Okay so here is the scoop inb my latest computing adventure:
I have a friend from work who needed me to get his internet working, okay fine i got it working easy enough, just using standard windows 7 stuff no issues.
However his main family computer is another story.
My friends father got a...
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I’ll pass on something I learned that may save others a lot of diagnostic time. After months of wrestling with Outlook crashes, I finally gave up on it and switched to Thunderbird. I then noticed problems with incoming messages that were created in Outlook by others. Embedded graphics and...
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Hi, I have Windows 8.1 as my operating system.
After a random amount of time, my Disk usage will jump to 100% for around 30s-1min then go back to normal. It will continually do this over and over again.
The problem is, I can't figure out a solution or the cause of the problem. I looked online...
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I have Win 7 ultimate
My PC absolutely couldn't start. I tried everything Win 7 advised but it refused to start so after a bit of local advice it turns out my Hard drive is probably corrupt.
I was planning a complete rebuild in a couple of months for newer components and have bought that forward...
Hi,
I'm trying to fix my user profile by following the steps in the following page:
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/fix-corrupted-user-profile#1TC=windows-7
When I get to point 7:
Select all of the files and folders in this folder, except the following files:
Ntuser.dat...
I'm desperately trying to find some help with this. I recently upgraded from Windows 8 to 8.1. I really didn't want to, but I just wanted my computer to stop bugging me about upgrading. I finally did, and when it was all said and done, it looked like my D Drive wasn't recognized. I sat with...
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...
Dear friends, need your kind and quick assistance here.
I'm working as an SA in my company and handle my SQL Server. One of the important MDF files is not valid as my users are getting this error: "Filename.mdf is not a primary database file".
Is this corruption or a minor issue? From where...
Hello.
I am using a Dell laptop with Windows 8 Home. The file Properties show strange symbol-type characters where there should be numbers etc. See Screenshot...
This character problem has existed for a while, more than 6 months I guess.
1) Antivirus scans are clean.
2) All Region and...
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I'm not sure if somebody else had this problem before, but for me this keeps happening every couple of weeks. It happened for the third time recently.
Out of the blue on shutdown Windows says that it's installing updates with the typical counter of percent complete going up. This is weird for a...
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Aloha peeps, I'm having a problem i believe after installing a proggie called FilExile. I had some long directories on my external hard drive and i couldn't erase them. Thought i needed a special program to erase them and all it needed was quick CHKDSK /f and it converted them to data I erased...
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Hello, I have been working on my own computers for 15 years, have built 6 over the years, and always fix mine and my parents computers whenever theres a problem. Occasionally I get stumped and need help, so thats why I am here. My desktop home office computer is doing several things over the...
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I have an HP laptop that came with Windows 8 installed. One of the automatic updates ran and changed pathways to my files. If I click on Libraries, my documents, music, and pics that were there before the upgrade are not there now. I have to click c:/users/myusername/ then whichever folder...
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Hello!
Recently there was this mysterious thing that went on with the computer, and the windows somehow became corrupted. This corruption of the Windows Installer has prevented me from using the newest version of internet explorer because I can't even install the update(I'm currently...
Using the program called Eraser, I erased the free disk space of drive D: which is a logical partition on my only physical drive. Apparently the program overwrote the Master File Table Records and as result, I do not see the content of the D: drive. When looking at the properties of the D...
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i tired to uninstall a program called cueclub and it has made my grandas computer to crap and it is a corrupted registry that is the problem. can someone halp me with this on who I can fix this please
System I7 3770 not oc'd
16 gig ram
Gigabyte Motherboard
GTX 660
Power Supply is a Corsair 700 Watt only about a year and a half old.
I am having trouble figuring out what may be causing Windows 8.1 to crash. It seems that it is fixed and then it isn't.
Here is what occurred:
1. Never had any...
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Hi All,
I am experiencing intermittent BSOD, the lastest of which is lists SPECIAL_POOL_DETECTED_MEMORY_CORRUPTION as the error.
MInidump attached, please take a look and let me know what you find.
Thanks.