toshiba laptop

When my Toshiba laptop wakes from sleep it does reconnect to my home WiFi network, but it assigns to it the generic name 'network', which is not my real network name. It also creates a new network profile key in the Registry with the name 'Network', and creates an unmanaged signature key in the...

Hello Need help on installing an older(2004) application onto Windows 10. I had a Toshiba laptop running Windows 7 which was successfully running the app, and even when I upgraded for free to Windows 10 it was still running fine. I believe it was running in compatibility mode of Windows...

Firstly, I'm very sorry if this is not where to post this, but recently, I've bought GTA: San Andreas on my Windows Nokia Phone. Don't remember which model, but I will check and respond if anyone needs to know. Anyways, I am not very sure if this is how it even works, but I've gotten the idea...

Hi all, The heading says it all. I have a legitimate new Win8Pro Upgrade dvd with serial. Can I clean install Win8Pro with this from scratch, or do I have to upgrade over my existing Win7 Home Premium x64 Laptop? After reading some posts on the forum I see that a clean install of Win8 would be...

I have three children and they are all getting an android tablet for Christmas this year. We often take long road trips and I usually just charge up our laptop and bring DVD's along for them to watch. With that being said, the tablets they are getting can take a micro sd card. I know you can...

I'm using a Toshiba Laptop(L750-X5317) with windows 7 home premium. Last week while starting the laptop, it got stuck at "Starting Windows" screen. I then switched it off and restarted it again. It asked for "Start up repair" or "Start windows normally". I chose start windows normally. It...

Hello, I have a Toshiba Laptop c660 with windows 8 professional installed. I can`t make the jack for headphones to work. The jack is not broken because it works on Ubuntu. I installed the driver for my soundboard. Didn`t worked. I unistalled it and i let windows chose the best option for me...

While attempting to download an update for an existing program using Chrome, on a Win7 Toshiba i5 Sandy Bridge laptop, I received a "Virus Scan Failed" message and no update. I've tried: * downloading other files -- same "Virus Scan Failed" message & no files * using IE & Firefox -- same...

Newly registered for these forums. I have a ~4-year-old Toshiba laptop. I have suffered with Windows Vista ever since. I recently considered converting to Ubuntu, but in view of the amount of extra work that entailed, instead for $40 I upgraded to Windows 8 Pro. Over the last 10 years or so that...

Since I first purchased my Toshiba laptop (running windows 7 32 bit) I have been suffering from exceedingly long login times. My computer sits at the login screen for at least 30 seconds before changing to the welcome screen displayed after login, after that it takes an additional one minute...

Hello. really hoping somebody can help me out here as I have had to resort to using my wife's MAC BOOK to just type this!! I have a Toshiba Laptop: Windows 7 Home Premium 64-Bit AMD Turion II Ultra Dual-Core Processor M600 4GB DDR2 RAM, 500GB HDD Anyways, my CPU started freezing up 3 days ago...

I hope I'm in the correct section. I was refered to this site by another. Great community. To the problem. I was trying to set up a guest user account for others to use my laptop for school work and I tried to block areas of my computer by editing the permission or security. Without paying...

Hi, Folks...I'm very new to computers (as I will soon prove!) so please bear with me. I have a Toshiba laptop, using Windows 7 (64bit) with IE9. I use Gmail and have installed their Notifier. When I attempt to use a webpage link to send an email or document, I get the error message, "default...

I am using Windows 7, My desk top computers has three hard drives, the "C" with just the programmers and other system files, the other two hard drives (all SATA) are used with my main files (E & F) . Drives E & F are set as "Shared drives " I often update files between my Toshiba laptop (also...

Hi all, I have been reading up on the fourm looking for a answer to my problem to no avail and am seeking help before i do anymore damage. I have a toshiba laptop that runs windows 7 32bit home premium and it is not booting properly. When i turn it on t will show the microsoft logo and says...

I have a notebook that Toshiba L670-14F and it comes with preinstalled windows 7-64 bit my Video card is ATI Mobility Radeon 5650 HD. Here is my problem, I had my own 32 bit-windows 7 When I formated my 64 bit - windows and installed 32 bit one everything is pefect except video adapter I tryed...

I am on a Toshiba Satellite M500 Laptop, with Win7. And I have connected the HP PSC 1610 All-In-One Inkjet printer. All used to work fine. In particular the printer LCD properly displayed all instructions, menus, and printing progress. Then I recently installed HP Update Version...

I have a new (3 months) Toshiba laptop, with Windows 7 64 bit running on it. A couple of weeks after I got it, I had finished downloading a couple of torrents, I deleted the torrent files. However, I saw that the deleted files are still visible in Windows Explorer and I can't get rid of them...

This morning I became unable to switch the focus of my window. When I am in Mozilla, I can use the mouse as normal but I cannot use my taskbar, start button or another program (with the mouse) even if I alt-tab into it. If I close mozilla, then sometimes I can access my desktop with the mouse...

Hi everyone. I'm using a new Toshiba laptop with Windows 7, and I have a problem with the CD/DVD drive that I can't seem to find an answer to anywhere. Whenever I put a CD in the drive, W7 seems to think it's a VCD and begins trying to play it with Windows Media Player. This happens with every...