Open IT Forum: Tips for Windows 7 use
Have Windows 7 tips or bits of knowledge you had to learn the hard way? Share shortcuts or lessons learned with the community. You never know whose migration you could be sparing by piping in! All tips worth 25 knowledge points and some good karma!

Answer Question   |  May 22, 2012  6:07 PM
Open IT Forum, Windows 7, Windows 7 Administration, Windows 7 deployment, Windows 7 error messages, Windows 7 migration, Windows 7 shortcuts

Website Blocking on Windows 7
Dear Sir/Mam We have 40 PC and some laptop, we want to block some specified website. The all system are connected with two switch in workgroup computer, Conection Type: Broadband ADSL2+ is directly conected toswitch and conection is shared to all PC. in windows Xp/Win 7 OS.

Answer Question   |  June 21, 2011  6:40 AM
Group Policy, Website accessibility, Windows 7, Windows 7 Administration, Windows Security, Windows XP

Open IT Forum: What are your favorite Windows 7 blogs?
We’re compiling another of our guides, this time for Windows 7. Share your go-to guides for Windows 7 migration, installation, administration, troubleshooting, etc, and we’ll share 50 knowledge points! Thanks in advance!

Answer Question   |  March 15, 2011  9:47 PM
IT Blogs, Open IT Forum, Windows 7, Windows 7 Administration, Windows 7 blogs, Windows 7 deployment, Windows 7 installation, Windows 7 migration, Windows 7 troubleshooting

.stp extentions
Unable to open an attachment ending with .stp Can U help?

Answer Question   |  March 7, 2011  9:46 PM
.stp Extentions, STP, Windows 7, Windows 7 Administration

Open IT Forum: What’s your impression of Windows 7?
Has your company rolled out Windows 7 across the board? Has this affected your productivity in any way? Let us know what your experience has been with Windows 7, and we’ll share 50 knowledge points!

Answer Question   |  March 4, 2011  6:52 PM
Open IT Forum, Windows 7, Windows 7 deployment, Windows 7 migration, Windows 7 performance

Win7 Clients Randomly Disconnecting from Windows 2008 R2 Server
Hello, I have a problem that’s been stumping me for a while and so I’m reaching for some help.  I have this problem at two totally different sites.  They’re both small (one with 5 people, one with 13), they both use a Dell Poweredge T310 server running 2008 R2, and they both have a mix [...]

Answer Question   |  June 1, 2011  4:25 PM
Dell PowerEdge, Networking, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 Administration

Can’t access shared folders – Windows 7
Hey guys, can anybdy help, I’m setting up an ad hoc network with two laptops running different windows, windows7 and vista. tha network discovery is turn on, and pass word protect is off. I also set the laptops to home group. the problem is that i can’t access the shared folder from the other laptop. [...]

Answer Question   |  April 15, 2011  3:12 AM
Ad Hoc, Shared folders, Windows 7, Windows Vista

Multiple user in Windows 7
IS IT LEGAL TO USE MULTIPLE USER IN WIN7 USING THIRD PART TS CALS.

Answer Question   |  February 21, 2011  11:39 AM
Windows 7, Windows 7 Licenses

Assigning static IP addresses
Howdy folks I’ve got 6 windows pc’s at the office and i’m trying to create a peer to peer network, And i want to assign ip addresses statically because if they are obtained automatically ip address conflict occur.My problem is if i assign them statically i cannot go to the internet but when it’s automatic [...]

Answer Question   |  February 22, 2011  3:11 PM
IP address, Peer-to-Peer, Static IP address, Static IP Configuration, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP

What is wanancsp.dat ?
I am seeing a file named wanancsp.dat located at: C:UsersPublicDocumentswanancsp.dat This is on a Lenovo Thinkpad X201T running Windows 7 Ultimate x64.  I have done several general searches and have not come up with this file anywhere. Does anyone know what it is and what it’s used for?

Answer Question   |  February 20, 2011  11:42 AM
Malware detection, Malware removal, Windows 7, Windows 7 security

Windows 7 and iSeries for Windows
Has anyone have this issue on the iSeries for Windows? after an hour of no use it seems to lock up one of my sessions. I have seven at once running on V5r8

Answer Question   |  February 22, 2011  6:36 PM
iSeries, Windows 7, Windows 7 support

WMI Critical error
Hi Guys, i get a critical error on my WMI is there a way to reinstall or repair it on windows 7

Answer Question   |  February 15, 2011  12:41 PM
Windows 7, Windows 7 Administration, Windows Management Instrumentation, Windows Management Interface, WMI

Software firewall that act like hardware firewalls
i’m looking for a software firewall that filter on a layer 3, filtering by ip/mac/ports only, and ignore completely from files and folders. i tried to config windows 7 firewall and comodo to act like that, but both of them continue to make “decisions” and rules depending on files and applications.

Answer Question   |  February 11, 2011  5:03 PM
Firewalls, Windows 7, Windows 7 Professional, Windows firewall

Windows 7 not running on Windows Server 2003
Running server2003 cannot connect with win 7 pro active dir domain controller could not be contacted xp works fine , win 7 NOT help

Answer Question   |  March 31, 2012  5:50 PM
Active Directory, Active Directory Domain, Windows 7, Windows 7 performance, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP

Windows Server 2003 on Intel DH55TC
I have an Intel DH55TC MB with Intel Core i-3. Now my problem is that, it does not support to install Windows Server 2003 / 2008. After workground, it supports only Windows 7, XP(Pro) and Vista. Is there any patch / tools / other way to overcome my problems. Server virtualization is also possible, but [...]

Answer Question   |  February 23, 2011  5:40 AM
Server virtualization, Windows 7, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista

Adobe 9 Issues with Windows 7 x64
I was wondering if anyone else has had problems opening PDF links in IE8 when using Windows 7 Professional 64 bit with Adobe 9 Standard. I applied Adobe’s “fix”- to change the PDF Internet Settings within Adobe to make it so PDF’s do not open in browser but download externally. This works for some links, [...]

Answer Question   |  February 17, 2011  6:28 PM
Adobe, IE8, Internet Explorer 8, PDF, Windows 7, Windows 7 64-bit

V5R4 message alarm not working in Windows 7
I have just upgraded to Windows 7. Now when someone sends a message or when RPG performs the display keyword ALARM, no sound comes from the PC. I am on V5R4.

Answer Question   |  February 8, 2011  11:00 PM
iSeries, V5R4, Windows 7

Security certificate in Outlook 2003 and 2007
I am Running Outlook 2007/Outlook 2003 on Windows 7/XP sp3 systems with pop mail from non exchange local e-mail server. The mail servers security certificate expired. I created a new self signed certificate and installed new server certificate on the clients, however I am getting certificate expired popups from Outlook. In IE 8/7 I deleted the [...]

Answer Question   |  February 8, 2011  10:46 PM
Outlook 2003, Outlook 2007, Security certificate, Windows 7

Windows XP under loop
One of my computer, there r 4 OS loaded for various reasons. Two linux distro and XP and Windows 7. After getting boot sector virus affected and system file problem on XP, I tried to reinstall xp by setup disk.  It accepts the 1st phase, but when it restarts, again it starts from scratch. i.e. [...]

Answer Question   |  February 9, 2011  12:17 PM
Linux, Linux administration, Windows 7, Windows XP

Problems with force a specific visual style file or force windows classic group policy item
In Server 2008 R2, found under User Config, Control Panel, Personalization When I set the option to enabled and specify the default of %windir%resourcesthemesaeroaero.msstyles the aero style will load when logging on to a Windows 7 computer, however the logon time is very slow (35 seconds). Without the group policy option turned on, the logon [...]

Answer Question   |  January 31, 2011  4:14 PM
Group Policy, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 Group Policy Objects, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows XP