software issues

Hi, I did get a BSOD on my brand new laptop, whys that? Can someone please help me thanks in advance. Setup Lenovo Thinkpad T470s Samsung EVO 960 256GB NVMe drive 20GB DDR4 2133MHz Windows 10 Pro When did it happen? Can it bee reproduced? I did run Intel Burn test when the BSOD did happen on...

We have Windows 7 and use Windows Live Mail for E Mail. Today for no apparent reason our contacts are messed up. My wife had a lot of them separated into different groups. One group that had 43 contacts may have only 8. All the groups have less than they bare supposed to. What could have happened?

Hello all, this is my first post and my first time using Windows 7. My fiancee and I just bought a Toshiba Satellite L455D-S5976 laptop and it came with the new OS. I've been having a few compatibility issues with certain programs that I use on a daily basis, some that will not install and...

I'm having the following problems. 1) Getting the Dell Dock error after booting up. Says "The Dell Dock's language file, which is necessary for its operation, has failed to load. Please check your Dell Dock installation" 2) Windows Troubleshooter doesn't run. Says "A problem is preventing the...

I can't seem to find a Power Point Viewer for Windows 10. Any advice will be appreciated. Regards, Jim Edit: When I open a PPS file, I get a message, "This app can't run on your PC. To find a version for your PC, check with the software publisher." But, if I open the PPS Viewer in the Start...

When I start occasionally .NET programs the close immediately after start. Just a simple error box appears informing me that "xxxxxxprogram has stopped working". I installed .NET 2.0 3.0 3.5 and 4.6.2 here on 64bit Win 7. Not all .NET programs are affected. As an example one of the...

I have a computer with Windows 7 and use Windows Live Mail for E Mail. Now every time I open WLM I get an error message saying There was an error when attempting to connect to the Windows Live Mail Calendar Service. How can I get the error message to stop?

I've done my research, with absolutely no results. I've gone page to page, searching for answers, and I've come across nothing. Every solution is already applied to me, but the problem still persists. I seem to have lost association to all .iso's. Every one I have (20+) and any that I download...

Hi This isn't really a request for help, more curiosity. This morning I deleted a folder that I though was out of date and I emptied the recycle bin. Only after that did I realize that there was another folder in it that I did need. I've never used Recuva but I downloaded it and tried to see...

After installing another piece of software, I accidentally installed a bunch of adware as well. I was able to remove almost everything permanently except for the Funnysearching browser hijacker. My anti-malware programs (Kaspersky Virus Removal Tool, Malwarebytes, and Avast!) say that they...

My PC was extremely sluggish and it was so slow it was a long struggle to open one file or run a program. I ran anti virus tests etc and eventually reinstalled Windows. It is better but still freezes on opening a folder and whereas as before this happened boot time was 30 seconds or less now...

Hi all I get IOMap64 BSOD when booting very often. I'm not too sure if these are related to hardware [i.e. overclocking] or a software [like USB drivers or ASUS software]. I went ahead and removed the ASUS AI III software just now just in case - but I would much appreciate if someone had any...

Hi there, I just upgraded my Lenovo G50-45 to Windows 10 Home from Windows 8.1 (64-bit). I previously did a clean install of 8.1 and manually installed the drivers from the Lenovo site, now finding that I lost many of the drivers after upgrading to Windows 10 (and they don't show up as yellow...

I came into work today with 724 new emails. Everything from my inbox and trash was duplicated again. Is there a way to prevent this? I use Windows 7 with Windows Live Mail 2011.

Upgraded from Windows 7 to 10 at Microsoft suggestion. Everything fine for a while. Then lost 'start' button - lost programmes list and had to right click to turn off. Somehow the button started working again (Microsoft update?). Again everything fine for a while. 1. Have now lost 'start'...

I'm trying to make an image of my HDD in my Toshiba L55 laptop. I have a 1TB external drive connected. When the dialogue box asks what type of media I'm using, I select the proper answer (external hard drive). After doing that, the button I'm supposed to select in order to start the process is...

IE 11 will not open. I’m on Windows 10 and have been trouble free since upgrading from Windows 7 some months ago. I had been using IE 11 without any problems and then had about an hour and a half break. I returned to the PC to find that the programme (IE11)would not open at all. First, I...

I had a computer built for one of my clients and it has been crashing ever since it was put in. It is running a fire alarm monitoring program called focalpoint but I have this same program running on almost one hundred computers that all have not had this problem. I have some dump files but I...

Hi all i am hoping someone can help me. i have installed Mercedes EWA/epc/wis workshop manual / parts cat on my Windows 10,but I am having trouble running it and I have just found out that I have activated it with the wrong MAC address it is using Ethernet MAC address when it should be activated...

Hello everyone, I've just installed a PDF reader software on my computer. The software is working properly, but everytime I close that software, there is a warning message that the program has stopped working. But, anyway, the software seems to work well. Could anyone tell me how to solve that...