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Okay I've had my Acer Aspire 5517 for 3 years and it just now failed me. Yesterday I was on YouTube listening to music from there and I left it up for about 15 minutes and when I came back it had stopped responding( the browser) and it had restarted itself. Then as it started to restart it had...

Yesterday, I installed Foxit Reader, then decided I didn't like it. When I attempted to re-install, I received the error message that "the windows installer service could not be accessed." It was listed as running in the services applet of administrator tools, but would not work. While then...

I'm using Windows 7 64 bit. My computer came out of sleep mode on friday without internet access. I immediately placed a support request with my network provider (I live at a university) but they have yet to respond. In the meantime, I'm treating the issue as though it's originating with my...

Hi, I use my laptop every day, to do school work, so I was appalled to see that it would not start up this morning. I use Windows 7, and I have a single hard drive that I had just partitioned last night, to separate my general files from my Steam games. All went well, but now I can't seem to...

Hello all, This is my first post and have been able to find a lot of very useful information on this site. I have been searching for a solution to my problem with no luck finding it thus far. I'm sure I am not the only one that has had trouble setting this up. Anyways I have two seagate...

I recently installed Kaspersky Internet Security 2011 on my computer and am now having a problem with my internet connectivity. When I run the Windows 7 Troubleshooter I get the message that says that 'There might be a problem with the driver for the Local Area Connection Adapter'. I have...

Problem Description After booting, the computer freezes at the welcome screen after logging in as any of the users. Sometimes it will restart automatically, other times it has to be "hard shut down". It freezes at the same time, consistently. Occasionally, through an unknown set of steps, I...

Hey Guys, I downloading a registry program and then then.. Yup.. A Crack... My bad. iknow.. It instantly gave me a blue screen after i opened it and ive been looking at google regarding the matter for 2 days. Im Finnally giving up and ill post... Windows 7 64bit Intel R i7 930 @ 2.80 ghz 4Gb of...

I dont remember doing anything wrong on my computer then browsing youtube, the web, messenger, watching videos and doing my homework on word. My acer has 500 GB HDD and 4 GB memory. All of the sudden while I was working, my computer starts being slow and not responding to my actions quickly...

Was having minor issues with my laptop - Sony Vaio, just a little over a year old, no histry of problems...the screen would flicker sometimes when left idle for a few minutes. Then on startup screen would be completely black... This started a little over a week ago. Also a week ago started...

Hey, I was wondering if anyone could help me with a problem that I've only just noticed because there hasn't been a time for me to install fonts until today. I'm using Windows 7 Ultimate 32-bit and I had to do a reformat about a week ago. I just noticed an odd thing with regards to the...

Before i begin i would like to state that it is only on very rare occasions that i sign up for anything just to post a thread so i am obviously determined to solve this :cool: i have the somewhat notorious problem of getting the black screen with the cursor in the middle upon startup. im...

Hi there , When ever I re-install my windows , I always start from scratch and prepare my drive. As I do it now , I insert the Windows XP pre- service pack cd and it has the option to completely delete partitions and format them from scratch. The Windows 7 copy I have is different and I...

I have just bought a new laptop from iBuyPower for my graduation present, and as soon as I get it I try & update using windows update & it either freezes up on the control panel, or If i get this far it displays this message... Even after restarting my computer several times it says the same...

Hi all! So I just reinstalled windows 7 professional 64bit on a computer that had previously been running the same product perfectly fine. However, this time, every time I login I immediately see the message "User name or password is incorrect". After hitting ok to this message I get to...

Can anyone tell me what the default Path in windows 7 64 bit is???? My mistake i deleted what stod there before.. Its under my computer properties advanced systemconfig I need the default code otherwise i need to reinstall windows

Hi, first I'd like to apologise for my poor English. I have a laptop with 2 partitions (W7 and ubuntu). I do not have any problems starting ubuntu, but when I want to start Windows, i have got one of the following situations: 1) The login screen goes black (I can't even see the mouse...

I have created a unique problem with Windows 7. I don't even know what can possibly be done, but I won't lose any data if I have to reinstall Windows 7. For around a year and a half before Windows 7 came out, I had XP installed on my computer. When Windows 7 came out, I bought it, but I wanted...

On a Windows 7 Ultimate system, doing a Windows Update says it encountered an unknown error (8007273d). It doesn't take long to get that error. I've tried various things based on doing a web search on the error code, including uninstalling visual studio, resetting internet explorer settings...

hello, i am running the evaluation copy of windows 7 ultimate build 7100. i have a problem, everytime i boot up windows. it will go through all the loading screens and then it will go to a black screen where the login screen should be. i figured out that when i push the power button on the...