Recent content by beejay

Thanks to badrobot and Saltgrass for their valuable inputs. With 8.1 installed in UEFI it would appear I will have to follow the procedures as detailed by Saltgrass. This shows how important it is to consult Forums in order to prevent mistakes being made.

Hi. I have new comp with wind 8.1 installed on 500gb sata drive. I now want to install a second drive and install wind 7 onto it. After fitting new drive will I be given option to load wind 7 to this drive on booting up wind 7 disc or is there anything I should look to do when installing. My...

My comp experienced an unexpected shut down. The restart took much longer than normal and following message popped up " Failed to connect to a windows service---Windows could not connect to a the system event notification service, service. this problem prevents standard users from logging onto...

You are correct Dinz downloading tdsskiller and running the scan does and will remove the rootkit responsible for the error message. beejay

Hi Pat. Eventually found it was caused by malware belonging to the family rootkit win.32. TDSS. The aswer is to d/load and run tdsskiller.exe. It scans comp and roots out the culprits and deletes them. Once done, everytrhing then normal...

Hi Pat. Worked my way through rest of script. Disabled firewalls, anti-virus and still would not update. Entered microsoft websites in secure sites, still not able to update. Entered notepad details as per script into run box, notepad host files did not contain any ref to updates, also all...

HI. Pat. Thanks for your input, I carried out your suggestions and deleted catroot2, then restarted Chriptographic Services, after computer re-start i still had small flag with red cross against it in the task bar, and was still unable to update windows. Error message code 80072efe still...

When trying to update windows get the following error code 80072efe, have ran virus and spywre scan's without a cure, also have disabled firewall but still unable to update. Anyone experienced this problem and if so how did you overcome it. Any help from members will be really appreciated...

Thank you jmarinov for your kind suggestions. Have been using my laptop for last few days and only returned to the d/top this morning. Rather than go for a repair i decided to do as you recommended and boot from the wlnd 7 disc, everything is now up and running. I did backup to dvd some programs...

I have just installed wind on my comp, since installing have found problems with operating system(bad install suspected) Have tried formatting the drive using format in my comp but it refuses to let me format. How does one format the drive with wind 7 installed? Will inserting the windows 7 DVD...