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I've been out of the PC market for a long time. Right now, I've got an old, assembled AMD/ASUS desktop from 2007, which my dad bought and helped me build for personal use. It's been running XP ever since and I've painfully upgraded the hardware over time. More recently, I've used Windows 7 at...

Symptom: I cannot toggle the sleep mode from either my keyboard shortcut or in the menu of windows 8. Both options, shutdown and restart, work perfectly fine but sleep won't work. Here is what happens when I toggle sleep: My screen shuts down but the fans still are blowing. Whenever I move my...

Hello. Now I have two internal HDDs and one IDE 160GB and one SATA 2 500GB. I'll buy (for personal reasons) one SATA 3 of 1 TB. Questions: 1. Given that my motherboard only supports SATA 2, I'll be able to use (certainly not at the highest performance) the 1 TB HDD? 2. Do you recommend that...

So I think most of these are yes/no or simple settings, so I just compiled them here... Is there a way to link programs on a secondary HDD to the Start/Apps menu? Is there a way to view secondary HDD programs in the Control Panel? Namely when uninstalling programs? And ever since I upgraded...

Hi all, I have a big problem with my partition. Using minipartition wizard software i separated my main HDD to 3 different partitions. The two of them are working correctly booting into windows 8.1 and xp. The third one is the most crucial cause it contains all the data from my university...

It appears my HDD usage is very high even on idle. What information do I need to provide in order to receive help?

Hello I'm building a new pc, which currently have no operating system. I need an install for windows 8.1, which will allow me to install and try out windows 8.1 without having a operating system previusly installed. I can transfer it between computers without problems, with both dvd's, usb's...

so, i built my computer yesterday. when i tried to install windows 8 this morning, i got stuck on a loop. it says that there was an unexpected error and it needs to restart, because when it boots up...after about 15 seconds, my computer restarts (in like 3 seconds) thus causing this? im not sure...

Imma 10 year old gamer who frankly, doesn't have a gaming computer. I've been wanting to buy a new GPU and a new SSD/HDD for a while, but I can't find anything on a $40 budget. So These are the things I need help with: GPU with DirectX 11+, Pixel Shaders 4.0+, and 512mb+ of Dedicated VRam And...

Recently I installed an additional case fan which ventilates directly onto my two hard drives. The temperature decreased from 41°C to 32°C what sounds to be a good thing at first. The downside is that I encounter plenty of errors on one of these HDDs since the mentioned fan installation. More...

I'll just give you the flat out story: I one day wanting to Factory Reset my Gateway Laptop to clean it entirely. Obviously I backed up some stuff I had to keep and proceeded on to factory reset. All is going good, and then during the factory reset, my computer shuts off. I turn it back on...

This BSOD has just started today. My computer unexpectedly rebooted itself while printing. I don't know what the cause is as the cpu and ram is all ok but i don't know how to test the 2x dvd roms and the hdd just to make sure them are working ok too. I have a minidump file in my onedrive so can...

Hey everyone, I use Windows mainly as gaming machine. Therefore, my deep technical knowledge is mostly hypothetical and most often imaginary. Yet I am looking for something that may turn out as extremly complicated to handle, but maybe it'll work. So, what I do want, I want to group my two hard...

I recently acquired a used laptop. Upon receiving, I discovered the installed operating system had been a bootleg copy. I removed it and then proceeded to use an Ubuntu Live USB to attempt to install. This did not work because the "installer quit working." Moving on... I used a burned copy of...

Hello everyone. I have a PC that I built a few years back, which is a decent PC. As of lately, I've been getting BSOD. I bought a copy of SimCity and it started then, but now even when not playing SimCity I get them! I'm getting the following BSOD: PFN_LIST_CORRUPT DRIVER_CORRUPTED_EXPOOL...

Hi there, I just installed a new Windows 8.1 on my laptop on a fresh HDD. I used the same log in as my desktop PC. It imported most of my settings from my desktop over to the laptop INCLUDING my wallpaper. I want different wallpapers. Is there a way to turn this feature off, or will I have to...

Hello . This month i've been getting several bluescreens in one day so I decided to format the HDD and start fresh. I got the windows for like...6~ hours and I just got another bluescreen Link Removed This is the log that I was able to get. Could anyone help me please?

Hello all, I am attempting to dual boot windows 8 and a linux distro and I fear I may have obfuscated a hdd partition. I ran a bash to find out how my drive partitions are looking: Boot Info Script 0.61 [1 April 2012] ============================= Boot Info Summary...

I've been using windows8.1 for 6 months now. Tonight I found this thing worry me much. under NETWORK icon in winodws file explorer, go down to computer name, profile name and the folder searches I found an icon named "search everyplaces" like folder or file or symbolic link, when I click on it...

I am working on a Toshiba Satalight laptop. The HDD is starting to show bad sectors. I have a new HDD and would like to ghost all the info and partitions to the new drive. So it will have all the tools and the rescue image. Question what is the best utillity to use for this job? Sent from my...