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My internet has been being very finicky lately and it all started on the 9th of this month. I don't recall changing anything when this issue started. Sometimes downloads lose connection and I have to click retry. My Avira Pro antivirus updates whenever it wants to and when I try doing a...

Hey guys, I'm having an issue with my mouse's cursor constantly flashing the loading sign (blue circle) over and over. Its a constant flashing. It only ever stops if I mouse over something that changes the normal cursor picture. It started happening after my computer just froze randomly while...

I have a Windows XP SP3 computer with something strange going on that I've never seen before (see attachment). Windows explorer shows two drives C:\ and E:\ That wouldn't be particularly strange except there is only one physical drive with a single 1 terabyte partion on it. Disk Management show...

I have 2 programs that don't load and don't run anymore. They are an e-mail client and a Blue ray program. They both work fine in safe mode but not when I run windows 7 normally. I have run all types of scans and nothing comes up wrong. It's not a virus. I have looked at settings using msconfig...

Hey, Two days ago after using computer for over a year (Acer Veriton Windows 7, core i7) started bsod randomly and only shows post symptoms in event viewer. ran Bluscreenview and it states: "The problem seems to be caused by the following file: Wdf01000.sys DRIVER_IRQL_NOT LESS_OR EQUAL STOP...

This happened to me once before on my old computer and i don't know what I did to cause it then and still don't today. I have a new laptop and once again, things are in wrong places. ex: in the picture files are my downloaded files. In my download file there are only 5 items. If I try to put...

I have a question about a desktop workstation I purchased from Dell. The PC in question is a Dell OptiPlex 580 which came with an OEM installation of Windows 7 Pro x64. Please bear with the length of my post, and forgive me if I am not posting this in the correct forum. I’m not sure if there is...

[I'm really struggling to type this on my phone] (Fixed the grammar on another computer), basic info: I can't boot my computer in normal mode or safe mode. When I try to do so, after the "starting windows" page the only things that come up are my mouse, a black screen/background, and a...

Hello, I will try to be as detailed about my problem as possible. While browsing using Chrome I received frequent recurring unresponsive warnings, followed by screen corruption/artifacting, followed by my first BSod (In 7). Attached to this post is a screenshot of the DMB File as detected by...

I am visiting my grand daughter at my other daughter's house. Of course my grand daughter says, "Grandpa, can you look at my PC. It keeps going to sleep when I'm working on it. It has been working fine until I arrived here" Some may recall this is a new PC (approx. 7 months ago) that I bought as...

I am having an intermittent problem with my network connection dropping out for no apparent reason. When it drops, I still see the lights blinking on the NIC card, but cannot pass packets even to the router. Windows does not report the connection or the cable as disconnected when this...

I have been having problems with MS Security Essentials Anti-Virus. When the computer starts up i notice it to be very slow, i cannot access network links and i notice that the network icon does not load until i end "MsMpEng.exe" which i know is related to MSE. I have seen this on numerous...

Hello Guys long time no posting here, hope you are doing well 1- Random Crashes/Freezes and auto-hard-restart everyday 2- Blue Screens Of Death "with different details every time" also randomly 3- this begun when my old 9500 GT broke out 4- after i removed that card, i used the built-in gpu...

I need some help with my PC. Over the past 3 to 6 months it has gotten weird. I have a HP I purchased at a store just over a year ago. I am running Windows 7 64bit. Specs: OS Name Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium Version 6.1.7601 Service Pack 1 Build 7601 System Manufacturer...

Yesterday, I installed Foxit Reader, then decided I didn't like it. When I attempted to re-install, I received the error message that "the windows installer service could not be accessed." It was listed as running in the services applet of administrator tools, but would not work. While then...

Hey all, I am new to windows 7. I received this computer from a friend in a trade and ran my virus scan and all to make sure it was clean. The only problem I am having is that the computer originally came with windows vista, he upgraded it to 7, and when he did that installed a flight...

This whole incident started today. Firstly, my computer's ram usage was perfectly fine (Less than 2GB Ram usage), I left my computer on for 3 hours, I came back and noticed that everything started to run really slow, I noticed that my ram usage skyrocketed to 5.8GB Ram usage. (My Computer has...

I have a Dell XPS Studio 435T/9000 Desktop with Intel Core i7 CPU and 6GB RAM. The operating system is Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit SP1 with IE9 32bit. Graphics Card is a ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series. Win 7, IE9 and graphic card have all have been updated. My problem is that some websites...

Hi I keep having random crashes and freezing and bsod my pc is used for high end 3D and game design doesn't seem to make it through the night when left to render animations. ( There is no pattern in the crashes etc... they are just random ) I have also run memory test on the ram that was fine...

Problem Description After booting, the computer freezes at the welcome screen after logging in as any of the users. Sometimes it will restart automatically, other times it has to be "hard shut down". It freezes at the same time, consistently. Occasionally, through an unknown set of steps, I...