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    Windows 7 - Build 7601 copy not genuine - Windows must be restored

    Windows 7 has had a mind of its own recently. I had set the updates to download but to not update. Of course it seems it is determined to update without my input at all, so when I put the computer into sleep mode I woke up this morning to find the computer on and it sitting at the login screen...
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    Lg 27mp33hq 27"

    That setting isn't anywhere on the menu.
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    Lg 27mp33hq 27"

    I'm trying to turn off the auto-dimming for my monitor. See here: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824025041 The driver CD it came with won't even read (it spins around and stops--and yes, I have double-checked by reading with other CDs to ensure that the optical drive...
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    New rig won't post

    Greetings, I recently built a new computer and I am having trouble having it post. When flipping the PSU on, the CPU overvoltage jumper light on the motherboard (Asus Z97) turns green. The CPU is a i7-4790K. The PSU is an EVGA 850 B2. I have moved the jumper to pins 2-3 and the light still...
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    HP Envy 15 Notebook PC phantom CPU usage

    Greetings, I bought an HP Envy touchscreen notebook back in late November. I haven't really noticed, however, until mid March that if the computer idles for about five minutes, without fail, the system takes up 18% of CPU usage and holds there until I bring it out of its idle state by moving...
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    Momentary freezing with Firefox

    Sorry I wasn't clearer. I'm using Windows 7, I have not installed anything recently. Also this problem persists for all browsers. Also I'm just noticing that the problem doesn't seem to be limited to what browser I'm using, but I'm also getting momentary freezes when just browsing around the...
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    Momentary freezing with Firefox

    I booted up my computer this morning and I've been experiencing momentary freezing in Firefox ever since. Every time I move the mouse around, open up a new link, etc., it happens randomly, but everything freezes for a split second and then continues like normal. This is persistent and continues...
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    Windows 7 login taking atrociously long after recent java update

    Instead I decided to just use the slave drive in the mean time. And obviously since I'm posting here, you can probably guess something went wrong. Everything went fine for a day. Then it locked up. I restarted the computer. There was no "hanging" at the Windows start up--it acted completely...
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    Windows 7 login taking atrociously long after recent java update

    Pretty much described what I've been going through the last few weeks. Sometimes I wish you'd just get the click of death outright because at least then you know 100% what the problem is. Anyway, I managed to finally get into safe mode (I stepped away for 20 minutes hoping it would freeze and...
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    Windows 7 login taking atrociously long after recent java update

    No, I wrote the command prompt in full. I just then went ahead and typed each one individually. Anyway, we're back to square one again. When it happened for a third time I realized there was a pattern to getting safe mode to work (because it would always freeze and hang at classpnp.sys...
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    Windows 7 login taking atrociously long after recent java update

    I will never understand the voodoo magic that is computer hardware... I got into safemode with the command prompt. I ran chkdsk and got the following (with /x): The type of file system is NTFS. Cannot lock current drive. Chkdsk cannot run because the volume is in use by another process...
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    Windows 7 login taking atrociously long after recent java update

    I'm not one for violence, but I wouldn't mind if the person responsible for rootkits/bootkits was flayed alive a thousand times until the end of time. So we're back to square one again. I'm guessing the rootkit is actually on another one of my hard drives (I have a slave and an external...
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    Document files appearing blank when they aren't

    I did when trying to open them up on a laptop, but I only tried to open up two documents before realizing I should probably stop because, as you said, it seemed to be "blanking" them. Why would all of these files I never touched with OpenOffice be acting like this?
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    Document files appearing blank when they aren't

    The templates are different. Normal-looking documents are under a "Normal.dotm" template, while the ones that are wonky are under "Normal.dot". It also lists the origin of program name as "Microsoft Word 9.0" instead of "Microsoft Office Word".
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    Document files appearing blank when they aren't

    Nope. Nothing. Nope. Saved it as an .rtf file. I opened it up and it showed up with every page full of underlines. I should also note that it seems completely random as to which files appear blank and which do not. Some .doc files open just fine. At first I thought it had to do with files...
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    Document files appearing blank when they aren't

    So I recently reformatted and was going through installing all the software. Got Microsoft Office 2010 back on and I was looking through my backed up documents and many of them appear "blank". When I say blank I mean I open them up and nothing is there. The problem is that there is supposed to...
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    Windows 7 login taking atrociously long after recent java update

    In case it wasn't clear, I obviously gave up on trying to fix the problem. Eventually just took the hard drive and got it zeroed. Had to start from scratch but everything is fine now.
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    Windows 7 login taking atrociously long after recent java update

    I get recenv.exe corrupt files when trying system repair. I went forward anyway with the command prompt and when I did the last step (rebuild) it said bootrec.exe was corrupt as well. tried rebooting to see what would happen--no brief error message by it it just hangs forever at the load up...
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    Windows 7 login taking atrociously long after recent java update

    Yeah not sure what good it will do now. tried reformatting and it froze before it could finish. now every time I boot I get a ntldr is missing error and my keyboard is unresponsive. what do I do now
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    Windows 7 login taking atrociously long after recent java update

    Well i give up. ran the scan in safe mode for six hours with no luck. tried to boot again and I get stuck at starting windows (I let it gang there for 20 minutes) same thing with safe mode now, won't boot up either. trying a system restore before I downloaded the java update.
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    Windows 7 login taking atrociously long after recent java update

    Got back in and installed combofix. I got a bsod within the first minute of the scan. now I'm trying in safe mode.
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    Windows 7 login taking atrociously long after recent java update

    I took a look at Autoruns. I really didn't have much coming up at autorun but I did disable some things that were unnecessary (like my android's autoupdate). I also took a look at JavaRa and uninstalled old versions of Java and then restarted. Boot up was more in line with how it was before, as...
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    Windows 7 login taking atrociously long after recent java update

    I finished a Symantec scan and it came back with nothing. however, after some time (an hour) programs began to lock up. I tried to bring up task manager but after about a minute with no system response I got an error (failed to display security and shutdown options). I tried it a second time and...
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    Windows 7 login taking atrociously long after recent java update

    Pretty much what it says on the tin. Previously booting up and logging in took about one or two minutes all together. Ever since I installed a recent java update, however, I sat at my computer for a full five minutes at the "starting Windows" screen and then waited another two minutes for the...
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    Memory usage being eaten up

    I'm having troubles with memory usage with my computer. It's a problem I've had in the past but only when Symantec tries to run its stealth scans (at 12PM each day). When I'm running a memory-intensive program at that time (such as a game that requires excessive memory, like Empire: Total War or...
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    Cannot disable hardware acceleration

    Yep, seems like that was the problem. It's strange, considering I used this same mouse for the last year with a laptop and had no problems with it.
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    Cannot disable hardware acceleration

    So I recently got back home after having been away for a year and began to remember the problems I was having with my system before I left. One such problem concerns a Logitech PnP mouse I've been using for the last year or so. Sometimes when I'm holding down the button to drag something (like a...
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    External hard drive not working

    This is the hard drive in question: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822136469 I'm not sure if it's entirely relevant, but I'm also living in Israel at the moment, but I've been using the correct power converters for a month now with no troubles. Cloning was the first thing I...
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    External hard drive not working

    Every time I try "Deeper Search" the program simply freezes. I'm trying it with GetDataBack now. What do you mean? Is there some way to hook up the external to a computer directly?
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    External hard drive not working

    To clarify, when I use testdisk and I follow the directions (here: http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Step_By_Step), when I try to list my files it says, "Support for this filesystem hasn't been enable during compilation." When I select my external it defaults to "none" in the partition...
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    External hard drive not working

    How can I pull the info off the hard drive though? I've tried testdisk but it says the hard drive is fine.
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    External hard drive not working

    So I start my laptop like any other day and try to access my external hard drive only to find that the drive listing is set to the default name (Local Disk) and when I try to access it Windows gives me an error message saying that I need to format the disk before I can use it. Uh, what? I have...
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    Win 7 login troubles

    So I've had the temporary login profile problem ever since I installed Windows 7. I never thought much of it because I would simply log out when the problem happened and then log back in and everything would be alright. Lo and behold of all the days for this problem to persist permanently would...
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    GTX 470 is exceedingly loud

    Well, the case got here today. All I can say is wow, what a difference. Whereas before my best idle temperature was 51C, I'm looking at 43C with this new case. Played a few system-intensive games and the max temperature I hit was 74C. The noise is definitely not an issue any more for me. Thanks...
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    GTX 470 is exceedingly loud

    I did, it just seemed strange that a case with more fans and more space would have such performance issues. Well, so far it seems that case air flow is the problem, so once the new case comes in, I'll see how much of a difference it makes and where to go from there. Fair enough. I put in an...
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    GTX 470 is exceedingly loud

    Are you sure? It looks smaller and has fewer fans than the Coolermaster.
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    GTX 470 is exceedingly loud

    This the case you're talking about? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16811129068 It looks like the Cooler Master is the better deal, especially with free shipping & handling. Any other weigh-ins?
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    GTX 470 is exceedingly loud

    Right, case fans got here today finally (package sat all day yesterday not moving anywhere). They do about jack for the air flow, so I guess it's new case time. Considering the card is the only thing I wanted to spend anything on, something cheap. And, of course, something that supports my...
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    GTX 470 is exceedingly loud

    I turned the settings on and it looks like it's at 1012 (which I assume is 1.012).
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    GTX 470 is exceedingly loud

    This is generally what the default setting was. It's alright though, I did some experimenting of my own. 0 - 50c = 50% fan speed. 50 - 60c = 70%. 80c = 80%. Anything hotter than 80c would progress up the food chain for that. It helped out a bit. I wasn't topping out at 90% fan speed in JC2...