update problems

I have an HP laptop that came with Windows 8 installed. One of the automatic updates ran and changed pathways to my files. If I click on Libraries, my documents, music, and pics that were there before the upgrade are not there now. I have to click c:/users/myusername/ then whichever folder...

That's right: It keeps setting all these Microsoft programs to the "allowed" list. I don't use them, I don't need them, and I have half a mind to destroy their respective directories, because windows seems to want to hang on to them for some ungodly reason. Every time I update windows, a...

I have a problem with Windows 8. This morning when I went to check my ASUS Zenbook laptop, the PC wouldn't access the network, even tho I could see our home network was working. I did a hard reboot and returned several minutes later to find I had been logged in under a temp password and all the...

Hi was wondering if anyone could help me. I cant install any windows updates and am getting the following error "Windows Update error 800B010" The CheckSUR log is showing the following:- ================================= Checking System Update Readiness. Binary Version 6.1.7601.21645 Package...

Link Removed So I'm having a funky Windows7 problem - on certain screens (usually windows based screens like within the Control Panel, but not always just there) - I'm getting blank ASCII boxes in place of the usual text characters. It's really random and doesn't happen on every Windows related...

Hello, i have spent much time trying to solve this issue, but met with no success. If i try to play some games an error message comes up saying "you need to install one of the net framework v4" i try to install them and i get the error message OS Version = 6.1.7600, SP = 0.0, Platform 2 OS...

I'm on win7 Ultimate 64bit & i have developed a problem. I cant install the win7 visual C++ 2008 update SP1 as i get Error code:643 every time. This also prevents me from installing nero as that also tries to install a version of win7 visual C++ 2008 & gives an error at that stage & then closes...

Since about a week ago, whenever I turn on my laptop and login to Windows 7 I can't click anything for about 5-10 minutes (changes every time). A loading icon pops up while I can't click anything (reminds me of Mac spinning wheel of death). Sometimes the wallpaper will go white and a box comes...

Woke up this morning to find win Update had downloaded and installed several updates (obviously from Update Tuesday)...shock horror...my computer was back to bog standard...all files gone although all the installed programs were intact but any with settings like Firefox etc were as 'Just...

I really don't know what to say, I don't know what's happening to my computer lately. My computers been acting really slow for the past maybe 4 days. It's hard to open any of my files without waiting too long, and my internet browsers are incredibly slow. It's not normal. I thought it would be...

I'm sure that this forum is prolly tired of hearing about this crap but.. sigh..... 2 days of searching google, its various articles, forums, sites.. but none of them apply. Issue: Error Code 800B0100 when trying to install Windows Update KB2556532. I've got no idea what to do at this point...

I have a Dell Inspiron One 19. Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller. I was minding my own business, and rebooted after doing an update to AVG Antivirus, and when the PC came up, it said that the Realtek NIC driver did not install properly. I uninstalled my antivirus and firewall, and ran a...

Previously i used Auslogic Boostspeed to optimize my computer. Instead it backfired and deleted my System 32. After i reinstalled my Windows normally and got my programs fixed i can't update through Windows Update. Nor can i reinstall or unistall Microsoft Word 2010. It comes up with the error...

I just installed MS Office 2007 on an HP notebook running Win 7 Home Premium. Since sitting through all of the Windows updates to both OS and Office, I can no longer open folders or files with my mouse unless I right click and choose OPEN. I get an error message saying there is no program...

Hi. A couple of weeks ago I allowed Windows Update to load SP1 for W7 unintentionally of course as i know I should have backed up first. Cut to the chase it screwed my system and my laptop would not reboot indicating SP1 was still installing. I had W7 ultimate Installation/upgrade disk and...

i recently built my machine. it was working fine doing things in windows and out. i have an SSD now and liked how smoothly the computer would resume from the default sleep mode power settings that came with win7, so for the first time i've actually been using them on my desktop. however...

Windows users of AVG are now experancing problems with AVG Free. the latest Anti-Virus definition 426 request's users to restart the computer once done, and if you are lucky you would check if that did it's job, users will notice that All if not some of the Utilities including Anti-Virus...

I already reformatted my computer so don't ask me for logs and stuff but that was the only time something bad happened with my computer and I did not have a slightest idea how to solve the problem or what could cause it. Yesterday I got one Windows Update.. after install the computer said I...

I have an unusual problem here. While at some point having downloaded appropriate updates, installed (supposedly) and restarted, now windows update say "restart you computer to finish installing important updates". However, nothing gets installed and when I have restartet, the same message...

Yesterday, Windows 7 notified me that it has some new updates. I allowed it to install them and from that moment I have problems with Photoshop. When I opened it first time, after Win 7 installed the updates, it told me that my screen is defect and I have to calibrate it or something like this...