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Needing some Windows 7 help. It won't start and has been on "Start up repair is checking your system for problems" for 14 hours.

Since last September's update, the Java in my mom's 'puter has not worked properly, and she is unable to go use her "Pogo" site. I have tried using the MS uninstaller, and the Oracle site's uninstaller with no success. The folks at Staples went through the programs line by line and removed Java that way, but that only lasted a week, and the problem came back. No further Java updates have been able to install themselves, and she is stuck with a non-functioning Java v7.7 Help, if you can. Snide apple and linux comments will be ignored

You all know that I've been having computer problems. My old computer died and this is a used one I bought to replace it, and it spent a week in the shop as well. Anyway, one of the great things about the Internet is getting to listen to radio and watch television in exotic foreign languages. But for some reason suddenly my Mozilla Firefox can't support live streaming via Windows Media Player. And I have the plugin! I downloaded it myself. It's there; I checked! So please don't tell me to download what I already have. I just want to...

Good morning.Truckloads of prayers for the beautiful state of Iowa, its wonderful people, and for all others affected by the terrible weather events and flooding.

Just a couple of questions to people who have installed xp service pack 3. Is it worth the installation? What benifits are they? I did a little research and found a ton of info and a lot of people complaining about problems, would you recommend a person with mediocore pc problem solving skills install this?

For the last couple of months my computer has periodically been freezing up when not in use. It locks everything, even the clock. I've not added any new programs. I even have uninstalled Symantic and went with Avast/Spybot/Windows firewall. When it happens I can't even use ctrl/alt/del. (It's a Windows XP OS.) I have to manually shut down the computer and reboot. Any suggestions? Thanx.

Well, my experiences of both types of laptop this week has left me reeling. Where do I start? Let’s start with the Mac, a MacBook with OSX preloaded. The MacBook was a joy to look at, very well finished with a glossy white sheen that looked and felt good in the hand. And light. On opening the thing had obviously been placed in suspension, and it just started. It found my network and was ready to use. The interface, OSX, with its one button for the mouse, threw me for a few minutes as I am VERY used to Windows...

When I turn my computer on and the screen appears, all I get is the hourglass (The mouse pointer turns into an hourglass whenever I move it towards the START menu or taskbar) and I'm unable to access my START menu. I usually turn the power off several times before it works again. I just did a virus and spyware scan and they came back clean. Yes, I have Windows XP (Cue the "Get a Mac!" responses). Please advise.

my computer has spyware from winfixer 2005 and the aurora ABS network and neither AVG virus nor Adaware can fix it what should i do?

Thanks for any help. This morning I was online (using dail-up) and it forze up on me. I have windows 2000. I hit rrestart after it froze and the system came back up except then it did not see my keyboard. So I hit the restart again and unplugged and replugged my keyboard (that's worked in the past for the mouse). Well now the monitor seems to start but goes immediately to like power save, with the the monitor light going from green to light yellow. Its on but not showing anything. Any suggestions? Its at home so I will...

I'm Running windows XP and i only just recently re-installed it and since then i have had a very annoying problem, it keeps restarting i have tried a number of spyware programs, updated them cleaned the whole thing out, ive also tried running AVG (updated) and i also have a program that tells me the temp of the computer which is normal, i have 3 fans on the computer anyways and im getting really annoyed with this problem i feel like i have tried everything. please someone help me!

Today a fellow teacher reported to me that her computer plays music all on it's own, without command or any program running. There is no cd in the cd-rom. I had her run the task wizard while the music was playing and nothing was running (that wasn't suppose to like systray, etc) Has anyone out there ever experienced a virus or hidden pgm that would cause this. I gotta take a look at it tomorrow.. it this possible our is she out there in the ozone?w teacher reported to me that her computer plays music all on it's own, without...