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Was having problems for the first time with my desktop over the weekend - Windows 7, Quad Core, 16GB memory, GTX 550Ti graphics card, enhanced power supply. I think it may have been a result of some trouble I've been having with an external hard drive. It completely froze up computer every few...

so i some how messed up my computer its a dell laptop running windows vista home premium and later this morning i restated my computer and now it freezes when i start it normally but it works in safe mode with networking and normal safe mode and i try to factory restore from the f8 menu but...

OK, here's my problem: Whenever I right-click on a picture file, Windows Explorer will freeze, saying Not Responding in the window title bar and in Task Manager. After ending the process and restarting Windows Explorer, I get an error that says "The remote procedure call failed and did not...

Hi all: I recently installed Ubuntu 14.04 as a second OS on my Toshiba Satellite laptop. Long story short, I can no longer boot into Windows 7. I turn on my computer, select Win7 from GRUB, but the screen freezes at the Starting Windows screen. Similarly, when I try and boot into safe mode, it...

Yesterday at night and now at evening network froze - couldn't connect anything (cumpuer is turned on 24\7 without any sleep modes or anything power-saving), I could turn off connection in netowrking pane but couldn't turn it back on - little window "turning on connection" stayed forever, device...

I can do anything on my computer and everything runs very smooth as long as I don't open a browser. I can open very large images, open any program like Photoshop or any other program that normally needs some time to load and it loads very fast, but as soon as I start any browser it doesn't...

I'm using windows 8.1 suddenly my laptop shut down... When I restart my laptop it didn't switch on. I used windows 8.1 boot cd and checked c drive is not responding. I'm also tried in cmd c: it just not responding it just freezing the command prompt whereas i can get into d: & e:. I just had...

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Hello, so I came back from studying 5 months in another state, and since I came to turn my PC on for the first time since October I found out that the Windows explorer was brainfarting a lot, affecting other functions like the Windows Update, Desintallation/Installation, and other Windows...

So for the past month or so my computer has been periodically freezing, sometimes half an hour after start up and other times it can be fine for a full day of use. The freezing leaves my computer in a fully unresponsive state (pressing caps locks on my keyboard does not light up the LED...

I had a program called StartIsBack installed on my computer, and after deciding that it was not needed, I removed it. Recently, when I log in, I can see that there are updates available to Windows. However, when I try to enter Windows Update in Control Panel it either does not load and crashes...

My computer constantly freezes when i open too many programs and specifically i try playing games like Starcraft and it keeps freezing, but it doesn't freeze when i have League of Legends open or Dolby Axon. I tried using sfc /scannow in CMD but it didn't work in normal mode neither in safe mode...

Hello, I currently have a windows 7 Dell OptiPlex 780 that occasionally and randomly freezes and the monitor goes into power save like when I shut down the computer. I know there is power to it because the lights on the keyboard are on num lock but you can't turn them off. It froze. I have...

I've had my computer since last march and I've had it formatted multiple times due to BSODs and freezes, after it has been formatted it works for while then the problem comes back. I've had it sent off to the manufacturer and they said it's not hardware but the upgraded my power supply from a...

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...

The day before yesterday it started. I was watching youtube and was going to open spotify to pause the music in the background. Then everything froze for maybe 5second. Then some black paths started showing on the screen, untill it turned all black for maybe 10 seconds. And then the BSOD showed...

A couple of times now, when I attempt to edit a response, IE 11 (clean 8.1 install) will freeze and give me a message the site is not responding because of a "Long running script". It does give me the option to stop the script, which may or may not have any effect. Anyone else seeing this, I...

This is not a show stopper because I have learned the work-arounds, but it's highly annoying. I often have 3,4,5 sessions of File Explore open at once. [old habit] I can use the keyboard to copy/paste, etc with no problem. But if I use the right mouse click to "copy" or check Properties, or...

Hi 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...

I can't not for the life of me find a media player that can manage my library with out it crashing or freezing up on me. The current way im doing things is through an explorer window and winamp. I don't like winamps interface, but i want something similar to use the explorer window. I've tried...