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HI, i have been using Google chrome for months now and only recently it started having the notorious shockwave flash crashes. but the problem is that the whole application hangs as well as the rest of windows. any application i try to open does not and after a few seconds of doing so i get...

New copy shop opened up. Problem is the 'File Edit View Tools Help' toolbar is missing. Also right click does not give 'cut & paste' on menu. Shop owner seems to know less about Windows 7 than I do (I taught myself internet on public computers, using XP Pro, about two years ago). Anyway, without...

Hi I got a laptop with Windows 7 ultimate - upgraded from Windows XP. I use the laptop exclusively to stream video from: Link Removed - Invalid URL It used to play flawlesly under Windows XP but since I installed Windows 7 (with WMP 12), the WMP window shows for a couple of seconds "Opening...

My computer is english version of Windows 7. When I download chinese software, the chinese words came out as error code. I have changed the systems language to chinese but still can't solve the problem. Can you please help? Million thanks:star:

Is there a way to send a photo (Jpg) as an attachment using Windows Live Mail the same way as Outlook Express would do? When I try to send a photo as an attachment it is sent in an album using SkyDrive (What ever that is). I can sent word files OK, but not photos. Thanks for your help Charles...

My system has been having a lot of problems today and, after a good two hours of trouble shooting, I finally narrowed the issue down to the Search Service, which must have gotten damaged or corrupted somehow. Here's the problems. 1. When the search service is running, IE8 and Word 2010...

Hi, I have my computer configured to turn display off after 3 minutes. After that time, the display turns off and when I press the power button on my pc case, it just turns the display on, so I have to press it again to enter standby mode. Is there a way to make the power button enter standby...

Does anybody know what the message " ComponentOne XarrayDB Object has expired" means? I am running Windows 7 and since a month a popup with the above message appears every now and then, particularly when starting certain browsers. I usually remove the popup using the mouse and can then proceed...

Hello guys... Recently i bought a new computer setup. I bought the following and put it all together to upgrade my previous PC. CPU: AMD X4 640 3.0GHZ (DDR3) Mother Board: MSI 785GM-P45 (DDR3) RAM: Corsair Dominator 4GB (DDR3) GPU: EVGA Nvidia GT220 1GB HDD: Samsung F3 1TB 7200 RPM PSU: (I...

When upgrading an enterprise from XP to Windows 7, what are some lesser-known tech support features of Windows 7? I've read about the MDOP pack that includes the DaRT tools, DEM, Problem Steps Recorder and App-V/Med-V for application compatibility. Are there any other features we should look...

Alright I have stumped many and have been directed to come here an solve the problem. I have a lenovo t400 windows 7 32bit laptop that will not load pros.servicemagic.com at all. No errors just will load to 3/4 and that is all, just a whit screen and a load bar that says loading it never times...

I got no hits searching in this forum for the term "DMP" A certain program -- Roxio VideoWave12 -- is associated with several dumps located in . . . \Appdata\Local\CrashDumps. They have names, e.g., VideoWave12.exe.2300.dmp , and are from 18+ to 20+ million bytes in size. I Googled on "dmp"...

I have am partially blind so if this is posted somewhere, please direct me in the right direction. Acer Aspire 7220 laptop that came with Windows Vista. Someone update to have W7 Ultimate 32 bit about 2 months ago. I have updated all drivers, from what I can tell, and my computer shuts down...

Hi I installed Roxio Pro creator 2010 on my win 7 pro laptop But when i put empty dvds it the laptop fails to recognise it i could not find the softwares(drivers) for my laptop as it was preloaded with vista hp pavilion dv6735ee help sought:|

Running Windows 7, Explorer 8, and Norton 360 v4 When trying to rename or delete files or folders, I often get Folder in Use The action can't be completed because the folder or a file in it is open in another program. I check the task manager and sure enough something is running. I do an...

I have a PC running XP with a Western Digital My Book external drive connected to it. My laptop running Windows 7 (and my daughter's netbook running Vista) can no longer access the WD hard drive. The rest of my network works fine (all three computers have internet access and can access the...

i was watching photos from its default image viewer, with some music playing in windows media player, and then i tried to close the image viewer, it cant be closed and display "Not Responding" for image viewer and display "COM surrogate problem".Plus in the same moment i cant shutdown my...

I am trying to install XP Professional onto a friends laptop and I have caught a little snag. I installed it from the hard drive with a setup.exe. I went through the setup and it restarted a couple of times and I think I am done until after a restart I get a pop up saying...

Windows 7 64bit, homebuilders pack. So I was hit with malware that tried (maybe successfully) to install something malicious on my machine. So as this was happening I killed the internet and rebooted in safe mode. Now I'm sort of new to Windows 7 so maybe I screwed something up. But I wanted...

Yesterday my PC was running very slowly so I rebooted, only my PC has never fully rebooted since then. Every time that I attempt to use Win 7 it crashes after I reach the desktop. I can run in Safe mode with command prompt, and I have backed up all of my files this way on an external hdd. I...