Problem installing windows service

I am having a problem installing a Windows service. I installed and uninstalled the service numerous times (installutil..... installutil /u) without any problem but something went wrong and now when I attempt to install, I get the error message listed below. I checked the computer management console, and service CIMediator does not appear...

SSD woes on x79 board

HI, I am having great problems in installing windows using my ga-x79s-up5-wifi. I have managed to get windows installed but it is very slow in booting and when it has booted it has 1000's of volumesnapshot errors and takes about 8 minutes to boot, even if windows is the only thing installed. I am trying to install the C600 series AHCI d...

Windows 7 install on Seagate Barracuda 3tb HDD. How I (Finaly) did it

I am Basically writing this as I have just installed windows 7 onto my new PC. I confess I am by no means a computer wizz, and I turn to google and forums for every problem I come across, but this problem I had to solve on my own as there was no definate tutorial for installing windows 7 onto a 3tb hdd anywhere, just bits and pieces here...

Various services unexpectedly shutting down upon startup

Hi, I've been having issues on my laptop these past couple days. I have Norton Antivirus and Malwarebytes installed. As soon as I log into windows, I get a message saying one of the following services has unexpectedly terminated and windows restarts after a little while: -Plug and Play service -Power service -DCOM service I've tried 'sfc...

BSOD during Starcraft II

Hi guys I've been getting fairly frequent BSOD's while playing Starcraft 2. It started happening a few days ago while i had Windows 8 Pro x64 installed on my HD. I've had Windows 7 for years now and after troubleshooting Starcraft itself and then re installing windows 8 to no avail i re installed windows 7 hoping it would fix it. So today...

BSOD after installing Smartlaunch client on Win 7 Pro x86

Hello, my problem is next,after installing Windows 7 Pro x86,i have installed Smartlaunch client.After a restart,BSOD poped up.After a system restore i have removed Smartlaunch,and system worked normally.Every single time after installing Smartlaunch client,BSOD appeared,over and over.I do not know what is causing the problem.I would appr...

Installing Windows 7 in a PC where there is Ubuntu

I have Ubuntu 10.10 installed in my PC. I want to install Windows 7 in another drive,which partially contains some data, so that I can use both OSs in a dual boot scheme. I have read on the web of taking a backup of the data on the other drive,and formatting it and then installing Windows 7, but even then I am not really sure weather the...

dllhost.exe after installing Windows Live ID

Yesterday I updated GFWL, after not using it for more than a year. To my surprise, it installed something called Windows Live ID, which added a service called Windows Live Sign-In Assistant, and since then I seem to always have dllhost.exe running with these (http://i.imgur.com/tJPOvqC.png) parameters. I've set the service to only start m...

Would Installing DirectX 9c

Would Installing Directx 9c cause my Windows 7 to break as I have seen this on google that is DirectX 9c causing people problems when they have DirectX 11 installed, I too have DirectX 11 installed but when I go to update Nero 10 it downloads the updates fine but I get a fatal installation error message. I am just wondering if it is becau...

Installing Android SDKr18, SDK will not detect the JDK

Thanks for taking the time to read my question. I have installed eclipse classic and jdk-7u3-windows-x64, the problem is when I go to install the android SDK, I get this error: I have been searching the net all night, one solution seems to be for an earlier version of the Android SDK is to click back then next, I have tried this to no ava...

Sentinel Systems Driver

I have the Sentinel Systems driver installed on two other computers with no problem. Just got this new laptop and it goes through the motion of installing but then says it cannot be installed and no changes have been made to the computer. I have tried contacting Safe Net and received a reply they would get back to me. That was three days...

Problems installing Windows on a 64gb Kingston SSD now

Hi all, I am having a problem installing windows on the above SSD drive. I currently have a 300gb velociraptor as my system drive but have bought the above drive. I am trying to do a fresh install of Windows 8. It seems to get ad far as installing updates but just hangs. I have also tried windows 7 and it gets as far as finishing installa...

Accessing localhost WCF from other device?

I've successfully created a WCF service that works how I want it to. The only problem is that I can not access the web service from anything but the actual machine the WCF service is running. I understand that the Cassini web service is local only, I want to be able to run the WCF service on my customers system whenever they need the serv...

windows 7 is not installing..

hiii everyone...i have a asus laptop..i'm trying to install windows 7 on it.but it is not installing...here is the screenshot what it says...please solve my problem...thanx in advance...

Windows 7/iMac bootcamp problem

So here's the story. I have an iMac and today, I installed windows 7 through the boot camp option in applications. It has successfully installed but I can't use my mac keyboard etc because the Bluetooth USB host controller is not installed and I can't get on the Internet because it says windows did not detect any networking hardware. Basi...

Problems after installing Windows 7 alongside Windows 8

I'm doing this on behalf my friend who I'm helping do the dual boot and we have come across errors and messages etcetera such as "the partitions on the disk selected for installation are not in the recommended order GPT" (we clicked OK to proceed) but we finally got windows 7 installed using UEFI mode. However, the problem we're having no...

melissa foley

On my laptop I am using window 7. And the problem I'm having is that I can't turn on my windows defender because I'm getting a error said "The specified service does not exist as an installed service.(Error Code: 0x80070424). With this problem I have lost files and every time I restart the computer it scene to be very slow. I have not had...

Windows service can't write to %LOCALAPPDATA%

I have built an app that works only when not run as a Windows service. Well, the service runs, but it doesn't do what it should. The service uses the Local Service account. So to kick off debugging, I thought I'd start with something simple: have it create a directory when it starts: Directory.CreateDirectory( Environment.SpecialFolde...

PostgreSQL 9.2.4 (Windows 7) - Service won't start

I am trying to get Postgres 9.2.4 to run as a service on Windows 7. After installing postgres, the service was running fine. However, after setting postgres up as a server for another program, the service stopped running. When I try to start the service now, I get a message saying : -Quote- "The postgresql-x64-9.2 - PostgreSQL Server 9.2...

Windows Updates and Belarcz: Is KB2656351 installed?

I've had consistent problems installing KB2656351. I got no error messages doing the update, but it kept reappearing in my list of WU. Finally, after running repair, Fixit, etc., Windows showed the KB2656351 update to both the .NET framework 4 Client Profile and .NET framework 4 Extended successfully installed on March 8, 2013, and both a...

Issue installing multiple updates

I am having issues installing multiple updates on Windows 7 x64 home edition. I had 8 updates I told windows update to install them. It reboots and goes to 15% then gives me an error installing updates and then reboots with a failed updates message. I just installed all updates 2 at a time and all the updates took with no issue at all. Sp...

UI Problem/ minimized windows Display problem

Hi windows 7 community, I have a problem with windows 7 since the first day i've installed the OS (couple of years), and i haven't been able to solve it yet. The problem is that when i have a main application window, and different documents(windows) open in that main application window, when i minimize those child windows, they appear abn...

FEdora 17 Bootloader Problem! I want have Fedora but it doesn't want to me!

Okay. I have a brand new Asus laptop. Asus n56vm. It has 1TB of harddisk. My disk was GPT when I bought it. I converted to MBR with windows convert mbr via DISKPART. Then installed Fedora 17 with xfce from DVD. When finishing installation it cannot installed bootloader! I tried; chroot /mnt/sysimage grub2-mkconfig -o bind /boot/grub2/gru...

Installing a Windows 7 on Windows 8 RTM

I currently am using a Windows 8 Pro RTM and I recently partitioned my C: drive to have a G: drive. It has 79.6GB. Is it okay to install Windows 7 Ultimate on the G: drive and will I have any problems? I'm asking this because I read in some articles that installing an older OS in a new OS might cause problems. Like Installing Windows XP o...

Windows 7 64B installation stuck on "Installing updates"

I installed an ocz vertex 4 ssd (256g model) into my msi gt70 laptop. A product key came with the laptop, and I've burned windows 7 to a disc. I made sure the ssd has priority in the BIOS too. When I start up the installation, it gets to the "Installing updates" step, but doesn't progress any further, the laptop is effectively frozen on...

VGA driver not installing

Dear all, I have original cd disk of asrock, my VGA card is called Palit GEFORCE GTX - 680, but VGA standard adapter driver isn't installing it is missing, i have installed by that cd all drivers but there is a yellow mark on device manage. what is a problem? Can u help me plz? Thanks in advanced. Related Forum Threads Asrock 990FX Extr...

Can’t download – browser crashing!

Just installed Windows 8 on my new computer. Started installing my old programs and files. Installed Windows Essentials to load Windows Live Mail to restore my old emails. Google Chrome stopped allowing downloads - Virus scan failed - then would delete the downloaded file. Now Explorer will not allow me to download. I have ran virus scans...

no network driver

Windows did not detect a properly installed network adapter. if you have a network adapter you will need to re-install the driver. I just re installed windows 7 on this machine. It is a Toshiba Satellite C655D-S5535...it use to connect to the internet before so it does have a network card... also, i tried installing some drivers from to...

Installing Windows 7 on new notebook

Hi there, I just bought a computer the other day, a hp pavilion g6-2348sg. It had no windows installed (freeDOS), so I bought a windows 7 home premium dvd. I installed it, but I can't connect to the internet because there seems to be no drivers for ethernet, and as a matter of fact, there are several other missing drivers as well. When I...

No wifi after re-installing windows 7 ultimate x64

I re-installed windows 7 due to the old version not working with my new raid drive, i went to the asus and intel websites on my laptop and downloaded drives to a disk then installed those onto my new install but it keep saying that no networks are available. I've tried every fix that i found with google bu none of them seemed to work and...

Driver Updates?

Hey Guys I just installed windows earlier then I do windows update *Intel(R) HD Graphics* is included on windows update Image: http://www.sevenforums.com/attachments/d rivers/267875-how-know-what-best-driver- my-laptop-2013-05-13_221501.png after installing all of the updates I run *Intel Driver Utility* and I NOTICE THAT theres NEW update...

BSOD when installing Windows 7 SP1

Hi, I installed SP1 and got to the logon screen when it says "preparing to make changes". Then not even 33% configuration, I had BSOD something to do with ks.sys error. I have an issue with installing SP1. I hope someone can shed some light as to what files are causing the installation problems. I tried Windows repair, but can't seem to f...

Help Activating Windows 7

I have a legit copy of windows 7 am I have just attempting to re-install on a computer of mine. I do NOT have it installed anywhere else, I am NOT trying to install the same copy of windows in tandem with another computer. I have also re-installed in the past with zero issues across different hardware setups. So, I type in my product key...

Got an hour to kill? Watch (nearly) every version of Windows being installed

The first version of Windows I ever installed was Windows 3.1, and the most recent was a leaked build of Windows 8.1. In between those two points I’ve installed every new version of Windows Microsoft has produced, most more times than I care to recall. The installation process has definitely improved over the years, but I shudder to think...

Windows update no longer works..

I just noticed today that My windows update won't run anymore. It's the red X image that lots of people are describing and when I try to turn it on it says it can't turn on because it's not running. Windows update is not in my services at all, nor is BITS. I've tried getting in command prompt and as far as it tells me, Bits is an invalid...

Windows 7 64 bit home premium safe boot

I recently(one week ago) had my my old PC which I gave to my wife years ago upgraded by my local computer shop. They installed two new one tera hard drives, a new mother board and memory, and Windows 7 64 bit Home Premium. I installed IE9 and was in the process of installing different programs and setting up accounts for family members. E...

Windows 7 installing Problem on asus laptop

I got asus new laptop problem is that when I install windows 7 on it I get this problem it's came with windows 7 windows got corrupted that's wanted install new w.7 I get the problem as shows in the pic Sent from my GT-I9300 using Tapatalk 2...

Windows 7 update "Service Not Running Error"

I am running windows 7 home premium. Windows update says the service is not running, please restart. I have restarted and the problem has persisted for over a few weeks. I have checked sevices to see if it is stopped. The windows update service doesent even show up.... Is there a way the files could have been deleted? if so how do i recov...

How to dynamically load DLLs from a Windows Service

DLLs can be easily dynamically loaded from an application, by the following steps: System.Reflection.Assembly assembly = System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingA ssembly(); Then I call the CodeBase() method of the Assembly class to get the directory of where the app is. Next I would call Directory.GetFiles() to get a list of all files wit...

Can't find tools.jar after installing JDK 7u3

I just finished installing the new Java JDK version 7u3 and now I am unable to find tools.jar file. I know I installed the correct version "jdk-7u3-windows-x64.exe" and searched the directory where it's installed but didn't find the file.