Could anyone please help, I am teaching myself networks at the moment, and use my 2 PC's for practice. I tried a Peer to Peer network setup, failed. But now I have 2 PC's that when turning on and off...

I have no graphic card, just onbard graphic chipset, specs in my question. I never play any games, but my local PC stores all tell me Vista HP needs DirectX10 to run some features. No PCI-E slot,...

Hi hope someone can help, I am hoping to upgrade to Vista Home Premium. I seem to have all the right specs except for the graphics. I have an ASRockK7S41GX MOBO : Athlon 2800+ 2GHz Socket A CPU : 2GB...

Hi kenjutsuka, I downloaded Alcohol 52% as you advised. I have been trying to use it for over 4 hours now and can't work out how to use it. I have the .nrg file on DVD and on my HDD, I tried...

Hello I am in need of advice on how to extract a software application I urgently need for a college course I am currently doing. The software is packed into just 1 file with a file extension ' .nrg '...

brown1950, after booting and hardrive is at rest, close ALL applications. Go to START/RUN type and spell right MSCONFIG. NOT misconfig. Press 'Enter' This should open 'System Configuration...

Hi lol hacker 101, I apologise for my last post, I swapped the 1GB RAM for 2 X 512MB modules not 256! Must have been a bit tired writing that. But as to responce both 512's work fine on thier own in...

Hi reezin14, I took advice from the fist reply and exchanged the 1GB for 2 X 256MB Kingstons. Again strange, both in together exactly the same thing happened to both my machines, yet I had them...

Thanx BLUD for your reply, the memory I used is definately DDRAM not DDR2. As for ECC registered, I cant find any specs on my machines, motherboards, RAM old or the new module that can say if any are...

Can anyone please help, I have just bought a Kingston 1GB DDRAM mem module to upgrade from 512MB. However, although my BIOS (Award-Phoenix) recognises that my RAM is now 1GB, my PC would not boot...

Hi paprworkknotdone, icons in the taskbar appear in two different ways. To remove icons to the left of the arrow ( central part) go to Start/Settings/Control Panel, double click Taskbar and Start...

Hi Spaceboyz87, revealing hidden folders does not reveal ALL hidden folders and files, also if your machine is an OEM (pre-installed) a fair portion of your hard drive is partitioned and...

Hi Rebscott, it may be that AOL connectivity is your problem. I was with AOL until recently and was having the same problem, except I used internet explorer as as my browser. I kept getting a warning...

When you boot in safe mode, you wont see your wallpaper, I did explain this, but if you read again you can still access as normal the 'Run' utility, it's just that you've got a black background....

I have already suggested this, so just pasted it, some, not all icons will appear after booting in safe mode.
Hi Tnx, next time you turn on your PC, as soon as you boot up, press the F8 button on...

Hi Koolfirebird, try using a DVD+R/W disk.
Eamonn.

Hi Tnx, try what I suggested in my last post. You said you don't want to overcomplicate things, why are you trying to overwrite windows? Read my last post, if you think you have enough RAM already,...

Hi Tnx, next time you turn on your PC, as soon as you boot up, press the F8 button on your keyboard repeatedly. Do not hold down as it will register an error. You should then be given options for...

Hi Klnsjo, your reply was the correct solution after all. For some reason after deleting the partition, disk management showed as 'disk view'. So I deleteted the partition again, changed the view to...

Thanx for your suggestion, it is already partioned. I did delete the partition, but then it didnt show up in disk management???? So I could not do anything to something I can't see. Eamonn.

Hi I have a 40GB hard drive set up as a spare HDD master on my secondary IDE. All I want to do is set aside an active partition of just 1GB on this drive. I have tried to do it following the help...

If you cant find Yahoo in Add/Remove, try looking for it in Start/Programs. There may be an uninstall option there. If not just do a search, click all files and folders, type yahoo in both spaces,...

I agree Spyware/Malware may cause this, but I have seen this problem resolved by just doubling your RAM. As you use more and more applications, and updates etc, your PC may not have enough Ram to...

The only way to retrieve not only your work files but anything else you have in in windows explorer, is to physically remove your hard drive and set it up on another PC as a secondary master storage...

try 'msconfig' not 'mscconfig' . Viruses are not the only malware that play with default settings, some spyware can do that pretty good as well, get Ad-Aware of www.download.com it's free, then...

I have a Dell laptop, that someone removed the HDD and dropped it. The laptop doesn't boot. So I rigged it up to my PC and unsuprisingly found that it had passed on. I replaced and upgraded the new...

If you want to get to system restore, start/run type 'msconfig' this will bring up a utility window with a 'launch system restore' button. Ifear you have bigger problem, get rid of Spy Sweeper, use...

Some programs won't uninstall if running, go to start/run type in 'msconfig' this will open the System Configuration Utility, click oh the last tab 'start up' and just untick Yahoo Messenger,...

Hi Gemini4, thanx for your suggestion. I will try it out and think it will work. Always the easy solutions are the best and am kicking myself for not thinking of it myself.
Eamonn.

Thankyou Tayspen, I have already tried your idea and all I can manage is either doubling the size yet again, or reducing it so that the taskbar isn't visible on screen.
Eamonn.

Can anyone help please, a friend of mine has somehow managed to double the height of his taskbar, also date and time are permanently displayed. I tried for hours trying to revert the taskbar to it's...

Thankyou again DMS, I have a installation disc for XP Home, my product key on it. The PC in question is a friends. Her PC is the OEM and its FAT, she wants it permenantly NTFS to enable her son to...

Thankyou DMR, the files are on the same hard drive, but unless the drive creates its own partition (unlikely) after installation of OEM files, no partition. Still would like some feedback of just...

Thankyou Kaosreigns the conversion seems straightforward, but this is an OEM PC, no installation disc, what happens to the installation (hidden files) on the hard drive, ie if the PC needs to be...

What is 'partition magic' ????

Thankyou for your indepth reply, I don't even know what 'partition magic' is????

A friend of mine has an OEM machine with XP Home installed, but the file sytem is FAT. Her son finds that a lot of his games wont work on FAT system. Can I convert to NTFS, but also without...

To Thong Ispector, Ive mailed the guy who built my PC 3 times before i got an answer, when i did all he said was check the PSU voltages after switch on, wich i did, powered up, fan span, shut down,...

To Thong Ispector, put the grese on like you said, guess what? no difference ! i even stripped it down completely using the manual, instruction by instruction, put it all back, added just a smoll...

To Thong Ispector, yes my fan has 3 wires and i will get some thermal grease
and give it a go.The only thing that is bothering me is the voltage applied when i power on is in milli seconds rather...