startup issue

Hi, I've had Windows 8 since Halloween and its been fine until I had deleted my Windows.old folder. Everything seemed fine afterwards but it was when I noticed games weren't loading at all. I tried restarting but then it had to dianose and repair but that didn't seem to work nor did reset...

Hello I am using w7 ultimate with a GT 9600 Nvidia GPU, connected to a samsung 22" wide screen via a HDMI cable, when I boot up the OS loads the startup screen in the old Vista format instead of the new W7 screen. It appears that my issue is the initial low resolution output via the HDMI cable...

ok first of all good morning not a very good one since a main computer at work suddenly popped up with a bsod code is stop :0x0000007b seems like the windows start up is not fuctioning correctly, goes to an option screen to fix the start up, or start windows normally, either one brings me...

On a computer that is running Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2008 R2, you uninstall McAfee Agent 4.6.2 and restart the the computer. The computer crashes during the startup process. Additionally, you receive a Stop Error... Link Removed

Hi. Today I ran into a black screen problem on Windows 7; I did install the latest batch of updates (I had 13 ready to install before shutting down) last night and my computer ran well but suddenly it began running extremely slow, and being unable to shut it down in a timely manner as it had...

I have a problem that I have seen raised in forums over the last few years, but never with a solution. After running fine ever since I installed Win7 when it first became available, WMP now will not start. I have tried running the dll from the command box as an administrator. I have tried...

Hi All! My colleague and I are writing the start menu replacer for Win8. At the moment it's free, open-source and works under ХР, 7 and 8. What it can do, what it will do, how does it look like, download 7z archive, etc. - welcome to GoogleCode: Link Removed I appreciate if you...

Hey all, Occasionally when I start up my HP ProBook 4520s I get an error saying "Failed to connect to a windows service. Windows could not connect to the System Event Notification Service service. This problem prevents standard users from logging on to the system. As an administrative user...

My mom has a pc that is not starting up. It has windows vista and is freezing at the loading bar. I went into safe mode but the mouse wasn't working. Shut it down from there and it said shutting down so it wasn't frozen, it took a long time to load at (i think) CRCdrive.sys. I would like to run...

Hey, I was playing Skyrim, closed it and steam and only had firefox running, left computer for ~5 min, when came back, I had BSOD. I shut computer and restarted it, now it gives on start BSOD. It has done this couple times before, but then it usually starts to work instantly after BSOD or...

Hi, when I start Windows 7 on my Gigabyte Laptop (I1520M) I get a message just after the welcome screen that says: DCS Service can not start! The message is in a small window labelled: McaMaster. Can you tell me what is wrong? I have tried to find out what this DCS Service is but to no avail...

Hi, I have tried to install win 8 themes in my Win 7 home premium. Few DLL changes were suggested there. After making those instructed changes, it was required to restart the system. Before that it was instructed to disable UAC. I forgot to disable UAC and restarted my laptop. Now I am seeing...

Hello. This wierd problem accured to me today. Yesterday I was playing, surfin on my PC. Now when i tried to start windows it would not come pass the loading screen to my desktop. It will just restart the PC over and over again. I have tried to repair windows with my install CD but it cannot...

Hey Everyone, When i want to start windows i have to bring down my processor HT-Multiplier otherwise it will give a BSOD. At 2.2 or 2.4 ghz(standard running at 3.0 ghz) it's enough to run windows normally but after a random period of time it still crashes. I've run a ram test and they came out...

Hi I've just ran into a problem with my Sony Vaio laptop. It froze when i was using it, and i was forced to force it to shut down. Now i can't boot into Windows anymore. I've tried starting the recovery, but it just got stuck there too. Even The safe mode does not work. It hangs when it's...

Fixes an issue in which Microsoft Streets & Trips 2010 or Microsoft Streets & Trips 2011 stops responding at the startup screen during startup. This issue occurs if the processor on a computer that is running an x64-based version of Windows 7 SP1... Link Removed

As the title says, when I boot my machine, the LanmanServer service gets stuck during startup. While this is happening, the OS is basically dead, and any attempt to do anything that involves loading from the HDD will lock up until the service finally starts, which can take upwards of ten...

Okay I've had my Acer Aspire 5517 for 3 years and it just now failed me. Yesterday I was on YouTube listening to music from there and I left it up for about 15 minutes and when I came back it had stopped responding( the browser) and it had restarted itself. Then as it started to restart it had...

The story goes like this: My laptop lost power and died - but I had not shut it down properly for 2 or more weeks. This has happened before so I thought it would be OK. I restarted the computer, everything worked fine EXCEPT when I put it to sleep again it crashed/hung with the screen all...

Fixes an issue in Windows 7 and in Windows Server 2008 R2 in which the startup process stops at a black screen if the UEFI mode is enabled. More...