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Heay everyone, I am having an intermittent problem with Windows 7 Professional (x64) on both the machines I have a copy on. Occasionally I will boot up, the start up animation happens, then the Windows welcome screen and finally it will go black with a white cursor on which can be moved...

Hi everyone, I'm running Windows 7 Pro x64 on a Dell XPS M1530, and I've been having issues with the system locking up intermittently. The lockups occur at random and seem to be independent of how many and what programs I am running. Lockups have occured both when the computer is idle and when...

My wife's 32 Bit Win 7 PC is intermittently freezing at the "windows is starting" splash screen. Normally I reset/reboot and it boots fine on the next attempt. Lately it has been taking more attempts in order to get it to boot properly. Any idea what might be causing this intermittent issue?

Network Connection Tips I have been with Windows 7 for a few weeks now and I notice a lot of network issues. I have a Motorola SBG900 Router that would reboot everytime I would come out of sleep mode or restart my computer and intermittent network issues. I have learned a few quick fixes, First...

I successfully installed Windows 7 on my computer this week, but the computer sometimes loses contact with my Western Digital Mirror 2 terabyte hard drive. When this happens, I restart the computer, and the drive usually reappears. I contacted Western Digital support, and they said this drive...

Why does Windows 7 Keep Dropping My Nework? On and Off, my network fails, I can repair and it works but says that the ADSL gateway was not contact able and that's what was fixed. Annoying when ur in the middle of something like a download or game online or chat on msn! Only thing is the...

Hi, Does anyone know how to decipher the entries in TrayNotify area of the registry? I am working with a program that provides an option to run in the system tray and when selected, it runs in the backgound while its icon is put in the notification area overflow and can be seen when the overflow...

Hi, At random intervals, regardless of if I'm working with the PC or just listening idly to music in iTunes, the system will hang for about 5 seconds at a time. During the freeze, both cores max out, the mouse and all apps freeze and the music will play the last half second of audio...

Immediately after POST the screen goes black and flickers a little. It's an intermittent problem, once in a while I can get the computer to power on completely with no problems, but it's very rare. If it does power on completely, it has no problems after that, I've completely reinstalled windows...

My wife and I have separate e-mail accounts and we have an intermittant problem of this error message popping up when we log on to our e-mail. (The connection to the server has failed. Account: 'mail.comcast.net', Server: 'mail.comcast.net', Protocol: POP3, Port: 110, Secure(SSL): No, Socket...

Hi I'm sharing a folder on the network from a Vista Business SP1 box. I have 5 users running XP Pro desktops who connect to it. This has been in a stable state for the last 6 weeks. However, intermittantly the users will lose connection to that folder & also the printer (although I can still...

I bought an HP m8307c running Vista Home Premium a few months ago and ever since I bought it, the hard drive has been making a weird humming noise whenever it's doing something. The best way I can describe the noise is it sounds similar to the humming noise you would hear when you change the...

First post here, thanks in advance. Intermittently, after my computer sleeps, upon wake up the mouse will not respond. I can still move the cursor with the k/b but no mouse. On edit, I am using a few year old logitec optical wireless mouse and Vista H/P (32 bit)

I am having difficulty connecting to my airport extreme wireless router. I have been able to get online intermittently but every time the computer goes to sleep it kicks me off. Some time I can't get on at all. I have updated the the wireless driver (the device is working properly), I have...