technical issues

I had purchased Windows 8 and upgraded my PC with the latest OS. However, my motherboard burnt due to some issue and I had to replace my motherboard and processor. When I installed my copy of Windows 8 in my new motherboard, it says that my Product Key cannot be activated because it is...

I've had a lot of trouble with my samsung laptop.The HDD has been replaced but I now cannot do a refresh or reset.I get the message"Some files are missing.Your Windows installation or recovery media will provide these files".The laptop came with Windows 8 installed so I do not have the...

Hi There, I have noticed recently that when I am saving images (or anything else) using Firefox on windows 7 64bit version, that when I am clicking the down arrow on the scroll bar (whether clicking slowly or quickly) to navigate to the folder I want to save the file in, that it will start to...

Hello, I am requesting assistance with a an occasional hung computer and BSOD. I am unable to obtain "run as administrator" when right click on W7F Diagnostic Tool. W7F Diagnostic Tool error message: "Unhandled exception has occured in your application." Error message details are included in...

Hello everyone, Three or four days ago, I bought Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2013 3 PC use at WAL*MART for $46.95 for my HP Pavilion Laptop g7 Notebook PC. I tried installing the software, but in doing so, there's a message that says, "To install this application, it is necessary to reboot your...

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I am trying to install windows 7 64bit on my compaq presario a900 laptop. It originally had vista home basic running. I removed the hard drive, plugged it into another computer where I made the whole drive 'unallocated space'. I've then formatted it as NTFS. so, basically we are looking at a...

So i'm a pretty hardcore gamer , and i've had this laptop for a year now. I play alot of MMOs so i press the W alot , well lately ive been experiencing issues with it whereas it'll work intermittently . Somtimes it does nothing even after a few presses and other when it DOES work it duplicates...

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I use NovaBackup 12.5 for disaster recovery backup. Recently, before the process starts I get this error message: Error 0x11112 (VSS specific error). Sometimes the program freezes, can’t even be closed directly, only from the Task manager. On other occasions it continues: VSS technology tries...

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On Nov. 25 I decided I thought Windows 8 was interesting and pretty enough to give a try. I downloaded and ran Microsoft's upgrade advisor tool and, initially, there was a bios setting that needed to be changed. I changed that setting and the only issues that were warned against was that my...

I know windows 8 no longer supports gadgets. However, I like using them. They have an advantage of tiles, when it comes to weather, because you can place several on your desktop. So I installed 8gadgetpack on my laptop running Windows8Pro. It works beautifully and I have 4 weather gadgets on...

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After installing Windows 8 over Windows 7 on a Dell computer all worked well except for the Logitech wireless keyboard. When the shifted number keys were struck they printed an ASCII letter rather than their normal character. I substituted a USB keyboard with the same result. I have found no way...

About 20% of the time, my Win7 Home Premium 32-bit laptop system BSD crashes when I'm trying to put it into Sleep mode; the rest of the time Sleep mode works perfectly. It always crashes in exactly the same place: In TDI.SYS caused at location TDI.SYS+50E0. The Bug Check string is...

I go to delete a file and Microsoft says 'preparing to delete'. No preparation was needed, its a 10kb file. So its very simple, delete the file win7, ive already closed the program that was using it (and confirmed in task manager). If its another program, then tell me what it is. MS shenanigans...

We work at a University where we have starting seeing random Windows 7 machines wanting to do startup repair. While in most cases several reboots, safe mode or lkgc will fix them we are trying to find the cause. Has anyone else seen anything like this? There is no pattern in machines, all...

First off, I am using a Samsung NP305E5A-A07US Laptop with Win 7 Home Premium. I have been using EaseUS Todo Backup for awhile now, and I really like it, because it is so simple to make partition images, and then to restore them. This morning, however, I went to restore my last good image...

hey guys i need help well let me start by saying i have windows 7 64bit Home Edition running now. i bought windows 8 pro from microsoft site so i downloaded the file everything seem, fine but once it restarts the first time at the new windows 8 blue logo all it does is load and load and it seem...