computer issues

Hi, as the title says, it seems that whatever I change in my settings in the control panel, does not get saved. I noticed this when every time i open up my laptop, the notification center, you know, the little white flag at the bottom right, keeps showing an "x" mark, saying that windows...

\\ EDIT : Disregard - Explorer was having issues populating folders. I have two computers and one just had a new install of Windows 7 Professional. I was running my scripts to strip out the System and start laying down my personal build when I noticed there was no \Installer directory in the...

Hi guys, New here and not great with computers so please bare with me! Have tried running a search across the problem but can't seem to find a fix for my issue. I'm having problems with "WinRS.exe" - It runs constantly in the background but probably every 5-10 minutes it will suddenly cripple...

Hi, So a few days ago I restored my computer in attempt to fix a few problems it was having. Unfortunately, the problem was still occurring and I no longer had any of my files. Now I am trying to replace my Local Disc (C : ) with my windows.old file to get back all the files that I lost from...

What causing my xpsp3 computer to be slower? I am trying to figure on my old windows xp sp 3, what is slowing down my system. I have all update as far as I know before Microsoft stop supporting xp. It could be caused by an system update, browsers or another program. I have scanned for...

Hi, yesterday I wanted to delete everything on my PC so I put Windows 8.1 on a USB and started the recovery process. I read online that Windows would remember my product key in the bios but It's now asking for a product key. I got Windows pre installed so I don't have the key anymore. Can I get...

I have an IBuyPower computer with a Gigabyte GA-B75M-D3H motherboard, and i5 CPU and 8 GB of memory. I replaced the motherboard a while ago, because it started rebooting every couple of seconds. It worked fine for a while after I replaced the motherboard, then the USB 3 stopped working. I...

I got this computer recently and I've been trying to play a couple of games on it and they have all crashed after some point of time. They run smoothly for the most part. Normally when this happens I get odd color bits on the screen and everything just freezes up. I have to force restart to get...

How I hate W8.1. I've spent and wasted hours trying to get to grips with it. My current issue is that when I download some software I just can't find it. Latest is Windows file converter to enable me to open Word 2007 files with Word 2003. I've downloaded it and looked through all the programs...

So I bought an external hard drive because you never know when your computer may need to reset. So I plugged it in and it did not come up. I went into disk management and I dont know what to do from there on out.. I posted an attachment so you can see.

So about 4 days ago I noticed that my c drive had lost a few gigs, no big deal, but two days later suddenly my drive was in the red. I'm down to about 33gigs right now and it keeps dropping. I've run scans with Avira, Malwarebytes and Spybot but nothing has helped. Is it a virus or is it just...

First of all, if this is not the right forum, please switch me to it. Over the last several months, I have had a number of Windows shut downs for no apparent reason (often right after I boot up in the morning although at other random times, too). Usually, I am not present when it happens -...

All of a sudden I have 4 Removable Drives on my windows 8 machine. I've tried removing these, but they return as soon as I restart. I went into computer/disk management, right clicked each and uninstalled the driver, but no way. So I went to Device Manager and first disabled and then...

I can do anything on my computer and everything runs very smooth as long as I don't open a browser. I can open very large images, open any program like Photoshop or any other program that normally needs some time to load and it loads very fast, but as soon as I start any browser it doesn't...

Word threw me an error saying 'something went wrong' and suggested I run an update. After doing that last night (Tues May 27) my computer runs like crap. Takes longer to boot than usual, and signimg in takes a good 10 min. I tried to open a browser to search for solutions. That took 15 min to...

Digital Output sounds like something that should be digital, right? My question about Realtek Digital output is, does it rely on speakers? Because it really sounds like something that shouldn't. When I saw that this computer has Digital Output, I assumed that means I don't need to have speakers...

I have a computer clean installed with Windows 8.1 Pro, it had Windows 7 installed on it but I formated it and installed Windows 8. Anyways, boot time is very fast as the Fast Boot helps it make it fast, of course. But after booting a day later without going on it, it shows the boot screen...

Everytime I leave my house with my computer on, and I return most of my programs end up NOT RESPONDING How can I figure out what is causing this issue so my programs dont hang like this? Is there a log file I can view to see when and what causes issues, it seems to be happening a lot on my...

I've recently had my computer give me a few strange crashes; twice while playing Champions Online but several days apart, it just froze up, gave a graphical glitch, sound stuttering and computer restarted. Then finally, I got an actual blue-screen, giving several error codes and also referencing...

I've had issues with my computer for nearly a year now with games crashing. And this includes what seems to be any game. There are only 3 games that I can reliably play for any period of time: 1. Unreal Tournament 2004 2. Limbo 3. Prototype (1) There's not really anything specific that those...