frustration

how can you turn off the auto arrange for tiles in the start screen. when i move a tile where i want it everything shifts, including tiles i have already placed. very frustrating.

preface, i am fairly competant with this stuff. with win 95, 98, and xp i could boot into DOS and use commands to overwrite files and get problems fixed. but can't do that any longer.... i have an Link Removed and the only thing after market as of now (i jerked out a lot of stuff) on the MoBo...

I just purchased an HP desktop. After setup, I kept getting dropped out to the login as soon as the computer was idle. I was told this was a registry problem and to go to safe mode and run SFC. That did not resolve the problem. Then I was advised to simply disable the login by going to RUN...

When I am away from the computer for maybe an hour or more and come back, the Start Screen will not operate, I have to keep rebooting my machine. It is getting frustrating. I have changed the settings to NOT allow hibernation of the computer to include the hard disk drive when not in use...

I just installed a new graphics card and a new power supply... Now I get these random restarts. When I come back, I'm notified rhat Windows has recovered from an unexpected shut down. Really frustrated at this point. What could this be? Link Removed Link Removed Link Removed

I go to tools, delete forms, history, and the rest, and there are about 20 websites in history that keep showing up when I go type a web address. I've tried CWShredder (says it doesn't exist on my computer). I've tried Spybot (which I did first) (showed coolwebsearch when it did a scan, then...

Hello! I am getting pretty frustrated with Internet Explorer :computer: and hope to find some help here as I have called Microsoft and I do not have $99 laying around to take a chance they can help me! I have also called my DSL provider and they want to charge me $40 lol! These are the...

Win7 has a about 50-75 problems, yet instead of MS spending time fixing it, they made an even worse OS (win8). MS trolling us? ....Why is it so hard for win7 to open up applications in the active window? Its the window im using, its the window that launched the app, yet MS feels the need to...

Hello, I am new to this forum and hope you guys can help with this issue I have been having! I have two monitors run off an XFX Radeon HD 6870. One monitor is slightly higher because it sits on a different surface than the other. I'm very fussy about things so I want the screen positioning to...

Hello, I've read through a good number of similar problems/posts on the site and tried the suggestions but nothing is working :( I have a Dell Inspiron laptop that won't connect wirelessly to my network. ALL other devices in the house (iPhones, iPads, iMac, 1 laptop and another desktop) work...

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In various forums, including this one, I've seen users post questions about the same problem. But none of the solutions works on my Gateway laptop PC with Windows 7 and Elan pointing device. Here's the problem: My mousepad clicks without my clicking it. It has sent e-mails I wasn't ready to...

yesterday my contact list disappeared. did everything i could think of then did system restore and it came back gone again. says i have no restore points. it won't let me add them again either. have no idea what i did. frustrated going to bed.

Hello all! I recently did a clean install of windows 7 x32bit...the installation process seems fine, and everything is fine till the install is complete. The moment of my first log in, it started to freeze/lag endlessly...Please and thank you for your help, I have spent 2 days now...it's very...

I have Asus eee PC since 2010 with Win 7 and never had any problem. I was working on my laptop without any problem. But for last couple of hours I am not able to connect to my wireless network. It doesn't show any network. It only shows the message "Not connected. No connections available". I...

Hello there here is some background of how all of this began.. I bought this pc a year ago in best buy until i decided to install a graphics card that fried my audio in my mother board took it to geek squad in best buy to see if they could fixed it. It wen out to service for 1-2 weeks came...

It just won't do anything except get stuck. I have the actual disk and i have used this on a 64 bit system before, so what's different now? Also, my Xbox 360 Wireless Gaming Receiver isn't working on here. So far i HATE 64 bit to the MAX!

Greetings! Here's the issue: I've tried two different NIC's and they both do the same thing. One NIC was a PCI-E and the other is a USB. The internet just stops working, i.e. if you do a status on the adapter it says 'Internet not available.' Now! If I disable the new adapter and enable the...

Hello. Out of all my years of computing I've never heard of or seen this bug, but whatever it is, it's very frustrating. Whenever I select something go into the properties of something that has a selection, it basically disappears. Another one I discovered was that when I go into Task Manager it...

Hello community people.How are you guys been doing?Well it's been a while since i'm not logged in cuz i've been busy with my daily routine.Ok let me just get the problem that annoying me.For a past three days ago my lappy running on windows 7 ultimate with intel core duo/1.66ghz 2gb ram with 32...