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Was having minor issues with my laptop - Sony Vaio, just a little over a year old, no histry of problems...the screen would flicker sometimes when left idle for a few minutes. Then on startup screen would be completely black... This started a little over a week ago. Also a week ago started...

Last month, Microsoft announced that Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) will be free to use for organizations with up to ten (10) PCs, with the change being effect early in October. As announced in the Windows Security Blog, the change is effective today, October 7, 2010. Most small...

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7600] Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. C:\Users\USER>autochk The C:\Windows\system32\autochk.exe application cannot be run in Win32 mode. C:\Users\USER>chkdsk The type of the file system is NTFS. WARNING! F parameter...

Hi, apologies if this issue has been raised before, I have searched, honest! So, last night, I stupidly (:confused:) deleted the driver for ULI Electronics ethernet controller and cannot now access the internet. Luckily, and unfortunately for me, I have my work laptop and am able to get on the...

Hi Guys. I hope this is in the right Forum. Briefly. I tried to reformat my dads hard drive to reinstall windows 7. It was in 2 partitions, so i ran the windows 7 disc and it ran through the motions, i formatted the c to re-install windows and it wouldn't let me. I went into dos under...

Hey Guys )) A friend of mine is looking for a driver for his newly installed Win7 system (x32) The drivers we have work in XP SP3, but dont seem to want to work in Win7. The board is an MSI Neo2 875P LSR-FIS2R the drivers needed are for a "ADI SoundMax Drivers for ICH5" I was hoping one...

I have Windows 7 Ultimate 32 bit. I am interested in upgrading my computer. Obviously before I upgrade I want to see a specific list of all the hardware installed in my computer so I know what I want to upgrade and what I want to keep. Where in windows 7 can I obtain that list or is this...

I am using windows 7 32 bit. Hp dv5 1050ei,core 2 duo, 3gb ram 2ghz. it was before vista on my laptopand i clean installed windows 7 and from last 2 months it was working fine but tonight when i was starting my laptop it doesnt started and it was black screen completely. i tried many times but...

i have a problems need to seek expert advise. i have a windows 7 ultimate version install on my pc. and i have already installed traditional Chinese and simplify chinese language pack on my windows 7. i am trying to install two simplify chinese program, the 1st one is the very common IM...

Here's a couple of tools that will save you many hours on a clean install of Win 7: SIW - Run this little program to save an HTML page full of info about your current Windows install; most importantly, it shows you all the software installed on your PC. Get it here Unknown Device...

Hey guys, I was wondering if anyone could point out something I am doing wrong, I would appreciate any help what so ever. I just made a new desktop here are the specs: E8400 stock Gigabyte GA-EP43-UD3L 775 P43 EVGA Nvidia 9800 GT 4 GB Corsair ddr2 ram used WD Raptor 150 GB 64 bit iso directly...

I just built a Core i7 computer and installed Windows 7 RC x64 on it, and I keep getting a blue screen of death while using media center. It doesn't happen every time and it doesn't always happen at the same point, but a lot of times it happens when I'm in the "Edit Channels" page in the...

After installing Windows 7 cannot boot anything else - This one's different Hi, I have installed Windows 7 RC Build 7100. The Problem --------------- Windows 7 is essentially working fine except that it has prevented me from booting up my XP partition. The worst thing, no Boot Loaders I...

i was trying the new AVG internet security 8 that suppose it support windows 7 and after installing it , i found it not user friendly at all cuz it was so hard to find how to unblock programs that was auto blocked , and cuz it blocked the windwos update , every time i try to uninstall it i get...

I have new HP desktop that came with Vista Premium preinstalled. I do not have a vista instalation disk because Hp does not give them out but insteaad allows you to reinstal from a partitioned space on C drive where HP have supposingly copied the Vista operating system disk files. How the hell...