Pre-installed windows programs stop working after startup

Note: I actually "fixed" this problem with a system restore, but seeing as how it keeps recurring every few months I'd like to find out what the root problem is. So, the programs my laptop had installed with Windows 7 stop working around 1 - 2 minutes after I start up windows. I can still use Firefox, Google Chrome, Skype etc. but any win...

Programs stop working, Event Viewer and Windows Firewall don't work

Okay so I've had this problem for about a year, every once in awhile I try to solve it but never can. I'm using Windows 7 Home Premium. Here are all the problems I know about. Windows Firewall: When I attempt to run it it says "Windows Firewall can't change some of your settings. Error Code 0x8007042c" When I try to open it from the Serv...

Stratup programs (TiWorker.exe) is causing widows to start slowly

i just got windows 8 pro w/ media center installed in my 32-bit operating system, x64-based processor, my problem is my computer occasionally stop with white screen and I have no option but to unplugged it and restart. I also got this info that startup programs (TiWorker.exe) is causing windows to start slowly... Please help.

Programs Stopped Working as Soon as they are started

Windows 7 Home Premium Service Pack 1 64 bit Problems: some programs cannot be run, stopped working as soon as it is opened I came to recognize my problem when McAfee pops up to check database update, but when I click "Check Now" it stopped working. After that I tried numerous times after a few restart tries. Even in my attempt to uninsta...

Epson SX515W + Windows 8

I hope somebody may be able to help. I have had to buy a new laptop which has Windows 8. I am getting myself familiar with Windows 8 etc. I have an Epson SX515W printer which is in perfect working order and I want it to work with my new laptop. The driver CD I have says it isn't compatible with Windows 8! I have looked on the Epson websit...

Windows XP Pro - Virus/Malware - Unresponsive, to many programs running

Hello, PROBLEM: I have a Dell Desktop, with Windows XP Professional installed. Having problems loading IE, and slow to load any pages even though I have Cox High Speed internet. Computer states I am running 7 programs in background, and do not know exactly what Virus/Malware was previously installed, or if they are even active. Isn't ther...

Windows 7 64 bit home premium safe boot

I recently(one week ago) had my my old PC which I gave to my wife years ago upgraded by my local computer shop. They installed two new one tera hard drives, a new mother board and memory, and Windows 7 64 bit Home Premium. I installed IE9 and was in the process of installing different programs and setting up accounts for family members. E...

[GET] RevoUninstaller V3.0.2 Latest + Patcher

Revo Uninstaller Pro helps you to uninstall software and remove unwanted programs installed on your computer easily! Even if you have problems uninstalling and cannot uninstall them from "Windows Programs and Features (Add or Remove Programs)" control panel applet. Revo Uninstaller is a much faster and more powerful alternative to "Window...

Realplayer not working

Hi I used to have realplayer on my computer working but now it has stop working I uninstalled it and try reinstalling it but every time it try to open a message comes up saying realplayer stop working windows is checking fo a solution I am using windows 7 can you please help me? thank you.

Would removing a Hard-Drive delete Windows 8 ?.

Howdy everyone, I own a HEWLETT PACKARD Case (Model : DC 7800) with no Programs installed other than WINDOWS 8 Operating system. The RAM has been increased from 1.95 gb to 6 gb and I'd now like to change the Hard-Drive from 80 gb to a larger capacity. Some Questions : Would changing the SEAGATE Hard-Drive delete WINDOWS 8 ? Does the RAM h...

error acpi.sys

hello to all members I have an HP Pavilion dv6 8GB total DDR3 memory and 700 GB HDD HitachiHTS727575A9E364 of 698.64 GB SATA II Windows 7 Ultimate (X64) Service Pack 1 installed I want to install XP on the D: (which is empty) Disk 698 GB HDD (divided into 3 partitions) C: Win 7 = 252 GB (Windows 7 installed) D: Empty = 155 GB (XP to be in...

Can’t download – browser crashing!

Just installed Windows 8 on my new computer. Started installing my old programs and files. Installed Windows Essentials to load Windows Live Mail to restore my old emails. Google Chrome stopped allowing downloads - Virus scan failed - then would delete the downloaded file. Now Explorer will not allow me to download. I have ran virus scans...

Fake Versions Of The Programs That You Love To Use Every Day Can Be Hazardous To Your Computer

If you have been using the computer for awhile there is a good chance that there is a number of programs that you use on a daily basis. As a matter of fact there is probably a good chance that you have been using these programs everyday for a number of years. You probably know these programs inside and out and you are very good when it co...

Questions about reinstalling Windows 7

Hello, I'm a Windows 7 user and I've recently been having issues with different things, and I'm not sure what the issue is. My computer is slow, has issues running programs/programs crash often, internet is spotty (though that could be an issue with the wifi rather than my computer), and I believe there is malware installed as well. My qu...

Memcache not working on Windows 7

I downloaded and installed Memcache for Windows. The setup file is in C:\memcache when I run the command prompt, point to the directory, and type memcache -d start I get an error message saying failed to start service , but I don't know why. Apache is working on my system, I use a WAMP server. I firstly unzipped the files and then just d...

All programs not responding after connecting to network.

The weirdest issue is happening to my PC... I've been on Windows 7 for like 3 months and it has been working flawless (No unresponsive programs, games running just as they should be, internet connection stable), but 4 days ago I wanted to use the computer and of a sudden the programs became unresponsive and I had to turn the PC off manual...

Computer hangs while running games/other programs.

Specs: AMD Phenom II x4 965 Black Edition EVGA Geforce GTX 660 SC Corsair CX500 4gb DDR3 RAM Stock Asus CM1630 Motherboard I started having blue screens while playing BF3 and other games, and then it started happening all the time. After a few weeks I fixed it, but now my computer hangs sometimes while I'm on google chrome, or just using...

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What is Windows Essentials?

Originally known as Windows Live Essentials and Windows Live Installer, Windows Essentials is a free software packaged provided by Microsoft that provides additional useful programs that are not included with Windows or that have been included in past versions of Windows. The programs packaged with Windows essentials included: Windows Liv...

Stardock ModernMix makes apps as usable as desktop programs on Windows 8 [Preview]

Windows apps that you run on Windows 8 are limited to the Start screen environment by default. Here you can run them in full screen, or attached to a side of the screen so that they use 1/3 or 2/3 of the screen. What you cannot do is run them in windowed mode on the desktop. Attempts have been made in the past to bring that extra function...

Got an hour to kill? Watch (nearly) every version of Windows being installed

The first version of Windows I ever installed was Windows 3.1, and the most recent was a leaked build of Windows 8.1. In between those two points I’ve installed every new version of Windows Microsoft has produced, most more times than I care to recall. The installation process has definitely improved over the years, but I shudder to think...

Windows Defender + Trend Micro Titanium keep switching off/won't open

I was wondering if someone could help me, I have Windows Defender and Trend Micro Titanium 2013 installed on my Windows 7 laptop and the past few days, they keep switching off and I can't open the Trend Micro Titanium 2013 console at all, even after re-installing it and rebooting my laptop. Does anyone have any ideas as to they both these...

New Windows 7 install and new Windows Update messed my OS

I installed a fresh Windows 7 x64 to my new pc. Everything went fine from the start. My pc has really powerful cpu and gpu and dozen gb's of ram and is running on ssd drive. After the Windows was installed I plugged it to the network. It found an update for the Windows Update Agent and after that was installed it installed something like...

Windows Indexing Service not working - Error 1053

Hi, I have a Toshiba computer running Windows Vista Home Premium. For the past couple of weeks I cannot get Windows search to start. When I go into settings there is no option to restart the service or to stop it. I then went to properties and set it to disabled. When the computer rebooted then I went back to Services and there was an opt...

Reinstall Slimtype DVD A DS8A5SH

I am in serious need of help! I accidently uninstalled my Windows Media Player under the unistall programs of control panel (I meant to uninstall something else..). Anyway, the Music part of the Windows Media player is still installed on my computer apparently, but the DVD player does not work anymore. I troubleshooted the Windows Media P...

Internet Explorer crashing loop, and desktop disappears

Hi there, this is my first online help forum post, so please bare with me :) Firstly, my system is a Windows Vista 32-bit: Service Pack 2. Ok the problem. When I log on, all my startup programs start and load up as normal, and then about 2 minutes after login, a message stating "windows explorer has stopped working" then "windows explorer...

Uninstalling Windows SP1

When trying to open many programs I have installed the following messages come up "Fatal Error: Unable to load jit Compiler: (mscorjit): file may be missing or corrupt. Please check or rerun setup." And another. "psexec.exe-Bad Image: C:\Windows\system32\srvcli.dll is either not designed to run on Windows or it contains an error. Try inst...

Solved: New computer cannot connect to the Internet through certain programs

Hello. My new laptop seems to be working fine for the most part, and I can connect to the internet with no problems through Firefox and Skype, however many programs cannot access the internet - for example Internet Explorer, Adobe Flash (cannot access internet to update), and even Windows Update. In order to try to isolate the problem, I...

No wifi after re-installing windows 7 ultimate x64

I re-installed windows 7 due to the old version not working with my new raid drive, i went to the asus and intel websites on my laptop and downloaded drives to a disk then installed those onto my new install but it keep saying that no networks are available. I've tried every fix that i found with google bu none of them seemed to work and...

Programs installed lost on restart

Vista 64 home premium. Lately (the past couple of years) I've installed various programs and they would work until a reboot and then it would say that the shortcut to .....exe no longer exists would you like to discard the shortcut or path. I would need to reinstall the program again to work. Sometimes I would have to uninstall to reinsta...

Kaspersky anti-virus and latest windows update

Hi everyone, Just an fyi regarding yesterday's Microsoft KB2823324 update. For those of you running Kaspersky Anti-Virus for Windows Workstations / Server version 6.0.4.1424 and 6.0.4.1611 you will find if you have installed the updated that you either get the message you have a corrupt database or an invalid license. This will cause Kasp...

Slow bootloader and startup

I have currently installed Windows 7 alongside a pre-installed Windows 8, and I have got pretty much everything working except that, when I select Windows 7 from the boot-loader, the boot is extremely slow, and it takes too long to show the "Microsoft Corporation" text then again slowly followed by the "Starting Windows" text and the Wind...

StartUp Programs not loading often

I have several programs such as AVG, DFX, IDM, APC PowerChute and smile webshots which set to automatically start when i boot Windows 7. But sometimes it doesn't load and I have to manually open each one. I went into msconfig and it shows all these programs are in startup. What could be the problem? And i just have a look at services.msc...

Problems with April 2013 Windows updatesa for Windows 7

http://blogs.technet.com/b/msrc/arch...a te-issue.aspx Quote: Microsoft is investigating behavior where systems may not recover from a restart, or applications cannot load, after security update 2823324 is applied. We recommend that customers uninstall this update if you have W7 and installed 2823324 then go to programs & features/install...

BSOD during Starcraft II

Hi guys I've been getting fairly frequent BSOD's while playing Starcraft 2. It started happening a few days ago while i had Windows 8 Pro x64 installed on my HD. I've had Windows 7 for years now and after troubleshooting Starcraft itself and then re installing windows 8 to no avail i re installed windows 7 hoping it would fix it. So today...

Asus Notebook N76VJ-T4006H Graphics problem

Hi there folks, I've bought a new notebook for my father (the Asus Notebook N76VJ-T4006H ). This comes standard with Windows 8. He hated it (he's probably getting too old for big changes). So I've installed Windows 7 for him. Now it seems like the notebook isn't working as fast as it should. I think this is because of the graphics card...

How can I resize C: drive by shrinking D:?

I'll tell you my question as briefly as possible. Please listen carefully. * I've been using windows xp and windows 7 both installed in one PC. *My C: drive is 11GB and XP is installed in it. *My D: drive is 50GB and windows 7 is installed there. *Now I want to give up XP and Reinstall windows 7. *I want to install windows 7 in the C: dri...

Boot manager and ntldr installed on secondary drive

I installed windows 7 ultimate less then a week ago, On my Main drive (Corsair M4 128GB SSD). I installed windows originally with *_only my ssd and my optical drive installed_*. Windows has been installed on the other drives before, A dual boot on the 2TB for Windows XP (Has been removed). The 1TB was my main hard drive for a year with wi...

WiFi Adapter. Works on Laptop, but not Desktop

Hi I am trying to get my WiFi adapter to work on my desktop. I had been using quite happily for quite some time, then it just decided to stop working. I have tried numerous things to get it to work... Un-installed and Re-installed the drivers. Tried to make windows forget all the networks I currently had. Reset the router numerous times.

Windows 7/iMac bootcamp problem

So here's the story. I have an iMac and today, I installed windows 7 through the boot camp option in applications. It has successfully installed but I can't use my mac keyboard etc because the Bluetooth USB host controller is not installed and I can't get on the Internet because it says windows did not detect any networking hardware. Basi...