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My windows 7 all of a sudden can not detect MY wifi, but can detect others
Good afternoon, I have a Windows 7 laptop hooked up, it has detected my wifi fine, and all of a sudden, after doing a reset on my Xfinity router, the laptop stopped detecting my wifi.
My other ...
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VAIO Laptop not booting Windows - Boots Splashtop OS instead
I am having problems with my VAIO Laptop. It is a E Series Windows 7 Home Premium 64BIT machine.
The problem is that it keeps on booting up the Quick Web Access evenn when I press the power button. I ...
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NumLock light on permanently on keyboard attached to Windows 7 laptop
I have a regular keyboard plugged into my Latitude notebook. The Num Lock light is ALWAYS on. If you press the Num Lock key nothing happens. How do I fix this so that the Num Lock key toggles Num Lock ...
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Realtek ethernet port does not work in HP 1000 notebook PC with Windows 7
A day or two back, my HP 1000 notebook had been in sleep mode for a long time. Then when I opened the screen the LAN light turned off. The weird part is that the LED for LAN glows when the screen is ...
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Windows 7 won't install on an old laptop
I'm going to tell you a short backstory to help you understand the issue.
I've taken a laptop from a person and promised to make it run better. The laptop is old, and needs an older Windows version to ...
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How to install com ports in windows 7?
I'm having a big problem on how to install programs since the ports are not functioning after I just downgraded my laptop's OS to windows 7.
I check my device manager, and I can't find Universal ...
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Dell Studio XPS 1640 start up issues
I've had a Dell Studio XPS 1640 Laptop for about 8 years. The last 4 years I've had issues with it's booting. It will start to load and then get the blue screen of death for a millisecond and ...
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Alternate boot on Lenovo Thinkbook Ultrabook
My wife's Aunt's friend's brother's passed away, and I am charged with getting into his computer. It's a Lenovo Thinkpad Ultraboot; he set a password onto boot-up screen, and of course no one knows ...
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Windows 7 strange random freeze / lock up but not crashing
My Laptop has been suffering from a very strange random lock up, here's how it happens.
There's no sign before the lock up happen, I could be doing anything. During the last few freezes I had I was ...
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laptop not power on after travelling
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i travelled from chicago to virginia in bus and i put my laptop lenovo w530 on my back pack and my laptop not fell down no other damages . but after coming to home i try to turn on my ...
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Windows 8.1 fresh install on a UEFI laptop?
Sorry for the vague title. I haven't used a Windows Laptop in about 4 years and the last time I reformatted a laptop around 2 years ago, I used Windows 7 (which turned out fine).
Recently, I had a ...
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Restore laptop to it's original OS with all data and settings kept
I have a Lenovo ThinkPad L412 which currently has an unactivated version of Windows 7 Enterprise installed. When this laptop was bought, it had an activated version of Windows 7 Professional on it, ...
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Unable to start computer with docking station button while connected to a docking station and laptop lid is closed, but when open, works fine
I am placing a laptop (ThinkPad L530 running Win 7 32bit OS) on a docking station within a cart and placing the laptop inside the cart and closing the lid, then connecting an external monitor to the ...
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HP Elitebook 8570p / Windows 7 - Docking issues / After entering credentials, desktop is just a black screen
When booting the laptop on a docking station, the logon screen appears and user X is able to input thier credentials. Then the desktop does not load - just a black screen. When the laptop is ...
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Why games with low system requirements are lagging?
I got a HP laptop and I dual-boot Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit with Kali Linux 64-bit.I installed Minecraft and Counter Strike to see how they are running and both of them were lagging a lot.I couldn't ...
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