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  1. Windows 10 need this minidump checked

    Just had my 1st bsod in over 2 years. Happened after I restarted Windows 10 Pro x64 after getting a update from the store for the Xbox app. Only other new software on pc is Bitdefender Internet Security 2016. That's been on my pc since Friday after removing BIS 2015 before installing BIS 2016...
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    Windows 10 boot menu problem

    I have dual boot windows 10 and windows 7 setup. windows 10 is the main system. windows 7 is a hard drive taken from old broken laptop. I used bcdedit to set it boot up. windows 7 banner start up for 2 seconds then system would power off and restart. I wanted to see what was loaded on the...
  3. Windows 7 Boot wont work, recovery doesnt boot, reinstall doesnt boot, nothing boots.

    Ive got a really nasty problem with my laptop. I had a bluescreen but wasnt at the screen, so I only saw the last 5 seconds before the system restartet itself and couldnt identify the error code. Reboot did advance until the Windows logo and than stayed there. The logo was still animated, so the...
  4. Windows 8 Fast startup option stops keyboard from working after restart then shutdown

    Windows 8.1. Running standard HID complaint keyboard and driver. When OS is changed to "fast startup" mode and system is restarted (full services), followed by a shut down/ start ( faster - reduced services) the keyboard will not work. Device manager shows it is operating normally...
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    Windows 7 Device Manager Won't Open/ Run

    I was trying to access the Device Manager recently to uninstall all the unused drivers I've accumulated that have been causing me problems, I came to the conclusion that the Device Manager just won't open/run for me. There are no error messages, It just won't open. From everything I've read...
  6. Windows 8 Turn on direct play to use older games... windows 8, 8.1.1 and 10

    If you want to play older games on your new laptop it's a good idea to enable this. 1. Press [windows key]+[x] then press [p] to open the control panel. 2. find/ open "Programs and Features" then press the "Turn windows features on or off"... it's on the left hand side. 3. Put a tick in the...
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    Windows 8 windows 8.1 update problems

    Recent updates were attempted for Windows 8.1 unfortunately they looped and after over many hours (over 24) I had to turn the PC off. Then I ran the program to troubleshoot updates and it reported some errors which it further reported as fixed. I then ran the updates (important only) again and...
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    Windows 7 winpatrol does not start up

    On windows 7 home basic 64 bit I have installed winpatrol downloaded from www.winpatrol.com I've launched it directly from the installation and delayed 2 applications (bdagent.exe and bdwallet.exe) Then I've rebooted my windows.When I try to restart winpatrol it does not succeed:there does not...
  9. Windows 8 Dropbox doesn't launch on windows startup

    I'm not sure this is the right place for this but i'll give it a shot. I also posted this Link Removed3 months ago but i got no answers, and seems like other people are having the same issue. A while ago everything was fine, but suddenly Dropbox stopped launching when i restart the computer...
  10. Windows 7 Windows 7 Pro running problems

    My machine runs with an I5 processor with a 2GB Invidia Geforce Graphics card on Windows 7 Pro. I was running Autodesk Revit 2014 (a 3D architectural program), Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and 2 folders were open. The machine suddenly running much slower, I saved and closed all the programs and...
  11. Windows 8 How to fix Event Viewer ID 2002, 1017 & 3007?

    ID 2002 IIS-W3SVC-PerfCounters Setting up Web Service counters failed, please make sure your Web Service counters are registered correctly. ID 1017 Perflib Disabled performance counter data collection from the "ASP.NET_64_2.0.50727" service because the performance counter library for that...
  12. Windows 7 Videos won't play, games won't load. Has my graphics card gone bad?

    I've been having this problem for a while now, and I stopped using my Windows desktop and started using my Chromebook instead. I just got back into using my desktop again, and I restarted it factory fresh. After installing all possible Windows updates, installing the latest graphics drivers...
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    Windows 8 Boot Repair Disk Problem on Windows

    I downloaded and used the Boot Repair Disc on source forge.net It installed and I was told to remove the disc and close the tray before running a restart. I clicked OK it shutdown fine. But on restart it was just like after quite a few Windows Updates after restarting a dark grey/black blank...
  14. Windows 7 Black screen of death.. HELP

    HI, I am getting frequents black screen of deaths. Very few times, what I see is Black screen while working on After effects or browsing internet or watching movies, today I got 2 black screen while playing multilayer MW3 and even on Batman. What it does? The screen goes black and CPU is...
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    Windows 7 memory management bsod ongoing...

    Hi all, I have been battling a bsod since I moved my guts to a larger case and installed a EVGA GPU (which I have since uninstalled and believe I got all the drivers too. I have updated my bios and ran Driver Verifier for 48 hours w/o a bsod. I just disabled it, restarted and 1 hour later a...
  16. Windows 8 Restructuring Cache Metadata

    About every 4th or 5th time I Shutdown my Windows 8.1 PC a fairly large error message appears on the screen. The key words are "Restructuring Cache Metadata". Then instead of shutting down, the lock screen reappears and the PC starts up again. Doing another Shutdown at that point almost always...
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    Windows 8 Selective mouse response problem

    I have an odd intermittent problem where with a few programs, sometimes there are areas within the window which are unresponsive to right or left mouse clicks whether from the touchpad or bluetooth/wired mice. hovering over a particular spot brings up mouseovers etc, but clicking or scrolling...
  18. Windows 8 BF4 stuck as background process

    Hi, I have been able to play Battlefield 4 just as the majority of other people do(some crashes and such in he start but not much more than that) Though a about a moth ago now I started getting another much worse problem. So what happens is I play the game as usual, when I exit the game it...
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    Windows 8 Right click on a file or folder crash explorer.exe windows 8.1

    hi. using windows 8.1. every time i right click on a file or a folder explorer just crash an restart. i have googled around and found alot of people have this problem with autodesk inverter 2013, but i dont have it. its quite annoying. when i click on empty space, everything is fine. p.s. when i...
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    Windows 8 Temp account login problem in Windows 8

    I have a problem with Windows 8. This morning when I went to check my ASUS Zenbook laptop, the PC wouldn't access the network, even tho I could see our home network was working. I did a hard reboot and returned several minutes later to find I had been logged in under a temp password and all the...