installation problems

I have just found out last week that when Windows 8 goes out on sale in the shops tomorrow on 26th October 2012,it will only be sold as an upgrade install. And I telephoned PC World a large computer store in England,where I live and they confirmed this. Which means that there will be no full...

Hey guys, So i was dumb and must have messed something up when i was installing ubuntu 12.10 because after the installation was complete and i tried to boot up windows it just showed a screen that said "A drisk read error occured, press Cntrl Alt Del to restart." After some research i think i...

I use forums for posting photographs, and it's important to me that the image as displayed on a forum looks the way it's supposed to. My Windows 8 test machine is a 2008 Toshiba Satellite laptop. I did a "clean install" on it, meaning Windows 8 set everything up. I've been noticing that...

Hello, I have an Edimax EW-7711UAn (Ralink RT2870) usb wifi adapter. Both Edimax and Ralink provide ancient drivers and utility software for this product which can only be installed on Windows 7 x64 if you run the setup in XP Service Pack 2 compatibility mode. (well known issue, even though...

Hi all, 3 months ago i bought Lenovo v570c with Home Basic installed on it, yesterday he have started to lag very hard, so I decided to install Windows 7 Ultimate. So I started the CD, booted it up, selected language, then selected Custom install, becouse I wanted to install fresh windows...

Hello folks. I've just received my new desktop which came with the ATI Radeon 3000 preinstalled. It has an ASUS M5A78L-M LX motherboard. I'm using Windows 32 bit and everything's working fine apart from the graphics card. It isn't appearing on my device manager list, although Speccy is...

Hello, I got some serious problems. About one week ago I accidentally cut off power of my pc while he was updating. When rebooting I got nothing but a blank desktop image, unable to give any input (mouse, keyboard, control + shift + delete). Control + shift + delete made the screen go black, so...

Short story: Try to run Windows 7 Backup (x64) and get a blank page with the helpful message "page missing". Acronis is responsible, but I want to know how to get it back. Background: I decided to try the Acronis Home 2012 backup software. Huge, huge, huge mistake. After installing it, I...

I installed Windows 7 last week and suddenly today when i logged on to windows 7 and went to user account to change password it said Password is incorrect Please retype.I was surprised since minutes Ago i logged on with the same password.Now, after i googled..some said to reboot and i did...

i had to reinstall my windows 7 64x dell inspiron 1750 laptop using my windws 7 home premium disc that came with my laptop when i bought it because it was in a constant starup repair loop. the disc worked find until i got to the part where it said "expanding windows files." it was stuck at 0%...

I'm new to this forum,i've searched for solutions and no luck so i came here. I don't know much about computers,laptops,technology etc... so if anyone has solution to my problem please explain it slowly and understandably. My problem: First time appeared while running steam (Valve product) I...

My name is zedekiah, I wanted some help for outlook 2007 which is installed on my computer on operating syste windows 7. I was using outlook 2003 which never gave any problem. I have now installed outlook 2007 which is give me hell lot of problems. Since last week it stating working slow but now...

Link RemovedLink RemovedLink RemovedI have a problem with one of my Windows 7 netbooks. I went to System Restore to delete some old restore points by turning it off then on again.When you turn System Restore on or off,a first Windows opens and then a second one does. Then to turn it on or off...

Hello, My problem is a weird one, often (but far from always) when I start up my PC, at the bios screen when it's still booting, it suddenly starts making these horribly loud beeping noises. The only way to stop them, is to hold down either mouse-key's, but this doesn't work for more than a few...

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I have read other posts about this same issue but I can't even get windows to open up now. When I try to boot, it asks to do sysem restore and then it says it can't be restored, and when I try to boot windows normally, it goes through the update and stops around 140,000 out of 320,000 and says...

Hi guys, im currently having problems getting .Net to activate in the "Turn Windows Features On/Off" section of the control panel. As others have stated here before the box is filled, not checked. when i click on the plus button to expand the options both Windows Communication Activations...

I have an Advent Roma 2001 configured, in PC World style, with a "recovery partition" alongside the system partition and, after resolving a hard disk problem, I found that the machine would not start/boot Windows 7. clearly some necessary files are missing or corrupted, but the normal system...

(I'm using windows 7 64 bit Toshiba laptop) So today I had a problem with my computer and as a result I used system restore. The system restore didn't go well, and has basically failed. However, my computer launched properly and I thought I got away from some trouble. I'm not too good with...

I'm aware that there are other old posts about this issue, but I need to throw it into the forum again as it seems to be unresolved. After a new (clean) install of Windows 7, the start menu is empty - all installed programs and other items usually posted by the installer are missing. Is there...