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I have a windows 7 laptop and a windows vista desktop. There is a wireless router connected to my desktop and I am able to connect to it and use the internet on my laptop. But I am having trouble connecting to my desktop and viewing files on my desktop from my laptop. When I open up the file...

My computer has been blue screening for well over a year. I put it in storage after it started happening, the problem persists after os reinstall, complete and total format, and with a new graphics card. Myself and a colleague had assumed through process of elimination that it was my Radeon 4850...

Ok i have had this problem since last November when i was still on Windows 7 i would randomly get BSODS at first it was large downloads and torrenting got corrupted but than it was just BSODs here and there. There doesn't seem to be a common theme in it sometimes i'm watching youtube others just...

hello, today i got some strange error in my Dell Latitude D630 laptop . when i do restart to my laptop , i get this error: "No bootable devices--strike F1 to retry boot, F2 for setup utility press F5 to run onboard diagnostics" no matter what i do i cant pass this screen just by press f1...

hi i am facing the problem with hibernate before today when i hibernate laptop displays goes off but the laptop is still working and stop when the battery is empty and when again start the laptop it shows windows not shutdown properly and no BSOD ,error detail but now when i press...

While trying to install the latest (11.5) CCC driver update from AMD, the install failed for the MS Visual C++2010 Redis. When I asked them for advice, they sent a whole list of things I would have to do, and most are too daunting for me to attempt, such as "updating BIOS (Heck, the MSI website...

I have a laptop with a pair of 500Gb physical HDDs, each drive has 3 partitions. For the past 18 months I have been successfully running Vista (my original OS) on C: and Win 7 Home Premium installed on my G: partition on the 2nd physical drive. I think that Vista is irrelevant now and want to...

Hi Windows 7 users. I have an urgent problem with my custom built desktop. My custom built has been acting up like mad only a month after creation. It worked perfectly at first, but then I suddenly found that half of my services were disabled randomly. As well, my computer kept...

[SOLVED] Temporary unresponsiveness after startup Hi all, I recently bought a refurbished laptop and after fixing most of the problems I've encountered, this one doesn't seem to want to go away. For a quick run down of specs, I'm running Win7 Home premium 64-bit on an Advent Roma 4001...

I have a new Dell 1545 laptop (bought in Dec of 09) that came preloaded with Windows 7. I havent had any major problems with it but the other day when i tried to start it it flashed the Dell screen (with blue bar at bottom) like normal, then goes to a black screen with a flashing cursor at top...

I currently have 3 SATA drives. 1.5TB x2 and 1TB x1 Drive partitions as following: C: 499GB D: 897GB E: 499GB F: 897GB G: 931GB I am installing a new 2TB SATA 3 drive, but on SATA 2 mode for now. New config of drives will be quite similar except for that I will be merging the partition of the...

PLEASE HELP! I need to figure this out, this can't keep happening over and over again! Whenever I seem to be doing something important or just finishing something important (thank goodness), I'll suddenly get a blue screen out of no where saying that I don't have enough memory to run the...

Network adapter in question is Intel PRO\1000 PL Here's how it went everything has been fine for awhile then I rebooted my machine today and then I had a red X on the network icon in the systray and no internet. So I rebooted my router then my machine and still had the red X on the network icon...

I wanted to resize the partitions on an external hard drive, so I installed Partition magic 8 on my brand new Windows 7 machine. I have used PM on XP and just wasn't thinking when I installed it that it wasn't compatible. Now my computer won't boot. I can't roll back to a previous time because I...

Hello, I had Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit installed on a new computer for about a week and a half or so, and the internet was running fine with normal download speeds etc. All of a sudden, a couple of days ago my internet started slowing down gradually and eventually to 56k-like speeds. I was able...

something went wrong when i was installing DirectX to play Call of duty on my pc, and it wont let me play, and i heard the only way to uninstall directx was to do a complete reinstall of the OS or by using RegEdit. i dont want to do a complete reinstall because that takes forever. A website said...

I just installed the release candidate after using the beta since it came out, and now my graphics card (8400 gs) is no longer recognized. I checked and my laptop only recognizes it as a standard VGA adapter. Windows update doesn't offer any driver updates so I went and got the driver from the...

Hi all Something is definitely changed in build 7201. The Acronis True Image program no longer works -- blocked due to incompatability issues. (Even if you try and install it in VISTA SP2 compatability mode). Incidently the "Upgrade compatability check" didn't flag this until AFTER the OS was...

See networks but unable to connect Symptoms: -Win7 build 7000 can see my network, but can not connect. Hardware has connected and run perfectly fine on winxp. Router also has 4 other computers and a wii connected to it. One computer runs vista 32bit. -I've tried to run Vista Ultimate SP1 on...

Ok I am not that much of a noob at computers and I am usually able to fix any sort of virus infected comp within a short period of time, however, my father's Dell laptop is a complete hassle (Again I am very new to Vista only use XP on all my personal comps). It is a Dell Vostro 1000 not really...