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danyjjb

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    Windows 7 64 bit Help file
    « on: January 03, 2011, 02:50:39 PM »
    I went to use my help and support on my brand new computer and this is what it tells me,  anyone know why?   Topic not found.

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    Salmon Trout

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    Re: Windows 7 64 bit Help file
    « Reply #1 on: January 03, 2011, 03:48:24 PM »
    If this is an HP computer, and it's HP's help and support you are trying to get to, you may need to do a repair install. But if it's brand new you should be using the warranty. Have you done a Windows upgrade or anything like that? This is a known HP problem when people apply the free Windows 7 upgrade.

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    Re: Windows 7 64 bit Help file
    « Reply #2 on: January 03, 2011, 04:12:15 PM »
    Open Help and Support from the Start menu. The lower right corner will have a dropbox for "Online Help"
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      Re: Windows 7 64 bit Help file
      « Reply #3 on: January 03, 2011, 04:55:53 PM »
      Quote from: danyjjb on January 03, 2011, 02:50:39 PM
      I went to use my help and support on my brand new computer and this is what it tells me,  anyone know why?   Topic not found.

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      No upgrade,  Brand new computer, tried the online help, I click on it but nothing happens.
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      Salmon Trout

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      Re: Windows 7 64 bit Help file
      « Reply #4 on: January 04, 2011, 12:03:37 AM »
      Well, I don't know if this is relevant, but I have had a Windows 7 64 bit machine for 10 months. Just now I went to the Start Menu, chose Help And Support, and clicked on "Get Online Help" ... and nothing happened. I think this is something that you may have in a preinstalled PC but not otherwise.


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      Re: Windows 7 64 bit Help file
      « Reply #5 on: January 04, 2011, 01:00:42 AM »
      I just tried it now and it showed the main Windows help page fine.
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      Re: Windows 7 64 bit Help file
      « Reply #6 on: January 04, 2011, 10:14:50 AM »




      If you click the 'online help' button in the bottom right, you see a menu where you can check "Get online help" or "Get offline help". If you have checked online help you see what I see below the central horizontal line. If "Get offline help" is checked you don't get the "Featured this month" items. Nothing actually "happens" apart from that.
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      Re: Windows 7 64 bit Help file
      « Reply #7 on: January 04, 2011, 04:50:27 PM »
      This may explain (at least partially): http://support.microsoft.com/kb/917607
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