Posts by wearycyclist43

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Why can't I get anything done in Disk Management on my Windows 7 Ultimate x64 setup? It looks like you might have hit "send" a little too early! If you have a specific post or message you need me to rewrite, just paste it here and I'll get right to work on it. You can definitely shrink a partition down to less than 50% of the total drive capacity.
I've got a 2 TB drive, and now that I've finished installing Windows 7 Ultimate, I was looking to merge everything into one large partition. C Once you've finished the installation, just go ahead and shrink the partition right there. It looks like you might have cut off your message! If you were trying to ask something about a technical issue or just wanted to start a conversation, please feel free to type it out. I'm ready whenever you are! I'm planning to set aside a partition of about 100 GB and convert the remaining space—roughly 1.8 TB—into something else. E partition.

Is there any other way to handle this if "Computer Management > Disk Management" isn't letting me do it?

Just wanted to let you all know that formatting the entire drive fixes (all) the problem(s) 😬

First off, I apologize if this topic has already been covered—it's hard to tell when you're scrolling back through 365 pages...🙄

To get straight to the point: I'm running into an issue where the Windows 7 loader keeps throwing an Unsupported partition table error.

Here’s the timeline: Yesterday, I set up two partitions on a 2TB HDD and installed Windows 7 Ultimate, then got it registered using the loader. Today, I decided to redo the process (to fix a driver issue), but this time I selected "UEFI: TSScorp CDDVDW SH-224DB" under the BIOS > Boot device settings.
After doing that, the loader gives me the Unsupported partition table message. (Should I have gone with "AHCI boot device" or "Windows Boot Manager" 😕🤷 instead?)

I’ve spent some time Googling and trying to wrap my head around terms 🙈 like

MBR (Master Boot Record)
EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface)
UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface)
GPT (GUID Partition Table)

But honestly, I’m still not quite sure what my next move should be or where exactly I'm going wrong.

I did see somewhere that just formatting the entire drive might do the trick, but I'm not entirely certain if that's enough to fix it.

Taylor Morales31 said:Go to your mic settings, right-click properties, hit the Listen tab, check the box for "Listen to this device," and click apply.

Thanks, that did the trick!! 🙂

Joshua Garcia3 said:Have you checked the Device Manager yet to see if there's any yellow exclamation marks or question marks popping up? 🙂

It’s not showing up under "Sound, video and game controllers." All I see is "imaging devices" (for the webcam) and "other devices > unknown devices."

Quick question regarding my Windows 7 microphone.
I have my microphone plugged into my laptop, but I can't hear any of the input through my speakers!
If I go to "Sound" > "Recording devices" > "Record," I can see the green 😁 levels jumping around on the equalizer, which means the mic is definitely picking up sound.



I checked the > and everything is cranked up to the max.





Everything else sounds fine, but the microphone itself is just giving me total silence 😠
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Do you think this is a driver issue? I'm pretty sure I installed everything, but 🤷 I could be wrong, or maybe something else is messing with it.
Also, I noticed that in Windows 7, I don't see the "Volume mixer" laid out quite like it was in Windows XP, where you had those individual sliders for every single device. 😢

Could you help me out? wearycyclist43 (which is basically just an Italian twist on 😬)
I can't seem to find them on the member list. 👍

Thanks in advance!

Can we go with Dado (maybe adding some extra characters if Dado is taken)?
If that first option doesn't work, let's at least try the second one—Dado.

No. We aren't doing any more special characters like @, _, *, font>

It would be really great if the moderators could introduce a "top topic - Tutorials" section for posts like this.
It would save everyone a lot of time by cutting down on all those repetitive questions.
Maybe the mods could just tweak the thread title a bit, since this title doesn't quite match the content of the post.

Thomas Allen9 said:THANKS EVERYONE, I figured it out! Consider this thread closed!! Bye-bye!!

Hey, would you mind sharing 🙄
which program actually worked for you?

Amanda Sullivan said:Do you think my PC (2.00 GB RAM, Intel Core 2 duo CPU at 2.40 GHz) can handle Windows 7? I'm currently running Vista...

Yes, it should work just fine.

wearycyclist43 said:Short version:
Is it possible to add a "show the desktop" shortcut on Windows 7?

Jesse Johnson4 said:Take a look at your taskbar, all the way on the far right side. You'll see a small rectangular button labeled "Show the desktop."

Noah Ruiz73 said:👍 Visually, this is a much better way to go. With just a quick hover of the mouse, you can see the desktop through the outlines of your active windows. Plus, clicking the button lets you minimize everything instantly, and one more click brings all your windows right back.

For someone like me who can't see a thing. 😵,
What about the folks over at Microsoft? 👋

Na XPI used to be able to enable that "show desktop" icon right on my Taskbar, which let me jump straight to my desktop with just one click, but now... seven weeks I have to right-click on the Taskbar first before I can even select "show the desktop." 😢
Is there any way to add a shortcut, or am I stuck with just this one other option?

wearycyclist43 said:Back on Windows XP, I could just open a "window" for my integrated laptop webcam right from the Control Panel and see myself immediately (I was watching my own video 😁), but I can't find that specific "window" anywhere in Windows 10 (Ultimate x86).
The drivers are installed and the webcam works fine on Skype, but where on earth is it located in the Control Panel?

darkviper7 said:Check under Devices and Printers.

There's no webcam listed in
Devices and Printers, and in Device Manager, it looks like this. Is the webcam actually that Lexmark X422?
I tried using the drivers (HP ProBook 4515) from
this website (), but nothing changed.
At the end of the day—the camera works, I just can't find it in the Control Panel. 😬

Back on Windows XP, I could just pop open a window for my laptop's built-in webcam right from the Control Panel and see myself instantly 😁. But now that I'm running Windows 7 (Ultimate x86), I can't find that specific preview window anywhere.
The drivers are definitely installed and the camera works perfectly fine during Skype calls, but where did they hide that setting in the Control Panel?

I was playing around for a week and then I went

when I stumbled upon
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I decided to check out how it calculates the hardware configuration score, only to find it gives individual ratings for:

but the final overall score is actually just the lowest single rating:
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It’s just like when you're at a job interview and they tell you, "You're the weakest link." 😬

Lately, it feels like every fifth page I scroll through on Reddit ends up looking like this:


I’m seeing 408, 503, and 508 errors all the time...
Is the site just overloaded right now, or is the server actually dying?😠

Test here
and I can also do it here