system files

So I am wiping my hard drive by booting with the Windows disk and going to command prompt. I successfully formatted drive C:, about 100 MB of system files and D:, about 500 GB or the bulk of my hard rive. These were the same hard drive, but separate partitions apparently. In Windows it just...

I had a dual boot on my computer which was XP and Windows 8 Beta. I put the Windows 8 upgrade on XP. Now I have two Windows 8 that I can boot into. My computer say that my C drive is my system, and Default drive. However my Windows 8 upgrade in my D drive because it has Windows old on it. Now...

I am having a problem with displaying media file tags in Windows Explorer and am trying to make sure that this DLL is present and registered as it should be. But I can't find out what the status is supposed to be for Win8. 64 bit. Should it be present, if so in what directory? What's the...

Can somebody please advise how to only copy data changes to a 2nd mirror drive (identical) is there any software free or buy that will do this job quickly as I have been doing it manually. I have 2 drive identical and I work on one for some time then I clone it to the 2nd drive but all I really...

I've found a file with the file name "^.~" (as in file name "^" and file extension "~") in my Win7 C: root directory. It's just my luck that searching for this in any search engine brings up no results, so I can't get an answer that way. From what I can tell, the file wasn't already there when...

Hello, I was hoping someone here could help me with a problem I encountered earlier this afternoon, since I couldn't seem to find this particular issue anywhere after about an hour of Googling.After rebooting my computer, I found myself unable to get past the login screen. Windows boots...

Hello, I'm having this weird problem. Randomly my login screen looks like this. imgur.com/0X5AH There's no way to get past that point. It doesn't seem to be loading anything, just sitting there. I have tried Safe Mode, Startup Repair, sfc /scannow, and nothing seems to work. I suspect...

HI When i try to repair my system file inserting my win 7 DVD i get a a message as windows resource protection could not start the repair service windows 7 I tried fixing it through msc.services setting "windows Modules Installer" setting it to manual [Link Removed due to 404 Error but it was...

I keep getting BlueScreen errors and the pc is restarting after I switched motherboards from a gigabyte p55-usb3 to a biostar t5xe cfx-sli. I kept all the same components except I added another gtx 470. Thermal paste was freshly applied all around, all the idle and load temps seem normal...

I have a HP touchsmart 600-1370a 64 bit with Win 7 premium installed. I used to run Photoshop CS3 and Photoshop CS6 no problems (both 32bit and 64 bits were installed upon initial installation). Recently my graphic driver was replaced by a HP authorised repairer and as they had problems with the...

Hello, I have some basics of programming but I don’t really know anything about Windows 7 scripting, so here’s my question: How can I make it so that a specific file (FNTCACHE.DAT if you’re interested but I doubt it’s important) is deleted everytime I shut down Windows? I guess it would have...

I built this system early 2011, Ive been using it for well over a year with 0 issues, I stay up to date on all my drivers, graphics, BIOS, and others... I was watching a movie on NetFlix through Firefox last night then my screen started to artifact and boom, BSOD! My temperatures are all low and...

how can i chage dredded boot logo? this blue winodws logo looks horible im ready to switch it alredy i wana know where its located in the system anybody know/? in winodws7 its simple as C:\Windows\System32\oobe\background.bmp BUT thers no bmp file in thare but i think its in an mui or dll...

I just rebooted my desktop running Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 (x64) and received the following error message: RunDLL There was a problem starting C:\Users\xxxxxxxx\AppData\Roaming\ansdp.dll Access is denied. I've never heard of this dll before and a search of Google returned nothing. Searching...

Ok, hopefully this will make sense to you guys, so here it goes. My husband and I just got a new desktop, I originally planned on sharing a user account but since we're both in school I figured it would be helpful to have our own user accounts just to keep our files more separated and...

Hi, everyone. I had Windows Vista and I upgraded using the 'clean install' to Windows 7. I had been experiencing BSODs (blue screen of death) and I thought a re-install, or an upgrade would solve those issues. However, I continue getting those BSODs now with Windows 7 as well. I can't quite...

no, bootmgr is not missing, but 'missing' in a another way. here is a screenshot of my root C: with the proper folder options to see bootmgr. Link Removed - Invalid URL I am confused because the bootmgr (compressed on vista+) is not visible. however with the exact some windows 7 pro it is...

I don't know how Speedbit got into my computer but it keeps hijacking both my homepage and default search engine. This is not a browser issue though, the filth is in my System folders (I run Win 7 Ultimate x64, but this is in the x86 segment). First, of course, I tried to uninstall it, but, of...

I realise that this question has been asked before but I don't see anything recently so am not quite sure whether to add to a thread start a new one. I decided to post a new one so forgive me if I have posted badly. I am running Windows 7 x 32b Recently, and all of a sudden, ALL of the folders...

In my Win 7 Windows folder I have a Prefetch folder and in it is a folder called: "ReadyBoot. What is it?"