virus scans

i have greyed out tiles in my task view foe 3 march. i have done malware scans and virus scans, security scans,shut down and restarted and this one date remains. i tried disable task view but when it is enabled again same problem appears. my thought was to remove and then reinstall task view but...

In the last couple of months my win7 desktop PC has developed this problem. The firewall periodically blocks autherised programes & websites. I know is the firewall as when I turn firewall of everything works fine & I can access them on my ipad. I have found if I reset default firewall setting...

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"...

I just started experiencing the BSOD on my laptop. :( I was doing a few virus scans that finished by needing to be restarted. This is when I first saw the BSOD. I'm not the most knowledgeable when it comes to computers but I'm learning! I used the W7F Diagnostic Tool and zipped the results...

Okay, so this is a fairly long story as it starts all the way back when I was using Vista (I am now using a 7 installation). For the last few months, I have been getting hard lockups, freezes, where my mouse doesnt move and I cant do or press anything. These often happened during the night, or...

I use Win 7 and IE9. In the past two weeks, all of a sudden I can't log in to one financial site, and on another financial site, I can log in, but have difficulty getting to my account. I've spoken to the sites' tech people and all is ok on their end. I've run virus scans, both in safe and...

Hello Win7 Forums: I have been experiencing extremely long start times for the last 6 months and have run out of ideas solving it. Here are the steps I have taken so far in an attempt to fix the issue: - weekly full virus scans using SAS, Norton 360, Malware Bytes - CCleaner and TweakNow...

Hey PC users! I'm new here but I have a serious problem with lag on my computer and came here to ask the experts for help, because quite frankly, I'm exhausted from dealing with this situation. Here are my specs: OS: Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit System Model: HP-Pavilion p6210y...

Hi We bought a new PC in January, and it's been fine until now. Suddenly last week we started having problems. Every now and then dialog boxes flicker when you try to click on them and you can't select any options. The same happened with the Start menu - the only way to turn the computer off...

Hi all I know there is a thread running round with issues regarding Win 7 desktop not showing icons and the solutions to it. However as the title says it, even CTRL ALT DEL don't work. Just shows me a black screen which fades back to a iconless desktop. Solutions regarding finding...

I'm sorry, I don't know whether this is a software problem, hardware problem, or a combination of problems. At least once every couple hours my computer will freeze for 60 seconds. The program I am using will be frozen, and I can switch to something else I'm running and it will work for a short...

Installing this OS has been a nightmare to date, granted it is on an older system: DFI Lanparty sli-dr NF4 AMD64 FX-53 2G ram 2x Seagate 120G barracudas (originally set up on a raid 0 array) BFG nvidia 7800 ultra On the initial install windows would not recognize my hard drives tried using...