So i've been mining for quite some time but still quite rubbish with computers.
This morning i downloaded Armory to machine and sent 5 BTC, i got the scanning block chain for about 1hr and then a not responding msg, finally synced briefly but no sign of BTC in wallet and then get a Armory not responding msg again.
When i look in Blockchain.info i can see the 5 BTC transfer with 77 confirmations, but no sign of them in Armory. In other posts i see people mentioning doing a rescan, how do i do that with Windows 7?
Thanks in advance for help and please bear with me, i'm sure i'll have a question regarding possible fix's.
P.S. Used Armory last year on my laptop quite a bit and really liked it, bit disappointed its not working so great now and more importantly to have possibly lost 5 BTC.
Your coins are not lost. Armory still has never lost coins unless users have explicitly deleted something.
The problem is usually that it's not fully sync'd. The updates that I'm pushing out right now should simplify this considerably (Armory will manage bitcoin-qt/bitcoind itself, and only connect when it's properly synchronized). If you restart Armory it will rescan. But it can only read it if Bitcoin-Qt/bitcoind is up to date. Wait for the green checkmark. And make sure that Armory is pointing to the same -datadir as you're using for Bitcoin-Qt/bitcoind (using --satoshi-datadir in Armory).
If it took an hour to scan, I would guess your online computer doesn't have 4 GB of RAM. Or you're using all your RAM for other things. That too will be fixed, it's just not, yet. Until then, you have to have a spare 2 GB for Armory.
Worst case, you can always export the private keys from Armory and import them into another app, if you really can't use Armory.