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Had a strange problem yesterday. It wasn't a blue screen of death but a black one that essentially told me that I needed to insert a boot disk or something like that. I rebooted and Windows came up again. Went to youtube and the same thing happened after about ten minutes. Ran SFC scan and...

I have a strange problem where I can write to DVD-RW disks but not to DVD-R disks. I used to be able to do both with the hardware I'm using (Liteon Ihas 524). Any ideas on what's wrong or how to fix this?

Has anyone had a problem with Avast turning off USB ports? After weeks of stable computer use, I tried using Avast once again, but I noticed when I restarted, my USB mouse no longer worked. I moved it to another USB slot and it worked, so I didn't worry about it. Then today, I noticed that...

I was wondering if there was a way to avoid login when switching between accounts. I have things set up so I automatically login when I start the computer and when I awake from sleep. But if my wife is using the computer and switches to her account, when I switch back, I have to sign in. I...

I'm using Windows Defender, and I believe it's causing freezes on my system. What's happening is that I'll notice my system freezing, and I see a little black clock on the notifications flag which says "scheduled scan." If I do almost anything with the computer, it will freeze. If I do a...

I've been noticing some bizarre behavior on startup times and shutdown times, and I'm wondering if there can be any connection with USB sticks. I haven't done extensive experiments, but a few observations. 1. I noticed that restarts were very slow (3-10 minutes), but that booting up after...

Not sure what is going on right now. My computer was fine this morning before I left for work. My wife said it was working fine this morning, and then she left it for a while and when it came back, she was getting blank screens. When I took a look, it was blank. I did a hard shutdown and...

I've had some major problems with Windows 8 recently, I'll start with the questions, and give the story later if you're interested. 1. Does the Windows 8 installation disk do a quick format or a full format that deals with bad sectors before installing? 2. If Windows 8 tries to install files...