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As administrator, I added a certain user as a member to a Local Group. I used my admin tools to see that he was in fact in the group. The user checked that he was in the group by the command "net user xxxxxx" which showed he was in the group. But the user did not have the privileges of the group. The user had to log out then log back in, then he had the new privileges. Is there a way to make the new privileges take effect without the user logging out and logging in? Am running Windows XP Pro. Continue reading...

My computer restarted yesterday without me instructing it to do so. Beforehand a menu had appeared at the bottom of the screen with various options, but I didn't click on any of them. Some hours later and after another reboot the screen suddenly went blue and I was prompted to click on my username. ? Any ideas as to why this would happen and is there anything I can do to prevent it happening again? Continue reading...

I have an old laptop running XP that's only good for hulu, pandora, etc. I was watching Hulu with Flash when the OS hung, spun for a while, then rotated the display 90 degrees. Left is now the top of the screen and right is at the bottom. I booted in safe mode and it looks ok, but I boot back into standard and it's rotated. Any clue what happened and how I fix it? Continue reading...

i forgot my password on my windows xp home addition that was in storage how can i get back in Continue reading...

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I just bought new DELL EPS 8700 with 12 GB I thought it would be the best but finding out it has more problems then anything , my cricut machine does not want to talk to PC at all had cricut support on phone twice now have spend hurs trying to get this darn thing to work with new PC , but no luck they tryed going into windows defenders and telling it to allow cricut & cricut syn. but still no good they had re installed cricut for 8.1 format and told me to re-format my cricut maching with syn. but that now really made a mess of things now the machine got half way up to to date and lost communication with unit tryed numours times with no luck called Dell up asking them …

I have a Windows 8 pro license and installed that on a old laptop. I want to install Windows 8 on my current laptop. Is there way to deactivate the existing windows license and activate it on my new laptop? I got this license in India and I now reside in Germany. Thanks Continue reading...

Automatic Repair Couldn't repair your PC. Press "Advance option" to try other to repair your pc or "shout down" to turn off your pc. Continue reading...

File Explore has stopped working properly from the taskbar. Currently I can get only 3 windows on the taskbar & opening no.1 opens no.2 & vice versa, but no.3 opens on it's own. Can anyone explain this & find a remedy? Continue reading...

Original title: Cannot remove USB disk because it is in use Hello. Unknown program is using USB disk when I try safely remove it. Windows 8 tells me the disk is in use and asks me to close the program but nobody tells me the name of the program/process. I did read discussions here about Windows Defender. There I have unchecked "check USB disks" and have black listed all drives from "E:\" to "N:\". No help. I don't want disable Defender. I want plug USB disks in and plug out as soon as I have copied files. But now I don't want plug in any USB disks because I know I cannot unplug them. Specially not when I'm hurry to go somewhere…

I downloaded and installed an office update yesterday for word 2013. Today I can not log onto my windows 7 operating system. I get the message "User profile service failed the login, user profile can not be loaded". I have used the same password for years, but now my system doesn't recognize it? I even tried to reset the password in BIOS but to no avail! How do I fix this? Continue reading...

It's the power control in the Non-Plug and Play Drivers section of the Device Manager and it has stopped working? When I click the start button in Properties: It says that: The system encountered the following error while attempting to start the service. The system cannot find the path specified. Also in Properties in the General tab it says that: This device is not present, is not working properly, or does not have all its drivers installed. (Code 24). I'm not even sure what it is that it does. I do know that I have been having trouble with connecting with my printer wirelessly and wired!! OK! I fixed the printer problem so now I'm not sure what this is??? Any help would…

i was trying to optimize my laptop using windows 7 manager. i tried the find duplicate files then after it found ALL duplicate files (i think also system files) i deleted it. i was half asleep when i did that then returned back to sleep. the next morning i tried to do my work using sketchup 8, i cant open it anymore. it says vray failed to load message. obviously that was because of my clumsy mistake and i still dont know how much damage i made so i tried to do a system recovery but it says it cannot create a system restore point. i cant risk reformatting my laptop. my work will be affected in terms of my schedules and files. so suggestions anyone? i badly needed to fix t…

Problem signature Problem Event Name: LiveKernelEvent OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.768.3 Locale ID: 18441 Extra information about the problem BCCode: 117 BCP1: FFFFFA80092024E0 BCP2: FFFFF88004066D88 BCP3: 0000000000000000 BCP4: 0000000000000000 OS Version: 6_1_7601 Service Pack: 1_0 Product: 768_1 Bucket ID: X64_0x117_Tdr:2_IMAGE_atikmpag.sys Server information: 075b4d7c-26ab-49c1-b690-5c304c75c3aa That's what I am getting. Using a Radeon 7870 on Catalyst 13.12 (Latest driver). Have reformatted my computer before but it did not help at all. No overclocking done on any PC components. I also have a 650W power supply, so it's impossible that I do not have…

The 1st reboot after Windows Update applied KB2929437 was VERY slow and problem continues today. I have not uninstalled that patch. WU applied ONLY that patch on 4/17/2014 as my PC was already current with all other WU patches. Running W7 Home Premium SP1 64bit on a fast HP desktop with 8GB ram and large harddrive. After boot (takes several minutes both before and again after entering my boot password) the PC seems to run OK. I run AVAST free anti-virus on this PC. Anyone have the fix for this problem? Thanks in advance. Continue reading...

I'm using a Windows 8.1 Pro, and a few days ago, I've got 2 PC issues : -1. Turn on Spyware Protection -2. Turn on Virus Protection BTW, I don't have an AV Program Please help me Continue reading...

I was over 4 hours into doing a full scan on my laptop. Do I have to start all over again or can it somehow get it to start from tne shutdown point. Thanks Continue reading...

If you use a flashdrive on a computer that has malware on it and plug it into a computer that doesn't, is there any way that it could infect the 2nd computer? Continue reading...

I'm using a Windows 8.1 Pro, and a few days ago, I've got 2 PC issues : -1. Turn on Spyware Protection -2. Turn on Virus Protection BTW, I don't have an AV Program Please help me Continue reading...

I recently got a virus on my computer which luckily I was able to catch. Microsoft Security Essentials did its job and caught the virus, and ALL my programs work just fine to my knowledge. The only problem I am now having is that some of the programs I have installed on my computer and work fine does not show up on my programs and features list, I have done everything I know how to do. At first I thought it could be a Registry Error, so I found a reliable tool to can my registry.....no problems. I thought it might be spyware or malware, which I use the paid version of malwarebytes-Anti Malware, no problems there either. I also downloaded the tool from Microsoft to scan fo…

Since around Wednesday, every time I run Microsoft Security Essentials it abruptly stops after reaching an item called \\.\PHYSICALDRIVE2\Partition0 (NTFS). Both the time elapsed stops and the interface become unresponsive, even after waiting a few minutes. I'm not sure what this is, and I can't seem to access it in Windows Explorer, either. Doesn't appear to be a "thing" I can navigate to: Continue reading...

At some recent point, Mail has begun deleting all my messages more than a month old. I have looked for a setting in preferences which will allow me to extend the length of time messages are saved for, but such a thing no longer seems to exist! Can anyone help? Continue reading...

So I was downloading the steam launcher onto my Debian today. I was following some online instructions to install the program and followed them all the way through. After i had finished installing it, I minimized my terminal and looked through my programs, of which there were none. I clicked Log Out to reboot my computer to see if that would help but it gave me an error message every time i clicked the log out button. It said something like the process was unable to run or something like that. I manually rebooted my computer and opened my OS but when i did there was no GUI. it opened in a command line and had only the "Login to wolf-PC:" text on the screen. I typed in my …

Hello, the virtual server with 4Gb ram, in future will be upgraded to more ram. Is it better to use 64bit CentOS or 32bit? I listen 64 takes more memory.. Thank you Continue reading...