startup issues

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...

Hi, I don't remember when this started, but whenever I boot my laptop it asks for my permission to run update.exe just after the start-up. When i click on Yes to allow it, it shows the following error message: "Run-time error 339: Component 'MSWINSCK.OCX' or one of its dependencies not...

Okay, first off, I posted on the windows site about 5 hours ago and no one has helped me yet. I'm going to post exactly what I posted there and all the steps and actions I have taken and the consequences. Woke up this morning, turned on my computer and now for some reason, it won't load...

Hi About 3 weeks ago i did a clean install of windows 7 ultimate x64 over vista, and i have had several annoyances at times which never happened on vista. The first problem is a bit weird and i don't know what could cause it. Basically what happens is i would put my laptop to sleep and when i...

Hi, I recently did error checking and checked automatically fix file and system errors and scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors and hit start more than once and it scheduled and so next time i started up it ran it. And it fixed all my problems but i had start or whatever more than...

Bought a Compaq laptop and have been using it for about 6 weeks, it came with window 7 pre installed. All well bar every 10 or so startups it would not bootup but would stick with blank screen. I would take out battery and restart then ok. now the problem ocuurs everytime I shut it down and only...

Hi guys, hope you all are well.. I stupidly installed 2x Operating Systems onto one partition, namely Win7 (which was already installed) and Xp...! Initially I had installed Xp onto a USB drive, which was a complete FAIL, met with blue screen after blue screen... so i decided i wanted to go...

I hav installed Windows 7 and previously had XP... wenever mi pc starts up the first problems I face is I cant select which OS I want to log in as mi keyboard driver is not loaded (dont knw y???) second thing I m havin trouble is I cant find the way to change the booting sequence in Win.7 so...

Hi. I have a big problem: I have Windows 7 and XP, I've reinstalled Windows XP and it starts automatically, I cannot choose among XP and 7. How can I restore the Windows 7 boot?

well, today I woke up and turned on my PC to find out that no matter what I do my computer get to the "loading windows" state which right after it w7 should appear but instead it shows me a black screen for a couple of second and then goes right into blue screen of death. I tried any repair tool...

Hi guys, I have installed Windows 7 32 bit on my Dell XPS 1530 with 4 gb RAM. After installation the windows starts up correcl the first time. However when I then reboot I see the blue screen of death with the following error:. technical information stop: 0x0000007b...

Hi, I have been using Windows 7 with some pretty aggravating issues. I reformatted the OS and it was working fine for about a week until my computer at startup started going to blue screen, with a message stating "physical crash memory" dumping to disc and it tries to load to 100 and that's...

I successfully upgraded from XP and the only issue that I have is that each time i start the computer, it asks which operating system I want to use. My hard disk is partitioned for backup. Any ideas on how to automatically load windows 7? Thasnks

I am getting this message each time I start the computer 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, you can review the...

Hello there. I need help . every time i restart my computer or postpond it, it pop ups again. I think that it happend when I tried to install .net framework. cuz every time i would restart my pc i would get notice that i need to install it [ by some program . and it vanished when i removed a...

I was running Vista Home I believe, and I just recently upgraded to the Windows 7 Home Premium (Student Version) via download. The download went smoothly (I left on overnight), but I have a few questions. It seems through the upgrade some of Vista came along with it, most visibly the Dell Dock...