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Recently I ran into a BSOD loop which made me restart my computer many many times by hand because sometimes my computer froze instead of showing BSOD, now after I managed to fix it my computer is REALLY REALLY slow, tried so many things chkdsk /f sfc /scannow removed hiberfil.sys (to clear...

Hi My wife's new Dell computer came with Avast Antivirus installed. Avast is practically a virus itself. It keeps popping up windows that want you to upgrade to pay service etc. It's a real pain. It has no uninstall function if you try to uninstall it in the normal way it just gives you the...

So,recently run into this extremely annoying problem.Some time after i launch my pc a window "Install Shield" pops up and "disables" my internet.After the pop up all browsers give me " Proxy Server not responding " or such.Apps that need internet to work such as steam just give me connection...

My wife has an HP laptop, model 14-1023cl if I can read the faded label correctly. If runs Windows 8 with one of the add-ons to make it look more like earlier versions. Maybe 8.1 instead? Sorry, I don't know. Avast runs daily. A few days ago it was very slow, and froze with a blank dull blue...

Iv tried everything to get my firewall started I believe the problem started when my Anti virus free trail expired so I was without an Anti virus for a few days. Anyway I now have Avast anti virus installed and Spybot but when I check my firewall, windows update and windows security center they...

I keep putting the drive offline because im wary of having it always active. It may have something to do with avast antivirus because thats the image thats listed next to the files in those drives. I checked with avast and it doesnt appear to be running any scans and theres no way I can find...

Win 7 Pro Anti Virus - Latest Avast at at Jul 11. I read good reviews of Online Armor and installed the current free one (v5?) Once it installs and restarts, I can not get any programs to load like Mic Word, Firefox, Avast Anti Virus etc. I did close all programs and with Avast I turned to...

Until a few weeks ago I was running the following computer and I use it just for gaming: Win 7 64 Home Premium Asus P8P67 MB i5 2500k ocz vertex 2 60g-system drive WD 500 GD HDD 8 gigs of ram 2 evga gtx 560 ti in sli The system ran flawlessly. I changed the Motherboard to an Asus P8Z68 and...

Hi all, I installed Windows 7 Home Premium today (fresh install on formatted hard disk) and am downloading some programs I used previously with Vista. I'm getting a hell of a lot of corrupted downloads though - Adobe Reader gives a checksum error when I try to extract it, Toontrack EZDrummer...

Guys, I've been having some extremely weird problems with my Windows 7 Home Premium PC. It's brand new, bought in the beginning of the year. There's 4 problems. Main one comes first: Today, while I was watching You Tube videos, got a blue screen twice. But not the 'blue screen of death'...

Hey guys, Background Scenario Just recently installed Win 7 64-bit from my previous Vista 32-bit Did not actively get my drivers but it all seems to have carried over from previous settings as every piece of hardware seems to be working fine and is identified Issue Everytime i start up my...

I installed MSDN RC build on my Dell laptop a week ago. Twice I've come out of sleep and the operating system freezes after about 30 seconds. No keys or mouse are responsive. I have to hard boot. I had this happen to me in Beta when I put the laptop to sleep and after awoke it running on battery...