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  1. J

    Ease of access popup at each startup

    Hi, I'm having this problem that I cannot solve. After a week or so after installing windows 10 for the first time, clean format, latest version from Microsoft site, at every login this darn popup with ease of access keeps showing up and I have no way of getting rid of other then pressing...
  2. H

    Windows 10 How to Upgrade this computer to Windows 10?

    I have a VAIO core i5 laptop that died, seemingly of some sort of hard disk issues (or possibly a virus? ... However, McAfee didn't alert me to any virus problems). I tried lots of fixes (including using a bootable recovery USB that I had created in the past. For some reason, however, that...
  3. M

    Windows 8 URGENT: Strange log in

    i have windows 8, (haven't updated to 8.1/8.2) and one day, i turn my computer on, and it says failed to login, so i tried again, and logged in. Everything looked fine, then the screen turned black and text appeared saying: Hi, getting your PC ready, this will take only a few minutes. It then...
  4. Rafid Mahbub

    Windows 7 Drive F fills automatically

    The drive F of my sister's PC has been automatically filling up for some time and now out of the 76 gb only 6.5 mb remains. There is nothing in the drive except somethings called WindowsImageBackup and USER-PC. Why is this happening? Is it a virus problem?
  5. IHateWindowsEight

    Windows 8 Windows Update: HUGE SECURITY THREAT

    That's right: It keeps setting all these Microsoft programs to the "allowed" list. I don't use them, I don't need them, and I have half a mind to destroy their respective directories, because windows seems to want to hang on to them for some ungodly reason. Every time I update windows, a...
  6. O

    Windows 8 what is Flashing process?

    Greetings y'all. I just got a Windows 8 HP laptop and a strange thing happened. I was catching up on my shows on Hulu when a box popped up on my screen that said something like "Flashing Process. Keyboard and Trackpad will no [sic] respond. Process will be complete in 100 seconds." The show...
  7. D

    Windows Vista [BSOD] BC code: 16 GeForce 7300

    Hello, I'm experiencing a BSOD on a vista machine which seems to be pointing at a graphics card driver problem, BC code: 16 I'm trying to ascertain whether or not a new graphics card would fix the problem. I'm concerned that there is an additional cause in the system's software, possibly virus...
  8. S

    Windows 8 USB Keyboard(I think) Causing issues

    Since release day I've been having some issues with windows 8. Nothing too bad, just a few small issues here and there. Too be expected this early in the products life. However, I seem to have narrowed my windows 8 issues tonight. My USB keyboard started typing random characters and acted...
  9. J

    Windows 7 wmiprvse.exe using CPU

    i added an SSD to my computer. not sure if related, but later i started to see the above executible running about 20% of my cpu, causing my cpu temperature to go up, then the computer turns off; not sure if due to hi temp (63 degrees celcius). i have never seen this executible use cpu before...
  10. S

    Windows 7 Desktop positions and folder views not saving !!

    Hello Everyone I have a strange problem : my windows had a virus and after my antivirus fix and delete viruses this problem occurred that : Desktop positions and folder views and sorting files in any folders not saving , for example in my desktop I arrange manually my desktop's Icon but after...
  11. Gabriel Raphael

    Windows 7 System Restore Black Screen

    Hey guys I'm a new person around these forums. Just since yesterday my laptop was attacked by some kind of malware that tries to scare me into buying their products and hiding all my files. I managed to unhide all my files but somehow the virus still remains. I tried every solution on the web to...
  12. L

    Windows 7 Win7 doesn't recognize partition.

    Hi! I'v recetnly reisntalled windows 7, because a bad virus... I was happy when I got my newly installed super-fast windows 7. But when I opened Explorer I realized that one of my partition had disappeared. I tried looking at Disk Management: Link Removed due to 404 Error I see that it...
  13. D

    Windows 7 Installed/Ran an unknown application

    let me start by saying I didn't know this was an illegal app or something, I simply had a problem with updates. Whenever i would run update, it would detect two updates and then often would fail downloading and installing one or two and rarely would install them and then restart and the update...
  14. O

    Windows 7 geting backed up files from w7 to vista

    Help is needed for geting backed up files from w7 to vista. hey all ive installed vista back becuase i have been having probles with vireses and worm holes ive backed up all from windows 7 and whant to get the files from the backup to be restorde to vista but how do i get the files to be put...
  15. T

    Windows Vista How to Reconfigure RAID 0 on Existing Drives Without Reformatting

    I have three hard drives in my computer, a 500GB that has my Vista Ultimate Edition installed on it, and then two hard drives of 250GB each. I want to raid the 250GB drives without reformatting the computer, any way to do that? I do not have a CD of drivers or anything like that. The drives used...
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