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Hi I posted about my friend who was unsure whether the virus message he was getting was real or not. He finally figured that it was real and clicking on it got rid of the message at least. But I mentioned that he was getting constant blue screens when booting. Yesterday I went to his house to...

This AV seems pretty good, with one exception...it seems as though it never stops scanning, which causes other programs to respond slowly. I set it to check updates only once a day, early in the morning, hoping that it would only scan with a new update, but that isn't the case. I've gone...

I have a barcode scanner that hasn't given any problems in the past, but now when I connect it to one of my front USB ports, it lights up and pings to indicate that it is working, Windows chimes indicating that it is connected, and when I scan a barcode, it chirps to indicate that it is read...

Hello I've got a printer and a printer/scanner - ie 2 devices. I want the software for them on my external harddrive. When I run the installations for each device, neither of them will give me an option of where to put the software, the installation process just picks my PC harddrive. Is...

This is what I'm doing, and it's a drag. So, if there is a better way, I'd like to know about it. I have a 7 page document, with graphics, that I want to save to my harddrive as a pdf file. I right click the printer/scanner that I have, and select "start scan", then click the button that says...

HI, can anyone help me on this, it keeps starting up every few seconds, i have no crashes or noticible performance issues, except the process wheel on arrow flashes every 3 secs. i have done file scans, CC cleaner, mailwarebytes, norton up to date, s&d spybot: all clean, also tried icon...

Hello I have been fighting the good fight with Windows for years and due to age, health, Windows issues and complexities, would like to know if there is an easier way to compute? We do some banking, surfing, emailing and need to print and scan. Can a book like the Chrome book work for us. I was...

Revision Note: V2.0 (June 30, 2011): Announced that the Office File Validation Add-in described in Microsoft Knowledge Base Article 2501584 is available through the Microsoft Update service. Summary: Microsoft is announcing the availability of the Office File Validation feature for supported...

HP Pavilion Elite m9040n Desktop, only computer in house. Was using HP All -in -One 309G printer for a few years and everything worked great. One day I noticed that the printer icon wasn't showing up in Device and Printers folder. Well went into the other forum for HP and Windows 7 and several...

There's also an open source tool for scanning sites for compatibility issues.         Link Removed

I know that I can select fonts one at a time, until I find one that I like, but that is more tedious than I would like. Is there a program available that will scan all of the fonts on my computer, and display samples of all of them at one time?

Hi, I am using Windows 7 - Premium version. My machine got restarted unexpectedly while watching movie or Anti virus scanning is going on It takes me to the windows safe mode Can anybody suggest me the solution Thanks, Udhay

Hi, Since a week I have been experiencing BSOD randomly and also experiencing system freezes with the cpu usage hitting 100%. Even while I am trying to just delete a file I have experienced BSOD...!!!! Don't know whats happening. Even my Kaspersky antivirus is acting weirdly because earlier I...

Hello, Ever since I got my computer, I have been receiving a variant of BSOD errors. Some of them have drivers on them, but some don't. I have attempted to use a check disk application, which eliminated 4 different BSOD's. I also tried to use a Registry Cleaner like CCleaner, but with no...

I've been trying to track the cause of this BSOD down for a few months now. I've updated all the drivers, scanned drives and memory for errors, but nothing seems to point in a useful direction. I work on a laptop connected to an external screen for a dual display setup. This is the same with...

I'm looking for a pdf converter that converts from jpeg to pdf. I have about 500 old jpeg files that were scanned and I want to convert them over to pdf. What is the best way? I have Office 2010 and an ADS 2000 Brothers scanner but I thank I might have to buy the software. Any suggestions?

Consider the following scenario: You have a computer running Windows Vista or later. A Windows Image Acquisition (WIA) compatible Scan Device is installed which supports the JFIF and EXIF file formats. You select New Scan from the Device Properties. You... Link Removed

I installed Windows 8 x64 just yesterday and I must say I was amazed with its performance! It worked great with my old setup, an old Intel Core2Duo 2.13 GHz and 4 GB DDR2 memory. My previous OS was Windows XP but I decided to try Windows 8 since I had a free license as a student and my old...

Does anyone use Microsoft Security Essentials? I was wounder if it the virus/malware has real time protection. I currently use avast free. They are starting to get nag screens about upgrading. I read on a google search that Microsoft Security Essentials does not have nag screens. I do believe...

I'm not sure if this is under the right topic so I apologize in advance! Here is my issue.... I recently downloaded Microsoft Security Essentials and now I think I have some sort of virus. Within minutes of logging onto my computer, a message keeps popping up that there is a critical error and...