reboot issues

Hi, I have Windows XP SP1. When I turn on my laptop (ACER), open Windows 7, after a few seconds the memory usage of explorer.exe increases significantly to reach 2Gb after a couple of minutes. Then, the system is very slow and I have to kill explorer.exe. I tried mostly everything: - clean...

Had a BSOD after updating a Windows Security Update listed as (Security Update for Windows 7 for x64-based Systems (KB2532531)) and adding a password for User Admin. Account. After install of this update it asked to reboot. Then the BSOD's began. First attempt reset machine completely. Next...

Hello guys! :) I just installed the new Asus GTX 660Ti graphics card and upgraded the driver to the latest version from nVidia. Played couple of high end games at ultra settings without any issue and did shutdown the PC safely. At night , I turned it on again to play but within about 4...

hey to all starting about 3 months ago, i have been getting random BSOD's on my Windows 7 PC, just while doing everyday things, like browsing the internet, or playing a game this first happened when i was playing Guild Wars 2, and the game just suddenly crashed, and threw a blue screen at me...

FWIW, when I installed KB2762895 yesterday, a number of startup programs apparently failed to initialize on reboot, among them McAfee, iCloud, Secunia and Google Drive. The icons were missing from the tray. When I checked on returning them to the tray by customizing via the Start menu, it...

something happened, it was just a regular day, i was playing some games, went to the internet, and then everything started lagging, chrome hanged, explorer hanged, i started security options to start task manager, and then everything went downright to hell. preparing security...

Hi! Recently I bought Toshiba Sattelite C670-1DJ and today I accidentally unplugged my AC cable. So I started it and it started computer with "Starting your computer for first use" or something like that. It logged in temporary Administrator account and when I tried to switch to my account...

I just tried sfc/scannow and I got the following message: There is a system repair pending which requires a reboot to complete. Restart windows and try sfc again. I'm thinking this repair pending is from the chldsk/r I completed previously. This is great, except when I reboot, the repair...

I'm trying to move my pagefile.sys to a separate hard drive, but to no avail. Let me be clear up front: I know what I'm doing. I don't need a list of ethics on why it's bad, or not bad, to do so. I don't care about one's opinion on whether or not it should be done. I'm going to do it. That being...

No changes were made since last boot. Attempted to follow instructions posted here: windows 7 bootmgr is missing-- resolved using WinRE - Microsoft Answers Method 1: Message states a fix was made.Root cause found: The partition table does not have a valid System Partition. Repair action...

HELLO EVERYONE. HELP NEEDED! pc became very slow, so I reboot it. Never came back on. Jams at the opening with "DELL" and does nothing. Removed the HD, connected it on a USB device. When I go to explore it on my other computer, it tells me to format this drive. HOW CAN I GET MY FILES BACK?

I booted my computer today, but when I click any program in my taskbar, or int the start menu, they dont open. In the task manager they are there, but their working set is only 40-90K. Some programs can be started from file->new process, with run as administrator checked, but I cant see any...

First off I'm running Widws 7 Home Premium as an upgrade from Windows Vista Home Premium. I was using our main PC at home this evening when for no reason whatsoever it just shut down and went to restart itself. When it tried to reboot Startup Repair started up instead. It goes through a...

I just recently purchased a 2TB WD20EARS Hard Drive and It is replacing another Hard Drive that Died. I Plugged it In, Everything seemed to be working fine. I Formatted it NTFS, Added Drive letter E to it (which was the same as the old drive its replacing). Copied all my data over to it and...

I am attempting to get a Dell Inspiron 910 with Windows 7 installed up and running again. The system was running fine yesterday, but lost the ability to connect to my wireless network suddenly, though other devices in the house were still connecting fine. I attempted to correct the issue by...

This has probably been discussed before but a search doesn't bring it up. Here's the setup: I have an exe installed in Win7. I'd like to be able to run it from XP mode (and also from 7). I set up a shortcut in XP mode. It works! I reboot and it no longer works!? The shortcut properties in the...

I have a new pc and keep getting a kernel 41 error while playing games. So far it has only been during Neverwinter Nights 2. But no other games. I am running: Windows 7 64bit Intel 950 6gb (3x2gb) Nvidia 470GTX 1280 Checked the audio drivers Turned off the intel speedstep Disabled RAC-task...

I've read about this but never experienced it until the last several weeks. I am seeing very long shutdown times on my Win7 x64 Ultimate system. I'm not quite sure when it started because I rarely reboot and my system is on 24/7 (gotta say I love the stability!). I saw one thread where someone...

Hi I'm expriencing the exact same issue blue screen everytime, safe mode included, and I could go into safe mode ONCE and now just blue screens!! iastorv.sys seems to be the issue, I have the same blue screen than both of you my computer is a dell m6500 with raid0 ... I also tried system...

Hi, Lately i've been havinf BSOD's. It seems like it happens only on the first time the system has started. After a while (played some dvd with windows media player) I get a blue screen and the system reboots. After second starts I never had the same problem. I've added the dump file and my...