device management

Win7 x64 SP1 PRO Office PC Win7 x32/x86 SP1 PRO Media Center PC Issue: How to adjust NAS drive(s) spin up frequency, check to see what is causing them to come out of sleep mode. NAS's are set to power down currently @5mins. Trying to figure out what is causing them to "Wake-up" and how to...

Respected Sir, I am using Windows 7 Ultimate 32 bits but when I try to take backup following error message was displayed: The backup application could not start due to an internal error: The service cannot be started,either because it is disabled or because it is disabled or because it has no...

Hello, I have a Toshiba Laptop c660 with windows 8 professional installed. I can`t make the jack for headphones to work. The jack is not broken because it works on Ubuntu. I installed the driver for my soundboard. Didn`t worked. I unistalled it and i let windows chose the best option for me...

Hello, I've been using a PS3 Bluetooth remote (model: CECHZR1E) on my Sony Vaio SVE1512E6EW which has atheros qualcomm bluetooth AR3012 built in. All my drivers are up to date, but yesterday my remote stopped working. It now shows up as "offline". My other bluetooth device (Canon X-Mark...

I configured my Windows 8 machines to use my corporate email (which was on premise Exchange 2010). As soon as I did, it would lock me out after X amount of inactivity and require a password upon my return. ...now, I know, great idea, security is important, yada yada... but I work from home, in...

Hi, I have Dell Inspiron N5110 laptop with Windows 7 Ultimate installed in it. It was working fine and once I wanted to install synaptics touchpad driver for multi-gesture feature. I tried to install twice or thrice but the installation was getting failed. Thinking that if any other touchpad...

I have a 5.25 media dashboard and when I go to put my sd card in it does not do nothing. Have checked device drivers and looked in my computer. It does not show. Is it possible that there is a driver missing? Problem Solved!

Hi! I have a laptop with win8 (64bit) inside it. The problem is: 1) Network discovery keeps turning itself on 2) File and print sharing keeps turning itself on 3) After the network discovery is turned on, there are odd new networks on the list. 1-2) Everytime I open the computer (or reboot...

I use my Lenovo twist for work. From time to time I have to assign a static IP address to my network card based on the customer premise. What I have found is that if I do a ipconfig from the command line, these static ip addresses are not released. If I assign ip1, then customer site ip2...

Hello, After the 1 year warranty of my Acer pc expired, it started randomly shutting down and reboot. No gentle closing windows, or a blue screen just *poof* and restart. I did some research on this problem so i already ticked the "dont restart on critical failure" box. In my device management...

I have this problem with Windows 7 from time to time, and I finally want to find out the correct solution. Sometimes when Im done using a USB hard drive, and I've closed all applications saving to it (or copying from it), I can't eject the drive. I get an error message: "Windows can't stop your...

Hi, folks! Gird your grid for a very long OP describing a truly baffling puzzle. I apologize for the length, but I've spent a great deal of time and effort researching this issue and experimenting and testing various hypotheses, so I've provided a lot of details which I hope will allow you...

Hello, We're having a recurring issue with printers on our network. We use KIXTART to add printers based on usernames and location, and for the most part it works very well, with the exception of the library. Intermittently, we find that a printer will not be added properly. Only one printer...

I recently updated my NVIDIA card with audio drivers and now it can make the audio go through my television using HDMI (watching videos). The problem however, is that when I go into the Sound settings and change the default to the NVIDIA "device", I need to reboot windows to activate the...

I have Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit SP1 installed. I noticed the other day that while the Network Connection icon in my system tray looks fine, if I click on it I get a notification that I am not connected to a network. The issue is that I am connected to my network and the Internet. Link...

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Hi, so my laptop has been having some majors errors for the past few days. Essentially, I can start using my internet for a few minutes at a time, then I notice nothing will load, and I no longer have internet access. It still shows 5 bars in the bottom right corner for a few seconds, then...

I've got a laptop that used to be connected to a domain that was locked down tighter than Fort Knox... I think I cleared out all the old GPO's, but I'm still digging for ancient registry values and other settings everywhere that locked things down. Right now, I'm having trouble connecting my...

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I have a laptop (Asus K55D) with two OS, Windows 8 and 7, operating through a KVM switch (trendnet tk-409). It is also connected to a Linux machine. Linux machine works fine. When booting the laptop, the Bios and the boot selection work fine too, and so does Windows 8 when booted. But when...