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Started 2 days ago and it has happened twice. When it happens, my screen freezes and there is usally a very obnoxious beeping before the blue screen appears. Not sure what may be causing it, it lasts around 30 seconds, it shuts down my computer and then when I turn it back on, everything is...

Built an windows xp machine for mother Inlaw. Has worked fine for two years. Scan for malware and viruses four times a month for her, running avast anti virus. The last week when windows is ldleing and you go to use it. It will ask for a pass word. There was no pass word for this account. So I...

Hi I have an unspecified error 766f6c756d652e63 3f1 (yes there is a gap before the 3f1) I have tried and tried, but the above error occurs. Have tried various suggestions. HDD is C: drive NTFS system. Any suggestions please Regards Princy557 Additional Info: Reason I'm worried is that sfc...

does Windows 7 Pro have Security Essentials in it? I notice on downloads files are scanned, tho not sure what does it. Thanks.

I got a message from windowscontrolscanning.in that I have all these sercurity risks and for me to download their zip file. I put windowscontrolscanning.in in the address bar and nothing came up. I downloaded Malwarebytes free trial and got rid of 8 files. So I ordered the full version of...

A webpage in the Internet describes a way to get rid of this unnecessary and disturbing pop-up whenever you connect an external drive. It is to disable the service Shell Hardware Detection. I did, but the pop-up still comes occasionally. Is there a more effective way?

I bought a new notebook running windows 7 64 bit a couple of months ago After running a full system scan with Kaspersky anti-virus a couple of days ago I now have a bug with sleep mode - After going into sleep mode, the user with my picture icon is locked meaning that I can't enter my password...

Consider the following scenario: You have a Windows 7 machine with a WSD (Web Services For Devices) MFP (Multi-Function Peripheral) device installed. You uninstall the WSD MFP device from the Devices and Printers control panel. You turn the device off,... Link Removed

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Describes recommendations that may help you protect a computer that is running Windows from viruses. More...

I'm new to this forum but i want to know why does my computer's desktop freezes at startup, i sometimes can move the mouse but sometimes i can't and then a black screen appears when i restart the computer and its says that in 10 seconds the hard drive will be scanned. And this happen 6 days ago...

My question is how do I configure the printer through the router so that the other computers can use the printer's scanning capabilities. I have 6 wireless computers on a home network. My wireless router has an input to accommodate a printer. Currently the printer is connected to computer 1...

Hello, I left my Dell laptop running a Sophos anti-rootkit scan overnight. This morning I found six extra windows open, which looked like this: Link Removed They were named: pgrhbx.exe xcshfl.exe tvbgvq.exe bgqrmm.exe lhftkp.exe dwrcdn.exe which looks like six randomly generated letters for...

Hello everyone! So, over the past couple months I've been fighting some BSODs that I can't quite figure out how to track down. They occur randomly and I can't figure out what to do in order to recreate these occurrences. I can be doing anything from playing SWTOR or any other game, to browsing...

This is the 2nd time within a week that this issue has arisen. Whenever I try to update SAS, or the Pro version does on it's own (I have 2 Pro versions), it appears as though it's updating, twice. Like there's going to be 2 updates. Then, after the updates are finishing downloading, there's 2...

I noticed today that I have acquired a Trojan that my AV (eset nod32 av5) is unable to clean or delete. So it says in the logs anyway. What to do my friends. I'm running Win 7 HP x64 on a laptop with lots of power. I have MBAM installed as an alternate scanner. What gets me is that eset is able...

Fixes an issue in which you cannot send a fax by using Windows Fax and Scan on a computer that is running Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008. This issue occurs if you have Internet Explorer 9 installed on the computer. More...

Hello Win 7 x64, i5, 1G Dell 8300 XPS Why would this scan run inordinately long?A full scan was stopped at 5 hours and 866,000 files were scanned. Thank you Peter

Hey, I need some help. I plugged in my kingston pen drive and I decided that this time I would let Windows 7 do a scan on it. Well, it scanned my drive and it deleted a bunch of important documents. It said that it moved them to a folder called "Found" (or something like that) and it said...