on me since a week or two ago. Normally when my computer hasnt been touched in a while and I come back, windows will not respond. So I think it may have something to do with my power manager. Maybe the computer should be going to sleep but it can't?

 

I had problems with W7. Once I turned off "sleep", no problems.

 

I haven't had that error again. Check event viewer > windows > system for disk related errors. My other hard drive just about died on me today and for the past couple days I was getting errors trying to open files from it. A dying hard drive can cause weird issues like this. It might be about to die!

I was able to run out to best buy and buy a WD 1TB Caviar Black drive connect it and use the Hirens boot cd to use Norton Ghost and transfer all my data over to the new drive. Then I used disk management to take the old drive offline and bring the new drive online and gave the new drive the same drive letter that the old had and everything picked up right where it left off

My old drive was a refurbed Seagate 750GB that they gave me to replace the Maxtor 500GB (this was after the buyout) that died on my under warranty

 

I'm checking my event viewer, I have a couple questions. Should I be reading any of the information ones, or just scroll through and read the critical, warning and error ones?

In that case I have read a couple error ones that say this:
source: service control manager

Another warning i got:
source: DNS client events
Another two errors from the same source: atikmdag

I also got a couple critical errors but thats because when my computer freezes i have to force shutdown
source is kernel power

another error:
source sptd

 

hmmm, sptd is related to daemon tools or alcohol 120%, it's scsi pass-through direct

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCSI_Pass-Through_Direct

that maybe your problem try uninstalling either of those programs and make sure the sptd.sys file is removed or make sure you sptd is the newest joint!

http://www.duplexsecure.com/en/downloads

yes just look for the critical ones, I wouldn't really worry with warnings either.

 

Hmm so I used to have daemon tools.

Here's the thing, maybe about a 2 or 3 weeks ago my computer started overheating when idling. I was planning on pulling my laptop apart to see if dust was blocking the fan/airways and things(the fan still worked) but before I did that I decided to get rid of all the crap that was on my computer and clear up programs that kept running in the background. I used to have like 95 programs run on startup, then I uninstalled all that crap I never used, and the crap that came with my computer. So then my computer would run about 68 programs on startup. It was still overheating so I decided to restore it to an earlier date, before I pulled my laptop off. I restored it about a month earlier. At that time when my computer turned on the AML not responding came up. And again I had all that crap on my computer. But my computer was not overheating anymore, so that problem was solved. But again I had like 100 programs on startup, so after turning off the nonessential stuff on startup, I started deleting everything. And things like Daemon tools, All that sony crap, and things like NXclient(which I had deleted before restoring to an earlier date) would not uninstall. With the sony stuff I get an error. With the other things, I get, cannot be located/ or it had some problem uninstalling. But it was on my hard drive. So I just found it on the hard drive and sent it to the recycle bin and deleted it.

The thing is, this freezing thing started before I restored my computer a month back. But it didnt happen much. Now it is happening a lot more frequently. Maybe I should restore it to another date more in the future but one before my computer started overheating.

edit: actually when I restored it, not everything had a problem uninstalling, and I think deamon tools didnt. But I remember seeing a folder with that stuff in it, even though it wasnt listed in my control panel so I just tossed it in the recycle bin and deleted it.

 

Doesn't work now. Came in to work this morning and it tells me that it's not a genuine copy. Called M$ and they confirmed that it just took awhile for this key to come up on their blocked list

 

Damn

that guy

 

The office web apps are officially live! you can use them at office.live.com if you have any apps already in your skydrive you'll be able to view and edit them.

 

Can you think of a good reason why Dell would disable Intel VT, HT and Intel Speed Step on a Dell precision T3500 running 7 Pro?

 

Because they hate us?

 

Reminds me of back in the day when AMD would sell chips in the consumer market that were actually server chips. All they did was laser cut the circuits apart to disable functionally. People figured it out and were using conductive ink pens to reconnect the circuits and have server chips

 

remember that "dude your getting a dell shit....

























ghey.

 

This is the 2nd Dell PC i've seen this on. the first was an old P4 that was running slow and it had HT disabled. I bet they do it on a lot of PCs. I could kinda understand it in the XP days cause I think there were instances where programs could actually run worse with HT enabled but now with Windows 7 x64!?!? And why intentionally disable Virtualization support and speed step?

 

Odd question but has the time on your Windows 7 machine gone weird on you today? I've had to reset the time on two 7 machines today and one of them twice (my own). The minutes where right but the hours where off by 3-12hrs. Is it just me!?

 

I haven't noticed any issues on mine.