Recent content by Monsieur Z

A friend recently gave me his old HP notebook (Pavilion dv6-2120sf running the factory Windows 7 Home Premium x64) and told me it "was dead" and that if I wanted to take it I could since he was planning to dump it anyways. He said it's been dead for 2 years, but didn't know what was the...

up vote 0 down vote unaccept I finally solved my problem! The solution was completely unrelated to anything I've said previously! I simply copied everything in the C:\Windows\system32\config\RegBack folder (which was created automatically before the update) to C:\Windows\system32\config, and...

After 35 days of uptime, fearing what would happen if I rebooted my computer (I've got problems with WU in the past), I decided to give Windows Update a try and finally install those updates (can't remember which KB) it has been trying to install for 3 months. I rebooted my computer, and then it...