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Details of malware that may have been associated with the attack on Sony Pictures were disseminated in an FBI “Flash” earlier this week. A copy of the memorandum obtained by Ars Technica details “a destructive malware used by unknown computer network exploitation (CNE) operators” that can...

Hi Today I opened my email client, and it was like I just installed it. All my accounts, mail, and address books were gone. I had to set it up all over again. I had had it open earlier and it was all normal. Along with the sound issues, the fact that my keyboard light don't work, and the...

Hi Today for the first time in years, (accept for when my cooler failed and my computer overheated) I had a real blue screen crash. I was loading Age of Conan to play with my friend Paul and suddenly, the smiley blue face and black screen. A few seconds later my computer started rebooting on...

I had WIN8 and was happy with it. Microsoft updated me <without my permission BTW> to 8.1. I have had nothing but problems since!!! My computer won't stay connected to my ROUTER <I have to keep logging off and then back on if I'm IDLE too long>. My wireless printer is NOW NOT recognized by my...

I set up hosted network and use my Android to connect to it through wifi. So I run netsh after setting up hosted network.it worked fit a while then, although still connected it says, "stops working". I cannot browse or anything that required a connection. Is there a solution? so I tried a...

Can someone explain SysPrep to me? Im trying to use it to remove drivers from a Macs BOOTCAMP, I have two problems: a) whenever I use SysPrep it screws up my dock settings/ colour & theme settings b) I don't want to make a new user account after the system reboots, why is this even an option &...

I'm having trouble with the SMB shares all of a sudden not working with my network. I don't really know how to even begin troubleshooting this issue. It's just all of a sudden my other devices on the network can't access them. The only thing I can do is reboot the computer that the shares are...

Hi, I'am using Windows 8.1 with all latest updates. I'm facing problem with Windows update since installation of a fresh copy of windows. I always keep Windows update to automatic windows update installation mode. But if I reboot my laptop or shutdown it, then the update turns to "Never check...

After uninstalling and reinstalling updates I still have major problems with IE 11 on my Win 7, 64 bit system. I start IE 11 and it works ok for the opening page, then I go to another site and it just wont connect period, and then says page wont display , very frustrating . I reboot and get the...

Hi there, I recently built a computer about 3 weeks ago, and this week (the third week) I have been getting blue screens (I have gotten about 5 of them so far). This is the error details I got after the pc rebooted. -------- Problem signature: Problem Event Name: BlueScreen OS Version...

Windows 7 built in search is terrible. For a start it starts searching before you've finished typing the search term. It doesn't display the folder path in search results. When I click on a folder and then try to go back or up one level it hangs my computer to the point where I have to force...

Hi there, Not sure if this is the right forum but here goes. I have a Samsung NP9000 model NP900X4C-A05AU. It regularly crashes due to full memory. It has 8G of RAM, running Windows 8.1. It's done this since day 1 - I managed to remove some Samsung bloatware that mitigated the problem...

My son has a Intel Q9300 CPU machine on a bran new motherboard & a PSU more than enough with a HD4870 GPU. Now the problem is, sometimes when he boots up the machine, it stutters once desktop has loaded. The mouse sticks like its suffering from lag. Everything he does on the machine suffers from...

Upon rebooting Windows 8.1 64-bit, it seems many, if not all, my system fonts are gone from Windows itself, my browsers, email programs etc. My Font Manager program shows only 88 fonts installed instead of the usual 800+. System Restore was unsuccessful, and Restore Default Font Settings did...

This BSOD has just started today. My computer unexpectedly rebooted itself while printing. I don't know what the cause is as the cpu and ram is all ok but i don't know how to test the 2x dvd roms and the hdd just to make sure them are working ok too. I have a minidump file in my onedrive so can...

Hi I was just on my computer booted into Ubuntu from a Flash Drive, I have to say it works pretty well, loads fast etc. The surprise was that when I was done I shut down my computer, removed the flash drive, and rebooted back into what I though would be Windows and it booted back into Ubuntu...

I set up 2 folders on my desktop. one is for games and one is for utilities on my computer. They are shortcuts to programs on my machine. For some reason they keep changing size from a medium view to a large view. I tried doing several things including rebooting the system but nothing seems to...

Everyone in the house has a laptop each (except for parents) but I wanted a computer in my attic bedroom. I have an Acer Aspire T180 and it runs XP (normally run Vista). My router is all the way in the dining room so I cannot use wired connection. I have this Buffalo WLI-U2-KG54L wireless...

Not doing much, it's happened twice now over the last few days. Just had a photo editing program open the first time it happened & the second time watching a youtube video via facebook. But having some strange things happen to my system like having things minimize for no reason. PING.exe...

I had a Windows error, and when I rebooted a disk check started. This has happened before, but I've never had anything that looked like this. After I logged in and started Chrome, all of my extensions were missing. Any advice/experience with something like this? Link Removed Link Removed...