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Hey there guys, I have recently started getting constant BSOD's, now to the point that I can't even use my computer. It started about a week or two ago, and has constantly gotten worse. I have gotten a variety of different codes. I really need my computer to go back to normal, as I am taking...

For some reason, I cannot open my library folders (music, video, documents, pictures). I don't know how it occurred, but I think it may be due to the last round of updates that were downloaded from Microsoft. When I click on the folders, nothing happens. I get no errors either. This is what...

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I am working on a PC that has proved to be rather troublesome. It will NOT install USB devices through windows update or by pointing to system32/driverstore. When I point to system32/driverstore it says "USB Composite Device - the system cannot find the file specified." These are devices that...

Hi guys, I have been experiencing a bout of BSOD recently a week after installing a game (Sims 3 and its assosicated expansion sets) and some other software that includes a game booster (Razer Game Booster) and Advanced Systemcare 6 from IOBit.com. I have since uninstalled all of these and did...

Hi, I recently had a new computer built (completely new to the process) and started it up. It was running just fine, for 15-20 minutes, but then I started getting repeated BSOD error messages with minimal activity. Seeing as how the computer is brand new I've only installed a video card driver...

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Hi everyone, I'm new here, looking forward to speaking with you all. Hopefully I'm posting in the right area! :) I help my mom with most of her computer issues, and I'm usually able to troubleshoot most of them without much difficulty, but today I've encountered a real whopper that I just...

Hi, This just started to happen yesterday, after 2 and half years of use: There is a pop-up that claims that "this computer is not running genuine Windows" But, if I go to Computer/properties there is: Windows activation Windows is activated Product ID: xxxxx-OEM-xxxxxxx-xxxxx If I click...

I am dual booting win8 and win7. I actually have win8 installed on its own hard drive and win 7 installed in its own hard drive. The win7 hard drive has been in use for the past 2 years and I have had Win8 running for about a week now. I purchased another hard drive for Win8 and left the old...

Hi, I have Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit - there are a few of Windows features that I am trying to turn off in ‘Control Panel/Programs and Features/TurnWindows Features on or off.’ I keep getting the message: "An error hasoccurred, Not all of the features were successfully changed." I would...

Hi everyone. Please, my system suffered an unexpected shutdown 3times today. its a hp 630 icore 3 thats just a year old. i have run CHKDSK as well as SFC\ SCAN NOW and no errors popped up anywhere, but yet i still get the same BSOD and its shutsdown. This is the information i get after the...

Hi helpers, It's a very strange situation I am stuck on since yesterday. When I turned on my laptop yesterday, that windows did not load properly and came up with Blue Screen of death with this 'Unmountable Boot Volume' error. After tons of research online, I found so many different tricks to...

Hi guys, I'm new here so I'll introduce myself If you dont care for introductions, skip it I'm just doing it as a formality =) ***** I'm 25 years old, and have been using computers as a hobby for more than half my life. As a teenager I never had owned a brand new computer, always received...

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...

My laptop is Samsung NP-SF410-S01CA. I had been having BSOD since for a year now. I have tried memtest for hours, tried chkdsk, tried switching memory stick to different slots, and re-installing windows 7 two times. I've even sent my laptop to samsung for repair but it was not fixed eventually...

Scandisk on bootup Hi all I have run into a very strange problem. My company desktops update via WSUS - they are mostly Win7 machines but we have a few WinXP too. Recently all desktops are running a scandisk when powered on...its as if their file structure is corrupted. Going into their...

My computer often freezes and becomes unresponsive. I can move the mouse and the UI is responsive to varying degrees, but even if anything loads, it takes ages. I usually have to resort to forced shutdown. I do not think it is a hardware issue, since Linux runs flawlessly. I checked the event...

I had an MS Word 2007 file on my system. I had it opened for a couple days, and during this time, Windows decided to FORCE a restart of my system (beautiful idea to default to this behavior, btw), and while doing so completely lost (how?) my saved copy of the aforementioned file. This file is...

I don't know what's wrong with my baby but he's doing something crazy. The SSD that someone bought me is screwed. Meaning, it's slower than both of the HDD's that I have. I've since reformatted the SSD and I'm in the process of removing it from my computer. However, the 500GB isn't doing too...