system problems

Hello, In windows 10 bulid 10586.164 (stable version) I can't access the start-menu or I can't open the search bar. Could someone help me how to solve this problem?

Hi I know this has been raised in the past but my system just started getting the: "CRITICAL ERROR - Start menu has stopped working .........." I know a lot of previous posts on this go back to last year and further but this has just started on my Win 10 system this month (March 2016). I've...

On both of my Windows 8.1 systems, the MSN Weather app has decided it does not want to open correctly. The live tile works and the App appears to open, but the circling dots never stop. Possibly it is trying to get info from some source and is unable to do so. I have uninstalled and...

Recently whenever I try to uninstall/install anything on my computer it says "The windows installer service could not be accessed this can occur if the windows installer is not correctly installed". I looked up how to sole this and a few things said to run services.msc and start it there. When I...

Hello everyone, I've been trying to figure out a fix (along with looking around in the forums) for a few hours now, but I'm worried about my computer. I have a Lenovo with 8.1 installed and today I got a notification that my computer was going to restart and update, which it did without any...

I am using Windows 7 Home Premium on my Dell 5010 Laptop. When I try to start my laptop, "Windows is Loading Files" screen appears. After this, for about a second and a half, i see "Microsoft Corporation" written on black screen. Then the screen turns sky blue and "Startup repair" thing comes on...

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1) I posted an inquiry to this forum about 2 hours ago and note that my thread is the only one that nobody has responded to, so my first question as a new user is, "How long should I wait before exploring other options to try to solve a problem?" I expected that a forum moderator would have at...

Since release day I've been having some issues with windows 8. Nothing too bad, just a few small issues here and there. Too be expected this early in the products life. However, I seem to have narrowed my windows 8 issues tonight. My USB keyboard started typing random characters and acted...

Hi! I know one things to two but this has never happened again! I did a format on my computer and reinstalled windows 7.they worked well untill they restarted with a high resolution. Yeah exactly. Every time windows update downloads nvidia drivers(gtx460) windows STUCKS at welcome screen...

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Hello everyone! I just have a quick question regarding Windows 7 account names. Recently, I installed Windows 7 on my computer and put unicode characters in the account name. After this, all of my installs and updates were screwing up. I know this problem has to do with the unicode characters...

Hi, My sister has a Sony VAIO VPCF115FM laptop with a Seagate Momentus 5400.6 SATA 3Gb/s 500 GB ST9500325AS hard drive and Windows 7. I was going to replace the hard drive with a WD Scorpio Black WD5000BPKT. I put the WD drive in an external enclosure and connected it to the laptop through...

First off I'm running Widws 7 Home Premium as an upgrade from Windows Vista Home Premium. I was using our main PC at home this evening when for no reason whatsoever it just shut down and went to restart itself. When it tried to reboot Startup Repair started up instead. It goes through a...

Hi! Ever since a botched encryption which resulted in me having to format a drive (not the main c drive), everything I download gives this message when I try to open it - "ShellExecuteEx failed; code 2. The system cannot find the file specified." I've tried changing the download location to...

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I had a problem installing the new Microsoft update "KB2286198". I found that "ESET Smart Security" was blocking it from installing. I was able to install it by disabling "Realtime Filesystem Protection". I hope this doesn't become a habit with ESS. Otherwise I'll be looking for another security...

I have been using the evaluation version of win7 very successfully, however it started shutting down without warning this happened 4 times and now won't even start up

I am Having problems after doing a full clean install of windows 7 64 bit on my pc about two weeks ago I was pleased to see that everything seemed to be working well but over time the nagging faults have started to creep in it has started to restart itself just after the log in screen and also...

When the system boots all is fine with usual desktop and then screen freezes - Have tried going to earlier restore point but makes difference. - Have been using Windows7 for past 2 weeks and no problems - Any ideas you guys please