utilities

For years I have been the "go-to" guy for fixing friends and family's computers, which usually were desktops (which i could rip open and replace the hardware in). lately a majority of the issues that i have had to address were laptop issues. while a lot of issues can be fixed with some sort of a...

I set up 2 folders on my desktop. one is for games and one is for utilities on my computer. They are shortcuts to programs on my machine. For some reason they keep changing size from a medium view to a large view. I tried doing several things including rebooting the system but nothing seems to...

Hi, im just curious if there are a good software which u guys recommend me to use for Auto-Update of Drivers. Thanks.

The Windows Club has quite a collection of freeware utilities: http://www.thewindowsclub.com/list-freeware-releases-from-the-windows-club This one, in particular, might be a good general purpose tool for solving a variety of problems...

i had 200 file arranged in a serial order i want to rename them by deleting the first 2 character of every file name how can i do it??

Specs: Motherboard: FOXCONN 2A92 Processor: AMD Phenom II X4 965 RAM: 6 GB OS: Windows 7 SP 1 When I started my computer this morning, I got an immediate BSOD after logging into my account. Trial and error eventually narrowed the cause down to establishing a network connection, which was done...

Hello, I have owned an alienware x51 gamin desktop for the past year and a half and I'm considering restoring it to factory default to enhance the performance and fix some issues. Over the years I have been actively installing many 3rd party utilities and apps that have changed system files and...

Hey guys, i'm having an MSI Laptop with Windows 8 pre-installed and i downgraded to windows 7 (so, i have had to delete the partitions, so.. no recovery partition is there anymore). Now what if i want to go back to windows 8? What i have to do exactly? Because i've read that the Win8 Key is...

Esteemed ladies and gentlemen, I have a 32-bit WinPE into which I have integrated MSDART tools and some 3rd party remote control software as well as some utilities provided by a vendor which supports our hard drive encryption solution. The long and short of it is that there are occasions in...

Hi, My XP Pro PC had it's power cord knocked out while running. After that it wouldn't reboot, so I pulled the HD and put it in another machine where I was able to pull off all my data, but running utilities it said the drive was bad. So I got a brand new HD, plugged it in and it still got a...

Does anyone use the win7 backup? I tried twice, once on a drive with about 750 GB free and once with about 850 GB. Both times I got errors claiming there was not enough room on the drive to make a backup. I've had numerous backups from 3rd party apps that show less than 3 GB. It looks to me...

I need to flash the BIOS on my Lenovo M52 ThinkCenter, so I downloaded what is listed as the current version from Lenovo. The problem is in confirming that I actually got the right one, because the version 2EKT46a listed, downloads as 2EJT46a instead, regardless of the format chosen. The...

Is there a good program that would search/DL/ and install missing DLL files Thank you, Frank

I recently uninstalled Easy photo print from Epson as I had planned to buy a HP but ended up getting a newer Epson Printer. Anyway, I ran the install CD software & when it comes to installing the Epson easy photo print, it comes up saying cannot install, newer version of the software already...

After getting a new PC, we have to install lots apps to make it work for us. My question is Where you download these software from? (Most time)

Hi, i have a Fujitsu mhv2060ah 60GB with a S.M.A.R.T problem and it says the imminent something doesn't work or something like that. The way im guessing this happened was that i plugged this hard drive into another laptop and then plugged it into the original laptop and just saying it i did...

Hello everyone, it's nice to find a forum where people are taking their personal time to help others. You have my appreciation and thanks. I have recently formatted a old PC. Everything seemed to have gone as planned... until I was bombarded by random BSODs. They seem to happen at random; load...

Hi, I have an HP Pavilion dv6 laptop and I recently formatted and installed Windows 7 Ultimate. However I could not successfully install my graphics drivers. First, I installed the driver on HP's website.But now Intel Driver Update Utility says there is a newer version. When I download that...

I bought a new Samsung notebook with a core i7 CPU and an (additional) AMD Radeon HD8870M graphic chip. I guess the AMD Radeon chip is only for those users who are not satisfied with the (speed) of the Intel-built-in graphic chip. What else are the advantages of using the AMD Radeon display...

Windows 7 64 Home Premium I have an HP Photosmart Premium C309g all in one printer/scanner/copier. I CAN NOT get it to reinstall after having some scanning issues. The Microsoft website says it is compatible, I have used it for about 4 years now, but I am thinking with only the basic driver...