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I use MPCHC to watch TV shows and movies on my, and I have it set to turn the monitor off when it reaches the end of the playlist. Recently I installed some video editors to try, and now when MPCHC turns off the monitor, it wakes up again after a couple seconds. I uninstalled the video editing...

Hi Recently I created a new program thinking it was an additional one. It wiped a lot of my original program files, some of which I reloaded from disk, but a number which I couldn’t. Today I ran a program called “Glary utilities” which analyses the system. In “disk space analyser” there are 2...

Hello I tried to install a software for iphone earlier. Since then my pc going crazy Once I log in, only the icons on my desktop showing up, it takes some minutes till icons on my taskbar showing up. Internet doesn’t work at all, cant even conncet it, only flight mode function is available. when...

When I try to open a file to play a video in Kodi, nothing happens with NO ERRORS. The file just won't play. However once I go to the sub-folder on my PC and Re-Share it (The main folder has already been shared) I can go into Kodi and play it no problem. I don't have either problems when I...

I just reformatted my pc with Win 7 home premium, and am not able to play files from my pc through my bluray player. Before the reformat it worked fine. I checked network , and it shows the player, but says it can not be added to the network. I can play Netflix, Hulu, etc fine, but can not play...

Hi, I am using a 4 year old Toshiba Satellite C855. In the past few months I have experiencing BSOD, but not that annoying, maybe 1x or 2x a week, the problem is, the BSOD is not during heavy task, just while watching youtube or movies. Now in the past few days I got it almost everyday, and not...

I have some problems with my sound which aren't site-related or due to my boxes. When i watch a movie/video on Netflix/ Youtube and other sites i can only hear the music of the film itself, i can't hear the actors talking at all. I think i may have pressed a button i do not know of? I hope you...

I was doing some things with CCleaner and then I installed some over due Windows updates, just the critical ones. After I restarted my PC(WIndows 7) I get no sound, nada. It seems like the drivers are installed, it says they are working properly and updated. For some reason I do have to types...

Hello there, I have a newer laptop that is running Windows 10. My desktop is a bit older and I have freshly installed Win 7 after trying on 10. I have several Movies that I have purchased (not rented) from the Win10 store. I would like to think that I can watch these on my big display, surround...

i can't watch any dvd in win 10. I get Windows cannot start this hardware device because its configuration information (in the registry) is incomplete or damaged. any help would be appreciated :)

I recently built myself a computer, bought Windows 8.1, and immediately upgraded to Windows 10. I checked my GPU drivers, my monitor drivers, and (for my mental peace) my motherboard drivers. All are up to date. However, I encounter a BSOD: - When viewing a youtube video in fullscreen - When...

When I am watching a tv series off my hard-drive... after about 15 or so episodes... vlc starts to act funny... though it may be Windows. I have to manually un-click the watched episode, manually click on the next episode, then right-click and click on play. Plus the spacebar does not...

My video thumbnails in the explorer preview pane wont update. It shows me the preview of the first video thumbnail but when i select another, the preview remains the same in the preview pane. I was using windows 8.1 -- which didn't have this problem -- when I upgraded to Windows 10. I like...

I have on a network drive a folder that contains downloaded movies and TV shows. If I try to open the folder so I can play a file, I get the "handle is invalid" message. I had this problem with Windows 7 and the problem has stayed with the upgrade to Windows 10. If I go to a different PC...

On Chrome, Youtube videos load properly, I have no problem whatsoever but on Edge, the video doesnt load, only the sound. On Facebook, videos don't load at all, either on Edge or Chrome. I don't know what to do, all of my drivers are updated!

I bought a refurbished Link Removed to hook up to my TV to watch Netflix. It has 2.80GHz Intel Pentium D-820 processor, when I watch videos in small screen its OK but very slightly jerky but if I put it in full screen its horrible, very jerky and unpleasant to watch. I'm not very techy, I tried...

Ok so as a fix to play Fallout 3 it turns out windows media player could't play .ogg files. I was getting an error along the lines of, windows media player cant play this because bla bla bla. So then i went and got the codec for ogg files from the vorbis site and that didn't work at all! Now...

Hello guys! So I just installed the newest Windows 10 build (10122) and I am having an issue with Youtube videos. Basically the video is black and there is a green bar at the top of the video. I suspect that I need to install the beta drivers for Windows 10 of AMD (I have AMD Radeon HD 7700)...