repair installation

So yesterday i shut down my computer, and today when i started it up (about 2 hours ago) i can see the startup Motherboard message and all the BIOS stuff, but after that it is just a blank black screen, can't see the blue Windows logo, or that spinning circle indicating that it's loading. I...

Microsoft Office Pro 2007 - Reconfiguration on every launch. Using MS Office Pro 2007 on Window 7 x32. When I launch either Word or Excel, a configuration pages comes up that takes several minutes to resolve. After the re-configuration runs, the component, Word or Excel then launches and works...

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Whenever I try to boot my computer the "welcome" message on the start up does not appear. The graphics appear to be changed a little, but can successfully login to my account . The desktop icons are displayed without the corresponding descriptive text for example I can see computer icon but not...

Hello everyone, I hope someone can help me out as I can't find any solution to this problem. I have read some posts on this forums that suggests to use chdisk, run in low resolution, repair the installation but none of this has worked for me. When I start the laptop (toshiba satellite) it runs...

I can't launch Fable 3 or Dirt 3 for some reason. It doesn't give me a error or anything when i try to launch them but it just "thinks" for a while and does nothing, but the odd thing is that Fable used to run without any problems whatsoever it just stopped working after i got about half way...

Hello, I've spent the last couple of days trying desperately to resolve this issue. I have looked everywhere but cannot find an answer... PROBLEM: I have thousands of PDFs in hundreds of folders. When I go to a particular folder, I use the slider to change the Explorer views from "Content"...

My Windows 7 Ultimate 32bit OS got messed up so I restored the original image I made from DriveImage XML successfully. Now when my PC boots, I get the mobo splash screen and then just a cursor. When I put my Win 7 install disk in I can "press any key" to boot from it and the DVD goes right to...

Hey guys, New to these forums and any help would be appreciated. Yesterday i dropped my laptop on the ground and it seems to have shaken up my hard drive. Originally it would not boot at all but after trying a couple of times I got it to start normally into windows once. I read somewhere...

Hi! My father's computer been broken and he thought it was a virus attack. The problem is that it won't boot even though I tried all the choices (safe mode, boot from last good configuration,etc.). None of them worked. It kept repeating and repeating. It's an upgraded version from Windows XP...

I'm running win 7 Ultimate 32 Bit, which has been fine up to a few days ago when on start up reaching the desktop I started getting a window saying "Windows has encountered a critical problem and will restart automatically in one minute." it would then restart and continually loop this...

My system is an ASUS P6T with 12 gb of memory and an EVGA 250 graphics card with 1 GB memory. System was running fine with Vista Business x 64. I upgraded to Windows 7 Pro x64 [there were several hic cups during the upgrade process, but I finally got by them]. Running RAID 1 with Intel...

Right, i just got my hands on a 64 bit Win 7. In confusion about device numbering i accidently installed it on my secondary harddrive D: as my logic told me that Device 0 would be C: . Realizing my mistake, i installed it on C:, which contained an old Danish 32bit vista, which i removed through...

My wife's Dell Inspiron 1521 laptop came with Vista Home Premium on it. She couldn't deal with Vista so I set it up to dual boot XP Home also. This is it's hardware: Motherboard: CPU Type Mobile DualCore AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-58, 1900 MHz (9.5 x...

I'm working on upgrading a Dell Latitude D830 from Vista Ultimate (32-bit) to Windows 7 Ultimate (32-bit) retail. I opted to do an upgrade instead of a clean install for the sake of time. The system has 2 network adapters installed, a Dell 1390 WLAN mini-PCI adapter and a Broadcom NetLink 57xx...

I have 3 drives C:\Windows7 D:\Stuff - Windows Easy Transfer backup X:\WindowsXP External SATA backup I have installed Windows 7 twice and I cannot get it to boot from C:. I get errors saying the boot manager is missing. I have to boot from X: and select Windows 7 from the boot manager. I tried...

I have XP installed on my old HDD. I bought a new HDD and windows 7 I installed windows 7 on my new HDD, my old HDD was plugged in at the same time of the installation. Everything runs great. I then put my pc back together, leaving my old HDD out, as i only want my new HDD with 7 installed...

Hello, I run Windows 7 for at least 4 weeks and I never had problems with it, so I decided to remove the now unneeded XP Partition. My Problem is that after this Windows 7 refused to boot. I suppose that either the Windows Bootmanager was on the XP Partition I removed. My Partition Table...

To start, I'd love to post more detailed system specs, but I cant even get into the OS. I had a Dell Workstation 380 with 7, sporting an extra (NOT the one with the OS) 750GB HD that failed. I deemed the case unworthy and built what is essentially a new rig. Mobo: Gigabyte EP43 UD3L with the...

GAH! it says im connected to the internet but nothing goes online. has screens! Im the big PC nerd but networking has always been my flaw since windows 98. so heres what happened I had to do a manual uninstall of panda antivirus (not fun) and the same day i was having wifi issues. and now...