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  1. Windows 7 hibernation attempt in my MAC book Air, by pressing the power button, fails

    The hibernation attempt in my MAC book Air running Windows 7 with SP1, by pressing the power button gently, works ok for 70% time and puts PC into hibernation. But on 30% occasions, only screen goes off, but computer remains ON with my being able to change caps lock on and off. This forces me to...
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    Troubleshooting Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Installation on USB Flash Drive

    Hello I have tried pendrivelinux.com and unetbootin to install Ubuntu 12.04 LTS in a flashdrive. Each time it quickly jumps to run from usb drive before I can touch it when I set boot with F12 to usb. Then after about ten seconds it seems to freeze. I have to hard boot. I have formatted the 4GB...
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    Windows 7 World of Warcraft game Freeze!

    Hello everyone, I seem to be having a unique problem with my new computer. I am running Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit with 12GB of DDR3 1600mhz. My video card is a EVGA NVIDA 295, and using a i7 Pentium processer. When I start the wow.exe I cam play without any issues what so ever. The machine...
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    Windows 7 Screen Corrupts

    I'm having issues with my screen corrupting. The computer freezes and must be hard booted when this happens. I've updated video drivers. Any help would be appreciated. I attached a screenshot. Link Removed due to 404 Error
  5. Windows 7 Chkdsk hangs at start

    Well after just a day of using windows 7 I've got some classic windows slowdown symptoms. I'm thinking it's probably AVG 8.5 free thats doing it, but I run a chkdsk /f just to make sure. System starts booting, goes to chkdsk, does the countdown: "To skip disk checking, press any key within x...
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    Windows 7 RC build random freezes on Dell E4300

    I installed MSDN RC build on my Dell laptop a week ago. Twice I've come out of sleep and the operating system freezes after about 30 seconds. No keys or mouse are responsive. I have to hard boot. I had this happen to me in Beta when I put the laptop to sleep and after awoke it running on battery...
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    Windows 7 freezing when changing virtual memory

    i was wonder if anybody could help me with my problem - i was trying to change my virtual memory settings from automatic to custom. setting the custom virtual memory wasn't any problem but when i clicked ok the process froze up. when I tried canceling the process it did nothing. the process was...