He's going to try removing one of the sticks and seeing if that helps, but I don't see the problem being that winxp is having problems with his 4gigs of ram if it wasn't doing the same thing before. ...

Hey guys I've got a buddy having a problem with windows xp home.

Here are his specs
intel pentium d 830 3ghz dual core
250gig harddrive - ide wd
4gb ram crucial ballistix 4*1gb sticks
nvidia...

You marked this as solved, mind explaining what you did so other users who have this issue can resolve it as well.

Have you tried clearing cache/history/cookies? Do you have any proxies enabled on the browser? Have you tried restarting the computer? In short we need a few more details of what you've tried and...

I've found this. Don't know if it applies to this particular issue it may.

SHUTDOWN HANGS ON “SAVING YOUR SETTINGS”

During shutdown or reboot, Win XP may hang (stop responding) at the...

I noticed you marked this as solved, mind telling us what you did to resolve this?

Well I haven't used vista but it seems like the standard fixes should apply. Have you tried to go in via safe mode? If that doesn't work, can you use an enclosure or another computer to try and get...

You could also use trillian, I searched for an answer as to why aim was corrupting your canon camera drivers but didn't find anything.

I think it might be asking you to install a plugin, I had a friend take a look at this and that's the best answer we could get. So take another look and see if it's asking you to install a plugin.

First things first, what I would try doing is installing a working os on this motherboard, and then updating the bios. There should be no reason why a motherboard wouldn't accept an operating...

Why not post this in the programmers forum? I know you know this as you've been around the site for awhile.

Please put that this is solved so others like me don't come in here trying to solve a problem that's solved already. :)

Julzie is Firefox saying anything to you, I'm trying to wrap my mind around this.

Well from what I read about dde, is it's an older process and will only run one process at a time, causing it to take quite a bit, which is why I initially unchecked dde thinking that it might help...

no, it wont be direct x 10, nothing uses it yet, in fact it'll still probably be another year and a bit before a game starts to use direct x 10. But I agree you should check directx diagnostics,...

Well it turns out use dde is checked for almost everything under file types, and there's way too many file types to uncheck use dde for them all. Now I'm wondering how it got checked, anyone have...

Alrighty boys, looks like I'm a few steps away from marking this as solved.

You got me on the right track though suspicio it turns out that under the tools -> folder options -> file types ->...

Well I tried the fix, what was in there originally was, well prior to me changing it to “C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe” -nohome was C:\PROGRA~1\MOZILL~1\FIREFOX.EXE -requestPending...

Thanks for the reply from both of you. As for the fresh install, I was working off a completely formatted harddrive reinstalled windows. So completely fresh install. When the hyperlink problem...

lol Janine are you hijacking a thread.. :p I would suggest contacting the manufacturer of the router and notifying them of what happened and asking them if they have any advice. That's probably your...

Could use some additional information, which game in particular are you playing, I am assuming that you mean the game is showing up blocky? Have you updated your video card drivers to the latest out...

Have you tried restarting the computer, it sounds like those particular photo files maybe locked in a process running in the background on your computer. If that's the case they likely wont be able...

Well first I could use a real description of the problems that you're having instead of using the words stuff and crap please describe the exact problems. You say you can't compose emails and you...

Wanted to also add that I periodically experience an issue with links within folders now as well. Also this is a bump to ensure that this problem gets looked at.

I'd say what you tried to do, airing the laptop out completely was probably your best bet, if it still isn't working now, I'd say that the laptop is probably done for. However that's just common...

Sounds like the driver didn't install correctly. First of all I need to know have you disabled the onboard sound in your bios? You'll need to go into bios and look for something about ac97 audio...

You cannot manipulate slot machines. If you think you can you are fooling yourself. It's a game treat it as such, don't spend all your money and have fun.

lol I like how he said he wasn't going to install anything and you gave him links to codec packs ;) Anyways from what you're telling us, the cd is either damaged, scratched, or dirty and that's why...

What did you do to solve the problem, can you tell us so if another person has this problem we'll know what to do in the future, or they can read this to figure it out..

The big problem is windows 98 is no longer supported, and I don't think windows 98 was ever intended to work with wireless internet, that being said if you're savvy enough, I know nothing about...

I'm calling on a mod to fix this. Please move or delete the offending posts, and perhaps sticky another post about how this isn't the place for support?

Read the announcement at the start of this part of the forum. It says do not ask for support here. >.< Please repost this elsewhere in the correct part of the forums would be nice.

Someone please mark this as solved, I come in thinking I might be able to help but it's solved already :(.

Oh also if you've resolved the problem could you please mark this as solved. Thank you. Sorry my advice didn't suit you better. Remember we're trying to help you. We don't have to.

Normally if something hardware wise is damaged at least from my experience the computer wouldn't work right. It sounds like something could have gone wrong with windows therefore causing it not to...

Thought I'd mention it again, take the files that you need to keep and copy them to the hard drive that is working in the other computer, then do a reformat on the bad drive, copy the files back once...

This is no longer any good, the site has been sold by the owner to an advertising site.

Well from what I can see here. I would suggest first of all using an ethernet cable it makes things so much simpler, ethernet doesn't require drivers it just works. whereas usb requires drivers to...

Please mark this thread as solved.

I've found two possible fixes for your problem.

Check the audio tab and the sound playback tab in control panel under sounds and audio devices and the volume tab. Default device may be set to...