I'm an artist and Microsoft Paint for windows vista is my favourite program to use. I recently got a windows 8.1 and I hate how the new Microsoft Paint is! I went back on my vista and got out mspaint.exe from system32 and put it on my 8.1, but when I try to open the program I recieve an error...
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Over the past couple of weeks my compputer has gone from being slow and semi responsive to completely non responsive. It started with it not installing updates properly, and then progressed to the computer not shutting down at all. I managed to get a system restore to work eventually, and...
Unable to reinstall Windows 8 with Error code: 0xc000000f "File:\Windows\system32\winload.efi"
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I have got a problem in loading the operating system, only the following details are shown on screen.
My laptop is DELL VOSTRO, Model 3560, windows 8,64 BIT 3RD...
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Something happened and I could no longer watch videos on Netflix due to the above error (on a Windows 7, 64-bit machine). Googling, I discovered this is a Silverlight error. Tried uninstalling and reinstalling Silverlight, but that made no difference. Also tried deleting the file...
I have an HP g60 windows 7 Home Premium its almost 3 years old. I started a program (Adobe Flash CS5 portable, I believe) and then I hibernated the laptop. It was taking a longer time than usual to do this so I did a force shutdown by pressing the power button. After an hour I decided to turn...
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Hi everyone, I'm new here, looking forward to speaking with you all. Hopefully I'm posting in the right area! :)
I help my mom with most of her computer issues, and I'm usually able to troubleshoot most of them without much difficulty, but today I've encountered a real whopper that I just...
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I have searched Windows Update threads and tried a number of things suggested, all to no avail.
I have prepared a long, detailed list of what was wrong and what I have done to correct it, but it's too long to paste here. I attached it below. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you...
For the last 3-months my windows 7-64 updates are not right. Windows keeps updating the same updates everyday.
RE: KB2742595, KB2737019, KB2789642, KB2729449, KB2604121, KB2736428 and KB2754670.
All of these, except the last one relate to .NETFRAME4, and the last one relates to Microsoft...
Hi helpers,
It's a very strange situation I am stuck on since yesterday.
When I turned on my laptop yesterday, that windows did not load properly and came up with Blue Screen of death with this 'Unmountable Boot Volume' error.
After tons of research online, I found so many different tricks to...
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Most stupid thing to do, but I did it...
I changed ownership of all files on C:\ (and permissions also -removed SYSTEM, Users & authenticated users from all files-shame on me) and after that, I was unable to get even into win logon screen. Fortunately, I have 2 Win 7 x64 versions installed, so I...
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i have recently upgraded to 8 from 7. my bluetooth has stopped working a couple of days ago. the device manager lists bluetooth with an yellow exclamation mark ( code 19...windows can not start device...registry problem...blah blah blah ).
i have uninstalled and reinstalled latest bluetooth...
If Windows Update is failing, especially if the Win8 install was an Upgrade from a prior Windows OS, do the following:
Command Prompt, Run as Admin
DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-Image /ScanHealth
Hit ENTER
After that finishes...
DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth
Hit...
maybe a few weeks back my laptop with windows 7 hung up on boot, so I just powered it off and after the start up recovery ran (finding no problems) it booted. No more boot problems until today, it booted pass the window logo to the black screen just before the blue screen login, but just sat...
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Hey guys,
I just recieved another BSOD. The last time I did a "System Restore" which seemed to help. But this is starting to happen more and more now.
I have a crash dump file that appear in c:\windows\minidump folder.
I am uploading it here, for those who may wish to reveiw it...