Windows 7 Help

darthroush · Post by **darthroush** » Sun Oct 02, 2011 5:50 am

I think this is the first time I have ever had to ask for help with a computer problem, lol, so bear with me if I'm leaving information out. This is driving me nuts! I'm having a pretty common occurrence of Windows 7 either not logging off of an account and/or shutting down. I have to manually power the computer down to "fix" the problem. I've been copying pictures off of DVDs today to my new external hard drive, and have noticed that a desktop configuration file is being queued to "burn to disc" automatically, and I think this may be causing the problem. It keeps coming back, even after I delete it. Any ideas as to why this is happening? I can't think of any program that runs that would do this...

Jenni · Post by **Jenni** » Sun Oct 02, 2011 6:54 am

insert an empty dvd and burn it (follow the w7 messages).
maybe that solves the problem

iThane · Post by **iThane** » Sun Oct 02, 2011 12:46 pm

another common trouble shoot solution would be to restore the
computer to a time where it didn't have the issue. maybe you recently
downloaded a program and its interrupting your computer's normal
functions.

darthroush · Post by **darthroush** » Sun Oct 02, 2011 2:42 pm

Jenni wrote:insert an empty dvd and burn it (follow the w7 messages).
maybe that solves the problem

If I burn it, but it keeps re-adding itself...

Restoring won't do much good I don't think, not that I can remember when (more likely if) I haven't had this issue most of the time I've had this computer. I just bought it about 3 months or so ago. My other one caught fire after 7 years, lol. Damn GPU card!

Johny · Post by **Johny** » Sun Oct 02, 2011 8:42 pm

hahaha, that desktop.ini file you see in there is because you have unchecked the "Do not show hidden files and folders".

To hide it, open your documents > Tools > Folder options > view and uncheck.

I really doubt this is your problem, my first instinct would be to repair the W7 installation. Boot up from CD with your W7 CD in there, and hit repair.

darthroush · Post by **darthroush** » Mon Oct 03, 2011 4:30 am

Computers don't come with CD's anymore (at least HP computers don't); it's just on a separate partition. Not quite sure how to repair from it?

Johny · Post by **Johny** » Mon Oct 03, 2011 11:05 am

Well what i do is have a torrented version mounted on a cd

Post by **occasional demons** » Mon Oct 03, 2011 12:10 pm

No clue how 7 does things, but in XP/older...

If this only happens when there is a disc in the drive... Bring the drive up in "My Computer" click on "properties" and select "Autoplay" then choose what action you want it to take when a disc is inserted.

If it is just doing it on it's own, maybe the disc drive itself is bad, telling the PC there is a disc whether there is or not. Or it is a motherboard problem?

Johny · Post by **Johny** » Mon Oct 03, 2011 12:12 pm

It's just that he has the "Do not show hidden files and folders" option unchecked in the folder options. I dont know why, but 7 tends to show these random desktop.ini files everywhere.

Post by **occasional demons** » Mon Oct 03, 2011 12:14 pm

Maybe I'll stick with XP.....

darthroush · Post by **darthroush** » Mon Oct 03, 2011 4:37 pm

I've repaired/reformatted/created partitions and so on...just not without a CD. I didn't think about mounting an ISO and burning a copy. Yes, I have hidden files showing. Hidden or not, I just didn't know if it was causing the problem. Don't know why Windows kept trying to burn it.

It's not an error with the drive or hardware though. Starting in Windows ME I think, you could and still can queue files to be burned to a disc. I did it on my XP machine quite a bit.