laptop issues

Hi, I have a USB TV Tuner which works fine to watch TV in WMC. However, when a programme is set to record, and my laptop goes into sleep mode, I believe it turns off the USB TV Tuner, and therefore the programme doesn't record. WMC support center says that the program is able to record...

I'm studying abroad in France and made a the great decision to try to restore my laptop to a system image on an external while in class. Anyway, my battery died half way through and on start my machine says missing operating system. I don't happen to have my restore disks here and would prefer...

Hellooo!!! Those are the problems that I get on my Win 7... First, when I turn on my laptop (HP Pavilion dv6000), after the part that is you can choose F10/F12/etc it stucks there for 1min and then a page comes and says: Operating System not found. but I should restart it many times till...

so I've been having this issue on my laptop for about a month now. It just started one day and even after reinstalling windows 2 days ago, the problem is still there. Whenever I watch a movie any video format including high quality, mkv files my video lags, the picture just freezes, gets...

inspiron 1525/32 bit OS from quite long back ants are been to my computer. Recently my system is turned off abruptly (with out shutdown-as battery exhausted) some 10-15 times. Now my hard disk drive is not getting detected, the message is "harddisk not detected, reseating the hard disk may...

Hi there, I just performed a clean install of Windows 7 Professional (32-bit) on my HP Pavilion dv5-1211AX laptop. I ran Windows Update and installed all the important updates. Everything seems to work fine until I try to wake from sleep mode. A BSOD will occur within 20 seconds of me...

I recently got my Laptop back from using Warranty to have it repaired. As far as I can see the operating system has been wiped and a verison of Windows 7 Home Prem. Installed that wasn’t the factory version. However I'm having keyboard trouble, firstly the 2 + shift = @ and ' + shift = "...

As the title says, when I restart my laptop (acer aspire 3810t, upgraded from Vista 32-bit to 7 64-bit) files that have been recently edited/accessed will still be on the hard drive, although appear as 0 bytes (I'm not sure whether they are still using the same space on the disk as the problem...

Hi I've been having probelms with my laptop and after trying system restore, scanning my computer for problems and finding nothing i decided to do the factory image restore (i've already backed all my files onto USBS but the problem is after clicking yes and next as soon as I said i wanted to...

Hey everyone--first post in here. About a month ago, I updated my iTunes software and had some significant issues with my laptop. The screen went crazy, eventually resulting in a BSOD, and was reluctant to turn back on. After waiting some time, it finally turned on, but does not respond in...

Hi! I have shut down failure too! The shut down screen takes minutes and then my laptop restarts or just turns off the screen and I have to make a forced turn off. My desktop pc restarts after every shut down. Both of them has fresh installed Win7 32bit. I found the Minidump folder and...

Was having minor issues with my laptop - Sony Vaio, just a little over a year old, no histry of problems...the screen would flicker sometimes when left idle for a few minutes. Then on startup screen would be completely black... This started a little over a week ago. Also a week ago started...

Hi all, I have been unable to update Windows 7 for some time. When I check the history log, it report numerous failures. In an attempt to fix this, I have installed the KB947821 System Update Readiness tool for Windows 7, and this has not helped. Further, when my laptop goes into sleep mode...

hello everyone, I have 3 computers, two of them got successfully connected in a network. except for my laptop. i found that if a change the laptops default gateway to the default gateway of the other two computers, the laptop will be connected but it won't have internet because the DHCP is...

Before i begin i would like to state that it is only on very rare occasions that i sign up for anything just to post a thread so i am obviously determined to solve this :cool: i have the somewhat notorious problem of getting the black screen with the cursor in the middle upon startup. im...

I have Windows 7 and use Explorer, my mail is Outlook 2003. Here is my problem. If I click on a highlighted line, normally blue in color, I get a box that pops up with this message, " The operation had been cancelled due to restrictions in effect on this computer. Please contact your system...

hello i have a new laptop yesterday but there are one drive c: (500 gb) to add a new partition i have shrink drive c to 250 GB and i have now 250 GB unallocated space when i create a new simple volume at this unallocated space i have this message before formatting "the operation you selected...

I cannot see photos or graphics in either Explorer or Chrome. Its a Hewlett Packard laptop with Windows 7 OS. I see red x's or broken boxes with red dots where photos should be. I've checked to see if see photos, etc. are checked. Any help will be appreciated.

I backed up an image of my sony vaio laptop running windows 7 Home Premium and am looking to use the image to restore a new sony laptop I purchased and I am getting errors while attempting to re-image the new laptop. Is this because it’s a new laptop and the drivers are conflicting? Do you have...

Just got a new laptop (well second hand) and it is supposed to be ACPI compliant. I cant install windows7 as it says it isn't ACPI compliant on the bios, i cant find anything in the Bios to enable it. It comes up with saying the Bios is not ACPI compatable, i have tried looking in the bios...