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I use a HP Spectre laptop. I noticed that the hpqwmiex process is eating up on my processor. I saw this in the task manager after I noticed that my laptop had started slowing down. What is this process?

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I use Windows 7 64-bit. I was going through the System folders just out of curiosity and I noticed that my system has two folders that I think perform the same task. These are the syswow32 and syswow64. How are these different?

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I own a Lenovo laptop. It used to work fine until I ran into a rather irritating problem. Everytime I restart the system or sometimes when I boot the system, the system throws a pwmtr64v dll error at me. This has become really annoying. What is the solution to this problem?  

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I want to install a particular update from Microsoft Updates. When I try to do so, Windows throws an error code 0x8007371b and says it is unable to download the said update. I think I require this update for my computer to work properly. How should I move forward despite this error?

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I noticed that my computer started creating folders with random names and these folders contain two VDM file with, again, random names. Is this normal or am I infected with a virus? Do I need to delete these files?

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When I turn on or shut down my computer, Windows throws what is offspon exe file error. This has become increasingly annoying because the frequency of occurrence of this error has increased overtime. Is this a normal file or is it a virus?  

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I have owned the epson printer for years now. Recently, it has started throwing epson wf 3640 error 0x97 in between printing. The problem is that the printer refuses to print until the error is removed. I cannot access the printer when this error comes up. How to remove this error?

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I PC has started spitting out some random error that I have never seen before. Whenever I start certain programs, my PC throws error 217 at 004bb10d. What does this error mean? Is there something wrong with the programs or my computer?

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I want to copy a number of pictures to my flash drive. I have around 400 pictures and enough free space on the drive. I created a new folder on the drive so that I can keep these pictures segregated. When I start copying, I find that all pictures are not copying and I am getting a 0x80070052 windows 7 error. Is my SD Card broken?

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I wanted to upgrade my Microsoft Office Suit from Office 2013 to Office 2016. I was able to do so easily by following the instructions I found on the internet. There is however, one issue that I am facing. When I try to launch an application from the Office Suite, say MS Word, the app throws appvisvsubsystems32 dll error and crashes. How do I solve this?

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