corruption

Recently, (and no, rolling back is NOT an option on this computer...) some apps as well as windows 7 itself, have starting doing odd things. One real pain is that my fonts like to vanish. Especially upon a crash or if I have to hold the power button to shut off the computer, when I start up...

Hey guys, been having a problem for awhile and have not been able to figure out a solution on my own, and this seemed like a good place to reach out. Recently I switched out the motherboard in my set up, and did a clean install of Windows 7. I'm not 100% sure when it started, but sometime...

Okay, small situation sketch. Ist I had a win 7 x64 which ran smooth for over a year (had x32 before that, and some linux variants)..Then I decided to upgrade my pc to win 8 (i had heard from fellow it'ers that the upgrade was much better than previous versions so i thought why not give it a...

Anyone here handy at fixing computers? Been at this for 18 hours just about and im running out of places to turn to Right basically my computer keeps blue screening on me .. i have done everything from restoring to an earlier point in time to wiping my drives and reinstalling my os...

I am still having a problem with my Japanese language pack - I am able to switch from EN icon to JP icon and actually see the language bar (can't do so with a mouse click as I have been doing for 15 years now but must use Alt/Shift on the keyboard) -- But -- the scroll menus do not open...

I am truly hoping this is a very fundamental kind of problem. I do not understand why this is happening. I have installed windows 7 on many of these Lenovo G560's. They are standard from the factory. I had JUST setup this one particular laptop myself a couple months ago. Now the customer...

Help a brother out. I am unable to actually start windows, bsod's before it actually starts. Machine check exception appears as the bug, as well as 9c and x124 errors. I can't access mini dump files, and Ubuntu disk check informs me of "fatal machine check processor contact corrupt." I...

Keep having this damn BSOD!!!!!! already checked my ram with memtest all night and 0 errors ! i leave you my dump hoping that you can help me

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I just purchased an HP desktop. After setup, I kept getting dropped out to the login as soon as the computer was idle. I was told this was a registry problem and to go to safe mode and run SFC. That did not resolve the problem. Then I was advised to simply disable the login by going to RUN...

Hi, having a problem with my laptop, was originally a vista machine but purchased windows 7 and installed as a fresh copy. All installed ok but when i do the windows updates and system restarts, it always goes into start up repair mode and fails. the error in the log says mpfilter.sys is...

I've got 16GB now so decided to try making a 10GB RAMdisk and loading a game (DCS World) from that to see if the stuttering problems I experience are indeed caused by the HDD not being able to stream the data fast enough. However, as you can see from the images below, when I benchmarked the...

Link RemovedDear People, I have a mistifying problem that I have not been able to permanently solve for a long time. The Start Menu area Text appears smudged and barely visible when the Start button is clicked. I am referring to the Taskbar and Start Menu Properties window...

When I try and open Programs and Features on my Windows 7x64 laptop it crashes momentarily with the proverbial, "explorer.exe is stopping" and explorer.exe is now restarting and I get to try and open Programs and features again. I went to the Event Viewer to troubleshoot what was causing...

Ok i have a dell inspiron n4010 and it runs out a windows 7 32bit operating system but this system crashed completely would not load in safe mode or any mode at all a while back and the only windows disk i had acess to at the time was a 64bit so i downloaded it and it started working fine again...

I had a power outage yesterday while watching a video from my external hard drive. Decided to scan the hard drive using windows and it said some issues were found or corrupt. and it moved it to folder "found" I can't find this folder at all. I have already gone to folder options and unchecked...

UPDATE Problem SOLVED...I dicovered that it was temporary internet files which were too long. Not that that fixed my problem, I was still unable to access my copied files in the new account I created, kept giving me an access denied message. So I decided to just do a system restore instead...

Fixes an issue in which file names are corrupted when you decompress a.zip file on a computer that is running Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2. This problem occurs when the .zip file was compressed by a computer that uses a different system locale. More...

VERY IMPORTANT: This guide is still under construction! It is subject to change at any time. Don't see something you want? Comment/reply and I'll add it. Use the information in this guide AT YOUR OWN RISK! This guide is organized by "issues" or problems. Seek help in the section you need help...