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    Windows 7 A little problem

    Hello everyone, hope you all are ok. From 3 days ago my windows 7 ultimate suddenly hangs and freezes a lot. i did a complete scan with Avast 6, Anti-Malware and Super anti-spyware the problem was still exist. i thought the problem with the hard disk, i did also a complete scan with Disk...
  2. Windows 7 Can anyone help me understand whats going on here?

    Hello all :) Today I turned on my PC as normal (it shut down fine last night, no new installations of anything or any new hardware etc) and windows startup repair popped up saying my computer cannot start. So I let it finish and it said "Windows cannot repair this computer automatically" so I...
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    Windows 7 Some applications do not start.

    32 bit apps don't run, 64 bit apps do Was:(Some applications do not start.) Hi, hope someone can help me with this. Having a problem that is almost worse than a program crashing. (At least I would get an error so I can see what is the cause of the problem.) Anyhow this is the sequence of...
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    Windows 7 Windows Update causes desktop to go blank while updating

    Hello, I got some serious problems. About one week ago I accidentally cut off power of my pc while he was updating. When rebooting I got nothing but a blank desktop image, unable to give any input (mouse, keyboard, control + shift + delete). Control + shift + delete made the screen go black, so...
  5. Windows 7 New take on an old Boot Sector Virus

    Was just reading this article concerning a new version of Ransomware that seems to be emerging. Seems to prompt with a message, that your system is locked and if you pay, they'll send you some code to unlock it. Malware blocks booting - The H Security: News and Features Seems like the /fixmbr...
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    Windows 7 How repair corrupt files - System File Checker

    I run System File Checker as an administrator and, when the scan is finished, a message says it found corrupt files that it could not fix - refer to the CBS.log. The original installation disk is in the drive as I run sfc /scannow. That used to work with Windows XP. In addition, with Windows...
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    Windows 7 BSOD on startup, help needed

    Last year, I bought a new ThinkPad laptop from a reseller on eBay. Today, it BSOD'd on boot, giving me the options to repair Windows, or attempt to reboot normally. Whatever's causing the BSOD is apparently a gamekiller -- it happens almost immediately after the "loading Windows" screen...
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    Windows 7 Help, windows wont open after update

    During an automatic update from Microsoft last night the battery fell out of my daughters laptop. This morning, nothing will open. Have tried safe mode but even that won't open windows. After a lot of digging it says on the recovery management that there is a bad patch which presumably if the...
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    Windows 7 Can't Change Desktop Background after the "Windows Repair Virus"

    Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit So I had the "Windows Repair" virus. I succesfully removed it with MalwareBites and Ad Aware and everything seems to be working fine, with exception to my desktop background. It's pitch black. When I try to change it through personalize ->desktop backgrounds...
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    Windows 7 Disk Transfer Windows 7 from Backup

    My 160 GB Win7 drive on my laptop failed (single partition), but thankfully I had a backup that I created on a 750 GB drive using EASUS Partition Master COPY. The backup drive is FULLY BOOTABLE, I've been booting into Windows 7 from an eSata external interface with no issues. It has a partition...
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    Windows 7 Win 7 will not start

    My apologies if this is a repost, but I did a search and couldn't find the exact duplicate of my problem. When I try to start windows things progress through the post screen, then the windows is starting screen, but then the screen goes black and falls into the windows repair screen. I...
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    Windows 7 Won't boot into XP or W7 anymore after adding/removing extra hard drive

    My computer won't boot into XP or 7 anymore after adding/remvoing extra hard drive I have 1 hard drive 3 partitions: 1 XP (C) 2 7 (E) 3 Documents (X) I plugged in an extra ide hard drive to see what was in it, after unplugging it, all of my drive letters became messed up so the windows...
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    Windows 7 Xp on one HDD, 7 on another

    I have XP installed on my old HDD. I bought a new HDD and windows 7 I installed windows 7 on my new HDD, my old HDD was plugged in at the same time of the installation. Everything runs great. I then put my pc back together, leaving my old HDD out, as i only want my new HDD with 7 installed...
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    Windows 7 problems after serious pc crash

    hi everyone! my pc system is recovering from a serious crash resulting from a partition chaos (i happened to have been the cause ;) ) so - the pc boots again ... BUT, there are some issues i would be happy to find answers for in this forum: 1) windows 7 boots ... then goes into "starting...
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    Windows 7 Need Windows 7 Boot Help

    Ok.. So here's the mess I made that I need help with. 1. I have 2HD's with one hosting Windows 7 x86 and the other hosting a Windows 7 x64 2. I finally got x64 up and usable for everything I needed so wanted to get rid of the x586 partition 3. I deleted the x586 partition using GParted 4...
  16. Windows Vista USB port issues/Candidate for moron of the year

    OK, I doubt this will have a solution that isn't really traumatic. But oh well. I was having a problem with some devices that were supposed to be 100% fully compatible with Vista Home Premium on My Dell Inspiron Desktop. Namely a SONY Camcorder that was being incorrectly identified and hence...
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    Windows 7 Blue screen on startup in all modes

    I installed RC1 (64bit) a couple months ago and it was working great. Today quite randomly my computer froze. I held the power button down and turned it off, but now it won't start up again. At first the only thing that happened was the computer would turn on but the screen would show nothing. I...
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    Windows 7 Move existing windows installation to a different hard drive

    Hi, I'm trying to move my win7 to a bigger and better hard drive. My original idea was to create a system image and restore it to a different hard drive with windows repair (after all, this is what you would do after a hard disk failure). However, it only allowed me to restore the image to...
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    Windows Vista Help! Vista doesn't start!

    Please help me! I got my laptop less than a year ago. It's an ASUS G1-S Gaming Laptop. It's running Vista Home Premium 32bit. I had this problem twice before, but the only thing I didn't really take the time to figure out the problem. So I reinstalled Vista with the built-in partition(both...