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Engineers Plan a Fully Encrypted Internet

Quote: In response to the public outcry over mass Internet surveillance by the National Security Agency (NSA), the engineers who develop the protocols that underpin the Internet are deep into an...

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Windows 7 Firewall (Needs manual start every boot)

As the title says. Ive gone off Windows 8 and gone to Windows 7. Now I've noticed that every single time I boot/restart/hibernate the computer I have to manually go to 'Services', find 'Windows...

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Solved: Google results are strung down extreme left edge in IE 11

This just started today. I searched TSG & found a year-old problem with the same thing for Firefox! What's going on? My husband's laptop is also Windows 7, and his Google results are the same as...

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The file that won't leave and other minor mysteries

I have tried to update and cleanup a Toshiba netbook using your tools and what I have learned here. Three questions have come up. Here are the requisite logs (TSG System Info, Screen 317*, ADW...

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In search of software to manage/retrieve data backups

I hope I'm better at explaining the question than I have been in constructing a search query to find what I'm after. Perhaps 8-10 years ago, I routinely swept up the contents of my documents and other...

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Clock and Keyboard Help

I am running server 2012 with activate directory installed. I am having problems when im logged in to a domain user on a client pc. When I press the forward slash key on the keyboard it appears as a #...

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Stuck on chkdsk for 24 hours now

Hey...I'm looking for some helpwith my laptop. I have an HP pavilion G6 1371-ea. A few days ago it started running really slow. My first thought was a virus so I tried to scan with Avg. That scan froze...

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Outlook signatures automatically doublespacing

I'm creating image and text files in Word as html files to be saved and then opened in Outlook to create signatures. I need to include both the text and image in the signature. Upon creating the...

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Laptop dimming, cant see anything

Hi all, Recently, my Lenovo started dimming at random times. Its not the type of dimming where it just goes lighter by a bit, but the entire monitor dims to the extent that I cannot see anything unless...

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download errors

when i try to download anything my computer pops up an error that say "virus scanned failed" I am on a Toshiba Satelite running vista

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Solved: Windows 8.1 Issues

After upgrading to 8.1 I had some issues with websites. Now it only seems to be one in particular & I normally went to it fairly often now it's basically impossible to use as the website doesn't...

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My C disk is nearly full

I don't know what happened but two days ago my disk usage was about 7 GB out of 99.9 GB in use. Now it shows usage at 8.11 Gb free out of 99.9. It's as if I added hundreds of extra files. The only...

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unable to access internet through wi fi

Hi, I have broad band connection with wi fi router, i am able to connect internet with ethernet cable but unable to connect the same through wi fi connection. I have scanned the system through Farbar...

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Bluescreen at startup

Hi The last few days i have been starting up my pc and as soon as it starts i get the bluescreen windows has shut down to protect etc etc It restarts and runs as normal without any problems, i checked...

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D-Link Power Line Wireless Starter

Dear All, I just bought the new D-Link Powerline Wireless Mini Starter Kit (DHP-W311AV), I plugged the firs piece to the wall power socket & connected it to my router, the second piece was plugged...

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BSOD page fault in nonpaged area

Hello, I'm recieving this BSOD when I try to install antivirus software. I had Kaspresky pure latest version and I uninstalled it, then I tried to install avast BSOD showed up, then I tried Avira, same...

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Laptop Starts playing movie on its own...ghost?

This is not an autostart issue. In fact I'm not even sure what it is. It IS about a newer Toshiba laptop with Win8 on it, running VLC player. There is a whole story that precedes this post - which...

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I7, 2600K temps

I checked my system temps this morning and found this at idle: Intel Desktop Utillties: CPU ID Processor---- 28c ---- - Package------27c Core 0---------25c ----- - Core 0---------25 Core 1---------27c...

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Debating between two laptops: one w/ better CPU, one w/ better GPU

So Laptop 1 has an Intel Core i3-3110M, 4GB RAM, and a GeForce GT 640M LE 2GB GPU Laptop 2 has a quad core A8-A4500M, 8GB RAM, and a Radeon HD 8750M 2GB GPU They are both **** but a friend in Eastern...

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No sound with Skype

Ok I installed Skype so my Grandson and I could talk while playing GW2 and now I have no sound other than through Skype. I am running win 7 on dell studio xps never had any problens with sound befor...

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