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I just installed windows 8.1 and wanted to have a performance widget on the side but noticed that I don't have any inbuilt .. just google and found [this](http://www.myfavoritegadgets.info/monitors/SystemMonitorII/systemmonitorII.html) . It seems incredable? Does any1 have any experience with it?

I'm running Windows 7. My C: drive is two 15k.3 6Gbs 300GB Segate Savvio SCSI drives in RAID 1. There is an internal Crucial m4 CT512M4SSD2 Internal Solid State Drive, but the OS does not recognize it as an SSD drive when I attempt to optimize the drive. Why did …

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Everytime I try to use mozilla firefox or google chrome a message pops up reading "The application or DLL C:\WINDOWS\system32\USP10.dll is not a valid Windows image. Please check this against your installation diskette". It only lets me use internet explorer web browser. I have tried many different things to try …

For quite some time, I've had a problem with Windows Media Center (WMC) stuttering and freezing. Originally, it was happening only occasionally, but seems like it is happening more frequently, at least lately. I have had no hardware changes since, or before this issue began. What happens (sometimes) is that …

Hi all, Here's a strange one - just replaced a screen backlight inverter on a toshiba satellite U-400. All works fine. Then it becomes intermittent. When I close the laptop lid (Laptop goes into hibernate) and open it again, the screen invertor won't work - the unit boots up and …

For a file manager, Windows Explorer (for later puropses, WE)is extremely unstable. Why? First, even MS cannot figure out what you are referring to when you say 'Windows Explorer'. They tend to think you mean the browser. I think they are trying to fix the terminalogy in 8, but dear …

I am having a problem with sharing appointments in my calendar using Outlook 2010 with an Exchange server. This is a small office of only two computers. The Exchange server is being used from GoDaddy to keep the computer and cell phone synced up. The person that recieves the phone …

I need to kill a process from the command line: taskkill /f /IM WINWORD.EXE The command works just fine when using an administrator account, but fails for standard user accounts with "Access is denied." Is it possible to grant a standard user rights to kill a specific process? What privilleges …

Hello I am trying to upgrade my Windows 8 Enterpise PC to Windows 8.1 Enterprise everything goes ok up to the point where the install wizard ask to choose what I want to do with my current data and files. The problem is I only get to choose one option …

I tried to download Internet Explorer 11 for Windows 7 but got a message saying; Internet Explorer did not finish installing. Set up can't continue because a more recent version of Internet Explorer is installed on your computer. That was news to me, so I decided to check which version …

Looking for options for a more current BIOS for a retired Toshiba A40. Have been cautioned that this could be very destructive. Guidance sought

I opened my laptop this morning and when i powered on my laptop opened with the bios utility. I press escape and it then logged on again with the same thing. My laptop is Asus with windows 8, I rebooted and held shift and mashed F8 to try and get …

Hi, I can't to find a definate answer or am not reading the results correctly, I am trying to find out if a compaq SR5710Y computer with vista home premium is 64 or 32 bit system, this may be a silly question but here it is. Thanks Moe

Hi can any one help me with this? I experienced this before even during Win XP days. Now itback again in my Win7 ulti 64bit. Usually happens on Java and adobe LR installers n the likes. Im not that good with technicalities, hope fully a basic n idot proof fix. …

Hi there, My pc opens it's default web browser when i press the left Ctrl Key... No matter which browser is... I am using USB keyboard. My pc spec; Asus p8H61-MLX Motherboard Windows 8 32 bit OS 4 GB RAM Last day i have installed PhraseExpress in my pc... That's …

I've always had the taskbar at the bottom of the screen not at the top, and now all of a sudden it's at the top. Can someone tell me how to restore it the way I like to have it? I looked around but did not see anyone posting this …

Hi all, I have a 2010 Sony Vaio laptop...and whenever I am connected to the internet, it crashes (blue screen). I have gone on the Sony website and downloaded every and all drivers for the computer, and the problem still persists. I checked device manager and there are zero yellow …

Hello: A couple days ago I found an error log on my desktop (hs_err_pid6028.log), something about a fatal java error and a game called minecraft. I am pretty sure I never installed minecraft. That got me worried, so I browsed my java control panel and saw that there is no …

I know it is ancient but I have client that is still using Window 98SE due to certain accounting software which he refuse to upgrade. So the Window 98SE got corrupted and he want me to recover the data. All my Window 98SE and ME utilities software are all gone. …

Hey there. I am from group of people. That are getting heavily irritated by unexpected smash of sound above 12kHz. Is there way to limit it, up to this? I mean, I don't have problem if I am expecting it. But when I am playing games, watching films or listen …

I have an ubuntu and a windows computer. My ubuntu can detect and play sound from my ES1938/ES1948/ES1969 solo-1 audio driv but windows can't. So I was wondering what to do now?how can I install driver? I am using windows 8

I got an error on my Windows 7 PC out of the blue, it said this under the "Technical Information" side: stop 0x0000001A (0x0000000000005003, 0xFFFFF70001080000, 0x0000000000000833, 0x0000083B00001076) I am am doing a scan with MalwareBytes because this is the first time I got this error. Any other reason as to …

I keep getting pop-ups from some stupid website, and every now and then the site opens a new tab in my internet explorer. I did block the website already, i activated my pop-up blocker and i'm updating my antivirus. What else can I do?? IT'S ******* IRITATING!!!

I have tried everything to get rid of a Tuvaro page that keeps coming up everytime I select a new tab in Chrome. I have it in internet explorer, sometimes. Has anyone gotten rid of that virus lately? Any ideas? I used ADWcleaner, Combofix, Malwarebyte's AntiMalware and Spyhunter. I use …

I have an old on disk program that I have recently installed on my computer (windows 7 home premium). The program is called the qbs HAM toolbox. It was meant for windows XP. Despite that I have tried to run this program in windows XP settings (and other settings as …

MotioninJoy7.0100 is not support windows8.1 by Bluetooth model，once remove usb it show Blue screen，about error（mijxffilt.sys）

I tried to start my laptop and i get this message Error sending end of post to M.E Status 0xc000000f I tried to boot from windows 7 disk but it wont work either. I went into the bios and set the laptop to boot from cd first but it still …

We have an important business contact in China whom we have communicated with by email for years. As of the past few weeks, we cannot send an email to this business successfully. We get the message delayed and then subsequent failed to deliver 4.4.7 message. We are running exchange 2003, …

so i have this friend that recorded a video on their computer and it plays fine with audio and video, but after e-mailing me the video, the video is in slow motion it seems and there is no more audio. is there anyway to fix this?

hi everyone i am trying to ping www.google.com but i am getting general failure message. can anyone knows how to fixe. thnk bogoreh

hi! everybody I'm a newbie to this site i accidentally came through this site and found it really helpful for IT students thus thought of sharing my view and asking you guys for some help in my project I'm an engineering final year student of comp science. Igot to do …

I'm mac user I can perfectly connect to my uni using VPN on my mac and on windows 7. However I want to connect to the same VPN on windows 8 and I keep getting two errors sometimes I get no internet access on both my VPN and wifi and …

In windows 8 PC When I connect to both VPN wifi I get no internet access on my wifi but internet access on my vpn if I don't connect to VPN and only connect to wifi then I get access to wifi I checked my device manager network adabter and …

I have a tv I sometimes connect my laptop to for movies and such. It works well when I connect to the tv from a win 7 OS. When I switch to windows 8 however the tv does not recognize my laptop anymore. My laptop however does recognize the tv …

hi , i got this werid problem , when i open a folder and click on a letter name (example : f) it go directly to the search menu instead of going to a file or a folder that start with the letter f  any solution to this …

When booting into Windows 8 I repeatedly receive a message on the home screen that I have files waiting to be burned. I do NOT. Going to my burning drive there is nothing listed, nor is there anything anywhere else. How can I get rid of this annoying message?

my windows live mail is not starting. it gives the error message wlm could not be started it may not be installed correctly. make sure disk not full and you have enough memory. please help thanks

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OS: Win XP sp2 Dell Dimmension B110 The first symptom was the onboard network connector stopped working. On reboot the blue bios screen appeared. the error number is: 0x000000A5 (0x00010007, 0x00000038, 0x00000000, 0x00000000) I have already tried removing the battery on the motherboard, and flipping the two pin connector inorder …

Hi All, I am looking for a software that can be used for scheduling (Diary). But it must be a centralized one because 3 users wants to use it. Please help me to find a suitable software. Thank You all

Anyone knows hot to solve my problem. I can't acces my drive in c, d, and e. (drive partition). When I clicked it, it was stated, " This operation has been canceled due to restrictions in effect on this computer. Please contact you system administrator. It was happened about three …

Hello How can i share tethered internet with other pcs on my lan on Win 7

Many of you know how to hide your important files and folders and burn them to disc to keep them from being accessed from other users, but if you your drive has so many files that it would take too long to copy all to disc, then why not hide …

I have a clone computer with the following specification, Intel i5, 4GB RAM, 250GB hadr disk, ATI Radeon graphic card, PCI-E network adapter running on Window 7 Pro 32bit. The problem is the computer unable to shutdown. When I shutdown it will go off and after a second or so …

How can I manually go in and find the win 7 product key on my dell inspiron laptop it is not on the bottom of my laptop

Hello, I've had this problem before but the solution (removing and then re-installing my printer and driver) isn't working this time. When I start up, I get the message: "Error in C:\WINDOWS\System32\spool\DRIVERS\W32X86\3\DLCJtime.dll Missing entry:RunDLLEntry". My printer still prints, but before it does, it informs me that I'm missing a colour …

Hi i followed a tutorial on how to make folders unacessible and undelitable using cacls command everything works fine until today i was unable to access a folder in D drive , D:\mouad " C:\Windows\system32>cacls D:\mouad /e /c /g %username%:D Arguments non valides. REMARQUE : Cacls étant désapprouvé, utilisez Icacls. " …

i want to make a batch file to ping an ip. it must have 4 conditions. 1: if destination ip is reach able then it should display "host reachable" 2: if destination ip not reachable then it should display "host not reachable" 3: if request times out then it should …

Get error 80244FFF "There was a problem checking for updates." Have not received any updates for two months. Runing Win 8.1 that was updated from 8.0.