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Hi there, As a first note (I want to stress this), this problem didn't happen "once", but this is the 8-10th time it happened. I own a pretty decent HP laptop, "elitebook 8530w" with (apart from the HDD, which is 250 GB) the most high end options. First my computer seemingly becomes...

Ok, I am having an issue with win 7. I have had everything working great for the past 5 months or so with the OS, but now all of a sudden, I am having problems with links and tabs. I click on them and they are just not active at all, on any software in the system. I click on bookmarks, or links...

I have changed nothing I got this BSOOD at o401 AM on 08-01-2010 I know it concerns thw hardware application Layer (HAL) but that is all I can figure out. I have added no new equipment nor software Any and all help is appreciated

Hey everyone, You'll have to forgive me, I know a little about computers but not enough to solve a mess of my own problems (:o). I have a Lenovo laptop that I bought back in March, and though it is cheaply made, I have had little problems with it up until earlier this month. In early June...

I am trying to move the Win 7 from laptop to another how to activate it on the older and install it on the new one. I don't remember how the activation proceeded on the old one. Please advise it's urgent, I am prompted to activate win7 within 7 days.

..is working fine (manual install) but XP asking for activation even it is supposed to be pre-activated? ideas?

My computer is an Acer laptop and it came with windows 7 home prem. when I bought it in october 2009. I have recently been having troubles with it and decided to reformat it. I don't think my computer came with a reformating disk so I used someone else's disk, but the key code on the bottom of...

Ok well my PC recently got a virus attack, I tried virus scans but nothing would work. It wouldn't even let me do a system restore. So the only option I had was a reformat, now i'm new to Windows7 and assumed it was similar to Windows XP where I could just put my disc in and it would reformat...

Set-up isn't finishing as the install will crash BSOD 0x0116 with atikmag.sys causing the problem. (**Note, there is NO Minidump found after this crash - I"ve looked... and looked.. and looked... so I took a digital photo of the BSOD screen in the moments it flashed) I can't complete the...

Ok, so long story short my hard drive died. I had to get a brand new one, but I don't have any OS disc since they never included the disc with my PC. I 'got' windows 7 home premium 64 bit edition, went through the install, got to completing installation, then just as it finished it told me some...

Hi there I have had seven installed on my laptop for quite a while now, and haven't had any problems until now. Recently it was abruptly shutdown by an accident, and now it wont do anything. It boots perfectly normally, but as soon as I do anything, the cursor turns into that blue ring...

win 7 64bit freezes when click music library it seems to be searching for the files in the library but could never finish. Disk light keeps on flashing and the windows almost freezes, not responding or respond very late and slow. Could anyone help me? I appreciate it.

Hello, My windows updater is seems to be not working because whenever it tries to install updates on my computer is just goes to installing update 1 of 4 for about 8 hours and then i just turn it off. When i open windows updater it says i have 20 updates and 4 optional updates. I have recently...

32 bit W7, fresh, clean install and I have an intermittent issue where the mouse turns to a very pretty spinning blue circle and I can't click on anything. Any help would be greatly appreciated. No app's running at the time. TIA.

Hey all. I am curious to see if any one can help me with my problem. I have been having random BSODs that are unpredictable and that are quit often. The error message that I am having when i restart my computer is as follows; Problem signature: Problem Event Name: BlueScreen OS...

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Hi i Have Broken hard drive and need to reinstall windows 7 on a new hard drive will this be ok or will i have to get a new serial key anyone help me on this

I have four "upgrade stickers" for Windows 7 that I received when I bought Vista 64 Ultimate earlier this year. Unfortunately I did not install the stickers to Window 7 stickers to the various computers (or put them on the case sides and used the same case so they are all mixed up now that I...

I,m very new to this and have just ordered a new PC with Windows 7 to arrive in about 10 days. I have a good 18" LG1810B monitor and although I have tried to research the question - cannot find the answer. Is it possible to retain the old monitor and have the new Samsung SM-2443BW 24" as the...

Somehow my brother managed to set shortcuts (all .lnk files) to open with notepad, thus losing their function as shortcut buttons, just opening notepads. I would greatly appreciate if someone could help me out on this . Thanks in advance, Claustrophobia