- Messages
- 41
- Location
- Leamington
I've come to this board again for expedient solutions. SO painfully exasperating trying to find fix's & answers with all sorts of threads appearing in yahoo or google search engines. I'm not stupid...I've followed the tips & tricks, but it's not applying to my system or I just can't find the right thing to resolve the matter. I shouldn't be having this much trouble...my computer isn't even 4 months old. Everything was fine when I first began using it in December...now all this tiny annoying stuff.
My AVG & Iobit Malware Fighter, now, aren't automatically launching at Windows startup. I checked the start menu programs & it's EMPTY. I fail to understand why it's blank! I didn't take anything out.
Then there's the deal with my system restore. It keeps getting turned off. I suspect it's because I run this other utility that disables unnecessary programs to boost resources...no biggie, I can manually turn it on. But here's the catch...I turned system restore on today cause I needed to use it (experimenting with trying to reset things & eliminate another minor glitch which has come up...the AMD Radeon graphics drivers keep intermittently crashing since the last automatic driver update. I have seen extensive information leading to the fact there is a flaw in this update...then all AMD radeon graphics from the 5900 series to the 8400's sporadically crashes...it's a pandemic across the board). I'll get to the graphics drivers in a different post.
Back to system restore...so I choose the earliest available restore point, which is April 4th [idk what's happened to all the previous one's...system restore was activated when computer was new]...I used to have the option of reverting computers state back to December 30th/2013. Now I only have April 4th & sooner...anyways, the system restore status was "on"...it appeared normal & functional. The restore was taking forever...the computer sits in like a suspended animation to infinity saying, "wait while system restore restores the registry". Eventually I think the stupid thing timed out. A notification on screen told me that system restore had failed & no changes were made to my computer. Good grief what is going on? An empty startup menu, system restore now fails to perform...won't reset anything. I got a new computer so I didn't have to put up with these matters that were plaguing me on my nearly 20 year old IBM computer. This computer is new...I shouldn't be having all these quirks.
Then I was wondering if it had anything to do with HP service tech through remote host...he disabled a bunch of things but they were all under my windows maintainence settings (HP was reinstalling the AMD Radeon Graphics drivers supposedly to overcome the intermittent crashes. It didn't WORK! That's a whole separate problem with a flawed driver update I now can't undo cause system restore won't restore my computer! ...& also because all current versions of the driver download are the 13.12 version which is the one causing all the problems. So until they get the bugs fixed, I'm stuck with random crashes ].
Anyways...I re-selected "on" & restored all the functions under windows maintainence...but this is unrelated to the other stuff...so shouldn't have anything at all to do with the failure of system restore. I'm at my wits end...anyone got any ideas what's going on?
I'm running windows 8.1 AMD A6-5200 APU. HD radeon 8400 graphics on an HP Pavilion 23...LED backlit display.
My AVG & Iobit Malware Fighter, now, aren't automatically launching at Windows startup. I checked the start menu programs & it's EMPTY. I fail to understand why it's blank! I didn't take anything out.
Then there's the deal with my system restore. It keeps getting turned off. I suspect it's because I run this other utility that disables unnecessary programs to boost resources...no biggie, I can manually turn it on. But here's the catch...I turned system restore on today cause I needed to use it (experimenting with trying to reset things & eliminate another minor glitch which has come up...the AMD Radeon graphics drivers keep intermittently crashing since the last automatic driver update. I have seen extensive information leading to the fact there is a flaw in this update...then all AMD radeon graphics from the 5900 series to the 8400's sporadically crashes...it's a pandemic across the board). I'll get to the graphics drivers in a different post.
Back to system restore...so I choose the earliest available restore point, which is April 4th [idk what's happened to all the previous one's...system restore was activated when computer was new]...I used to have the option of reverting computers state back to December 30th/2013. Now I only have April 4th & sooner...anyways, the system restore status was "on"...it appeared normal & functional. The restore was taking forever...the computer sits in like a suspended animation to infinity saying, "wait while system restore restores the registry". Eventually I think the stupid thing timed out. A notification on screen told me that system restore had failed & no changes were made to my computer. Good grief what is going on? An empty startup menu, system restore now fails to perform...won't reset anything. I got a new computer so I didn't have to put up with these matters that were plaguing me on my nearly 20 year old IBM computer. This computer is new...I shouldn't be having all these quirks.
Then I was wondering if it had anything to do with HP service tech through remote host...he disabled a bunch of things but they were all under my windows maintainence settings (HP was reinstalling the AMD Radeon Graphics drivers supposedly to overcome the intermittent crashes. It didn't WORK! That's a whole separate problem with a flawed driver update I now can't undo cause system restore won't restore my computer! ...& also because all current versions of the driver download are the 13.12 version which is the one causing all the problems. So until they get the bugs fixed, I'm stuck with random crashes ].
Anyways...I re-selected "on" & restored all the functions under windows maintainence...but this is unrelated to the other stuff...so shouldn't have anything at all to do with the failure of system restore. I'm at my wits end...anyone got any ideas what's going on?
I'm running windows 8.1 AMD A6-5200 APU. HD radeon 8400 graphics on an HP Pavilion 23...LED backlit display.
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 8.1
- Computer type
- PC/Desktop
- System Manufacturer/Model
- HP Pavilion 23
- CPU
- AMD A6 5200 APU
- Motherboard
- ??
- Memory
- 4 GB
- Graphics Card(s)
- Radeon HD 8400
- Monitor(s) Displays
- 23 " led back-lit flatscreen
- Screen Resolution
- 1920 x 1080 landscape
- Hard Drives
- 1TB HDD
- PSU
- external black box
- Cooling
- fan located inside device
- Keyboard
- HP wireless chiclet style
- Mouse
- HP wireless optical mouse
- Internet Speed
- 6.02 mbps download .62 upload (Bell sympatico/Fibe 5)
- Browser
- Comodo Dragon
- Antivirus
- AVG 2014
- Other Info
- dual layer optical drive. DVD/RW/CD; 6 in 1 card readers, 6 USB ports...3-2.0, 3-3.0.