Windows 7 – Drive Q

Post from Microsoft Technet forum

 

• Do you have the Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V) client installed on your computer?
  
  If so, that is your answer, App-V created a Q drive on your machine which it used to run virtual apps. You shouldn't try to access or remove this drive.
  
  Regardless of the cause, to stop your Q drive from appearing in explorer, try the following.
  
• Open regedit and navigate to "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer"
  
• Create a new 32bit DWORD and call it "NoDrives"
  
• set the value to "65536"
  

  Hopefully this helps.
  

Site of Today -12/06/09

Repair Laptops http://www.laptoprepairvideos.com/?hop=steeltrpd

Who Wrote Windows -11/22/2009

I realize that you are not with the Windows team but please pass this
on.


I wonder who wrote Windows. Was it a bunch of folks who don't use the
product or who realize what is wrong with the product.


I have installed Windows 7 on 4 different machines ranging from a P4
up to a Intel Quad core. These are my personal machines.


Problems that I have with Windows 7:


1. I can't see why Windows wants to add administrative shares on drive
that don't exist. On the quad core machine, I have drives N and Q that
don't resemble any physical drivers that I have. I can removed these
shares after the machine is booted but when the machine is booted
again, these shares are returned. These drive letters appear in only
one of 3 machines. These shares were first seen when I installed Vista
64 and have carried over when I did the upgrade to Windows 7 54.


2. Windows wants to "install new drivers" for no reason. When Windows
7 wants to do this, any Libraries that the user has on their machines,
go away and have to be reset by either one of two ways. So the
questions are:
(a) why does Windows want to install new drivers on a machine that
hasn't changed?
(b) What new drivers have been installed?
(c) Why isn't Windows smart enough to see the change in driver letters
that Libraries are using and make the necessary changes without user
action?

3. Why does Windows 7 boot onto an unknown desktop where everything from the previous sessions are missing? This happens daily for me. Why?

thanks

Sites of Day -11/17/09

Symantec recovery disk Need Serial number

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Partition Manager http://www.partitionwizard.com/free-partition-manager.html

Google Product list http://u.go2.me/3WT

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findstr http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb490907.aspx

Agent Ransack http://www.mythicsoft.com/agentransack/

Filelocaor pro http://www.mythicsoft.com/Page.aspx?type=filelocatorpro&page=home

Sardu http://www.sarducd.it/

Mendeley – organize PDF http://www.mendeley.com/

How to print directory listings: (1) http://www.karenware.com/powertools/ptdirprn.asp ; (2) dir c:\*.* /s >filename.txt; (3) KB321379 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/321379 )

Windows Log/Startup -11/15/09

Troubleshoot XP startup http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb457123.aspx

Vista

    http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=246

    http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=239&tag=col1;post-246

    http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=241&tag=col1;post-246

Blackviper http://www.blackviper.com/

How to log Windows startup http://www.raymond.cc/blog/archives/2008/06/18/how-to-troubleshoot-windows-startup-logoff-login-and-shutdown-problems/

 

Where startup items may be keep http://windowsxp.mvps.org/Startup.htm

Commands to remember – Windows XP -11/15/09

Commands are:

Chkdsk /p

Fixboot C:

Fixmbr

Chkdsk /p