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    Windows 7 Media player causing lockups

    Guys - I am not a technical user so this description will lack some detail, I ran into a problem and thought I would post here for suggestions. My machine recently started locking up when browsing. (Toshiba laptop running windows 7 that I have owned for about a year since new) I ran all...
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    Windows 8 protected mode Win 8.1 MSIE 11

    Hello I keep getting a reminder that protected mode is on and to click to disable it if I want. it pops up in my Outlook.com and some other sites. I can see in internet options under advanced where I can uncheck it but the increase risk is a concern. It also appears under MSIE 11 'security' both...
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    Windows 7 Windows 7 - Home Premium x64 | Startup Repair System Installation

    Hey All, So I am pretty sure that my Windows 7 home premium installation has become corrupted somehow. I've just noticed thins not 'working' well and have been experiencing more and more BSODs over time. I have ran many disk / system file checks (sfc /scannow), and it states that there are...
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    Windows 8 Observations,commens&questions:

    I first acquired Windows 8 with a new HP All in One desk top back in November 2012. Then I had another computer crash it's hard drove and installed a new one along with Windows 8 Pro. I also set up a local network, of 3 computers, and spent a good deal of time with all versions of Win 8 coupled...
  5. Windows 7 Windows Error 0xc0000005

    Hi guys, I have a PC that's being a little glitchy. So far in some applications I get the error code 0xc0000005. I can't seem to find the dump file though. I've tried searching by filetype, manually looking through all of the Windows sub-folders, but I can't find the minidumps. The first step...
  6. Windows 8 Windows 8 on my new computer, getting great results.

    Hi I have everything installed and running now and it's really working great. One example, I've used a program called Mimic for years to do lip syncing in my animated videos. It works good but it always have glitches that you have to go back and work out manually after you create the...
  7. Windows 7 Battle Field 3

    My computer seems to crash after playing battle field for 10 or 20minuts it does this consistantly. I always start a game up and jump in the jets and fly really close to the ground so i thought the game might be glitching but even when im flying straight up it does this.:frown:
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    Windows 7 Windows Explorer Glitches (GRoD and No Thumbnails, among other things)

    I'm not entirely sure what info is required for this request, but I'm on Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit. Whatever else you need, tell me, but my profile has a lot. Anyways, my issue is that Windows Explorer is being really frustrating. I'm pretty good with computers, to the point that even my...
  9. Windows 7 Skyrim 1.6 Beta patch

    News on the new update: Reference: News - All News Edit: For those using the skyrim script extender, a new beta can be found here: http://skse.silverlock.org/ (needed otherwise mods like SkyUI won't work properly)
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    Windows 7 Startup Repair after Bad Shut Down

    Hey, I shut down my laptop earlier by pressing the power button while booting. I had a total lapse in judgement, and just did something stupid. Regardless, I powered on the laptop and it said that the system failed to start previously. It recommended running Startup Repair. I figured why not, as...
  11. Windows 7 Random BSODs, crashes, reboots, lockups and other glitches

    Hey all, About two weeks ago my computer began behaving erratically while playing World of Warcraft and SW: Old Republic games where the games would crash to desktop, or where my computer would randomly reboot while in the middle of playing. Then this began to happen when not in the games and...
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    Windows 7 keyboard glitches...

    Recently, after installing windows 7 to my windows vista laptop, everything has been running smoothly. I managed to fix the problems I was having connecting to internet, but now when I am typing, it will randomly act as is I am holding ctrl. So all the time, I will be typing, and it will open...
  13. Windows 7 Graphics card problem

    Hey Guys, I have been running my system for a while now with one graphics card (HIS Radeon 6790 Turbo) and it has been going alright, but for my birthday I received another one. I set everything up and plugged in the crossfire and got going. I immediately had problems. Not only was everything...
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    Windows 7 Explorer.exe "spazzing out" and other graphics glitches.

    Yesterday, I noticed my taskbar acting strange. I was using Firefox at the time, and my taskbar would just start blinking rapidly. Right now as I type, my screen is blinking, my taskbar is flickering rapidly, and the icons on my taskbar are enlarging quickly. This happens when I am not in...
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    Windows 7 Windows 7 Freezes at the EXPANDING FILES stage then shuts pc down completely.

    I bought all this pc gear in feb 2010. I put it all together and Windows 7 64 bit loaded just fine and worked all this time. Here lately during reboots and shutdowns I have noticed that my computer hangs and was very glitchy. I decided to wipe the drives and do a clean install. That is when I...
  16. Patch Tuesday updates fix a trio of Windows 7 SP1 glitches

    If you’ve had trouble installing Service Pack 1 for Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2, you’ll want to take a close look at today’s batch of updates from Microsoft. You’ll find fixes for two installation bugs and one glitch that can cause USB problems. I have the details. More...
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    Windows 7 former mac user needs help: hide dock; get rid of web launcher at start up

    Hi, I tried searching the forum first but . . . I recently reformatted my HP and though I figured out once before how to get rid of HP QuickWeb at start-up and permanently hide the dock, it seems I have gone senile; just can't figure it out. Maybe because a couple other weird glitches occurred...
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    Windows 7 Ongoing BSOD errors

    I'll try to streamline this explanation as much as possible. I have an HP Pavilion all-in-one desktop that is just over 13 months old. Early last fall, it began having BSOD errors that were random, though infrequent. I did a few system restores shortly after they began, but it didn't fix the...
  19. Some Report Glitches in Windows 7 Patch Install

    A group of users installing the first Windows 7 Service Pack report some problems with the update. Link Removed
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    Windows 7 Having issues with taskbar

    Whenever I mouseover a program, the preview window doesnt show up and the program remains highlighted. I just reinstalled my OS (12 days ago) This is really irking me >.< I recorded a video of my screen check it out Link Removed Hope someone can help me :p