restoration

I have to use 'System Restore' from time to time to restore my computer. The instructions says: System Restore helps you restore your computer's system files to an earlier point in time. It's a way to undo system changes to your computer without affecting your personal files, such as...

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Hi all, I am not new to Windows 7 at all, and I know quite a bit but I have never came across the problem that I am faced with. My old computers motherboard failed and quit on me, causing the computer not to boot or even turn on. So I got a new one. My question: What and how is the easiest...

This is now my third time with this problem, the first required me to restore to factory settings. These last two seem to have been triggered by a power flicker at my residence. The power momentarily flickered long enough for my computer to shut down. After booting the computer seems fine until...

So I was working with moving my My Documents folder from syncing with Dropbox to Box and I messed up a bit. Well, at least I've found it and have access to it. Now I'm working on restoring a previous version. Problem A: It's hidden and I can't figure out how to undo that because: Problem B: It's...

UPDATE! RESOLVED BY UNINSTALLING "Update for MS Windows KB2732500" Hardware setup: Dell Studio 1558 laptop, Windows 7 Home Premium, Service Pack 1, 64-bit O/S, Intel Core i3 Linksys E1200 wireless router Comcast cable modem (by Motorola) After functioning on my home WLAN for over a year...

Hi, I am hoping someone will be kind enough to point me in the right direction with a nightmare of an install I am going through. Here are the details: Fresh install of Win 7 Pro 64 goes smoothly. I go ahead and update my motherboard and video drivers (LAN, USB 3.0, etc) with latest versions...

Hello! I'm not sure but I think I have this problem after extending the C drive with Easeus's partition manager. When I move some window it doesn't move with the Windows 7 style but something like Windows 98 style. Link Removed It's not a big problem but I really don't like it so I hope someone...

Hi, I wonder if anyone could suggest something else to try. I run a fairly generic PC with Windows 7 Home edition. Last night I noticed my mouse acting strangly and nothing happening when I typed on the keyboard. I rebooted but the keyboard was not working so I couldn't even type in the...

Hi all, My sister just got a new laptop with 7, then accidentally installed a friend's version of 7 on top of it, thinking it was Microsoft Office. I'm trying to restore to factory settings so she doesn't lose all the software that came with the computer. I know the recovery partition is on...

I recently posted this on yahoo answers, but its been over a day and no replies so i came here to ask for help: The edits are from yahoo, it's just a little extra info I've had this problem for a few days now, for the last few months i have been using my school laptop to share internet to my...

Hello. Out of all my years of computing I've never heard of or seen this bug, but whatever it is, it's very frustrating. Whenever I select something go into the properties of something that has a selection, it basically disappears. Another one I discovered was that when I go into Task Manager it...

Hi I am new to this forum and have found it after 3 days of trying to overcome some frustration. I am not an expert at this but my daughters computer is playing up massively. I have googled this error and done just about everything that has been suggested. I can;t start the Windows installer...

I have a Gateway Desktop with W7 hooked up via USB to a Cradlepoint MBR-900 WiFi Router. Internet connection via USB Sierra Cell Modem plugged into Cradlepoint. This setup has worked well for a couple of years until recently. Ran W7 diagnostics and W7 cannot id device, it looks like it sees...

Hullo there. Wonder if you can help me: I have a nice little self-build, courtesy of a couple of my gaming friends, that's been running happily and working like a charm since early Februaryish kind of time. In fact, I couldn't fault it at all, until I had to move my computer between homes. Once...

I have a Asus K52F portable computer. It works very well. Unfortunately, I've inadvertantly deleted my dvd software. I can no longer read any dvd or cd. It doesn't show on the window where I can see the /C/ and /D/ drives. I can hear it trying to work, but then it just stops. As you can...

Woke up this morning to find win Update had downloaded and installed several updates (obviously from Update Tuesday)...shock horror...my computer was back to bog standard...all files gone although all the installed programs were intact but any with settings like Firefox etc were as 'Just...

I have a Lenovo y560 laptop with a core i7 740-QM processor, 8gb ram, and ati radeon 5730 graphics card. The laptop came with Win7 Home Premium, but I formatted the hard disk and installed Win7 Professional 64-bit to gain some more space, since there were two partitions which Lenovo uses to help...

Original title:"BSOD Windows 7. " I am running a HP Pavilion 6 with AMD processor. I am getting BSOD at radom times. I was able to read the blue screen with the program blue scree viewer. I kept seeing ntoskrnl.exe this is a problem and PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA. That was the most...

ACER Eee PC running Win7 with all windows updates. The problem is the machine running Windows 7 Home Premium intermittently loses "internet access". Where the bars are full, but the ! shows and there is no connectivity. The other Win7 machine is set to automatically install updates and is...