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Hi Today I updated my Windows 8 install to Windows 8.1. For the most part it went smoothly but I'm having a weird problem with my text to speech files. But when I hit speak the voice is very distorted and the volume is low, it's the same for all the voices including the Microsoft ones. I...

Something happened and I could no longer watch videos on Netflix due to the above error (on a Windows 7, 64-bit machine). Googling, I discovered this is a Silverlight error. Tried uninstalling and reinstalling Silverlight, but that made no difference. Also tried deleting the file...

Hello everyone, I am experiencing a major stressful technical issue. All of a sudden, I am not able to watch youtube videos anymore on my laptop. I tried viewing youtube videos using Mozilla Firefox browser, but it immediately displays in the video, "Adobe Flash Plugin has crashed. Reload the...

When using 2 monitors, you can flick windows between the screens,etc. I have a 24" widescreen monitor. It is really too wide to do anything (except watch video) with an app maximized. My question is, are there an ways to make it act like 2 monitors? Or at least to help manage apps s o they...

Microsoft have released a raft of new fixes for Windows 8.1 including: http://winsupersite.com/windows-8/microsoft-delivers-fixes-windows-81-preview

Periodically, I try to play a video and a error message pops up saying "Server Execution Failed" with the folder listing of the video in question. I click on the video again and it plays immediately. Any ideas? I've looked around elsewhere and found different reasons and solutions.

Hi, I have been getting a odd problem on my son's pc. We got him a new GPU a HD-5770 & since then his screen goes blank but the signal light remains green & then we get a amd display driver stopped responding box after a while & then its back to normal. But lately its no longer been giving...

I have a couple of video files downloaded from YouTube, which have personal names appear after the video title on screen in VLC when the video begins to play ( I assume the names are those of the people who uploaded them). I have checked on both the General and Details tabs of the properties of...

Can Rocksmith run and work correctly on Surface Pro/RT Windows 8 Tablet? FYI: Rocksmith requires Steam to run. *Additional Questions* Which tablet is best for webcamming; like for Skype. Which tablet would have better video and audio playback quality? Which tablet would be best for Rocksmith...

Hi folks, I've been having these hard crashes for roughly 3 weeks now and i'm not too sure what the cause of them are. It seems to usually be when my computer is playing a video file or running a game or multi-tasking. When it happens it's very sudden, the whole computer completely freezes...

After upgrading to win 8, all of my videos were being played through x-box video app. I clicked one of my videos and changed the default to win media player and now this window appears when I try to open a video. Any reason this could be happening? Link Removed

Hi, my laptop wouldn't access the operating system yesterday when turning it on & only worked after opening it up & pushing the harddrive in. On starting it up it forced me to access some samsung recovery options so I did that. Now the desktop appears & the files appear on my desktop but no...

Hello! I'm new to this forum as I have experienced multiple BSODs over the past month, I would like to hear some advice from experienced people. So over the past month I haven't changed anything except for speakers, but I doubt that this is the cause. The BSODs appear mostly while playing...

Hello There, This is my first post however I have been having no luck with solving my BSOD crashes myself. I have been experiencing the issues for a number of months, however they seem to be becoming more regular. The crashes occur generally during video playback either from harddisk or from a...

My old computers motherboard literally got roasted due to a faulty fan that wasn't working and laziness on my part for not maintaining it. So I got a new computer aaaaand it doesn't work. Story of my freaking life. What happens is whenever I play a game around 30 seconds to a minute it will...

Hi, folks! Gird your grid for a very long OP describing a truly baffling puzzle. I apologize for the length, but I've spent a great deal of time and effort researching this issue and experimenting and testing various hypotheses, so I've provided a lot of details which I hope will allow you...

I just wanted to see if there were a way to view all video's without having to actually open the file. For example, once you click on a video file, to the right a window pops up automatically and you can play the video without having to open the file. Some clips allow me to preview the video's...

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Hey I am running dual monitors and I usually run VLC or chrome on the second monitor when I am playing games, but VLC and YouTube video starts jumping when I run games like BF3 and Far Cry 3. yet the audio is completely fine. it only happens when the game is active. i also changed VLCs video...