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just bought windows 8 and im having problems already! IE working firefox working skype working chrome not working online games not working some other programs not working.. i already have firewall disabled but still these programs are not working tried some solutions posted online but nothing...

I have found "cve-2012-1889" in the Control Panel in Programs. Looks like it may be a bad guy. Is it, what does it do, and how do I get rid of it?

I downloaded a number of text files in html using the "save as" command to files in a directory. Unforunately once I looked at them they were all separated into separate smaller files mostly of 3 kb or so. CSS and other objects landed in the same file but now I can't read the whole file in...

and when I try, my mouse turns into that "hourglass" to wait, then it does nothing except in safe mode, which I am on now. I've heard it could be a virus? Also could system restoring work? Any help is appreciated.

is there a work around to update windows home premium to windows professional. We have a full install key and would prefer not to do a clean install as we don't want to lose all of our programs.

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So my computer was working fine last night and now it's acting crazy Things that are happening : When I started the computer it said "Windows desktop manager has stopped working" At one point every single program crashed and I had to restart my computer It took literally 20 seconds to open...

I need some help and I'm not sure this is the right place. If not could somebody lead in the right direction. Problem: all my icons are the same and when I click on them it opens that program. It has also invaded my start menu. What can I do to fix this? Thanks for any and all help!:rolleyes: Uturn

The manufacturer of my pc installed Windows 7 Home Premium without key. The key I have is one for Windows 7 Ultimate so I cannot use it to activate the Home Premium copy which is curently installed on the pc. Now, my question: is there a possibilty to upgrade Windows Home Premium to Ultimate...

I was curious when I found a listing in the Task Manager for something simply called setup.exe with a PID of 11008, so I Googled it and it appears to be for something related to AT&T. This is even more curious for me because I don't use any AT&T services. I don't even use a regular Bell...

Im not sure why, but since I have upgraded to win 8, all of my programs are running in 32 bit that were previously running 64 bit on win 7. Any reasons for this? Link Removed

No matter how I do it, every time I try to use a video program it crashes the instant I try to play a video. This is a recent phenomena. All of my video programs were working up until about a day ago. I use VLC, PotPlayer, and Media Player Classic-Home Cinema. I'm not sure if it has anything to...

suggestion. for the settings, it would be awesome if there was a program allowed that we could accept and it did a scan of our computer and put all that information on there? cause honnestly i could probably find most of it. but thats a lot of things i dont know the exact details of. my...

I just recently upgraded my computer and everything installed and was working great until a few days ago. Now I just suddenly started getting BSODs, and my programs are not working correctly. I attached the "grab all" from the W7F diagnostic tool. I tried to do an upgrade since I have an OEM...

I am running Win 7 Pro on a ACPI x64-based PC. I have been unable to install a number of applications - most recently Evernote. I get an error while running the installation programs: "An error occurred while attempting to create the directory: C:ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu"...

I have just switched on my computer to find that a piece of my desktop has been cutoff by the full width of my 2nd monitor display, here's a screenshot of the problem: Link Removed as you can see i have tried to drag the area to the right of the screen with the cursor but it wont go any further...

Not sure if this is the right place to post this - but! I've uninstalled a few programs, but when I go to the "uninstall a program" they still show up in the list, and when I click on them again, I get errors.... Whats up?

My wife's computer is Win. 7 64 bit. There has been a couple of programs to disappear. This last one was a NOVA Scrapbook Factory. The desk top icon was still there but the program was gone. When you double clicked the icon it said to install the Install Disk. So I re-installed it. If I go into...

I have a 1T hard drive running Win 7 and want to upgrade to Windows 8, but put the Windows 8 on a new SSD drive, pluse the main programs I use. I rather not loose all my settings, etc., on Office and several other programs. The SSD is 250G and I have over 400G on the hard drive. Any Ideas?

As everybody knows, the Start button is not included in Windows 8, and Microsoft has vowed not to put it back. If you’d rather not be forced to use the full-screen, tile-based UI, called Modern, here are five alternative programs that install on Windows 8. Link Removed