Recent content by Leon W

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    The touchpad on my Gateway Windows 8 laptop suddenly stopped working

    I took out the E key on my keyboard to clean the dust out and when I put it back in, the touchpad had stopped working completely. The cursor wouldn't move and the buttons wouldn't work. I restarted the computer, but that didn't fix the problem. In fact that only made the cursor disappear...
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    System file corrupted and recovery disk doesn't work

    I managed to fix it. I changed the boot mode from Legacy BIOS back to UEFI and that allowed me to do a system restore. When it was in Legacy mode it gave me an error when I tried to do an SR but switching it back fixed it. Thanks though guys.
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    System file corrupted and recovery disk doesn't work

    I have a 4 year old Gateway NV56 laptop [running Windows 8]. The battery inside of it was burned out and wouldn't hold a charge for more than a few seconds, which caused the computer to shut itself off if it became unplugged. Yesterday it came unplugged while booting up and when I tried to...