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This is a perplexing error when first encountered. It usually displays during an installation of software, while the software in question checks the drive allocations on the PC it will through this error. “Error 1327.Invalid Drive: *:” where “*” is the drive letter it has an issue with. This error only occurs on PCs that have had the personal folders remapped or changed. For instance if I change the Documents folder of a given user to point to a server location for backup purposes then this drive letter will cause the error.

You need to either remap the location to its original location or change a registry key.

1. Click Start, type regedit and press Enter.
2. Go to the following location:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders

And

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders

3. Check if the drive letter in question is listed and change it for an available drive letter.

Now try installing the application.

I have recently come across this issue on two occasions. Both were new installations of Windows 7 Pro and were on corporate networks. Once installed and running for a few weeks I was informed that some icons were disappearing and required to be reconfigured. They were all icons that were added like shortcuts to mapped drives and programs located on servers. After going through the possible causes and trawling the Internet I found this solution which for now seems to work.

Run “regedit”

1. Go toHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer
2. Change “Max Cached Icons” to 10000 or more. Upper and Lowercase SENSITIVE!
3. If it doesn’t exist create it as new “string”
4. Reboot

After that

1. Go to”C:\Users\[Username]\AppData\Local“
2. Delete IconCache.db
3. Reboot again

Windows 7 comes with a few handy features one of which is the System Repair Disk, which was part of Vista at testing but was removed before launch to the public, the reason behind this was never given and surely a loss. But its in Windows 7 so lets talk about it, its simple enough, you can make a System Repair Disk which can be used in the event that your system fails to boot. Just boot the system from the CD/DVD and it will give you access to tools to repair you system. You may need to adjust the boot order on your system to get it to boot from the CD/DVD ( This is specific to makes of PC/Laptop).

Watch the Video above if you already haven’t for where to find the options.

The windows 7 interface won’t seem that different to Vista users just a little more polished, but to XP users it will come as a bit of a departure from the desktop they are used to. The main addition over vista is the Aero Peek Task bar which expands on the previews first seen in vista to give you previews of open windows and even tabs in Internet Explorer.

Another handy feature is the split screen where you can drag a window to the edge of the screen and it will snap to half the width of the screen then drag another window to the other side and it will snap to the other half giving you a split screen affect for comparison.

The show desktop icon has been moved to the bottom right and shows the desktop but with any open windows in opaque.

There isn’t much change to the main menu bar from Vista except the annoying sideways scrolling is gone . One item Microsoft decided to leave out is an e-mail package as standard, so if you don’t intend on loading Office or something similar you will have no e-mail ?

Much of the main windows are very similar to vista in layout.

One change that will be liked is the removal of a lot of the annoying popup notifications from the security centre now replaced with the more discrete action centre which is quite useful.

All said Windows 7 is what vista was supposed to be, it’s more stable lighter on its feet and looks great.