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I recently had to restore a windows 7 computer. When I restored my media files, they were already formatted to windows 10. Now the windows 7 computer won't read any of the playlists. As much as I've tried, I can't find a way to get the playlists to work again in the older format. Any ideas how...

Hi, I would really to know when i remove the USB from my computer, i use the USB 20161026 porbably untill 20161110 i removed the USB. I saw pnp happends and two event code 20001 in the system (date 20161110) but the code 20001 was something about a printer, i have not plugged in any printer...

Hi All, Believe my wife installed keylogger/keystroker software on my PC. Whats worst is I believe this has been happening for over 7 years since well before we are married. Invasion of privacy, call it what you will. What would be the best way to detect if any is installed? I am willing to...

Sooooo I've reformatted a number of hard drives in my time, and never encountered an issue like this one, and it's stopping me cold. First, a little background: my lady friend is out of the country for a few months and desperately wants to come back to a reformatted laptop. Her Dell laptop...

Last time in my house was power outage , and after next boot i had this error in event viewer: Faulting application name: NvStreamUserAgent.exe, version: 7.1.2071.1338, time stamp: 0x5726e1d3 Faulting module name: ntdll.dll, version: 10.0.10586.306, time stamp: 0x571af2eb Exception code...

I am trying to go back to win 7 ult from win 10. My computer is a HP 8200 sff (refurb) with: i5 3.2GHZ processor 8G RAM 1 TB HDD The problem is getting rid of the win 10 partitions. Most disk wiping utilities either don't have partition editing capabilities or are not set up for the win 10...

Just curious what the bonjour app is. It was removed when I reset my computer. Does it do anything useful? If so, I can reinstall it. Thanks.

Hi Guys, Something is corrupting files on my computer by putting some random names to files and changing it to (.b8b0) file format, There are several files like this on my system. Most of the affected files have the following extensions: .b8b0 .doc, .mp3, .jpeg, etc. I am not sure what is that...

I don't know what happened, but Cortana no longer responds. Neither does clicking on the search box. I haven't made any tweaks to the computer, so it just happened on its own. I think she's been down several days now. What gives?

Hi, I get BSOD one a week, month, whenever. Not often. At strange times. Middle of night. Mostly when not using computer. Can someone peek at attached dump file and give me a clue as to what's up? I recently updated graphics adapter driver. Still got a BSOD last night. Time to solve...

i have found that the problem was on my hdd in my previeus post i told i stucked on the load screen i unplugged my hdd Windows 10 doesn't open it didn´t happen anymore and when i did plug in my hdd back i format it but then the computer was stuck and i was again stuck at the load screen what´s...

I've got Windows 10 Pro 64bit installed on my system and the hard drive is showing me over 60GB of used space. When I open the C drive and unhide all folders and do a Properties, it shows just over 20GB of used space on my system drive. I'm trying to figure out where 40GB of files are hiding...

Hi, I am attempting to reinstall windows xp home on my mom’s Dell 740 optiplex computer with the Dell reinstallation CD that came when unit was purchased. All her files were copied to a flash drive & no need to recover data. Have done this in past without any problems but this time I can’t seem...

Is there a media player that can resume playing video where it was halted even through a system restart? I am referring to video files on the computer.

Firstly, I don't didn't know which sub-forum to post this so I posted it here. I want a laptop computer with Windows 7. I'm currently using Vista (for 7-8 years) and it can't handle most new generation things. What computer I can buy that has good specs but not so expensive? Probably not over...

I want to lock one computer out of our home LAN - yet let it still access the wifi so's it can get the internet. How can I do that? The purpose is to avoid any contamination it might pick up being spread across the LAN.

So my computer was downloading the newest windows update and I left it, alone for a few hours but it ran out of charge before it finished updating and now when I try to turn it on, even when I plug the charger in(which works) it dies. Please help

Laptop is not connecting via ethernet on multiple providers, with different routers, at different addresses. Supposed its something with the computer itself that is the issue, but no idea what. Wifi works. Thanks so much for your help. Connection shows up as "Unidentified network, no internet...

My HP dc7900 desktop came with Win 7 Home. It was upgraded up to Win 10 in 2015. It has all the latest updates, etc. It has a few... (be honest many) problems almost every day to contend with. I think the hard drive may be the problem. It has a Seagate Barracuda 7200-9 160 GB HP WGBU...

My brother brought a computer here that has older Windows version on it and I am not sure which version it is and he said it doesn't boot up and one of the hard drives went out how to start Windows when I put a new hard drive in the computer