Recent content by tallon

SOLVED: MY BLACK SCREEN ISSUE WAS CAUSED BY 'STARTISBACK' UTILITY I started getting other errors such as: - Error 0xc000021a - Loginui.exe application error. The instruction at 0xdd0cb179 referenced memory at blah blah and in searching THESE errors I found someone who said that...

Hi ussnorway - no, can't see Asus Wake anywhere in services. Thanks kemical for that suggestion, it'll buy me some time till I can find a solution.

Hi, Three weeks ago I started my PC as normal and got a black screen after I logged in. A program update box suddenly appeared so clearly nothing wrong with the graphics or screen, just Windows not working. After a lot of messing around (yeah, thanks for hiding 'safe mode', Microsoft) and...

It doesn't do this all the time, plus Windows 8 is set to automatically update itself. I wonder if maybe a virus or something is taking it over?

I have a weird problem. Every couple of days, over the last week or so, my machine slows right down and many apps freeze. When I look in Task Manager>Process I can see that '.net clickonce launch utility' is running and hogging system resources which is slowing the machine to a crawl. For...

SOLVED IT. Thanks to 'bassfisher6522's suggestion, I uninstalled AVG, then ran avgremover to strip out all the cr#p it left behind. (Then I found remnants of Kaspersky anti-virus installation from 2 years ago so used kavremover to get rid of that too.) Then uninstalled wifi card and it's...

Well, I bought it from ebuyer and the 39 user reviews give it a total of 4.5 stars out of 5 and several people mention immediate and easy installation with Windows 7, so I don't think that's it. UPDATE: I read elsewhere that anti-virus progs can interfere with driver installation, so tried...

I've just installed a wireless PCI adaptor (Tenda W322P 11N) in my desktop PC but I can't 'enable' it - every time I double click it starts to enable then stops and leaves it disabled with no warning or error messages. The system is definitely seeing it as it's listed in Device Manager, and if...