Unusual, Unprompted Wakeups
Nov 18, 2009
Since installing Windows 7 (64) on a fresh new HD my computer's been waking itself up from sleep mode fairly often (every hour or two, maybe). I've gone through all the other threads on this subject and tried most of the fixes I found (disallowing Ethernet wake-ups e.g.) to no avail. What's particularly disconcerting about these wake-ups is they produce a strange 'clunk' sound and my power LED flashes. The cmd window tells me my keyboard is the device waking the machine up but I don't know if I believe it.
Does anyone have any inkling as to what this might be? I'm suspicious of my floppy drive (yeah, I know) as it makes similar sounding grumblings on start-up.
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Oct 28, 2011
I am really trying to get used to Windows 7 and it is getting better.I have a dual boot which works well.I have several installs of XP of various editions.I use Acronis True Image a lot to make images. I use only the one Windows 7 but several Acronis True Images of various XP's Corporate, Home, etc.I have the one XP that I then installed Seven and this is the dual boot.I sure don't want to go about the dual boot by re-installing Seven with all the others.What I thought is to restore an XP image, then putting the what makes the dual boot files in and saving that as an image. Then on to the next XP image.I have read up on dual boot software but I need something very simple.And if I ever need to restore an image - either XP or Seven I need to know that it will still dual boot.
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Sep 5, 2012
Windows 7 64 bit with Adobe Shockwave and Flash Player installed.
On my laptop (not the desktop described in my profile) I get the following message when viewing any one of the videos using IE9(32 bit) on this website: ABCNews.com - Breaking News, Latest News & Top Video News - ABC News.
Error Saving Localized Settings Application is unable to access your file system
The videos play fine once I clear the message box by pressing OK. The problem does not occur on my desktop and I notice no difference in the two setups. Nor does it occur under Firefox on either machine.
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May 12, 2012
I've been getting notification bars on startup stating that there is a Visual C++ Runtime error, and that the program has been terminated in an unusual manner. What I want to know is whether this can be attributed to a possible memory (RAM) problem. Also, since of late (not all the time). when I boot my PC, and when the Welcome screen appears, a ticking noise comes from in my CPU and the screen just freezes. Can there be a possible connection between the two (memory and the C++ Runtime error).
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Aug 4, 2012
On bootup on my Win 7 64-bit desktop nothing appeared on the monitor , just a completely black screen .I realise this could be due to several causes - monitor failure , video card problems etc and I have yet to check these out but my reason for posting here before I do these basic checks is that this problem is accompanied by an unusual response to the Power button which did not exist before as far as I am aware.When I got this black screen I pressed the power button to switch the PC off . normally this requires you to hold this button down for about 5-10 secs . This time when I did this the PC started to power up again and , to prevent this , I now have to hold this button down for , at least 30 secs or so , before the PC stays off.Could this power button anomaly be related to this black screen?
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Nov 19, 2010
randomly an icon on my desktop wiggles. its really weird. i filmed it and put it on Internet. it happens right at the end.
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Jun 25, 2012
i am running windows 7 64 bit . as long as i remember I didn't do anything foolish in the hardware or something but i have this trouble. when i click the left mouse button and hold it while clicking and then drag here and there i get pink lines that are killing me and making me unable to use one software.
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Aug 30, 2012
So today I decided to record some gameplay with fraps, but once I was done recording a message popped up saying:
"The application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way. Please contact the application's support team for more information."
I've looked this error up, I have reinstalled the C++ redistributable packages, and it does not work. Basically whenever I am finished recording a fraps video, or even if I navigate (via Windows Explorer) to the directory in which the video files are located, I will get this error. As well as playing or moving the files. I have uninstalled and reinstalled a newer version of fraps, but still, no go.
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May 14, 2011
Im running an awesome western digital essentials 320GB USB hard drive its great i leave it plugged in all the time on an always on PC its really great and the drive stores every picture and mp3 i have.when trying to do some maintenance on my music collection i noticed that some folders wont delete, it says something about it being in use at this time. occasionally if i keep jamming away at the DEL button it will eventually be removed (trying every ten mins or so) ive checked the security tabs and there is no restrictions in place for this drive and i have no special drivers for it or any other unusual security features. its an irritation now its been going on for about a yeah and now i have lots of empty folders.
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Dec 6, 2010
"This application has asked the runtime to terminate it in an unusual way"It occurs on trying to open links or read CDs.
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