Thank you so much! That just saved me a ton of time and trouble!
Got it. I'll be reformatting soon then!
Got it. Thanks again for the help!
Good news! I checked my student email from last December and found that they had emailed me the product key along with the download link. However,...
I don't remember the exact date, but I do remember it was right before Christmas, when I was home from college. So around December 16-23....
It's got Windows 7 on it, but only for another 25 days if I can't figure out how to activate it. For the purposes of this thread though, my...
Based on the Windows 7 RC page here, I'm still not convinced that I have the RC version- my computer has never shut down every two hours, or done...
I have a CD key for Vista, so I think once I have a registered version of Vista on my computer, I can just use my upgrade disc to get to Windows...
I'm sure it's not the beta version- I had Windows Vista on my computer and then did the "Windows Upgrade" to Windows 7. I did this in December...
I have successfully installed the new hard drive and put all the essentials back onto my computer with no problems! It doesn't hang up anymore, I...
I recently bought a new hard drive (old one crashed), and am trying to put Windows 7 back on my laptop. I've had it on my laptop for a year as a...
Will do!
Thanks for your help! I really think that my hard drive is physically damaged. I will probably try to reformat it to see if that fixes the...
I don't have AVG though, I have Avast. Of course maybe I have some remnants of it? I can't remember if I tried it in the past and just uninstalled...
Sorry, the ones that are using the most CPU (still only 1 or 2) are explorer.exe and dwm.exe. I still haven't found anything more about Google...
I have ran the memory test and CHKDSK again, still no luck... I'm also going to do some searching on Google Chrome and it's use (if any) of...
I have 12 instances of chrome.exe (Google Chrome)with the top eight taking 12,000-8,000k, but other than that just a bunch of programs with less...
Well, my computer is now completely free of malware, but still no luck. My system idle process is at 74%, and my computer still freezes at...
That's fine, I really appreciate your help! Thanks again!
Here's the most recent log: Process PID CPU Private Bytes Working Set Description Company Name Command Line System Idle Process 0 74.16 0 K 24...
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