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Windows 7 startup loop returns after system rebuilt

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Hello. I’m having a problem with one of my desktop machines that my research has not been able to solve.

I assembled 3 systems with the following (all new and bought at the same time) components:

Windows 7 Professional OEM
Gigabyte Z77-DS3H motherboard
2 x Western Digital Blue 1 TB HDD’s
2 x Corsair Vengeance LP 4gb RAM
Intel Core i3

(And an Earthwatts 650W Power Supply that is specific to the problem computer.)

Two of the computers have been running with no problems for at least 2 years. The third system developed a problem after about 9 months: it wouldn’t boot into Windows. It would boot as far as the black screen with the Windows logo, and would then reboot. It would go to Windows Error Recovery. Startup repair would fail to repair the computer automatically. I got a list of Problem Event Names, and Problem Signatures. I spent weeks researching the problem with the numbers that were listed on the Startup Repair results screen and found no suggestion that fixed the problem. Since some posters with this problem indicated it was their hard drives, I decided to just replace the hard drives and redo the system.

The system ran fine for about 9 months, and then the problem returned.

Below are the problem details from this time. They are not the same numbers as the last time, but the results are the same, as is my luck in finding a solution.

Problem Event Name: StartupRepairOffline
Problem Signature 01: 6.1.7600.16385
Problem Signature 02: 6.1.7600.16385
Problem Signature 03: unknown
Problem Signature 04: 21198896
Problem Signature 05: AutoFailOver
Problem Signature 06: 15
Problem Signature 07: NoRootCause
OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.1
Locale ID: 1033

I believe the last time this happened, Problem Signature 07 was CorruptRegistry.

For the current iteration of this problem, I have run the startup repair many times, run the Windows memory diagnostic, and done the system restore several times using different restore points, all with the same result. I recently ran AVAST Rescue Disk on the system, and while it did find and remove a few things, the problem remained.

My Net Admin friend said that he had this problem regularly when his network (100+ users) was running Windows 7. His only solution was to upgrade the OS’s. I have 3 other computers running Windows 7 with no problem. I was leaning toward a defective copy of Windows 7.

I know this problem has resulted in many, many threads on several forums, I haven’t encountered anyone that’s had the problem return. Has anyone encountered this before? Any ideas on which component I could replace to stop the loop? Thank you for any assistance.

Loading Windows 7

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I have recently restored a "crashed" Acer 5750 laptop. On reloading windows 7, the loading went well accepting the product key etc, however, a dialogue box suggested the computer be restarted to complete loading. I have restarted the computer many times but this message continues to be displayed and I fear that windows has not been fully installed. I would be most grateful for any advice as to fixing this problem in order to complete this project - Many Thanks Garry S.:smile:

removing something from my computer

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I have this thing called MPC cleaner and MPC add cleaner which has appeared on my computer it has taken over my home page on both ie and Mozilla it is not in revo or programs and features it is in all programs but has no uninstall feature its also in program files its peeing me off. I've just noticed its no longer in all programs I used delete there but I cant delete in program files it wants me to be administrator for this, how do you become this I tried right clicking but there was no option to become administrator.:grin::angry:

Wireless Adapter Failing After Disabling

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Hello, I have a Windows 7 laptop that has this infuriating issue lately that I've tried many times to fix, but have failed.

Sometimes I like to connect to the internet via Ethernet, and sometimes I prefer using Wi-fi, depending on where I am, so whenever I want to use Ethernet, I disable the wi-fi adapter. But the issue appears when I want to re-enable the adapter. When I try to enable it some time later it appears as if it has disappeared in the network adapters list, and when I go to my Device Manager and find the adapter there, it shows a caution symbol on it. When I check the properties of the adapter it reads: "Windows cannot load the device driver for this hardware because a previous instance of the device driver is still in memory. (Code 38)" And when I look at the Resource settings: it reads: "This device isn't using any resources because it has a problem."

The adapter name is Intel(R) Centrino(R) Wireless-N 2230.
I have tried the following so far:
- Rebooting the laptop.
- Disabling and then re-enabling the adapter via Device Manager.
- Browsing Microsoft's website for an update for the driver.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

(By the way if you're thinking "well you could just set your wi-fi to not automatically connect to the network so you can do it manually" I know, but I made a batch file to make using Wireless and Wired easier, and this issue wasn't always happening. Finally I know it's not the batch file because it used to work with the batch file)

Windows 7 64bit updates?

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Hello People,

I have just installed recently Win7 Pro 64 bit onto an SSD, Intel tower.

All is great except the updates are somehow compromised. Alert give me an indication that updates are waiting to be installed, but when I click on it, the Windows Update field say that it has NEVER searched for updates, and I have to start it up. It goes looking but never arrives with anything, so the alert is denied by the updater?

On looking at installed updates, some have been done, but the majority have failed. This install is already SP1.

I have done registry clean with regesofts and later on ccleaner, plus before I did sfc /scannow and chkdsk, to no obvious benefit?

I also did the FIXIT program install and run for addressing update failures.

Any ideas? :nonono:

I Forget my user password how to reset.

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I my outlet my pos machine password was forget.pls help me how to reset user password and pos machine only usb port no drive.

operating system .windows 7 professional 32 bit
processor atom
ram 2gb

new to report the

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Hello everyone, new to report the

[SOLVED] Hit save without selecting location

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system info at bottom of post
I saved a word doc assuming it would go to documents as most do but apparently it did not. I found the doc and here is its path.

Users\Me\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Word\name of doc

I cannot follow this path. In the “Me” location there are only these items listed and I do not find AppData in any of these locations.

.oracle_jre_usage
Contacts
Desktop
Documents
Downloads
Favorites
Links
Music
Pictures
Saved games
Videos
Searches

I did an ESET online scan just a few days ago. Last full scan of MRE was 5/2/16. I am hoping the problem is that I don't know my file system as well as I might.

OS Version: Microsoft® Windows Vista™ Home Premium, Service Pack 2, 64 bit
Processor: Intel(R) Pentium(R) Dual CPU T3400 @ 2.16GHz, Intel64 Family 6 Model 15 Stepping 13
Processor Count: 2
RAM: 1915 Mb
Graphics Card: Mobile Intel(R) 4 Series Express Chipset Family, 830 Mb
Hard Drives: C: Total - 110427 MB, Free - 45103 MB;
Motherboard: TOSHIBA, Portable PC
Antivirus: Microsoft Security Essentials, Updated and Enabled

user data gone!!!!

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So I created a new user on my laptop and when I went to sign in today, windows was treating me like a brand new user, all of my files, history everything was gone. I went into my user data via my computer and everything was there but windows wont recognise it as me. I transferred everything to my external just in case but any idea how to get all that back on to my desktop?

2 simple questions on internet

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Hello.

1. If I'm using Windows 7, since Edge is only for Win10 ...
Why's Edge is only for Win10?
How can I browse natively by IE, if Youtube ceased its support for IE10/11?
2. Siri or Cortana - how can I access the service thrue Windows XP / Vista / 7 / 8.1?

How to restore my favorites files in IE 9

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Hello everybody! During the day computer was in sleep stage and suddenly we had power failure for one minute. After I turn on computer, open internet explorer 9 and discovered that I lost all my favorites! Favorites pan empty! I open IE folder in program folder and folder “FAVORITES” show all my 90 favorites files.
Last year I bought 1 GB iDrive external HD and after couple of weeks I returned this HD because it was too slow and delete all iDrive software. And closed idrive clouds backup. When I open my “user folder” I still have iDrive-Sync folder and in this folder all my favorites files. And one more favorite’s folder belongs to windows with all my favorites 90 files. I deleted idDrive-Sync and all my favorites files disappear from user folder. After restart computer user favorites folder was in place but all the files disappeared. I restored iDrive-Sync from recycle bin and in user folder favorites files was restored to. How to restore my FAVORITES files in IE pan? And how to kill iDrive-Sync from computer. :facepalm:

Any help I deeply appreciated.

My System is: Dell Dimension E520, OS Vista home premium, IE 9, RAM 4 GB.

Odd Boot up

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The Boot was real slow almost as if nothing were happening. Then I hit the on button again and it did the Toshiba open page and went to a screen asking me to do a startup repair. I chose it and it said it did not work at the end. When I hit finish it shut down when I booted again it started up normally.

Is there something I should be worried about? malware? imminent hardware failure? ?????

The HD is SS Samsung not much over a year old. The Mobo is a used one that has worked fine since I installed it. It looked almost new. There was nothing unusual on shutdown last night.

Internet/electricity going out while comp updates

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I do not know if I mentioned this but there was one time when the internet went out (as it does somethimes here) while my computer was updating and the updating just stayed frozen until the Internet came back on. So ultimately it couldn't even shutdown while the Internet was off. But here's my big worry, what if the electricity goes out when updating. (that happens sometimes here too) is that something to worry about?

My Windows works only in Safe Mode with Networking but not Normally. Help needed!

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Hello;

My Windows Vista Home Premium 32bit works only in Safe Mode with Networking.

If I try to start Windows Normaly; it crashes and restarts with the message that Windows has recovered from an expected error. It's a blue screen with some memory dump message... I can't really read it as the screen disappears... It keeps happening.


It is Lenovo Laptop with Windows Vista Home Premium (SP2) with Intel Core 2 Duo CPU 2.10GHz; 3GB (2+1) RAM, 32-bit OS.

It had C: & D:

(i) I have taken backup of my Data.
(ii) I have tried to run on both the RAMs (1 GB & 2 GB) to see if the problem was with any of the RAM. It still restarts.
(iii) It runs fine in Safe Mode with Networking
(iv) I have formatted D:
(v) I have run chkdsk to check any error on C: it didn't find any error.
(vi) I have re-installed Windows Vista Home premium (using lenovo product recovery DVD) & upgraded to Service Pack 2.
(vii) I have also updated Device Drivers.
(viii) I couldn't run OneTouch System Restore as I had increased size of my C: partition.

However problem remains. It keeps restarting. I cannot run Windows Update to look for an Windows Patches as my machine restarts.
and I assume I cannot run Windows Update in Safe Mode.

If it is an hardware Issue then how come it is working in Safe Mode with Networking.

What could be the problem? Someone please help.

Thanks
Subodh

BSOD

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I am running Windows 7 64 bit. I have been experiencing around 16 BSODs a month. 46 Kernel-Power events since February 24, 2016. That is counting the 3 BSODs I received when I attempted a full computer scan with AVG and I received one while attempting to run a complete scan with Windows Defender. AVG never completes a scan whereas Win. Def. completed the scan on the second attempt. The Bugcheck codes include 52, 59, 126, 292, and 0. 292 has only appeared once in my logs. Please help I cannot afford to loose or spend the time redoing any more work. Thank you

Disk defragmenter

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I decided to use the disk defragmenter after quite some time. When I click to run it, I get the following notification .. I don't know why. Can anyone please explain what this means?

Screenshot of notification attached.

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Finding Excel file that was never saved

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Hi,

I have a file that I worked on all day, yes I know I should have saved it, that i need help recovering. My computer updated at the end of the day yesterday and did an auto restart before I had time to actually save the file. It was auto saved every 10 minutes but the file was still named book1 and never saved anywhere on my computer by me. Am I out of luck or is there a clever way of recovering this file? I have went through many steps already. Please help!

Signed,

The Big Dummy :banghead:

Windows 7 will not boot up after Windows 10 upgrade

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Hey guys,

I hope this is in the right section, but might as well get into it (pictures too!). So last night I was out with some friends and left my computer on, only to come home to my computer (Windows 7) fully updated to Windows 10. Naturally I was kinda like "ehhh, might as well test it out" type thing, but after playing around with it for about 15 minutes I didn't like the interface and wanted my old Windows 7 back. So I followed the instructions on Windows 10 by going to settings and clicking recovery or something to go back to Windows 7. It brings up the prompt and what not and gets into by saying I need to restart my computer etc. As it starts up, this screen pops up:


From this I just suspected I would do the "Start Windows Normally" option, but it doesn't work at all. Clicking it just brings up some blue screen, and then it takes me right back to black screen with "Start Windows Normally" and "Launch Startup Repair". Here is the blue screen:


With not much else left, I tried the "Launch Startup Repair" option and let it run its course. Basically at the end of it nothing happens as it cannot fix it and suggests I do a system restore. The problem is all my system restore points do not come up for some reason (I suspect the update to 10 messed it up upon switching back), and I unfortunately do not have my drive backed up or anything. I should mention I'm not the best with PCs, but at this point I was super worried and panicked I lost all my data or something. I decided to call Microsoft for some help, and the short version is 3 hours later (sadly) the technician suggests I wipe my computer and do a clean install. It is important to mention we went into Safe Mode and it boots up with all my files there, but I really don't want to copy everything and do the fresh start as it will take a long time/is very annoying. So I am hoping someone here has a better solution that will be able to fix it.

From my understanding something with the startup isn't right, and I know you can access that stuff using F2 or F12 or something, so I want to know if someone here may have an idea of how to get it to boot up normally and avoid the long daunting alternative of a clean reset. I also took pictures of the report from windows about the system repair if that is of any use:
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I posted them all there (not in the right order sorry). But basically in short I updated to Windows 10, didn't like it and reverted to 7 which is now unable to boot up at all in normal mode. Thus if anyone has anymore information or insight in how to fix it without having to remove everything and reinstall windows, I would greatly appreciate it!

Thanks guys, and keep up the good work!

checking for updates in vista

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My HP G50-109NR laptop keeps checking for updates. The last successful update was "Windows update agent 7.6.7600.25" on 5/5/2016. No updates since then. I have SP1 and SP2 installed. I ran a full scan with Windows defender, but no threats found. There are no error messages.

Black screen in games

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hi so i am playing a game called league of legends and 30 mins into the game screen went black,i am still hearing my friends on Ts and talking to them,the keyboard was working cuz the keyboard mute button worked but there is no mouse i turned off the pc from the CPU and turned it again played 1 game and the issue didnt happen but the game was over under 30 mins, 3rd game 35 mins in the problem happened again,could this be overheating ? cuz today is a very hot day like 42 degrees
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