laptop issues

I have run into a quagmire. Presently, I have installed win 8.1 preview into an old Dell Inspiron laptop which used to run Vista. I like the preview so much that I am ready to install the Final Release of 8.1 when it becomes available. The thing is, I do not have a valid upgrade path to install...

I have 32bit Win7 Pro on a Toshiba Satellite laptop purchased in December, 2009. The DVD player is set to Windows Media Player When trying to play a movie on DVD (borrowed from local library), I get this msg: "Windows Media Player cannot play this DVD because it is not possible to turn on...

Good evening! Sorry if I posted this under an incorrect topic area, but I'm at a loss and not sure where to start. So, I shall give you all a brief explanation as to what is up and, hopefully, you can direct me in the right direction? My husband's cousin had been complaining about her laptop...

I turned my HP8540w on last night when I lost power. I did notice that there was a message on screen saying that there was an update to Registry just before the power was lost. Now laptop won't start up, goes to blue screen and says it has to close down. Run Launch Startup Repair and it says...

While trying to address another issue, I selected to open a program with default program. I evidently chose Windows Media Center. Now, no matter what I do, WMC pops up. It pops up even when I try to open Freecell. Tried to do a system resore but it gives me an "unspecified error". My Live...

I changed the windows theme by unpatching. And the laptop usually pops up the message that bitmap fails to load every time I start up windows. Ever since I let the laptop update on shutdown, window's been running really slowly. It takes a long time for the start menu, folders, and programs to...

Hi, my laptop wouldn't access the operating system yesterday when turning it on & only worked after opening it up & pushing the harddrive in. On starting it up it forced me to access some samsung recovery options so I did that. Now the desktop appears & the files appear on my desktop but no...

I've been having problems with my laptop. One day it randomly turned itself off and once I turned it on I went to log on and it just hung at the welcome screen with the light blue spinner. Let me keep in mind safe mode works. I've tried a system restore but it would leave me on a black screen...

...And Can't Get Online Without Finishing Account Setup! My admin at work configured a new laptop with Windows 8, created a user account on it for me and gave it to me so that I could get it setup with all my stuff over the weekend, ready to go on Monday morning. When I got it home this...

I have just bought a new Laptop with Win7 64bit. Recently I encountered some errors, which included not being able to save some files, Windows Installer errors and file extracting probs. I found out that they all were related to my %Temp% folder's permissions being set to read-only. I...

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I've been experiencing this issue many times, and quite frankly it's very annoying. After the first few days of getting my new laptop (Samsung) and it came pre-installed with windows 8. I opened it, opened Internet Explorer to download Google Chrome, and start browsing. Perhaps a few days...

Just picked up my new laptop.. has win 8 installed (had no choice of op system) ... why is it like a tablet design? I have a tablet already.. I just want a basic computer for my photoshop/office programs * There is no start button unless you download a start button program from another resource...

My DVD disk drive is no longer working on my Sony Vaio laptop. Is any external disk drive compatible or do I need something compatible to Sony? Is it difficult to install a new internal disk drive? I'm terrible at things like that so an external is more appealing to me. The laptop really needs...

Hi everyone, New to windows 7 and not sure if this is something you can help me with or not. I have been tring to setup my dvr to be able to access my security cameras from a remote location, but have not had much luck. My present problem is when I try to log into my DVR locally, using my lab...

Hi, so my laptop has been having some majors errors for the past few days. Essentially, I can start using my internet for a few minutes at a time, then I notice nothing will load, and I no longer have internet access. It still shows 5 bars in the bottom right corner for a few seconds, then...

This morning I spent 2 hours, that's right... 2 hours, installing Win 8 Pro. Win 7 takes about 30 minutes... and that's a full install from scratch. Anyway, after downgrading my laptop from Win 7 to 8 I re-ran the Windows Experience Index test. Not only did all of my scores drop by 0.1, but I...

I Installed Windows 7 On My HP G6000 Laptop. But At The End Of Installation, I Read A Message That Some Files In Windows Are Missing. I Want To Install Another Windows In It. But It Is Not Booting From Cd Rom( Means, Not Showing "Press Any Key To Continue" Which Shows Immediately After Booting...

Dell Inspiron 1545 W7 SP1 Intel T6600 Core2 duo 2.4Ghz 4GB PC2-6400 RAM I have included all the dumps, CPU-Z snips, RAMMon copy, a screen shot of my W7 updates, and a HTML log of my Dell PC scan. I have tried reading some of the other DRIVER_IRQL threads and tried some piece meal fixes and...

its a fresh install, its the 64bit 7 ultimate. The laptop its running on is: HP G60-445DX notebook pc with the AMD Turion X2 Dual Core 64bit processor, 3GB RAM, 256MB NVIDIA GeFore 8200M G, 320GB HDD. I know the laptop meets the specs, what could be causing it to be sluggish? one example is...