application issues

Hello, and sorry to have a first post asking for help. I did a forced shutdown when my PC seemed to be incredibly slow then hanging while logging off. On restarting, I got 'disk read error' repeatedly, after the BIOS boot screen but before any of Windows. I used my Windows install CD to run...

The in-laws are having computer issues. They are experiencing crash dumps once every couple days...sometimes more often. I attached the crash dump file. One thing else I noticed in the Administrative event log is a series of events: The application-specific permission settings do not grant...

Is it possible to prevent the ridiculous auto "full screen" when one tries to move a window partially off screen - this feature is one of several "new to Win 7" :skull: that make me yearn to return to XP Pro... (My new laptop cannot be configured with Win XP...) For heavens sake Gates - I moved...

I own an older Hp G50 laptop that came with vista but i put win7 32 bit on it. I installed all of the usual stuff that I would put on including steam, office and Photoshop. For a long time now, I have been having seemingly random blue screens only when I tried to shut down the computer. I tried...

I use an old XP app (JetToolbar - available at JetToolBar - Free software downloads and software reviews - CNET Download.com) and do not want to change but I cant make it work on Windows 7. The application installs and starts up just fine but it is not possible to drag icons/programs/files to...

Hi Everyone, I have a very frustrating problem. I have Windows 7, when I open or download a file it comes up with Microsoft Works Word Processor (default) and then a pop up that saids: Works cannot open....files name and then:The file may be in use by another application, the...

Virus? Windows Update? Who knows... but here is the quick rundown of what happened. We cant open any programs. We click an icon... it thinks about it then nothing. Click on an exe... it thinks about it then nothing. Click on anything that would normally launch a program and nothing happens...

My MS Office programs are not recognised by Windows 7. I can only open the files through the application i.e. open MSWord and then open the file from MSWord. I've tried correcting this with 'set your sdefault programs', but MS Office programs are not listed and in fact very few programs are...

Hi! Today I couldn't see all my installed applications in the 'Uninstall or change programs' tab. It's only showing the x64 applications which are installed on C:\program files\ but it's not showing anything else. Nothing what is installed on D drive or to program files (x86) doesn't show...

I have Windows 7 Home Premium and have been running it with no problems since last October. Suddenly this evening I can no longer drag/move application windows or move files through drag-and-drop. I can minimize and maximize windows but then they are frozen in place, I can't move them. It...

Not sure what is going on here, but the Event Viewer keeps telling me that "Custom dynamic link libraries are being loaded for every application. The system administrator should review the list of libraries to ensure they are related to trusted applications." What can I do to fix this?

Pls am having prob printing with window 7.Just got a new packard bell (all in one )desktop with win 7 home premium x64 based pc build 7600 pre-installed, when i launch my quickbook it will print and after few prints, it will stop printing requesting i confirm the printer is connected, check...

Chrome crashes to desktop randomly. I installed Firefox but it has the same issue. I only started having this problem a couple of weeks ago (chrome used to work fine before) Any ideas? Already tried reinstalling Adobe Flash I'm using Chrome's latest version and my Os is Windows 7 Ultimate x64...

I have one application that insists on storing log files and profiles at: C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Local. When I try to moe it to my E:\ partition it gets hung with the error message: I have tried deleting all non-essential processes within Task Manager to no avail. Any ideas...

Firefox on Windows 7 had been behaving...oddly. The app would simply stop working and exit to the desktop. Yet, parts of the Firefox kernel would remain in memory, making it impossible to restart the application without firing up Task Manager and manually killing the process. It happened a half...

Hi all I was wondering if anyone has any idea what could be causing my computer to freeze. I recently upgraded to win 7 from Vista with a clean install. I then installed a few programmes such as itunes, office etc and it was all running fine. Then a load of updates were installed as you'd...

I've just downloaded and installed Quicken2010 on a brand new computer with Win 7 :D. When I try to run Quicken 2010 I get the error "The Application has failed to start because its side-by-side configuration is incorrect. ..." in a pop up. The rest of the error text says, "Please see the...

Well ill be honest, im not the most tech savvy person around so bare with me. Ill keept it simple, i just bought windows 7 home premium, downloaded it from microsofts website. Everything seems to be working fine EXCEPT the fact that the only internet application that is being allowed to run is...

I installed windows 7 about a month ago and windows media player 12 has been working fine. Just barely however, it stopped working. It refuses to open and gives me an error message that says- "Server execution failed." -whenever I open any file. It has never done this before and I have no idea...

I am using dta(downthemall) and when try to download something with it now on win7 net becoms very slow, and comp actually it self is slowed down... somebody had a same problem?