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Windows 8 Real World Win 8 experience: My Wife
I created an Up To Date Image of her Win 7 HP OS for restoration if necessary. I would not think about this installation, or any major changes, without first creating an Image of the OS. I installed the 90 day Evaluation Copy of Win 8 Enterprise on my wife's PC last night, including all her...- Medico
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 7 All antivirus softwares fail to work
Hi, I came down with a serious virus a while back, which would cause my computer to randomly restart and not allow me to do things or start programs to beat this virus. I would try to run Microsoft Security Essentials and it would tell me the service would fail to start and when I would try to...- Drew Nolen
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- antivirus avg cybersecurity diagnostics error installation issues kaspersky malware malwarebytes microsoft repair restart security software support technical troubleshooting virus windows
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 7 Avast 7.0.1456 Causing Problems
I've used Avast free for a long time. I've just spent over a week trying to find the cause of various BSODs and screen freezes. I tried a lot of things like updating drivers and restoring an image. This version of Avast is buggy there is a on and off problem with the definition update being...- Joe S
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- 64-bit antivirus avast avg bsod comodo conflict definition updates drivers freeware malwarebytes performance screen freeze software issues system restore system stability tech support troubleshooting user experience windows 7
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- Forum: Windows Security
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Windows 7 Error Message 0x8004231F - But I have enough memory allocated
Hi there. I have an Asus G50VT-X1 I bought off of craigslist with a clean install of win 7 enterprise 64bit. Ive hadd it for about a month. It wont let me create a system restore point AT ALL which concerns me. It says i have insufficient storage space and I have run the applicable vssadmin...- mslaxmeter
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- 0x8004231f asus avg custom settings defender desktop settings error malware malwarebytes registry restart storage system restore tech support troubleshooting user experience virus scan vss windows 7
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 7 Looking for a scripting tool
Can someone recommend a scripting tool that would allow repetitive tasks to be automated. For instance, everyday I run Malwarebytes manually and I update and run SUPERAntiSpyware twice a week. I would like to make a script file that would perform these tasks automatically. I have in mind a...- KCav
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- automation keystroke recorder logic malwarebytes script file scripting superantispyware timeout tool recommendation
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- Forum: Programming and Scripting
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Windows 7 C:\Windows\system32 popups up automatically
Every 5 minutes, C:\Windows\system32 would pop up automatically. The folder would just pop up automatically while I'm doing a task such as browsing the web. I have use avast and malwarebytes to search for antimalware activities and I have found nothing. Does anyone else have a solution for this...- bluestring
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- antimalware avast folders malwarebytes popup security system32 web browsing windows
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 7 Can't log in do to shift key sticking virus
I was infected by a virus. It makes the shift key get repeatedly pressed over and over. This happened to me before and I solved it by scanning with MalwareBytes and AVG. When I went to scan with MalwareBytes it needed updating, so I let it. Unluckily for me MalwareBytes thought it would be kind...- fl3xagon
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- account recovery avg computer issues login malware malwarebytes safe mode shift key sticking key virus
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 7 Black Screen of Death help pls!
Hi everyone! Now here is my problem: first of all I checked as many "black screen of death" threads as I could during these past few days. There seems to be many different versions and solutions for this but none of them worked for me so here I am. Now when I start my laptop, everything goes...- Raenwald
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- black screen death external monitor graphics driver hdmi help laptop malwarebytes monitor resolution sleep mode startup repair system issues task manager troubleshooting windows 7
- Replies: 12
- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 7 Some services not starting!
Hello everyone, Today, my computer just finished installing updates, and was waiting for me at the user selection/log in screen when I checked on it. I powered it off by holding the power button down to change some BIOS settings. (In the end, I did not save any changes to the BIOS, so I can...- alebcay
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- audio avast bios computer drivers dropbox malware malwarebytes mse network issues power issues reboot safe mode services system scan troubleshooting update user selection wifi
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- Forum: Windows Software
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Windows 7 Google Chrome won't word in Windows 7?
Hi The title is supposed to say Run in Windows 7? It won't let you edit the title, I don't know where Word came from? I've been using windows 8 for a long time, but today I booted back into Windows 7. After a lot of updates, video drivers, security etc, I opened my normal browser Google...- MikeHawthorne
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- blank page blekko browser issues chrome connection issues graphics driver internet explorer malware malwarebytes mse reinstall security updates software removal tech support troubleshooting user experience web browsing windows 7 windows 8
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 7 Troubleshooting Overheating Issues in HP G60 and Other Laptops
He people, My first post here. I have a PC repair business and a customer gave me a HP G60. Well he gave it to me in a box completely dis-assembled. Literally in every part of a laptop sitting there. Well, The PC was having over heating trouble like most HP's have so he took it apart to...- mikeatlas
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- av scans computer customer service disassembly fans g60 hardware laptop maintenance malwarebytes overheating performance repair tech support temperature troubleshooting usb windows
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- Forum: Windows Hardware
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Windows 7 Mouse pointer goes AWOL in Excel
Hi, I recently purchased Windows 7 and for a few months it was great. Then I did a repair install because I kept getting the 'busy' blue circle around the mouse pointer which was very distracting when trying to do my accountancy tests from the CD ROM. After the repair install W7 seemed to be...- CJ12
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- backup blue circle driver management erratic behavior excel installation kaspersky malware malwarebytes mouse office programs repair system restore troubleshooting usb windows 7
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 7 Is this for real?
Hi This morning when I opened Live Mail I received a message saying that do to suspicious activity my account had been blocked! It then opened a web page that wanted to verify my account. I said it would send me a code to the e-mail address that was blocked (smart thinking there). I...- MikeHawthorne
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- blocked account cybersecurity email access malware malwarebytes microsoft online safety password phishing security superantispyware suspicious tech support thunderbird user experience verification windows live mail
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 8 Can't get rid of Babylon Search Engine in Chrome!!!
Hi I've been trying to get rid of this for several days with no luck. I found that you get this malware by installing Mozilla Firefox, it then spreads to your other browsers if you have them. I installed Firefox to try and fix the problems I was having with cutting and pasting in this...- MikeHawthorne
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- adware agent ransack babylon browser removal chrome cutting and pasting firefox home page internet explorer malware malwarebytes removal tool search engine security software issues superantispyware tech support troubleshooting user experience virus removal
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 7 internet explorer 9 started to freeze after update
Hello everone I am writing from Turkey and English is not my first language so please excuse me if i have any mistake but i could not find the right answer in Turkish forums :) i am using windows 7 ultimate and 2 day ago i updated windows, and installed internet explorer 9 updates too, and...- yigit
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- browser issues crash extensions freezes internet explorer malwarebytes support troubleshooting update windows 7
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- Forum: Windows Software
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Windows 7 Intermittent BSOD Issues with Error Code 124 on New Windows 7 System
Hi guys, I keep getting a BSOD with the following error: Problem signature: Problem Event Name: BlueScreen OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.768.3 Locale ID: 2057 Additional information about the problem: BCCode: 124 BCP1: 0000000000000000 BCP2: FFFFFA80070C0028 BCP3: 00000000BE200000...- Infinity
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- avg blue screen bsod cpu crash diagnostics drivers dump error games hardware idle malware malwarebytes memory problem service pack system troubleshooting windows 7
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- Forum: Windows Blue Screen of Death (BSOD)
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Windows 7 Dealing with WindowsControlScanning.in Security Risks: Does Malwarebytes Solve the Problem?
I got a message from windowscontrolscanning.in that I have all these sercurity risks and for me to download their zip file. I put windowscontrolscanning.in in the address bar and nothing came up. I downloaded Malwarebytes free trial and got rid of 8 files. So I ordered the full version of...- lostsoul65
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- antivirus download malware malwarebytes protection risk scan security threats windows
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 7 Windows will not boot even with clean install, Windows repairs fail, Repair disc wont work. HELP!!!
I have a Sony Vaio VGN-NW270F 15" laptop with Windows 7 (64 bit) Home Premium. 320 gb. Oh i'm also out of warranty. Problem: Computer always freezes at the point where it says "starting windows" and stays frozen. I even left it for alone for 24 hrs and it stayed on that screen. Things I've...- zaniac
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- boot issues clean install freezing hard drive hard drive failure installation issues malwarebytes registry cleaner repair disk safe mode sony vaio system repair system restore tech support troubleshooting warranty windows 7 windows installation
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- Forum: Windows Upgrade and Installation
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Windows 7 Icon thumbnail problem & can't change desktop solid color background
My desktop background became solid black colors and can only select from solid colors. Even if I select image it still shows solid color and thumbnail of image in win7/personalization does not work. (look at image 1 below) another problem all folder, video and image thumbnails dont work (look...- semih7106
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- background combofix desktop documents eset security file issues graphics driver home premium image display kaspersky malwarebytes nvidia solid color spybot system restore thumbnails usb virus scan windows 7
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support