computer help

please help me, whenever i log onto my laptop im prompted as other user then i am told password is incorrect. i then can switch to my proper account and i am fine. on user settings there is only my main account. why the hell is this happening.

I currently run windows 8.1. The computer is an Asus S400C. On startup it says preparing automatic repair then after a few seconds takes me to the BSOD where It says: Recovery Your pc couldn't start properly after multiple tries, the operating system on your PC failed to start, so it needs to...

I have a computer using XP, my wife had an older computer that had some hardware problems and we replaced it. The problem is, when I installed the drive into my computer, the icon shows it there but when I go to transfer files from my wife's drive it says the drive is not formatted. How do I...

This has been going on for a couple months, and it hasn't gotten in the way but now it is as it's preventing me from opening certain files and games i want to use, such as Skype, and games like Bioshock Infinite. Whenever i start up my computer or open specific programs, it says ...

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...