startup issues

I have a Gateway laptop, running Windows 7 Professional, and it is a 64-bit system type. The laptop uses Pentium Duel Core CPU. The processors are T4200, and run at 2.00 GHz each. The RAM is 3.00, and the Hard Drive has 175 Gb free space. I also run Microsoft Security Essentials. The problem is...

I have been having issues with my PC freezing. I just started using Windows 7 after my PC crashed couple weeks ago. I was using Vista 64x but when it crashed I wiped and put Win7 64x on here. The PC freezes mainly when I play Starcraft 2. I can play the game for about five minutes or so...

Hi, I was wondering anybody can help me with this BSOD I have been having. I already reinstalled windows 7 in hope that this problem goes away. However, my efforts were futile. I have just purchased a new desktop and my friends helped me build it from scratch. At the initial days, the computer...

Apologies if this has been posted before - I have been a longtime Linux user (switching after running into many frustrating issues with Windows XP), but recently bought a decent PC with Windows 7 so I could get back into gaming. I've only had it for a little over a month and have already ran...

Hi there, When I try to start the computer I athm asked if I want to do a full repair. When I choose this Windows blocks in the start up screen. I did not receive a CD with that computer. Can somebody give some advise? Thanks, T.

So I've been bugging around the net all day long for a solution and trying to figured it out my self, but I couldn't. I've reinstalled My Windwos 7 Ultimate x32 and went on a fresh copy of Windows 7 ultimate x64... and that's when it stared. After that I've tried Windows 7 Pro x32,x64 and again...

Windows 7 help, winupd.ddl ? Every time I turn on my computer it comes up that windows cannot open the file winupd.ddl and that I should either use web to find a correct program to open or select a program thats on my computer already. I thik its something to do with windows update?

Just put together a brand new computer, Windows installed fine (running x64 bit Ultimate), everything loaded up fine the first time. Then I installed the driver and utility for my network card, and everything seemed fine til I got an internet connection, at which point it froze, and the only...

Hi Guys, I have a Dell Laptop and left it open at a party. Afterward I noticed that it I cannot start windows anymore. Somehow someone enabled Microsoft bitLocker on my computer. When I start the computer the following message shows up: " Dell MeiaDirect Express cannot access your hard drive...

As a new member, let me say, I have searched the forum for a solution to my problem, and discovered many great ideas, but none have fixed my problem. I'm running Win 7 Home Premium on a home built desktop with an Asus A8N32-SLI Deluxe MB, and an AMD processor. It only has a single 160g HD...

Hi I have a little problem since 1 month. My Win7 is very very slow to boot, about 5 really minuts.. i don't know why because I use a ghost from november 2009 and the problem is still here. If i push F8 to see the options, and choose for example "enable boot logging" it starts normally and...

I am getting blue screens shortly after startup and sleep mode wakeup, It has been doing it since day one. I have replaced EVERY thing on the computer except the cpu and the motherboard and still the same problem. It is a new custom build, the specs are: I7 920 cpu ASUS P6T SE mb KINGSTON DDR3...

Hi there I have had seven installed on my laptop for quite a while now, and haven't had any problems until now. Recently it was abruptly shutdown by an accident, and now it wont do anything. It boots perfectly normally, but as soon as I do anything, the cursor turns into that blue ring...

Hello, Please help! I recently upgraded my HP Pavilion dv9408nr notebook from Vista to Win 7. I did not backup or save any Vista drivers (I know) but the system seems to run fine until it's time to start or restart. The lights turn on and off repeatedly until I've had enough and power it off...

Hello, Lately, I've been getting error messages every time I start my Windows. These error messages are related to the Windows Media Player. I know this because if I right click on the icon of the message on the taskbar, it says WMP something. And also the icon looks exactly like the Burn icon...

Lost power last night... so windows was not shut down properly. Upon startup, I lost some services - wireless, print services, some programs not running, etc... I went online to search for solutions. At some point I reached a 'windows validation' failure screen (in retrospect, some...

Hey there, I have looked everywhere online to find a solution for this problem but nothing seems to be working. After logging in successfully most programs startup but I cant seem to run any applications for about half an hour. The system seems to respond slow until half an hour later. One...

Hi, I got windows 7 installed last year along with a new computer in december. Before I took the computer home, the guy assembling my computer offered to install OpenOffice.org 3.1 (en-us) so that i had a word process until i got word2007. When I started up the computer at home, the problems...

Can someone please take a peek at my bootlog below and let me know if there is anything that may be causing the boot time to be VERY SLOW. It's so slow that you need to measure how long it takes on a geological timeline (you know the one that has a caveman on one end and an astronaut on the...

After every reboot I loose all my restore points because "the shadow copy memory was not expanded on time" (translated from german). I have Win7 Home Premium and set the available disk space for shadow copies to 100% (1TB). it also slows down the startup by more than two minutes. here's the...