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Hi. when I run a *.* on my User folder I get a file on my desktop that wont delete. It does not show up in the actual desktop while in explorer. It shows up when I run a *.* or any text in the file name. When I try to delete the file I get a "Could not find this item." What does this mean? is...

hey all! I've been having some troubles with my PC and wondering if someone on here could help me out!? So lately my google chrome has been opening randomly, multiple times, and its really annoying! It will even do it when I am in games and it would minimize my game every time it did it. So I...

I am having an issue with Outlook 2010 crashes. I have a user that attempts to reply/forward a message and it immediately crashes and restarts. Windows 7 32-bit with Office 2010. I have disabled all of the add-ins, with no luck. Now, when I start outlook in safe mode this does not happen...

I have had this problem frequently and its really got me :livid: . I used the Whocrashed program and followed what it said to do and it happened again. This is what it says: Crash Dump Analysis -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Crash dump...

Hi, Tried to customize the Start menu, but the Right click is not possible (the selection box simply doesn'show up), either at the Jump or Start program list. Everywhere else is possible though. What is the solution? Thanks barsim

Hi This isn't necessarily related to Windows 8 but that's what I'm using. A couple of times a week or sometimes more I will get blank e-mail messages. They have a subject, and the senders name is there. They can be from friends or from a commercial source. Some times if it's a friend I'll...

Hi - I am trying to use the "Open With" option in order to open a photo in Photoshop Elements 11. However, I'm having trouble. Just the program will open but it won't automatically open the photo (I can open photos from within the program by going to File - Open just fine). In a...

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This problem starts in Windows Live Mail, but when that happens and I then go to do a Word Doc, I also encounter a similar problem in there. Normally Word is fin. Only have a problem in Word after it starts up in Live Mail. Often while composing a new message in Live Mail, it is suddenly...

Fixes an issue in which you receive a "STATUS_HEAP_CORRUPTION (0xC0000374)" error code when heap corruption occurs in the Svchost.exe process. This issue occurs on a computer that is running Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2. More...

Hey, guys. I really like Windows 8, but I have a problem with the app that controls messages. It's linked with Facebook, so whenever one of my friends is messaging me, I'm can answer from the app. Pretty smart, I think. However, I have a problem. I have to friends with same name and last...

I was recently changing a network printer but the PC seemed slow when adding a new printer. I removed the unused devices and restarted the computer. Now when I try to open devices and printers I just get the green bar at the top and nothing shows up. On a side note (I assume it is related) at...

I lost my windows opening maximized. Now it only opens minimaized and I have to enlarge it. What did I change to cause this? I read post from a few years back and still can get the window to open maximized. Thanks

So I have Windows 7 and I have google chrome pinned to my task bar at the top. Whenever I click on it, it starts up for a moment on the part that's pinned, then it opens up a new one at the bottom of my task bar. I've tried pinning the newly opened window to my task bar instead, but whenever I...

We upgraded Office Home and Student 2010 a month or so ago. It works fine on one account but Word freezes when trying to save a file on another account. The Excel works ok. I have to restart to get out of it. I opened another account to see if it would work, it did. Any suggestions on how...

i was installing matlab release 2009a on windows7 starter then an error occurs when the installation was at 22% that the whole screen disappers and the whole sreen becomes black.....then a blue screen apppears which had an error message that physical memory dump.....and the system then...

Hello everyone, I have recently had many crash dump files it appears in c:\windows\minidump. I am uploadin it here, for these who many wish to review it. However, i cannot specefiy what the cause of this problema may have been.:( Some one can help me, please? System Information (local)...

I am running Windows 7 Professional. All the shortcuts (on desktop, on start menu & on taskbar) are showing a spider solitaire image; when clicked upon spider solitaire starts up. However, when I click on properties for a shortcut the correct target address shows (i.e. not the address for...

SWMBO has windows 7 on her PC, and does a lot of work with graphics. To make finding them easier she went to a lot of trouble putting a representative image on the icon for each folder in Windows Explorer (File manager to the over 40's). Each time she has done this however Windows 7 replaces...

So I recently built my gaming pc. It has been working perfectly for a month. Just today, it's getting BSOD problem. I download whocrashed and it gave me these reports: windows version: Windows 7 Service Pack 1, 6.1, build: 7601 windows dir: C:\Windows CPU: GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM)...