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Happy New Year and I want to say thanks in advance to everybody for running these forums. I have been getting a consistent but fairly intermittent BSOD. It usually happens no more than once a week sometimes only once a month or less. The bug check string is always PFN_LIST_CORRUPT and the bug...

Hi everyone, this is my first post here because i saw there were alot of threads going on about windows 7 freeze i thaught you might be able to help me with my problem. i have a pc ~1 year old now and ~3-4 months ago windows 7 started to freeze randomly for like 30-45 seconds. in the first...

First i'll start by saying i'm not a new computer user, i dabble in basic programming and i know a wealth of troubleshooting information and can fix most problems on my own. So a couple days ago i started having a very strange problem with permissions. I am the only account on my system and...

This is a problem that has been going on for a while, and I have tried everything I know as to how to fix it, looking for outside help. In every single game that I run, I run into this issue. When I type in keys, such as "hello" (for example), in game, it will turn up as "43427" (shift, ctrl...

I was doing a virus scan and saw there are like 20,000 files located inside the C:\$Recycle.Bin folder that were being scanned. I went to the folder to delete these files and there are no files to be found. Where is all this crap located and how do I wipe it out permanently?

I am not sure when this issue occurred, but I noticed it today Problem: I am unable to acces certain CP from the admin account. These CP include "advanced system settings" and "remote setings". When clicked, nothing happens. So far all the unresponsive CP I have identified are "admin CP"...

My system has suddenly started giving me a 'Windows Security - These Files cannot be opened - Your Internet security settings prevented one or more files from being opened.' Message when I tried to start 'The Sims 3' game. I have played this before, many times. I also got the msg when trying to...

Was having minor issues with my laptop - Sony Vaio, just a little over a year old, no histry of problems...the screen would flicker sometimes when left idle for a few minutes. Then on startup screen would be completely black... This started a little over a week ago. Also a week ago started...

I have a prebuilt HP computer that I have upgraded the video card and PSU computer is only about a year old. Just recently I have been getting random shutdown and reboot, there is no blue screen or error when it reboots. It does it at random times watching movie, browsing internet, playing...

Whenever I start up my laptop I get to where I put my password in, Windows loads up but then freezes. The taskbar does not show and I am unable to get the taskbar up by pressing the windows button next to alt. The only thing that loads up is my documents folder?. In order to get the taskbar up I...

I've attempted to install a couple new applications (Adobe Acrobat and IMSI TurboCad 17.1) recently and in each case received a 1935 error, causing the installation to terminate and roll back. I have done a registry scan/clean as well as virus/spyware scans and the problem persists. I have run...

BSOD on shutdown Hello, I recently (in which i mean 2 hours ago) tried to shut off my computer and was met with the BSOD. After system restore, advanced start up settings, virus scanner, etc... I found this place. So, hoping i'm following all the rules here... That's a copy of my minidump...

Hey, I have been having some problems with my Windows 7 Professional x64 on an Asus N71Jq (bought 2 months ago or so). (with an Atheros AR9285, Driver 8.0.0.351, Running Symantec Endpoint Protection) Like a month ago I encountered several random lockups/freezes where my screen freezes. Meaning...

I know alot of people have posted the same topic but my situation is alot different than most! I am a soldier in Iraq right now and I am located at JSS Doura in Baghdad. Here in Iraq we have an Internet company called TigrisNet that provides us with internet. Well long story short one day...

Changes in Web service Recently my web service changed for "Use the Web service to find the correct program." It directs me to Link Removed which features a pay program named File Cure. My question(s) are: Is this normal? Can I change it back to its generic search? If so, how. I know I...

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...

Hello forum, sorry to have my first post be a question, but I'm at my wits end. Please forgive me, and offer ANY advice you might have. I have Win 7 - 64bit currently, and have been using it for about a year now. I have always had 4gb of RAM installed, and have done various "other" upgrades...

I couldn't actually figure it out which one out of those three happens, I will try to explain as best as I can. I get totally random lock ups. Happens during a game, watching a movie, browsing or just listening to music. Sometimes it lasts for a minute, sometimes 90 secs or so. But it's not a...

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Hi i just installed my win7 yesterday and i went to install adobe Photoshop cs5 and my whole pc just lagged and all of a sudden a bsod after that i did't get any bsod but today i left my pc on and run a virus scan and when i came back my pc has had bsod cause it said " your pc has...