pc troubleshooting

When disaster strikes your PC—whether it’s a major hardware failure or a corrupted operating system—it’s easy to panic. However, having a recovery plan up your sleeve can save you from pulling your hair out or, worse, losing valuable data. That’s where the Windows Recovery Drive comes into play...

Hi, pulling my hair out with this one. I have a PC running Windows 11 Insider preview which has been fine for ages. I came to boot up and it's now asking for a password. None has ever been set. I've been into the registry and there is no password in there. I can boot in safe mode but cannot get...

While using the PC with OS Windows 10 pro, after rebooting the PC, blue screen occurs during boot process, and the PC cannot be booted. Blue Screen Error Code : 0xc000000e (Stop cod : REGISTRY ERROR) It happens at several PCs in the my office randomly without any sign. I tried to almost...

I'm getting this message, "can not find script file "c:\users\public\khiere.vbs"". Google search brings up literally nothing. My dad's PC and I had him search registry. See pic. Looks like something to do with Microsoft's browser Edge? Also, like in the picture, it pops up every 2 minutes on the...

Today when i powered on my pc, then i see my mouse pointer suddenly changed from black to white, when i press any seach bars in ect firefox or windows seach menus, when clearly it shows black colour in mouse settings. And it wasent like this last day. I dident install anything since...

I've come across a weird issue in Windows 10 Pro x64 1703. In C:\Users\ Windows 10 repeatedly shows 2 weirdly named User folders. I look in Control Panel>User Accounts and as expected I'm the only user. I delete these 2 bogus folders numerous times a day and they contantly re-appear...

[1] First i decided to format my laptop for because of a problem i thought a virus this video detail of problem is on description. Hope someone can help me with this [2] Back to topic I format my laptop using windows 10 (Settings> Update & Security> Recovery> Advanced Setup> and something in...

Hi everyone! I stumbled upon your fine forum earlier today as I was looking for people who had the same problem and maybe a solution to my problem. I'm currently experiencing these two BSODs when my computer is left on but idle; as in, I'll leave my computer after a long session of a video...

Short version: I need to format my HDD to NTFS with no current OS. Long version: I was happily running Windows 10, but wanted to do a re-installation to speed things up. The installation hung at 1% for an hour or so, so I rebooted - no operating system. I downloaded a win10 iso and booted from...

Good afternoon, My name is Anthony and I have registered here after stumbling across a thread with similar issues to mine. I am in the processes of currently running a memory test on a PC where I work. It keeps freezing so that I have to kill the power and it will intermittently blue screen. I...

My computer crash when i play videogames and used the browser, this problem started 2 month ago when i installed and Civilization 5 and get a BSOD while was playing this game and listen a youtube video. I thought obviously was driver related, i unistalled the drivers in safe mode using DDU...

I have a Toshiba Satellite P875-S7102 Laptop that began operating very peculiar because the Windows 8.1 operating system s-l-o-w-e-d down. Click an Icon to initiate a web browser (or anything else) and go make a pot of coffee while you wait for for the icon to acknowledge you even clicked it...

I just found a way to get the update for Flash Player Microsoft released yesterday to install. 1. Run Windows Update 2. Copy the error message Windows Update give's you.3. Open the start menu>All Programs>Contact Support 4. Type in your name , phone number and paste the error message from...

Hi, I'm a computer noob. I have a 12 year old retail-purchased PC that came with WinXP Home pre-installed on the 160GB hard drive. The original OEM hard drive squeals terribly loud and sounds like it's going to die. I'd like to replace it, but not sure how to get WinXP installed on a fresh hard...

Hey I'm having this error while playing Civilization: Beyond Earth where my computer will just get a black screen and the audio begins to loop. The only solution is to turn off power and restart. Here's my W7F zip along with some cpu-z imgs from my previous BSOD post (and some additional ones) &...

Hi, my name is Jhim. I am having a hard time in fixing this hard disk failure. I've done CHKDSK but the system is stock in 27% and doesn't go any further. And when I run my pc normally it hangs up. What should I do? :(

Each time I boot my pc I get a logon process initialization failure dialog box which says "Interactive logon process initialization has failed. Please consult the event log for more details."

fsutil dirty query returned both C: and D: drive as Dirty. Desc of the problem and other information: First started off about 6 months ago, my pc has 2 drives, C: and D: with D: being empty, nothing stored, not used for anything. started storing files and within some time there was about a...

Please someone help me how to fix my problem about the file target of all my programs. The operating system of my PC is Windows XP 2002. Last night, I opened the folder options then i forgot what i did (sorry). suddenly, all the programs including microsoft,mozilla firefox,google crome, even...

Ever since I upgraded my HDD to a SSD I have been suffering hung process's that refuse to end. I have tried cmd prompt which says the process is not running but it shows in task manager. I've tried process explorer & that does nothing & the only way I can get the process to end so I can re...