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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"...

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...

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...

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...

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...

I'm running win 7 Ultimate 32 Bit, which has been fine up to a few days ago when on start up reaching the desktop I started getting a window saying "Windows has encountered a critical problem and will restart automatically in one minute." it would then restart and continually loop this...

Alright so to begin, I'm currently using a copy of Windows 7 Ultimate 32 bit, everything has been running great for the past 3 months give or take. Then all of a sudden about a week ago i lost internet even though everything was all hooked up. So I figured i would restart my PC, to my surprise...

Greetings .... :-| ________ Ok here we go.... Tried to download a... diving world record video from youtube ...with "flashgot" firefox plugin. Flashgot downloaded the video in boken incomplete parts (x2) to my desktop. Upon discovering this, I tried to delete the incomplete parts to the...

For some reason, if I drop an file, any type, on my desktop, the same file appears in my "my music" folder. If I delete the file in either location, they are both deleted. I have scanned my computer with Microsoft Security Essentials as well as Avast, and no viruses have been found. I also...

When trying to update windows get the following error code 80072efe, have ran virus and spywre scan's without a cure, also have disabled firewall but still unable to update. Anyone experienced this problem and if so how did you overcome it. Any help from members will be really appreciated...

Guys, I've been having some extremely weird problems with my Windows 7 Home Premium PC. It's brand new, bought in the beginning of the year. There's 4 problems. Main one comes first: Today, while I was watching You Tube videos, got a blue screen twice. But not the 'blue screen of death'...

Hi guys Its like this..... I have this evening been getting the blue screen of death. I don't know why this suddenly happened. When I re-boot the windows 98 splash screen comes up, thing is I have never ever installed windows 98 on this machine, then it re-boots itself and starts up in DOS. I...

For the past two days my computer has been crashing in the weirdest ways. I'm currently in safemode and everything runs fine. It started shortly after I finished transferring over a large batch (about 30GBs) of camera footage onto my external hard drive from a coworkers external hard drive so...