try chkdsk /r

Are you sure you're using the right drivers from the Acer website? Most of the time OEM's have 5+ network drivers for each PC, and in my experience you have to try each one until you find the right...

The easiest way is to rename the profile folder, recreate the original user account, login with the new account, reboot the pc, login with a different admin account, and rename the old profile to the...

You can use the uninstaller that came with the program, use Revo uninstaller, or a removal tool if the program manufacturer makes one. In my experience I've only found removal tools for AV products...

User accounts go into group accounts. Best practice is to use group permissions, and then add users to the specific group.

Sounds like a bad keyboard, but a BIOS update might fix the issue.

Are you running two antivirus apps at the same time? If so, remove one of them and see if that helps. Also, you might want to remove the maintenance tools as well.

Have you run a scan in safe mode? Ususally I run CCleaner to get rid of all the temp files, run Malwarebytes Antimalware, and if that doesn't work, I run a full scan of Antimalware in safe mode.

Download Malwarebytes Antimalware and run it on your pc. It does a pretty good job of getting rid of the nasties.

Angry IP Scanner will do that for you.

I believe the manufacturer's os cd's pull the cd key from an eprom in the system. I've never tested this theory, but you could download a product key finder and compare the info it retrives to the...

I've had malware infect beep.sys in the past causing a bsod. I just copied beep.sys from a working system to the bad one and everything was cool.

Use msconfig in safe mode to prevent the Adobe Air app from running. Click on Start>run, type msconfig and click OK. On the startup tab you should be able to find the Air app and prevent it from...

Try this website: http://www.mxtoolbox.com/blacklists.aspx

Have you tried this?

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555512

Try to connect your laptop to your desktop on your side of the firewall first. Once you have that capability, then you can try to make it through the firewall. Make sure you have enabled Remote...

Sounds like Windows is trying to load up an app or service that is hanging. With that slow of a CPU and that much RAM you might have to give it a while to give up trying to start the faulty process....

Try adding *.microsoft.com to your trusted sites.

Formatting might work, but that's really a last case scenario. Have you removed everything from your usb ports, shut completely down, and powered back up yet? If that doesn't work, I would get the...

Good to hear about the keyboard issue. From the behaviour you mention, it sounds like the PC is thinking you're clicking on different items multiple times. Maybe try a different mouse if you have...

Definitely sounds like software. Did you get a virus or some other malware recently? What brand and model laptop do you have?