Ok I'm gonna be honest right now: I've never actually ran Bitcoin-QT on a windows system (I run bitcoind on my servers, though), so I don't know exactly how to do it. (I use Electrum for my wallet on my personal computer, which doesn't ever need to rescan). I THINK this is the way you'd do it:
(1) Find the directory your Bitcoin QT is installed to (ex: C:\Program Files (x86)\Bitcoin)
(2) Open up cmd.exe (command prompt) and type in cd (ex: cd C:\Program Files (x86)\Bitcoin)
(3) type in bitcoin-qt.exe -rescan
And then let it run. Not 100% sure that'll work though, so don't quote me on it.
Also for future use I've gotta recommend electrum especially for those not hugely into running a full bitcoin node all the time. Its WAY lighter weight and doesn't run into these kinds of complications.
Hey, thanks a lot man.....I appreciate the help.....It worked, well, the -Rescan trick worked, but the method that you gave me did not work for me (like you said, you had never done this on a Windows 7 OS before, so you were just speculating)....But if there are other people that is going to read this, here is how I did the rescan.
I right-clicked on the Bitcoin QT, the main file.....And where it says Shortcut, go down to Target and just add "-Rescan" to the Target at the end with a space in between the original and "-rescan".
Mine looked like this....
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Bitcoin\bitcoin-qt.exe" -rescan
Anyways, I just wanna say thanks a bunch for steering me in the right direction and hopefully this thread will help some people in the future as well. Thanks again.
Just a quick question about Electrum.....You said it is more user-friendly.....The Electrum Wallet. If I were to use the Electrum wallet and had done a private key import, would the balance immediately been updated right after the import or would I have still had to restart the wallet program?
Just curious....I might switch over to that if it is smoother to use.