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Troubleshooting
Windows 7 Problems with Microsoft Knowledge Base
The Selection Menu The
MS Knowledge Base articles are grouped according to the versions of Windows
to which they apply. Click a link below to go to articles on the designated version(s)
of Windows. You can also scroll down the page. The General Articles, and
the articles on Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 98 SE, and
Windows Me are on Page 1. The articles on
Windows XP and Windows XP SP2 & SP3 are on Page
2. The articles on Windows Vista are on Page
3. The articles on Windows
7 are on this page. Use your browser's Back
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MS
Knowledge Base Articles Relevant to Windows 7
Windows STOP messagesThe
Stop Messages included in the list below only apply to the Windows NT-based
operating systems, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP and
Windows Vista. Here are some pages
on Microsoft's site that deal with Stop Messages: Troubleshooting
Stop Messages: General Strategies Troubleshooting
Specific Stop Messages MSDN
[very extensive] List of Win XP STOP Messages
How
to download updates and drivers from the Windows Update Catalog"Learn
how to download updates, enhancements, and Windows Hardware Quality Lab (WHQL)
logo device drivers from the Windows Update Catalog. You can search the Windows
Update Catalog to find updates (such as updated system files, service packs, new
Windows features, and device drivers) to download and to install across your home
or corporate network on Microsoft Windows-based computers that are running Microsoft
Windows 98, Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition, Microsoft Windows 2000, Microsoft
Windows XP, or Microsoft Windows Server 2003..." - http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=323166
Windows
7 Microsoft Knowledge Base articles
In the table below
are some of the MS Knowledge Base articles on Windows
7. Click the reference number in the first column to go to that article.
Click
here! to enter your own searches in the MS Knowledge Base. Click
here! to go to Google Groups.
| Click
the MS Knowledge Base reference number to go to that article |
Description of the problem | | | Windows
7 Support Centre - http://support.microsoft.com/ph/14019/en-gb#tab0 | | | | | | There
are currently (February 2010) many Windows 7 Update errors, two of which
are provided below. To find others, click
here! to bring up a MS Knowledge Base page showing the results of a
search for Windows 7 articles. | | | Windows
Update error 80246008 - You must be logged on as an administrator to perform
these steps. If you receive Windows Update error 80246008 while downloading updates,
you might need to change the Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) or
Windows Event Log service settings, and then restart each service. | | | Windows
Update error 80073712 - The System Update Readiness Tool for Windows
can correct some conditions that cause Windows Update error 80073712 error.
You can access and run this tool by reading this Knowledge
Base article on the Microsoft Help and Support website. |
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Windows 7 Network connections
are stuck in Public mode - "This issue can occur if you have
at inadvertently selected the checkbox beside the option to Treat
all future networks that I connect to as public, and don’t ask
me again. Once
this option is set, you may be unable to change this setting." -
This Knowledge Base article provides an automatic fix to this networking
problem that was a real pain to fix manually.
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| 2300639 |
The
desktop stops responding for some time after you resume the display on a computer
that is running Windows 7 - When you move the mouse to the bottom of the screen,
the taskbar does not appear. When you press the windows key, the taskbar and the
Start menu do not appear. When you click or double-click any desktop icon, there
is no response. Read this forum thread - Win7
64-bit locks up after idle.
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929833 |
How
to use the System File Checker tool to troubleshoot missing or corrupted
system files on Windows Vista or on Windows 7 - "This article describes
how to use the System File Checker tool (SFC.exe) to troubleshoot missing
or corrupted system files on Windows Vista or on Windows 7. If a Windows
Resource Protection (WRP) file is missing or is corrupted, Windows may not
behave as expected. For example, some Windows functions may not work, or
Windows may crash. The System File Checker tool (SFC.exe) scans for missing
or corrupted system files and repairs them."
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| 926185 | No
restore points are available when you use Windows Vista, Windows 7 or Windows
Server 2008-based operating systems in a dual-boot configuration together with
an earlier Windows operating system - When you use the
System Restore feature in Windows Vista, you receive the following message: No
Restore Points have been created on your computer's system disk. Additionally,
only the most recent backup files from Windows Vista Complete PC Backup are available.
Earlier versions of the backup files are unavailable. You experience this problem
if you are running Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008, or Windows Server
2008 R2 on a computer that is also configured to run an earlier Windows operating
system. |
| The General Articles, and
the articles on Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 98 SE, and Windows Me are on Page
1. The articles on Windows
XP are on Page 2. |
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