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Hi i'm paranoid i got a keylogger or malicious software in my computer for something i did, but the Antivirus did not detect anything wrong, also got recently Zemana antilogger just to be safe and seems everything is okay my question is: found two processes i don't know what they are or what...

Hi, Newbie here and it is not even my own PC. My kid has a Toshiba Mini Notebook (NB255) with Windows 7 Starter. Starting yesterday we can no longer open any programs on the Notebook. The system boots and the desktop loads but only a small number of system? programs load and then nothing...

WIN 7 (64 bit) Desktop. Recently I have had a poweroutage. This didn't cause any "major" problems. I had Firefox open (.exe) and another program (.exe) open. Both of these experienced issues. Firefox I wasn't too bothered about. The other .exe program I was. I solved the problem by using the...

Dear everyone, I hope someone could help me about this annoying little driver that keep reappering in System32\drivers and causing BSOD all the time. I have a Windows 7 Professional SP1 (German language, university licence... maybe those are important) and I regularly encounter BSODs because...

All Thank you for any assistance. I'm pretty familiar with Windows 7, computers in general. I have a weird issue with trying to associate file extensions to .torrent files and to .xls, .doc and other microsoft office file associations. I have recently installed Office 2007. Issue is that I...

Hello all, I have been trying for the last several days to re-install an HUP Office 2010 Pro Plus (DVD) on a new install of Win 7 x64. I switched from XP where Office 2010 worked fine. When I first tried it I repeatedly received the error code 1920 (osppsvc). So, after searching numerous MS...

Today was the second day where I got the "Operating System Not Found" screen, so I figured I would come this site to get some help. Just for reference I'm not very computer savi but can definitely following instructions. I have a Sony Vaio VPCEA46FM, running x64 bit Windows 7. Little...

I made a thread on another forum about this, so I'm just copy and pasting what I wrote so I don't have to write another essay. Hi, So last night I went to reformat my laptop, halfway through I thought nah I don't wanna do this anymore so I clicked cancel. Now whenever I try to turn on my...

Last post I Made one of our members looked through my minidumps and told me that I had a problem with my graphics driver and realtek PCI card reader as well as a outdated Logitech driver. To my knowledge I've updated all of the above drivers and then today while on battery power I got another...

Ok i have this really anoying problem.It's like i don't have USB ports on my laptop.Each time i put flash or mouse usb (it tries to install that driver and then) a notification appears with message Usb not recognized.I've tried couple thing to do,I've even reinstalled all drivers,but...

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 started to post this in Networking, since my issues first became apparent when I was trying to do networky... stuff... but the more I've tried to resolve the issue the more problems I seem to uncover. Basically I am at my parents' house for the break. I have my computer, PC2, running Windows...

Hi ! Another 'lost' soul found his way to the forums. Pleased to meet you. So, Im doing a clean windows 7 install. Here are the facts: Disk is 2TB, partitioned into 3 (in this order): 1480GB, 300GB & 105GB. (Partitions also show in this order @ the point where you select what disk to install...

I have a Acer Aspire 5336 notebook, 1 year old, came with Windows 7 on it. It won't boot, it keeps trying to go to Startup Repair and it never gets anywhere. I tried booting from the Windows 7 DVD to make a repair but the same thing happens, it gets to a black screen with nothing but the mouse...

Hey guys. My mum has a netbook and has recently been having problems with her keyboard. She sent it back to the manufacturer and they sent it back, saying it was fixed, but alas, it is not! There only seems to be one problem with it - when the enter key is pressed, a backslash (\) appears...

Good afternoon Summary: How to I change the default save location of any saved file from C drive to D drive? How to delete current user and program folders on my C drive? Info: I am trying to tidy up my computer and need some assistance with default save locations. I have 2 drives, A 60gb...

I had to do a re-install today with Windows 7. After the re-install it set up a drive labeled "System K" and I also have a folder called "Windows old". Now I did have back up disc that I made in June that I used after the re-install. That gave me back about 97% of my important info for my apps...

I have a WD Ext Hardrive Drive. I backed up my files at the office (Windows 7 OP System) yesterday. I wanted to access a file at home (PC loaded with Windows XP), but when I plugged in the Ext HD , a message comes up "USB Device not recognised -one of the USB devices attached to this computer...

I got a HP laptop and 2 days ago i was extracting a file from winrar and all of a sudden my laptop shutsdown and since then i haven't been able to get into windows. it goes to a black screen with the mouse pointer and just keeps restarting to bsod which says IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL. Technical...

Hello All. I am posting this after a lot of search for the solution on the internet but all in vain. I am trying to run command prompt in windows 7 professional, but it is not appearing in front of me. 1. I tried to run it from Start --> Accessories --> Command Prompt 2. I tried to run by...