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    Windows 7 getting a buzzing sound/slight lag when playing music or movies.

    Just like the title says...... I'm encountering this annoying buzzing while playing a movie or music file. I first took it to Compusa and they looked at it and updated anything that had to be updated. They then hooked it up with there speakers and weren't able to replicate the issue. They then...
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    Windows 7 Microsoft.net framework unhandled exception....Alienware M18 r2

    Hey guys, I would please like some help...i am starting to get a little worried. The other night when i went to startup my laptop, i get a pop up that says.... Microsoft.net framework unhandled exception has occured in your app. If you click continue the app will ignore this error and attempt...
  3. Windows 7 Google Chrome fix!

    Hi As some of you have probably noticed I've done a lot of complaining about Google Chrome lately. It wouldn't display this page correctly for one thing, always left a large blank space at the top with nothing in it. It wouldn't open links for my mail or other sites. I tried removing and...
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    Windows 7 Stuck in Selective Startup

    I got a new laptop recently (Windows 7 Home Premius SP1), and but there were several dozen updates that wouldn't install. After looking around online a bit, I eventually decided to go to msconfig and change the startup to only boot with windows programs, which solved that particular problem...
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    Windows 7 Reminder App.has stopped working

    I have built a new computer and have Windows 7 64 bit operating system. On every boot I get a pop up saying Reminder App has stopped working. Then it wants to know if I want to send a report. What is this? I have found the answer. You have to go to Start,Msconfig ,Startup Tag ,then scroll down...
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    Windows 7 Windows Firewall won't work + MsConfig Screen Quickly Pops Up During Start Up...

    Hey guys, today I inherited a bad trojan that infected my windows and caused it to restart after one minute and also disabled my windows firewall indefinitely. I ran numerous malware and anti virus programs and cleaned out all the trojans and infections I could find, and the computer finally now...
  7. Windows 7 Msconfig problem

    I have a user who just installed a piece of software on his PC. Now whenever he logs in to his computer the system briefly displays his desktop, then reboots. He has been unable to use his PC since this error began. How would I troubleshoot the system? Could I use MSCONFIG to troubleshoot? If...
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    Windows 7 Change Minimal Boot Screen

    My Windows 7 came with a minimal boot screen that only shows bars going across (like XP but without logo). I opened msconfig to see if the No GUI boot was selected, but it wasn't. I tried change the boot screen with Win7BootUpdater, but that didn't work, either. Could somebody suggest anything...
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    Windows 7 Windows 7 Startup and Shutdown blue swirly icon

    For some reason, my blue swirly icon doesn't seems to be animating(spinning) like it should. My msconfig GUI is unchecked. Also, after that, it seems to be lagging for a few seconds. Programs taking a longer time to load. I bought this laptop 1 month ago. It's a i7-2640M 2.8ghz 64bit 8gb ram...
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    Windows 7 Optimizing processes and services for better gaming on low resource PC

    I have a laptop with a single core processor and 4 gigabytes of system Ram. It has no video card, but a video chip on the motherboard instead. This video chip has 336 MB of dedicated ram And uses up to 1.2 gigabytes of additional shared system ram for video memory. My goal is to slim down the...
  11. Windows 7 W7 Completely Freezes on Boot

    When I boot my Win 7 machine and logon the desktop loads just fine, but when I click on the start button it freezes and doesn't come back - I can't click on anything. I think I've managed to narrow it down to being a problem with the DHCP service by disabling all services in msconfig and...
  12. Windows 7 MSConfig and services.msc are missing...?

    Not sure if this is the correct place for this but...this morning I noticed an exclamation in my taskbar that services were not running. I looked for services.msc in the search in the start button, but nothing came up. I also typed in MSConfig in the search in the start button search, and...
  13. Windows 8 Control Panel?

    Many of us, who like to futz around with our PC's, not just appliance operators, like to get into our Control Panels every once in a while. But Win-8 doesn't make that as easy as it was in XP. However there is a way to get to the control panel in Win-8. Here's one way: From the Metro screen, ...
  14. Windows 7 Changing Boot

    FYI: This is due to folks asking about changing things in a duel-boot scenario. An OS was installed then, another, hence the dual-boot... we'll call them 1 & 2. NOW, they want OS2 to exist and boot w/out OS1 The following is a way to do it: I had a dual-boot, Windows 7 x86 & x64. x86 was the...
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    Windows 7 MSCONFIG entry in registry

    I would like to clean up my disabled entries in MSCONFIG BUT there is no entry for it in the registry HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\MSConfig\ on my desktop. there is on my laptop. When is MSCONFIG hiding these things??? How do i get it back????????
  16. Windows 7 Safe Mode "Lost"

    I've discovered this a.m. that I can't access Safe Mode through the normal F8. I used to listen to the post beep and then press F8 once and I'd be straight in. Now pushing F8 once or repeatedly tapping F8 just carries on to the normal boot. What have I changed recently? Well, I removed Windows...
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    Windows 7 Solution for Windows 7 intermittent sound & audio buzzing, CPU spikes

    I am starting a new thread here to post my solution, since so many other threads were opened on this topic. I am cross posting on a number of sites, too, since so many people are having a similar problem. Apologies for that, but I am trying to spread this solution. Took me about six months to...
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    Windows 7 need help forcing a program

    Hi ! I am new to Windows 7 and I have a question that I need an answer to if at all possible. I was told there is a way to force a program to use all of my processors and Ram memory. I need to figure out if this possible and what I have to do to accomplish this. I am wanting to force a video...
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    Windows 7 Windows boot manager keeps starting up

    Everytime I start up i get this annoying screen: Link Removed due to 404 Error 1. How do I removed this from my startup 2. What is it? I have set my msconfig right: Link Removed due to 404 Error and i also did disable here: Link Removed due to 404 Error What the ****...
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    Windows 7 USB mass storage code 10

    Well, this is really doing my head in, its about time microsoft sorted it out, as many people have the same issue: I have tried restoring to an earlier state, but my computer doesnt have any. MSCONFIF/Tools trouble shoot computer problems/hardware and sound/configure devices satates that...