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Recently I have been having a random problem that started about a week ago. I run Warcraft III windowed mode and I have not had a problem with it. It isn't just warcraft anymore so I posted this here. Anyways, when I click inside the window while things like Warcraft III or Mozilla Firefox are...

At first win 7 upgraded fine and everything worked great.For 3 days now only my email and the web browser can connect.I turned off the firewall,no help.Rescanned drive with virus scan and found nothing.checked for spyware and none was found. Programs like peer spider or limewire can't connect to...

Hello, im having some serius problems whit my internett connection at the moment, It all started whit my old setup. i had an asus m2n-e sli motherboard and installed windows and all worked perfectly, but some days later when i start my machine i get the message: unable to connect to the...

I made a clean install of Windows 7 on my computer and everything was working ok until a couple of days ago. When I try to right click on a file within Windows Explorer, for instance to change its name, the program stalls and I need to close-restart the program. Previous to the problem I had...

I'm running Win7 Pro x64, which is a fresh install upgrade from WinXP Pro x32, installed during the first weekend in November, just a few weeks ago. I've included more detailed specs in my user profile, though I don't think my questions are spec-dependent. I just had the strangest problem. I...

hi, sorry if this is in the wrong section, but iv been absolutely annoyed for just over 1 week trying to fix the problem, the problem is when i go on ebay, and lets say im searching for eg: "cars" and when i want to go to the 2nd page or next page it goes back to page 1, and i cannot upload...

When I rebooted my computer this AM a number of icons on the desktop had been replaced with the windows default icon used when Windows can't find the icon specified. Also, I could not access a number of root folders and the programs in them would not run from system calls as in the startup...

Not sure what has happened but the day before yesterday I got an error stating Windows update service had stopped. I tried to run and it said the service had stopped and I needed to restart. That didn't fix it. I tried to manualy start Windows update and checked BITS and it was also off. I...

Hello Windows seven forums! i recently had to wipe and reinstall my version of windows seven RC 7100. the preoblem was thatmy computer would freeze if it went idle for more than 30 minutes. and when it did freeze it was a strange freeze where i could cose programs, but i couldnt open any then...

Ive had this issue for months now. I don't know what to do. I dual boot Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit and Windows Vista Home Premium 32bit. When i play World of Warcraft on Windows 7, after awhile the whole computer freezes, and I have to reboot. It has done this on Vista, but it has been a very long...

I've been using Windows 7 for a few months with no issues at all. However, in the last week or two, I've been experiencing the BSoD quite regularly (5 times in the last two week). It has generally been fine after I restarted it. Today, I tried to open an application (Photoscape) which I have...

So I know this is not exactly the right forum to post this problem. But I hate people who join a forum just to post a question and never come back. So I figured since I've used this forum previously and had lots of help, I should try here again. So here is my dilemna, a few months ago, I all...

Hi All, here goes my problem. for the last one week am trying to delete a file from my desktop in vista. But the system is not able to do that. Apparently, it shows something like ' estimating the size of the file' and goes on like that(System shows this whenever we copy/delete things) The size...

Hi guys, I really hope someone can help me with this problem I am having with Windows 7. I will start by trying to give you as much detail as to what is happening: I recently installed the 64 bit build 7100 onto my computer and I keep getting the BSOD randomly at different times, sometimes it...

Hi everyone, I wasn't sure where else to put this, if it's in the wrong section please if there's any mod out there you can change it to where it might belong to. Anyway, the issue I'm having is one of the strangest I've seen on an OS. I all of a sudden had a problem with a certain game and a...

I'm running Vista Home Basic 32 on a computer not even a year old. When I log in (Safe mode w/|w/o networking, and regular) it works for about 5-20 minutes then freezes. Windows installer doesn't work as I tried to install Kaspersky to check for viruses, it got to the install point and crashed...

Kinda gave up trying to find some sorts of support on the issue. But been having some stupid errors on my computer since i upgraded to windows 7.. i know i should of done a clean install, but at the time i didn't know. But everytime i try to download something off the net. An example of say i...

I know this is a common problem but mine differs from everyone else. Here's the deal.. When I turn the computer on it never gets to the Login part. It just go to a black screen and stays there. Although, it works when I start it in Safe Mode. This problem started Friday, May 29, 2009. I've...

Last night I was surfing, when I lost my internet connection, so I opened my network folder and my homegroup had changed from home to work. So I was attempting to find the place to change it back, (which I never did). Anyway all of a sudden everything I tried to open stopped responding. So I...

I just don't understand as an advanced user, why my system is running so slow with Windows 7. I've updated all my drivers, cleared out the caches, cleaned the registry, tweeked the registry, closed down all background programs running, ran virus scan with AVG and Avast anti virus programs...