tech help

Hi everyone, I'm new in this forum, so I'm hoping I'm posting in the right place and with the right piece of information, but I hope someone will be able to help me. I've had a notebook (asus N51V with a T9550 and 4 GB of RAM with Windows 7 Ultimate) for over three years and I've not had any...

Sorry I am a new member so if not everything thats here is required, could you please let me know. I purchased an ASUS G73JH from Best Buy a while ago (August 2010) therefore its no longer under warranty. I continue to receive blue screen of death. I have tried clean install which appeared to...

Hi All, This is my first post and I was unable to get the screenshots but I did managed to mini dump files for the affected machine. One of our user has been getting BSOD recently and it starts exactly after using Skype. To my surprise, they have been using Skype for many months without...

Hi, i`m new to this forum Maybe this isn`t the right section but i`m in a hurry. So i was trying to set up a server using microsoft sql server 2000(i have windows 7 ofc) but i can't seem to attach databases, I`m getting an error message: 2012-06-03 12:19:26.21 spid51 Database 'gamedb'...

Hello All, I've had my Link Removed for a few weeks now and have been getting persistent BSODs. I installed an additional 8gb of RAM before I used the computer for the first time (2x4gb) and after the first round of BSODs I ran memtest and realized that the 2gb stick which came with the laptop...

Hi. I am new here. I have a problem with a customer's pc with win seven. WHen finish to load windows the window OPENS WITH comes. If I select notepad i can see these things. Link Removed Some one can help me to fix this strange thing? Thanks.

Hello there here is some background of how all of this began.. I bought this pc a year ago in best buy until i decided to install a graphics card that fried my audio in my mother board took it to geek squad in best buy to see if they could fixed it. It wen out to service for 1-2 weeks came...

Hi, my system is: Dell XPS 420 Q6600 @ 2.4GHz 8GB RAM @ 667MHz Bios A07 Windows 7 home premium 64 (SP 1) 2 x 256GB hitatchi drives in RAID 0 this system was purchased in 2009 and has not been upgraded with new hardware (apart from RAM immediately after purchase). I have recently experienced...

I have just taken delivery of a new laptop running Windows Home Premium 64 bit O/S. I have an old program that is absolutely essential (my accounts) and I have previously installed this using the "troubleshoot compatibility" option. When I right-click and select this option on the new machine...

Hello, I just received two BSODs this afternoon, both times had different errors. First was Pool_header, the second was Pool_caller. I don't know much about computers, but I am capable of figuring out how to fix things. Here is my PC: Newegg.com - iBUYPOWER Gamer Extreme 560D3 Desktop PC Phenom...

I have been getting random BSoDs lately. Have had the computer for about a year now and they just started but are happening more frequently. I can't seem to find a connection between them. Sometimes it is while watching video w/ WMP, other times it is right on startup, sometimes PC is just...

Hey guys, My computer is infected with the double click cookie (virus). I have tried every software to try and remove it and I have followed instructions to go into my registry and try to fix it, but it is still double clicking when I click once. I hope someone here has a solution to this...

Hi Guys...asked a similar question back Link Removed with no outcome. 1 This time another brand new computer, Win7 Professional, 64Bit with SP 1, 1TB HDD with 2 partitions...one system and an OEM recovery partition. 2 Decide to shrink main system partition to create two equal sized partitions...

Hey all, new user here, but really hoping someone will have some ideas that I haven't tried yet. I have an Iogear bluetooth dongle that until a couple of weeks ago was working fine. I use it to connect to a bluetooth keyboard. I went on a trip and took the keyboard with me, where I paired it...

Hi All, Recently i brought one 5.1 Home theater and m trying it to connect with my Compaq laptop . Problem :- My problem is i am unable to get 5.1 output from my laptop. My laptop model is:- CQ40 425TU. I am using windows7 OS and my sound card is IDT - High Definition Audio . I have tried...

so last night my computer was in the middle of a download which i now is the cause of the issues i'm having, but i've completely gotten rid of it and done several scans and made sure there was no inflicting damage or viruses on my pc! so after all of that, my toshiba did a start up repair and...

For me this is an awful issue since I can't do anything at the moment. Since I have great experience from you fixing my problems: here I am again :P. After 5 minutes Windows decided to either show a popup like "Windows has occured a critical error and needs to restart in a minute blablabla...

This is driving me crazy. Whenever I try to remove 'read only' status from a file or folder, basically NOTHING HAPPENS. I click apply and it acts like it worked. But once I look at the properties for that same folder it's still READ ONLY. I need to edit metadata on multiple files for class...

Don't have administrator access. Want to defrag and install new prograI am using a laptop with following sepc: ThinkPad lenovo laptop, T410i Windows 7 Professional 64bit This laptop is companie's one and I am using at home. I don't have administrator access and neither I have the password...

[SOLVED] explorer.exe high CPU usage - tried everything I can think of Hi, My explorer.exe is constantly using 30-45% of my 4-core CPU. I have determined after MUCH testing that the cause is likely not a virus / malware / rootkit. I have also: tested booting into safe mode (explorer.exe is...