shutdown issues

I am receiving the message that my computer has recently recovered from an unexpected shutdown. Actually it is happening on two of my PCs that are both running Windows 7 and Office 2007. Both are aslo running Avast for virus protection. One PC was purchased about 3 months ago and the other is...

My computer will randomly crash while sitting idle. I'll come back to see the login screen and when i log in it'll say it has recovered from an unexpected shutdown. I tried to follow the directions to read the dump files, but it keeps saying I don't have the symbols..Could someone help me out...

My computer keeps crashing when it attempts to wake up from sleeping. It never crashes when it is running normally and I am working on it. It has a wireless card for my inet, and any time I wake it up the bars down in the lower right show no signal and it has the round wheel spinning like it is...

Hello, We recently upgraded our home computer, a Dell Latitude E6500, from Windows XP to Windows 7. Everything is working fine except for the installation of our printer, an HP Officejet 6310. I downloaded the full feature software and drivers and successfully installed them, even printed a...

i was watching photos from its default image viewer, with some music playing in windows media player, and then i tried to close the image viewer, it cant be closed and display "Not Responding" for image viewer and display "COM surrogate problem".Plus in the same moment i cant shutdown my...

hi i am using windows seven on my laptop dell inspiron 1564. previously had dreamweaver cs4 and had no problems. now i was installing dreamweaver cs5, photoshop cs5 and master collection of adobe after 20 percent is installed installation stops and a blue screen comes after which i have to turn...

Really fun things happen if your laptop falls off the bed while you're asleep. In Windows, I can no longer log off/reboot/shut down normally (Linux, however, is fine). Also, if I put my laptop to sleep in Windows, it will inexplicably refuse to wake up (again, Linux can wake up just fine...

I can't change the SHUTDOWN to SLEEP on the start menu. When I do nothing happens - IE it doesn't change. The last time it was SLEEP it spontaneously changed to SHUTDOWN. what is going on????????????????

I was just doing what I normally do: browse the internet. When I get this BSOD: SPECIAL_POOL_DETECTED_MEMORY_CORRUPTION. (I have NEVER gotten this one before) 0x000000C1 (0xB38BCF10, 0xB38BC12D, 0X00D100F0, 0x00000032) All I was doing was browsing, and was about to click on an email...

So. I've got a LG GSA-4166B, and I was gonna install Battlefield: Bad Company2, but it did not find the disc (neither on my or my dads PC, and both got this DVD-reader/writer so I went into device manager and uninstalled the driver cause I was gonna install the new one I found by googling...

Hi I recently installed win 7 64 bit on my computer and it was fine to start and ran pretty fast but then installs suddenly started getting really slow, 20+ hours in some cases or just not working at all. Also worth nothing that I had to turn of UAC in safe mode as it stopped displaying the...

I've got a Windows 7 Pro 64 bit system (6.1.7600.16385) with a bit of an issue. It's a high end, RAID 1 (hardware configured) system. Quad core Xeon and 8GB ram... I need this system to stay running until I tell it otherwise..... but it's not. I always disable Windows updates, just for this...

At some random moments my network connection fails (limited acces only) and if I try to fix it network connections just crashes and won't reopen. Also I've noticed if this problem occurs(limited acces) I cannot start games or shut down windows. If I start a game then it will just immidiately...

when i perform a search for anything i automatically get a bsod bad_pool_header and at the end of a full scan by avg security suite same thing. anyone know how to fix this? got this when the computer restarted: Windows has recovered from and unexpected shutdown Problem signature: Problem...

Windows 7 might get fixed Eventually By Link Removed - Invalid URL Thursday, 31 December 2009, 12:04 MICROSOFT WINDOWS HACKER Mark Russinovich has been telling Beta News how he fixed a problem that has been plaguing Windows for the last 20 years. For ages malware writers have been...

JUST received my NEW laptop (Dell-studio) with Windows 7, and CANNOT open Windows Media Center, also getting explorer.exe error when trying to shut down computer. sounds, CDs aren't working (obviously, as I can't get wmp to respond to anything. I have to constantly hit cntrl+alt+delete to...

Why won't Windows 7 work on my HP Pavilion a6720y desktop PC? I have searched and searched for an answer to this question. Thus far I have not come up with anything. The computer, since I upgraded to Windows 7 from Vista, seems to have error after error that was not present before the upgrade...

Prior to the Windows updates of 12/15/09 I was local administrator, now I am a standard user with my previous profile wiped out. And my Shutdown and Restart items are greyed out. Any ideas out there?

I recently made a post about the sleep issue, but to rephrase, I was having trouble with my Acer Aspire 4810T sleeping when I closed the lid, but I managed to fix it by changing the properties for my wifi card so that it would not wake up the computer. The other day I downloaded a driver update...

Well, I have stepped in it this time and boy could I use some help. Setup an XP/7 dual boot on two partitions on same drive. All good. Removed XP boot entry with easybcd. All good. Set 7 partition to Active. All good. Booting to 7 worked fine with the old XP partition still on the disk...