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First, a little background: I'm running an HP Desktop Elite 8000 with Windows 7 Professional Recently, my D-Link wireless router decided to retire. I replaced it with a TP-Link 450mbs wireless N router and all was well until my D-Link wireless USB adapter card decided to do the same. I replaced...

First, a little background: I'm running an HP Desktop Elite 8000 with Windows 7 Professional Recently, my D-Link wireless router decided to retire. I replaced it with a TP-Link 450mbs wireless N router and all was well until my D-Link wireless USB adapter card decided to do the same. I replaced...

I bought a Toshiba Satellite C855D with AMD E-300 APU with Radeon HD Graphics 1.30GHz, 4.00 GB RAM (3.59 usable) running Windows 8 64-bit OS. I deleted all unwanted apps and started to install others as well as all Windows patches. Every install caused the PC to slow down to a crawl with...

A little background first: PC running XP Pro SP3 with IE 7 Wife was complaining about PC running slow when online. Upgraded to IE 8. Shortly after that, she could not access web sites Installed Firefox but no help there. Tried installing Google Chrome with no success. Scanned for viruses...

My wife's computer crashed last month & I was finally able to build her a new PC from parts I had here. Unfortunately, she refuses to upgrade from Windows 98SE. She's connected to my PC (XP Pro) thru a wireless router. She has no problem with connecting to the Internet but is unable to share...

I need some advice on a problem I'm having when rebooting. I get the following error message: "A problem with the hard drive has been detected. Consult the Troubleshooting section of your user's manual. Press the Enter key to continue." There is another message prior to this that appears only...

My wife's computer is linked to mine thru a Belkin wireless router. All was working fine until a few days ago when she coud not print any docs (or anything at all). I've tried removimg the printer & reinstalling it only to get the following message: 'There was an error writing to LPT 1 for the...

My wife's computer is linked to mine thru a Belkin wireless router. All was working fine until a few days ago when she coud not print any docs (or anything at all). I've tried removimg the printer & reinstalling it only to get the following message: 'There was an error writing to LPT 1 for the...

I ran into this problem before but can't remember how I resolved it. I installed my wife's 2 HD's into a new tower. Alas, it will only display 2 or 16 colors and I'm haviving a tough time trying to find the driver/s I need for better resolution. Below isthe profile I was given after running...

I posted this to another forum but I think it belongs here. I'm stumped! A client brought his tower in for repairs. He had Dial-up connection but switched to Comcast broadband. He claims he had connection until a week ago after 3-4 months with no problems. According to him, he picked up a virus...

I'm stumped! A client brought his tower in for repairs. He had Dial-up connection but switched to Comcast broadband. He claims he had connection until a week ago after 3-4 months with no problems. According to him, he picked up a virus but was able to remove it (not surprising since he disabled...

I'm trying to build my grandkid a computer from spare parts I had here. She feels neglected as she's the only one in her house without one. I wiped out a small HD (4GB) & slaved it off a 2nd HD (10GB) in a Dell tower that nobody claimed. The floppy & CD ROM drive worked OK so I left them alone...

I usually do a sys maintenance weekly & check on updates for a few free AntiSpyware apps & run after updating. Today, Ad-Aware informed me there were updates available but it froze after downloading only 5%. Thought it was just a temp glitch in my OS (XP SP2) but tried updating it later on my...

My stepdaughter left a CD in her drive during a recent storm here (nothing unusual for Florida as you can almost set your watch during rainy season). It knocked out power for a short period of time. When electricity came on, her system rebooted & all was fine except for the CD. It shows nothing...

For the past 3 weeks, I've been receiving warnings from Windows Defender daily that my system has a virus (even after telling W D to delete or quarantine the file). It identifies it as 'BrowserModifier:Win32/ISTbar'. I run Norton & AVG (both AV & AS) programs and Ad-Aware, SpywareBlaster &...

I recently installed a new hard drive into a tower that was left to me for repair but never collected. I was planning on using it to replace my wife's old computer (on its last legs after nearly 8 years). Unfortunately, for some reason, I can only get 2 or 16 color for settings. I've tried...