computer help

Hi there! My name is Kim and I've run into a technical issue I just can't seem to troubleshoot for the life of me. When I try to run my Windows Update, it gives me the error that 'Windows Update cannot currently check for updates, because the service is not running'. Its been like this for...

Next weekend I am djing at a summer party, I am pretty useless with computers and I just can't get my head around this. Mixxx, the program I am using allows the Dj to listen to preview music through headphones whilst another song is playing through the speakers. [My laptop speakers dont work...

My Acer Aspire A7600U-UR24 came with windows 8. I made a recovery drive by choosing "create recovery drive" in windows 8. After making the drive i installed windows 8.1 from DVD. Some time later I tried to restore it back to factory with my recovery usb. Every time I try I get "windows cannot...

Okay I'm going to try and explain this as best I can. I am a young girl and do not know much about what goes into to computers and fixing them. Just a heads up, I need a really good explanation of what to do. Thank you so much. Now the problem. My computer got a virus from me trying to download...

1. Keys do not work in Any of the Internet Browsers. Even the on-screen keyboard does not help. 2. Every time I double click a file, A pop-up "Do you want xyz to make changes to the computer ?" is welcoming me! 3, I click on any of the icons in the task-bar and a new window is opening. For...

I noticed today when turning my computer on that my Windows firewall is turned on. I have been using the firewall through Kaspersky for aprox. 4 years now and by no means am I changing to the Windows anytime soon. The problem I am having is when I open the page up that shows where I can turn it...

hi guys. When I am playing games half way, I occasionally get auto alt-tab to desktop. It is very disruptive to my game. I went to check what is the cause of it by clicking on my volume icon and then click on mixer, I realise it is rundll32.exe that is causing the problem. Rundll32.exe will only...

For some months now I have been running Windows 7 and since the start I have noticed a little flag of warning in the lower right corner. At the start it announced 2 problems, which was altered to 1 after I had done a back up. If I look at the one remaining problem this seems to be that I have...

Hey, This is my first post here. I am going into Computer>manage>device manager>network adapters>my adapter>rightclick>properties>advanced and I am trying to change the "property" from "802.11d" to "wireless mode" (under value next to "wireless mode" it says IEE 802.11b/g/n) which i believe my...

My computer freezes on every startup and after restarting 2-3 times. And then it can freeze up at at any random time. I'm pretty sure it's not overheating. I also checked the task manager, my disk and CPU usage was up to 95% most of the time. So I uninstalled a few stuff which I didn't use and I...

I had Win 7 Pro running on one SSD and something screwed up the registry in a minor way so that a few things didn't work right any more. I added another SSD and installed a second Win 7 Pro copy on it to run the two copies in a dual boot config while I got the second installation up to speed to...

I recently found many application would not save to correct type. Some software icons would come out to a blank or white block, but those software actually there. For example, realrecorder is running, it would come out a white block on taskbar on bottom. I tried use 'access and program default'...

Boy, am I stuck! I conducted a search for a folder and found it deep in a repeated shortcut tree in the application Data folder. The tree was - C/Programdata/applicationdata/applicationdata/applicationdata........ repeated about 15 times. Each subtree "Application Data" folder in the tree showed...

Hallo,i am new user for this forum i want to ask about my pc problem My pc have this problem since 1 year ago It always happen when i watch video,booting,and can happen at any time while using computer My PC Spec: Intel(R)Core(TM)i7 CPU 870 @2.930 RAM 4 GB 32 Bit OS Windows 7 VGA NVDIA...

Ok so when I try to log onto my computer an error message pops up that says "user profile service failed to logon. User profile cannot be loaded." I looked up the solution and it can simply be fixed by pressing f8 while windows is starting and booting into safe mode. AND THEN IT GETS...

Hi I have mentioned in another post about my friend Paul who it inundated with malware and junk files. He didn't have this until he moved to a new home recently, he still has Comcast same as before and the same computer running Windows 7. To try and solve this I have installed Malwarebytes...

Hi I just bought Windows 8 and a SSD for the OS. I want to remove Windows 7 from my existing HDD so it only stores data and doesn't work as a OS anymore. How can I do that? Thanks!

I have a pen flash drive with info from old PC. I already used it to transfer pictures to new PC with Win8, but now I cannot. I do not remember how to access it. I plug it into UBS port and... nothing. How do I access/find it in Wind 8? I am not good with computers, please if you can explain it...

Hello people, I have a Windows XP Computer. I only have 20 GB of space, but my hard drive is bigger than that. It is 111 GB. I want to use the 91 GB left of space so I can store more stuff. Can you please tell me how to use Disk Management becuase I am not that good at partitions. Thanks in...

OK I tryed to do a dual boot on my windows 7 computer the dual boot is xp and I got a corrupt copy, and now it won't pass the boot logo, And it crashes,and now I can't do anything, I can't get back to my windows 7, and when I tired booting from a diffent disc it won't change the name of the disc...