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Hi Over the past couple of weeks my compputer has gone from being slow and semi responsive to completely non responsive. It started with it not installing updates properly, and then progressed to the computer not shutting down at all. I managed to get a system restore to work eventually, and...

Hi all, Hopefully you all can help me, as I've tried everything I can think of and my C: drive is running at 100% for the first 10 minutes after boot,, then sometimes goes back to 0 and is completely unresponsive or very slow. I've downloaded multuple virus scanners, malaware, spyware, and...

I have a 32-bit Vista Home Premium Acer labtop which will only boot in safe mode. If I try to start it normally, it loads the Acer logo, then the Windows Vista loading icon, then a blank screen. After the screen turns blank, the Windows welcome sound plays, but no login page appears. I have run...

I have never had this happen with any other operating system on any of my computers in any time of my computer experience, but this is what happened to me during the past 2 weeks. I had one laptop with me while I was out of town. I allowed it to update, and suddenly found that Windows was...

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...

Hello everyone, I am experiencing a major stressful technical issue. All of a sudden, I am not able to watch youtube videos anymore on my laptop. I tried viewing youtube videos using Mozilla Firefox browser, but it immediately displays in the video, "Adobe Flash Plugin has crashed. Reload the...

[Solved] Dot Net applications that used to run all crash with the same error Hello, I need some help, I think my Dot Net or some other software it needs is borked. The problem is that .NET 3.5 and under are part of the OS on Windows 7, so I can't just uninstall and reinstall them. I have...

I have two Windows 8 systems, which only run basically to get updates. But neither one has exhibited any problems. On the 18th, I did a system file check on one system to test something. The result I got was rather unexpected. It took the SFC around 15 minutes to get to the "Verification...

Hi, I've been having nightmare with PC boot times ( up to 1 hour long) and extremely limited usage after boot, due to 100% disk activity. I have tried everything possible with windows itself, so today tried to test HDD with HDDtune Pro. Question, #1 - Are these low read speeds? #2 - If so...

Please do not suggest I contact Mcafee on this, I could have backed up and reinstalled Windows 7 in the time I have already wasted dealing with them. I only have one word for them and it is USELESS. I have a Mcafee vaults folder on my desktop I cannot get rid of. The folder was not installed...

Hallo, Everytime I startup I get a message saying that something is wrong with recent.vbe, what exactly is wrong and/or the errorcode varies but recent.vbe is always involved. Attached are a few screenshots of such messages. I have no clue about how to get rid of these messages or what the...

While attempting to download an update for an existing program using Chrome, on a Win7 Toshiba i5 Sandy Bridge laptop, I received a "Virus Scan Failed" message and no update. I've tried: * downloading other files -- same "Virus Scan Failed" message & no files * using IE & Firefox -- same...

Hello guys, I got BSOD every time I boot up both normal and safe mode. I cannot get on laptop anything. I removed hard drive from laptop, plugged into my desktop (hot swap) and scan the virus using MalwareBytes, no virus so far. I check hard drive health using Crystal Disk Info, so far hard...

We've recently been having problems with redirects when clicking the links of search results in our browsers (IE and Firefox). We tried a few different virus scans and nothing was able to find it. However, we did realize that Microsoft Security Essentials would not run when we clicked the...

I don't know what's wrong with my baby but he's doing something crazy. The SSD that someone bought me is screwed. Meaning, it's slower than both of the HDD's that I have. I've since reformatted the SSD and I'm in the process of removing it from my computer. However, the 500GB isn't doing too...

I bought an ASUS X53E Notebook about 6 months ago as a spare computer. I have not used it much until about a month ago and it has worked very well. Two days ago it was downloading a video file and a blue screen occurred. I rebooted and after a bit it happened again. I ran system repair which...

For about two weeks or so the 31gb c drive on my HP Mini has kept on filling up, sometimes within 20mb of space. I have run disk cleanup and defrag and used CCleaner, but they only free up about 200mb of space at a time, and eventually that gets filled up again. Once I freed up 1gb by restarting...

I have a kingston 15GB USB and when i plug it in it shows me instead of usualy KINGSTON, it shows me Removable Disk. It also shows that it is not empty: 60,08MB free of 15,0GB. But when i click on it, it says Empty folder. I allready look for hidden folder option but nothing. Is there any...

Booted up the PC, got this in the bottom right corner. No notification, just the not genuine marker. Running a virus scan now... But I am not sure what happened. Upon going into the Activate Windows program, an error occurs and the desktop turns black. When I go into System Settings, both...

Hello There, This is my first post however I have been having no luck with solving my BSOD crashes myself. I have been experiencing the issues for a number of months, however they seem to be becoming more regular. The crashes occur generally during video playback either from harddisk or from a...