Windows 7 Device and Printers not loading. Issues with Printer Spooler service.

I started this week experiencing issues with my computer. Some programs starts not working when doing an operating and click on it would read “Not Responding”.  It happened that I needed to print something and I when to Devices and Printers on the control panel and notice that it was not loading. I knew about the Printer Spooler service. So I went ahead and went into services.msc and look for Printer Spooler. It was running and set up as Automatic which is great that’s what we want. 
I right click and restart and immediately the Devices and Printers on the Control panel load up. However, I was not able to print. I tried to read the device and nothing would come up. 

I continue to had this issue for several days. When an application like snag-it or Word or Excel would hang up, I restarted the Printer Spooler and it worked right away. So I thought this freaking Printer Spooler is corrupt. I tried finding help online but no help at all. I end up finding about Restarted the Bluetooth Service. This was not helpful for me at. However, it looks like for several users it did helped. So give that a shot first if your Devices and Printers is now loading in Windows 7 or possible in Windows 8. 
What you want to do is make sure you start up the services:

 1) Bluetooth Service 
 2) Bluetooth Support Service. 

If after your start or restart this services you still have the issue like me, try the following: 

 1. Go to the Start menu and type REGEDIT. Then right-click on REGEDIT and select 'Run as Administrator'. 

 2. Go down to the following key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Print\Environment\Windows NT x86\Print Processors Under Print Processors there should be a folder called 'winprint'. If it's there delete and recreate it. if it's not there create it. 

 3. To create the 'winprint' folder and key, right-click on 'Print Processors' and select 'New' - 'Key'. Type in winprint Now, select the new winprint folder and right-click in the black white space to the right where the sub keys should be and select 'New' - 'String Value'. 
Type in Driver for the name. Double click driver and enter in winprint for the value. 

 4. Now try installing the printer. 

I found this from the Microsoft website http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-hardware/windows-7-add-printer-does-not-work/f7d4e46e-7f5a-48fa-b8db-d709d57494ac

After doing this I was able to add a new printer and all my printer spooler issuer where gone.

Alienware m17x Windows 7 HDMI Stop working - FIX SOLUTION

I went to a little bit of hell when upgraded my Dell Alienware m17x to windows 7 64 bit ultimate. It's been working great for a while but out of no ware the HDMI output stopped working. I check the HDMI cable but it was a good cable. I could not get my HDMI working to my external dell 24" monitor nor my HDTV. After digging around I went to dell.com downloaded the latest BIOS driver for A03 release on 1/11/2011. To to dell.com and get the latest windows 7 BIOS driver. http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/download.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=gen&releaseid=R254103&SystemID=ALW_LP_M17X&servicetag=&os=W764&osl=en&deviceid=19197&devlib=0&typecnt=0&vercnt=4&catid=-1&impid=-1&formatcnt=0&libid=1&typeid=-1&dateid=-1&formatid=-1&fileid=372828

After updating the flash bios it started working like a charm.

Windows 7 64-bit Replace Notepad.exe with Notepad2

Download from the link below the files you need to replace notepad.exe with the famous notepad2 on your 64-bit Windows 7 machine.

http://www.box.net/shared/r6mzqoi4tu

Before you replace the old windows notepad.exe
Make sure you turn off the windows notifications in windows 7.
You can read this post for detail instructions.on how to configure UAC in Windows 7. You need to drag the slider all the way down to Never Notify.

then...

Right click on replace.bat and select "Run as administrator".

That should do it!

The zip file contains all the steps specify in this post
http://www.online-tech-tips.com/computer-tips/replace-notepad-with-notepad2/

Enjoy!