problem solving

Hi I am new to this forum but have encountered a very irritating problem. A couple of weeks ago my laptop crashed and upon looking at it the hard drive had gone. I have backed it up using backup and restore several times to my external drive and thought this would be ok when a new hard drive was...

So, one day, I was fiddling with my computer, and I pressed 'Open With' on A torrent application called Bitlord. Then I stupidly pressed open with Google Chrome as it's default way to open. But that didn't effect Bitlord only. It affected all programs such as Microsoft Word, Excel, Paint...

I am 72 and worked with PCs until 2002 but now Windows 7 has me baffeled. I just got a new printer. An HP 6520 all-in-one. When I try to save a scan I get "HP Scan has stopped working. A problem caused the program to stop working correctly. Windows will close the program and notify you if a...

Early stage, high-risk, high-reward startup seeking a software developer to assist in developing security-related applications and services on the MS Windows platform (XP - 8.1, possibly Windows Phone). Essential Skills & Experience: - System-level Windows programming (C, C++, or C#)...

Okay I'm going to try and explain this as best I can. I am a young girl and do not know much about what goes into to computers and fixing them. Just a heads up, I need a really good explanation of what to do. Thank you so much. Now the problem. My computer got a virus from me trying to download...

I am using a desktop with below mentioned config. Processor : Intel® core ™ i3-3220 CPU @3.30GHZ RAM : 8 GB (2x4GB) HDD : 1TB Nvidia Geforce 210 - 512MB D-Link DWA-525 Wireless N150 Desktop Adaptor OS :Windows 7 Prof SP1 x64 bit Problem report : Problem signature: Problem Event Name...

The Windows Club has quite a collection of freeware utilities: http://www.thewindowsclub.com/list-freeware-releases-from-the-windows-club This one, in particular, might be a good general purpose tool for solving a variety of problems...

Hi. I have noticed recently a problem using Ebay. A couple of weeks ago I noticed that suddenly I could not look at images of product listings. Usually, a item for sale has at least one photo uploaded by the seller. Often there are other photos included as well. Clicking on one of these...

I have an intermittent problem with the keyboard on my HP Pavilion laptop. More and more frequently the letters and numbers which appear are gibberish.......as if they are encrypted. The gibberish seems to appear only in browsers and the Windows search box. There seems to be nothing I can do...

Only getting BSoD's when either playing League Of Legends or streaming through Openbroadcaster Software while playing League Of Legends. I attached everything mentioned in the "How to ask for help with a bsod problem" thread to the zip file. I actually thought it was a problem with my ram so I...

Folks, I've joined this forum for a couple reasons. Foremost is that I don't believe that Microsoft is interested in anything I have to say. Secondly, I'm using Windows 7 at my office and on my main personal computer and, after getting a new laptop with Windows 8, I realize that I have to...

I recently built a new computer (specs below) and have no problems with it except that whenever the computer goes to sleep and I wake it up, either with the power button or keyboard, the monitor does not wake up. I can fix the problem easily enough by cycling the power on my monitor. After the...

The bitter truth of realizing the latency (delay) in the monitoring of line in/microphone inputs in Windows Vista/7/8 is being regarded as the most unsolved mystery in the windows audio environment. This accounts for all those musicians (like me and other people who were enjoying music through...

Hi, I have 2 computers Dell w XP and HP w Vista I installed a new hard drive in both systems When I attempt to install on the HP the error message I receice is Critical Process Died, and when I attempt to Recover the next two error messages are 0x0000001 and 0x80070570 The only...

Describes how to use the clean boot process to troubleshoot a problem in Windows Vista or in Windows 7. Link Removed - Invalid URL

Heyo! After some research, I'm pretty sure my problem is called Focus Stealing, I've looked at a bunch of forums/threads on the internet but each seem to have individual symptoms etc so the fix to someone's problem is not the same fix to someone else's. This is probably going to be a long...

Hello ... How are your conditions?? I have a big problem and very stubborn and difficult to resolve tried to solve all the roads and in many forums did not know a solution so far .. The problem in detail ... I kind of card Satellite Twinhan Issue No. 1027 color red ... Specifications...

Hello - I did search the slow start up topics, but couldn't find anything relating to a power outage. Also, I can't say 100% that this is related to the power outage. I had this same problem a couple months ago after an automatic Windows update. I restored the computer to 2 days prior and...

Some may know this, already, some may not. This evening I fixed a problem in a computer that was in a different city than I am. The work was being done using Team Viewer. The interesting 'take-away' here is... It is possible to Copy something from my machine, URLs, command lines...

1) Whenever a program closes in a non conventional way windows 7 feels like it must search for the problem and I don't want it to. How do I stop it from activating the solution finder every time I close a program in the "wrong way" so to say. 2) I want to bind a specific playlist to my startup...