driver problems

The system is totally different. The download takes longer because you are basically downloading an OS installer that will overwrite the existing installation. A lot of programs are either are not running properly or have been removed from the previous Win 8 installation. Avast was gone...

Problems on my friend's laptop, which I'm trying to fix. First problem. Boot up (~35 seconds) and I'm on desktop. Open Start Menu and click on a program (say for example, IE). It loads for a bit, then the icon on the taskbar disappears. Let's open a different program, Chrome. Loads for a bit...

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Hi guys, I hope you can help. I have been having these BSODs or hangs ever since I installed (fresh) Windows 8 on this 4-year-old laptop. It nearly always happens as I try to come out of sleep that's lasted for more than some tens of minutes. It sometimes happens when I come out of...

I have a ZT desktop PC running Windows 7 64-bit on a home wireless network. My printer is a Brother HL-1400 laser monochrome, connected to my PC via USB. About 9 months ago I bought my wife an Acer laptop, (Costco), also Windows 7 64-bit, and was able to add it to my network so it would print...

I found UWO and I'm excited to play -- It's pretty casual, and I really enjoyed the original on Nintendo. I was able to play for a few days without any issues, but recently there's been a patch. Ever since, I get BSOD when launching the game. I've tried re-downloading the game -- running...

Yes it was horrific cos an Update from MS was supposed to upgrade my Nvidia driver but it left my computer in oversize icons that I had to undo and a program that just would not work as it went to a black screen and stayed there until I rebooted. I had to go back to an earlier backed up version...

Ive never had this problem since i bought my laptop, its been a Little more tan a year now since i bought it and 2 months ago this problem showed up. It used to happen only when my laptop CPU was forced to do something like switching wifi connections and stuff but now it happens as im writing...

I am running HP Pavilion a4310f, 3.0GHz, 6GB RAM, 640GB hard drive. I am observing the following difficulties: :( 1. No Internet connection 2. No audio 3. No System Restore 4. Modem, router seem to be functioning normally. I am able to sign in using this Asus netbook computer 5. Ran Norton...

Greetings, I have a Microsoft Wireless Laser Keyboard 6000 V2 which includes the Laser 6000 mouse. After installing Windows 8 Pro the mouse and keyboard center software that was installed does not show a configuration module for the mouse. I only have the standard mouse settings available...

Sorry, if this should be in the hardware forum... I am doing a fresh (bare metal) install. I am experiencing a weird problem with Win7 not remembering drive letter. I am hoping that someone has run across this problem and has the answer. I tried "Diskpart automount enable". It did not work...

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New external HDD won't show in "Computer" l Have searched a lot, but only find comments directing me to Disk management and Device manager. The Ext. HD is not showing there either. Power light is on. This is a Lacie 2 TB Minimus USB 3.0 External Hard Drive...

Hello! Just joined the community and I thank everyone in advance for any help with this matter. First let me give a little background of where I am today that might help diagnose this issue. Brand new computer, upon installing Windows 7 could not boot into windows due to missing file errors...

I have played Battlefield Bad Company 2 for a long time now. I never had any issues with the game. It always ran perfect with no problem. I stopped playing for a bout 10 months. I recently started playing again and I can play the game just fine. Runs smooth, no issues in game. But when I go to...

Describes a problem in which a terminal server session may stop responding on a Windows Server 2003-based computer. This problem involves the font management module in the Win32k.sys driver. A workaround is provided.also run into this issue installing... Link Removed

Hey, people of Windows 7 Forums. :) I wasn't really sure where to post this question, but basically, I've had a Gateway desktop for about a month now. I've had no problems with it until today. I put the computer on sleep for a couple hours, woke it up, it said I had 11 updates...I shut down the...

Consider the following scenario: You have Windows 7 installed on your computer. You have a printer installed using an XPS printer driver. Print Pooling has been enabled for the XPS printer. You print from a Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)... Link Removed

Hi, for the past month i have had an issue where before the log in screen would show, it would be a blank screen with a cursor, that i could move. (It worked normal in safe mode) I normally would just ignore this problem and it seemed to go back to normal after a little while. Well yesterday...

Hi, i have a problem lately with a Samson GoMic (usb) on a dell 17 xps 702. Sometime ago i disable it trying to resolve a audio monitor issue and since then i'm unable to use it, tried every single trick around from as simple as enable it back to modify registry entries but no luck, it just...