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I just got done rebuilding my computer a few days ago, ensuring all of the devices in it are compatible, and getting the proper drivers for them. Though obviously I've done something wrong along the way, or some part of my computer is malfunctioning because I'm getting 3-10 BSOD's a day. I'm...

hi all :) Straight to it, my pc just bluescreened on me i was playing BF3 with youtube in the background , i do this quite regularly and my pc has never BSOD before because of it. it has BSOD me before and it was due to my wirless adapter apparantly, (though i thought i fixed this by updating...

Hi there! I am new to this forum and I apologise in advance if this is a question covered a zillion times already! Am having problems finding previous posts (probably as I am not familiar with correct terminology). However, we are on a network here and several of our older PCs are experiencing...

I was just browsing the new OS and wondering about a couple of network related items. In the Network Connections dialog window, Connection - properties, there is an option for Microsoft Network Adapter Multiplexor Protocols. Presently, it is not enabled, but from what I can gather, it will...

Hey guys, new to the site and all. I have a question about upgrading my motherboard and cpu with a new one. Now, to start, let me say that ive tried to do some research on the subject, and Ive read that if your chipsets are different on each board, then you're going to get hit with a BSOD when...

Just upgraded Vista to W7 32bit I used Winmail with Vista, had the message about no email client installed with W7 What is best advice here, need to recover all my mail folders. A quick Google shows that Winmail is but hidden, do I mess about and try & enable this? Or is there a better...

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Hi, I have Win7 Home Premium installed on 3 computers at home - purchased a Family Pack to install on 3 pc's. One of my pc's (old P4) is dying and I am replacing it with a new pc and want to disable/uninstall windows from this pc and install it on the new pc. The old pc had XP then I installed...

Ok so I received a BSOD when I was installing some windows updates Last night. Tonight when trying to Restart my computer it was stuck on "Shutting Down..." for just over 30 minutes so I just manually shut it down. Also I have had my computer just go to the "Windows did not proper shut down last...

Hey, I want to ask you something. Few days ago I've changed my Windows 7 32-bit to Windows 7 64-bit, but i think it's much slower. Also my score was something like 4,2 and now it's 3,0. Maybe my laptop configuration doesn't support Windows 7 64-bit very well? Here are my laptop specifications...

Hi I installed windows 7 on my computer, and now I am trying to install it on my laptop and it would not work, the only problem that I can think of could be that it can not handle the 64 bit version - could that be the case? if so, is there something within the laptop that could indicate which...

I have just formatted a new 1TBye drive and tried backup. It reports it has failed and the help area merely tells me to go to the settings. The windows error logs for backup indicate it worked. The drive has an 105MByte image on it but no files or folders. This is pretty useless given that as...

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hi all. wonder if someone can offer advice please? atm i dual boot XP and windows 7 Ultimate (full retail, not OEM). i want to remove 7 from my machine so i can install it on a new machine. have read various posts how to do that, but the posts are all old and a bit of messing about involved. i...

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Hi Guys. First off I'm new here, and wanted to say How do. On to my issue... I have a frustrating issue with my pc. It recently after a switch off by the power button (mums ey) broke. Asin broke I mean no longer works as quickly as previously and is unbearably slow. As on my...

In August 2009 i purchased an Acer Aspire one Netbook. The unit came preinstalled with WinXP. I subsequently upgraded to Win7. The Unit has worked well until about 1 week ago. Keyboard is malfuntioning...trackpad doesn't work until i hit the Fn+F7 keys...the screen began stuttering (if that's...

I have been kicking the idea of upgrading to Win7, but can't get a handle as to what I need to buy. I miss the old days. One box for all your needs. Now I don't know if I need OEM, retail, upgrade, family pack :confused:. A little background. I have three systems A,B, and C. I want to put...

Trying to connect to both my phone, and an OBD code reader, problem is both of those plus my pc are all what I call a "passive" connection, they scan for, and pair with other devices, then wait for the other device to initiate a connection. I need to force my pc to request the connection...

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