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I was hibernating everyday my Compaq CQ58 laptop as you all know how much it takes to open OS of Windows 7 SP1 daily, although i clear the cache of temp files and all especially the internet as make a scan to do the clear browser thing. Today when did the open my laptop i found out the BSOD as i...

The computer is a custom build. Details below my sig. The OS is a standard install on C:\. Applications/utilities are installed on E:\ Built in October 2013, put in service February 2014. (For some reason never had much confidence in it!) I use it mainly to finish photos in Photoshop I have...

Hello there, I have a very big problem and I greatly need your help please !! My problem is the start of windows 8, knowing that I have one local user account. Indeed, when I start my pc and after some time the appearance of the home page, a sudden disconnection is done by displaying a blue...

For years I have been the "go-to" guy for fixing friends and family's computers, which usually were desktops (which i could rip open and replace the hardware in). lately a majority of the issues that i have had to address were laptop issues. while a lot of issues can be fixed with some sort of a...

I’m using windows 8. Whenever I first boot up my computer, this volume bar will appear (refer to the picture). Everything will lag when this happens. It’ll not disappear until I reboot my computer. Virus scan had been done, and windows have been updated to the latest version. I have tried...

Hi guys i've been facing the blue screen of death issue from yesterday.I know there are already many thread on this issue but also did notice the solution was different for different people so thats why i created my own thread. Stuff i did recently in my computer: 1) Recently i've installed...

Hey guys, I'm having an issue with my mouse's cursor constantly flashing the loading sign (blue circle) over and over. Its a constant flashing. It only ever stops if I mouse over something that changes the normal cursor picture. It started happening after my computer just froze randomly while...

Hey, I am using windows 7, and I have never had this problem before. I can't click on different places, such as my desktop icons, task bar, open folders, open programs. It's like sometimes I can and sometimes I cant. It's really annoying. I have no idea what is causing this problem, or how it...

Years of laptop anguish and literally despair from nearly four years of non-stop laptop issues. For years now, my laptop begins crashing windows even each time I have just started installation all over again, having just reset my computer back to default Windows and default only program (for...

I've had 4 different bsod's today whil doing a full scan with Bitdefender Internet Security 2014. I've run sfc /scannow and dism.exe clean-image commands as suggested by a search on the web. Here are the 4 dump files.

Hello all, After cleaning out a computer I am still having issues with my boot up time, it takes over 3 minutes to get a workable desktop. it boots up to the login interface fairly quickly, but when I log in it takes really long for the desktop to show and when it does it seems to be busy doing...

hi there. my dads computer has very little hard drive space left, so i downloaded file size t see which flyer was taking all the room away, the folder "system volume information" is using 77.5% of the hard drive and with all the other files photos ext its only got 4.5gb left (223gb hard drive)...

My Asus laptop has an intermittent problem where the mouse curser will appear to be fine however when I click on things such as the task bar, exit or minimise buttons it will not do anything, the only way I can use the computer to get into things is by using the keyboard. This happens with both...

Guys - I am not a technical user so this description will lack some detail, I ran into a problem and thought I would post here for suggestions. My machine recently started locking up when browsing. (Toshiba laptop running windows 7 that I have owned for about a year since new) I ran all...

I have a computer running windows 7 that is having internet connectivity problems. AOL desktop is loading and connecting to the internet fine. Internet explorer will load the home page most of the time (Google) then not connect to any other site. Fire Fox (recently installed) will also connect...

Let me introduce myself: I'm a programmer, and computer tech. I am anal about everything that goes on, on my computer. I don't like when it does things without my consent, much less without the curtesy of an alert. I spent 3 month beating windows into submission, and now that I've "upgraded"...

Link Removed So I recently been unable to uninstall some malware that got onto my computer and it seems I can't run installers with a simple double click or rightclick+run as admin any more... It all throws up various errors related to admin permissions. I've found what does work shift+right...

I'm trying to fix an office computer that someone used before me. The PC is running Windows 7 Home premium (service pack 1) 64 bit. There are two major problems with it that I believe are connected or caused by the same issue. Here is what happened: I started deleting programs from the...

Hi Guys, I have a file that I can not delete. It is an .avi file that will not run in Media Player Classic or VLC so I figure that it is no good BUT I can't delete it. I went into dos and deleted it there or so I thought but all it did was get dos flashing a prompt dash. I had deleted a couple...

I am now on my 4th time downloading this upgrade. When I ran it, it told me "Something went wrong..." and an error number 0x80004005. So I turned off virus scanning. I removed my dual booting and linux partitions. I made a bootable usb stick and rewrote the MBR, just in case. No change. I...