Why Won’t My Dell Inspiron 15 With Windows Vista Won’t Start Up?

December 1, 2009

So every time I try to cut on my laptop it starts but this Start Up repair thing keeps popping up instead of going to my log in screen. It always ask would i like for windows to attempt repairs and I always click yes but it never gets repaired. After going through the same thing 3 or more times it goes to another screen that states "start up repair cannot repair the computer automatically" so I always choose to send the information about the problem. When I come off that screen i choose to always advance view advanced options for system recovery and support. I fill out all the info that they request (country, screen name, & password) and they give me the choices of: start up repair (which i automatically do and it gets me nowhere), system restore (which i do from this point but once i shut down my lap top then use it, shut it down when i’m done, and then cut it back on I have to go through the whole start up repair process over again, windows complete PC restore (idk what a backup image is), windows memory diagnostic tool (did it yesterday and it said there was nothing wrong with my memory), command prompt, and dell factory image restore (if i do this will it erase all my documents and things like music that i have already saved to my computer? seeing that it restores my system software to factory condition)

Please help!!! Idk what I did so hopefully one of you will help me!

Is there software that you can download to your computer for diagnosing a check engine light?

October 30, 2009

I want to be able to download the codes to my computer and have my computer as the diagnostic tool to find out more about why the check engine light is on, I am wondering if there is software you can download to your computer for it?

Big problems with MS Office 2007?

October 1, 2009

I have been using Microsoft Office 2007 Professional Plus for nearly a year now. I’ve always been able to run every aspect of Office without fail. I haven’t changed any hardware or significant software changes in that time, but within the last few days, it has quit working. Whenever I try to start Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, or Outlook, I get an error message saying that there isn’t enough memory or disk space to run those programs. I can run every other program on my computer without problem. I have twice ran the Microsoft Office Diagnostic tool, and it says there is no problem with my system. My anti-virus, anti-spam, and anti-malware tools can’t find anything. If I contact Microsoft about the problem, their free troubleshooting help doesn’t apply to me. They want to charge me just to CHAT with someone who may or may not be able to help me. I don’t know what to do to fix this, but I don’t want to pay them money. Please, can anyone offer any suggestions?
Canadian Bacon’s answer fails. The processes that are currently running on my PC aren’t taking enough memory to cause a problem.

Can a hard drive be failing yet pass all diagnostics?

August 13, 2009

I have been having sever data corruption issues with the game World of warcraft. i have run every diagnostic software known to me including checkdisk (windows xp sp3) Microsoft’s memory diagnostic tool and seagates hard drive diagnostic tool both windows and bootable CD versions and every diagnostic comes back squeaky Clean and ive even swapped my ram entirely. I have done a full system restore on my computer and i still cant get a stable install which leads me to believe i have a hard drive issue yet it passes every test. so basically my question is as stated above, is it possible for a hard drive to be going bad yet not fail diagnostics. If so is there any way to verify or at least gather further evidence that its the hard drive before i spend money on a new hard drive. (note it appears as if only world of warcraft is currently effected, i suspect its highly complicated file system is more likely to be damaged by a failing hard drive)
i have installed all patches and all blizz will tell me is its a hard drive issue or a ram issue. and it cant be a virus as i JUST reformatted my hard drive. i have also updated every driver in my system. and while its not a data coruption issue limewire shuts down when i attempt to preview a file

What TOSHIBA programs can I delete from my computer?

July 25, 2009

TOSHIBA ConfigFree
TOSHIBA Direct Disc Writer
TOSHIBA PC Diagnostic Tool
TOSHIBA Power Saver
TOSHIBA Software Modem
TOSHIBA Speech System Applications
TOSHIBA Speech System SR Engine(U.S.) Version1.0
TOSHIBA Speech System TTS Engine(U.S.) Version1.0
TOSHIBA Touchpad Utility
TOSHIBA Utility
TOSHIBA Zooming Utility

these are all the Toshiba programs on my computer. I know that I use some of them, but most of them say "Used: Rarely" so I’m wondering which ones I can get rid of, and I am especially wondering what TOSHIBA ConfigFree is, since it is the largest (27.66MB)