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In dire need of help. I purchased my pc in parts, Windows7 and gave it to a pc repair guy to build and looked like everything was working fine. Minutes after I got it back i started to download my usual software and it began to get BSOD. I checked for window updates and downloaded them all...

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...

So there is a photo STICKY on the START UP SCREEN. I put a few pics in the photos folder and they scroll on the desktop. #1. Is there a way to select <or better yet, DESELECT> the photos that appear in the SCROLL ... and #2. Is there a photo editor in WIN8 at all? I've looked and tried to...

Hello everyone, First if I am posting this in the wrong section feel free to move it. My win 7 ultimate after a fresh clean install would start up in 1 min 15 sec. After a few months the start up time increased to 3 mins.30sec! After trying all the obvious solutions, Malware check, spyware...

As a curiosity of mine I've messed around with several types of shell replacements for the standard Windows7 Explorer.exe. However, I've found that most of them do not have any form of "Notification Area". So I was curious if anyone knew of a program that had a notification area or how I would...

Hi, about 2 days ago i noticed an audio bug. When i was on my favorite VOIP service (mumble) I noticed all my friends seemed quiet. When I went to play league of legends the in game effects were blaring, and it made it even more difficult to hear my friends. The weirdest problem was on some...

I have had U-Verse (AT&T) for about one year now. Most of the time it has been trouble-free. However one problem I've was having is that, when the modem lost power for any length of time, when it came back I would get multiple AT&T connection errors when trying to surf. Over a period of a day...

Hey guys! I am a college student who knows almost nothing about computers. Please help me out. This might be a bit long, but please bear with me. Last month, I had a dell technician come to replace my casing (this is a laptop). Since then, every time I move my screen up and down, I would hear...

Hi everyone, I've been using Windows 7 Professional on a precarious condition lately. I can't pinpoint why or what's causing it, but I know Explorer.exe is malfunctioning: I don't get a BSOD (fortunately, perhaps) but the system hangs. As whenever that happens, Windows 7 itself suggests...

Hi all and thanks for letting me post, I just hope you can help me! I had my pc custom built and I installed Windows 7 Ultimate 64Bit myself on Sunday 6th Nov 2011. Since then I have had numerous BSOD incidents and consequest restarts with "Windows has recovered from an unexpected shutdown"...

I hope I'm in the correct section. I was refered to this site by another. Great community. To the problem. I was trying to set up a guest user account for others to use my laptop for school work and I tried to block areas of my computer by editing the permission or security. Without paying...

i hope im in the right place i was a mac user until it crashed im having a pc custom built im not writing this to make anyone mad but im trying to get comparisons between windows 7 and linux i have allready sent them an e-mail but not recieved just wondered if anyone here can give me an honest...

I Have windows 7 , service Pack 1, Dell XPS Intell Core i7 A month ago , I started seeing Live Mail Cashes that only seem to be happening with Facebook Notifications. I Simply cannot Open Anything Facebook without a Full Major Crash. I click on the E mail and The System freezes, Then I Must...

I am having a problem over on the "8" forums. (I think, only recently). Whether I am logged in, or renew a login, I find I cannot post anywhere. I get this message. "davehc, you do not have permission to access this page. This could be due to one of several reasons: Your user account may not...

Hi there, My name is Dan and I have finally installed Windows7 on my XP machine. Its taken me some time but this is no doubt the best OS Microsoft have made in a while. Now..... Knowing my stuff I decided to search around and purchase just the product key from a legit site as I already have...

Hi, new to the forums. I am looking to integrate IE9 into a retail image of Windows 7. I've already done this once successfully, however the version of IE9 that I have is outdated. If you peruse the internet, you'll quickly see several direct links to IE 9's msu version directly from...

Hi guys, Here is the story of my sad spiral into doom: 1) I use a SmartNav head tracker (hands-free mouse). One day it started giving choppy performance in first person shooters. It seemed to be due to a dodgy webcam driver I'd installed. No problem, right? I used Win7 restore points to...

I have posted on several forums, followed 100s of 'tips', but nothing works! Briefly: Technisat media player can share files on Vista, Android Samba, linux-based NAS without user verification but fails to access Win7 shares with a user/password login failure (although the share is available...

Hi I have steam, Last week I noticed my steam account was showing hours of gaming time for games that I always use and some games I haven't played at all. Then the other day I got home and saw "This Account is Currently Being used Elsewhere", and according to my Profile I was playing...

Whenever I try troubleshooting internet connection problems (which I often do) I run into the same message time and time again without fail; "The diagnostics policy service is not running" I attempted to go into services.msc and fix the problem, when I attempted to start the service manually I...