I've recently started a new job far from home, so I'm staying monday to friday in a flat.  Rather than humpf my desktop back and forth, I dug out my old laptop I bought years ago in America (I live in the UK now).  It's a DELL Inspiron, Pentium III and after reintalling Windows XP Pro and updating to service pack 3, it runs SO slowly.  I've got the ( Read more... )

Hello. I have a toshiba satellite l455d-s5976. The hard drive on it, running Windows 7. Home premium. 32 bit., stopped working. We bought a new one that's bigger at 320 gigs. When i put in the repair disk it loads files and then prompts me to put in disk one. When i do that, it pops the disk out and asks again. I talked to tech support with ( Read more... )

I can't get help with this anywhere else. Everyone keeps telling me to turn down my graphics and play in DirectX 9, and that doesn't help ( Read more... )

Last summer I was experiencing a very strange and irritating Internet connectivity issue in which I could access my browser and Skype fine but could not access messengers or MMOs. Running ping tests in the command prompt returned "Request timed out" messages and it affected all computers on the network. This issue was only fixed by getting a new ( Read more... )

Before a website may be observable and used by people on the Internet how to Choose the Right Website Hosting Service for Your Company it wants to be submitted to a hosting server. A webhost is websites that are put by a company on the Internet so that people can notice them and visit. Your web host will put your site on their high-power server ( Read more... )

Since about July or August, I've had this really stupid adware infection. I don't know how I got it, but it's a click-redirect adware and everytime I click a link on a search engine, I'll be redirected to some stupid ad site and have to hit the back button and click again to get to the link. I have Malwarebytes, Spybot Search and Destroy, and ( Read more... )

So I've sort of got a weird problem. I'm a walking static bomb, and it gets worse in the winter. Normally this isn't a big deal, and when I'm at home, I just make sure to discharge before going near electronics ( Read more... )

My 2 year old laptop is running hot. It's gotten to the point where the fan kicks in pretty much right after I turn it on, and kicks into high speed if I do anything, like open a browser window. According to Speedfan, the temperatures are too high a bunch of/most of the time (around 75 degrees Celsius, if I remember correctly) unless I'm doing ( Read more... )

My friend's Dell Latitude 0400 laptop has been having a strange problem since this morning that he can't seem to be able to fix. The computer will not power up. The power-up lights turn on and flicker for a few seconds, but they soon flicker out and the screen never boots. He's checked the battery and it's fine, and he's tried plugging it in, twice ( Read more... )

I have this really stupid piece of malware on my computer I can't remove, called IWinGames. There are 3 instances of it on my computer according to Spybot S&D and it's this really annoying thing that keeps giving me click-redirect ads whenever I use a search engine. And I can't get rid of it ( Read more... )