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I'm new to the forum and am not an IT guru.... just a senior that needs to have a working PC for my consulting work and hobbies. I built this PC back in 2014 with quality components that hopefully would last for many years. It has an SSD drive for windows 10 Home OS and program files along with...

So i just got a Windows update last night when i shut my computer off. Im not sure if i set it up to automatically update when i installed windows as i ran into quite a few problems when installing and kind of rushed through things when i finally got it to work. However i wanted to check the...

I am working on a computer that has com surrogate multiplying and eating up huge amounts of ram, but only when there are desktop icons. I remove all desktop icons (move everything to a different folder) and have no problem. I don't have the problem with a Diagnostic boot but do with no startup...

This happened to me once before on my old computer and i don't know what I did to cause it then and still don't today. I have a new laptop and once again, things are in wrong places. ex: in the picture files are my downloaded files. In my download file there are only 5 items. If I try to put...

adding to slow runnig proble sometimes the boot stalls when the balck screen with the word windows as stated I have done the norma no virus , reg cleaned hard drive checked and defrag no hardware problem shows all driver updated running 64 with 6 ram no picturs on the main screen no...

I have a Sony with win 7 64-bit and 4 gigs of ram. About a month ago I started to notice my computer running slower. When I checked windows task manager (performance) it was using 3.5 gigs of my memory. I restarted the computer and it went down to 1.5. I have on occasion had to restart twice to...

Hello, I will try to be as detailed about my problem as possible. While browsing using Chrome I received frequent recurring unresponsive warnings, followed by screen corruption/artifacting, followed by my first BSod (In 7). Attached to this post is a screenshot of the DMB File as detected by...

This suddenly began occurring about a week ago. The system runs fine, however if it is left for a fairly short period of time (15-20 mins) The program am I using will freeze and the cursor will change to loading. The task bar will then freeze if I try and click 'start', and I have to hold down...

Hi, I hope i can get some help with this! I inserted an SD card from my camera into my wife's hp Netbook (WIn 7 Starter). I've used the SD card in that netbook before without trouble. This time, when browsing for my photos, I first open the DCIM folder, and see this: Link Removed I've...

I have an E6550 Intel 2.33 Gig dual core (Windows &7) - 4 Gigs of 6400 RAM - 1 TB Sata 3 (6 Gb) Hard drive The other is a AMD 955 3.2 Gig Quad core (Windows 7) - 60 GB SSD Hard drive and 2 USB3 Hard Drives - 1333 Gigs of RAM The AMD does a virus check at 3 times the speed using the same...

Happy Easter Tech folks! Been having strange connectivity issues as of late, they started about a month ago, and its only now during Easter break that I'm taking the time to tackle them. The problem I'm experiencing is that during online game sessions, I would experience sudden disconnects...

I have two Win 7 x64 machines. They are on the same homegroup and are physically plugged into the same switch. Each machine can see the other on the network, no problem. Machine 2 can See and access shared folders on Machine 1, no problem' Machine 1 can see the Machine 2, but whenever it...

So, I recently began receiving this problem which disallows me (although I'm admin, and the only user account on the computer) from creating, moving, or accessing anything within the hard drive. I am also unable to download anything. I'm still able to access stuff outside of the hard drive, but...

Hello All I use Windows 7 Pro on my Sony VAIO Laptop and I have noticed in the last few weeks that it has became slower and slower so I did the defrag, virus check, disk clean up, windows tweaks and tips un-checked most of the start-up programs and it did make the computer faster except for the...

Hey, just got myself a new laptop and windows explorer is constantly crashing/restarting when I browse or use the explorer in any way. Examples are when I browse around, click save as (which crashes also the program, a big issue for me) or even when I installed the windows SDK just now it...

Can anyone please help me. I have a Windows 7 Home Edition 64 bit operating system and I am experiencing unexpected shutdowns of the system. This tends to occur mainly when doing a virus check or doing a back up using some software called SyncBackSE. I have tried looking at the event log but...

Okay, been hunting around for some kind of solution to this problem. I've run virus checkers, checked my drivers. I don't know what the problem is. Starting to think it's something very fundamental though since it occurred even while in Safe Mode. Basically random applications freeze at...

It began when my company's network suddenly wouldn't recognize my user/password to access the folders on the server. My network admin tried to reset my password and even created a new user for me. Inexplicably a new problem arose. Clicking icons on the desktop or the start menu stopped working...

hello, first post here! well, my friends new laptop begun doing this crazy stuff about a week or so.. after it boots windows 7, the start menu pops up and can't click anything for a moment. after that, if you click anything on the start menu or even a folder or shortcut on the desktop, it...

I have been running Windows 7 x64 Ultimate for 9 months without any major problems. My set up is as follows: Motherboard: ASUS Striker Extreme, chipset NVIDIA 680i CPU: Intel Core2Duo E6600 RAM: 2x2GB Corsair Dominator DDR2 8500 & 2x1GB Kingston HyperX DDR2 6400, giving a total of 6...