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Microsoft’s recent patch efforts have finally addressed a critical Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) bug that had been plaguing Windows 11 version 24H2 and the new Windows Server 2025 builds since early 2025. This flaw, introduced by a February update (KB5051987), caused remote desktop sessions to...

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Well, the Toshiba Satellite laptop that I have had for six or seven years could not be booted up, and so I thought the hard drive had finally failed. I considered replacing the hard drive with an even larger one but was advised, due to the age of the laptop, simply to get a newer laptop. I...

I need help. My windows update says it has never run an update check. I ran the troubleshooter, but still when I try to run it I just get nothing. I have searched for a fix for this, but I need help from pro's. What do I do? I'm on a Gateway laptop, and have Windows 8.

I keep getting this box pop up when ever i try to open up word 2007 and when i try to download some programs from the net. Can you help me fix it? I've tried system restore but it didn't work. Link Removed

So, one day, I was fiddling with my computer, and I pressed 'Open With' on A torrent application called Bitlord. Then I stupidly pressed open with Google Chrome as it's default way to open. But that didn't effect Bitlord only. It affected all programs such as Microsoft Word, Excel, Paint...

the windows vista solitaire program keeps asking me if I want to continue my saved game. I have no saved games but cannot stop the dialog box each time I start the program. Can this be fixed? If not where can I downoad a new version to replace the one on my computer?

Fixes an issue in which you cannot print from Internet Explorer 9 by using a Canon printer on a Windows-based computer. The XPS Print API is involved in this issue. More...

I first discovered how to get my old ATI Remote Wonder (RF remote control) to work with 64bit Windows 7 back when I was still Beta testing Win7 in 2009. Works great, and I'm thrilled I didn't have to throw away something so useful. It does have one minor problem though that I only just figured...

What to do if speech recogntion just won't work QUESTION Speech recognition will no longer load on my Windows 7 PC. Unless I first switch off User Account Control, I get the error message: ‘C:\Windows\Speech\Common\sapisvr.exe. A referral was returned from the server’. According to my online...

My computer was stuck at the logging off (while shutting down) screen a few days ago, so I had to do a forced power off (pressed power button for 4sec). When I tried to turn the computer back on, it would now stuck on the Windows 7 loading screen, without HDD activity. After several tries...

Hi I posted here in the past about not being able to get my Epson Scanner to work in Windows 7 64 bit. I tried everything I could think of the several days, no luck. I did finally get it to work in a way using 3rd party software but not from Photoshop with all the options I was used to. But...

So one day I decided to open up paint to paste a screenshot I took and got an error about ODBC32.dll not working. I just ignored it. Then today I realize that important things like msconfig, and Computer Management also use this dll file, so stupidly I tried replacing it with a copy from another...

IDG News Service - Microsoft's latest round of security patches appears to be causing some PCs to seize up and display a black screen, rendering the computer useless. The problem affects Microsoft products including Windows 7, Vista and XP operating systems, said Mel Morris , the CEO and CTO for...

Hello friends , I am a student of Computer Engineering and am having C/C++ graphics subject in my curriculum this year . I have WIndows 7 Ultimate on my system . But it doesn't run the graphics in Turbo C. What do I do ? I don't want to switch back to XP ( though I'm using Microsoft Virtual PC...

Hi all Pinnacle PCTV 320CX pci express card analog / digital TV card works absolutely 100% fine on W7. I'm glad this works as it saves using a USB slot on the laptop. The composite Video (you can feed it Audio / Video from Sat receiver etc) also works fine. I wasn't sure about Laptop Pci...

Introduction I've been struggling with the COM Surrogate dllhost.exe error messages for a while now. These errors always appeared in a window that had thumbnails (NOT video thumbnails, just the thumbnail view, with icons, e.g., Control Panel). Investigation and Findings I think I have it all...