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I've just installed Win XP pro, clean install - the problem is the computer will not shut down. When I click Shut Down, the lights on the tower will flicker a bit, might get a hourglass which then returns to a pointer, but I do not leave the desktop. Everything …

This is yet another thing that everyone just accepts, but nobody can tell me why this decision was made. Everyone is familiar with the Windows screen coordinate system where x and y values increase to the right, for x, and down, for y. What is not noticible until you start …

I have a final project in 'c' and I want to get a high mark so I want anyone To solve the tasks, please .

recently I got a CPU upgrade taking my Ryzen 3 3100x to Ryzen 5 5600x. So after I installed the CPU ran into thermal issues no problem added some thermal paste and boom my pc booted ,but it wasn't the same before I could run Elden ring on a smooth …

I just bought McAfee for a year, but I get this error at the beginning of the installation: "Something went wrong with the insatallation" Any help?

I need help my wife's desktop is not working every since her stepdad bought it for her few months ago. From start up the monitor starts off fine but with chinese language and the from the boot up it doesn't load nor key want to work in the selections. All …

Hello, I"m trying to make a nice USB-stick, with a Windows 10 ISO file on it. But where do I get that ISO file? I'm not looking for the tool which makes your USB-stick a bootable one. I'm looking for the actual ISO file Thanks

**Will some near genius create a fireworks screensaver with current clock display for me for free? PLEASE? I have searched the web for two days and have found nothing. Is it even possible? Either way, may God bless you! Peace to all. **

Hi what could be the cause that Edge most frequently is seen asthe standard app for PDF files? I've changed it in the standard app settings. I've changed in the explorer menu; r.click → open with... → choose other app → click open always with chosen app Also made changes …

Hi Team, Earlier we used IE options in Edge for opening our URL (application) with updating No-Merge option in Enterprise XML to access multiple sessions on the same server. But right now we are using Edge (pure) to use the same URL and unable to access more than one session …

Hands up if you remember Opera Software, you know the Norway-based developer of alternative web browser clients. In the days before Firefox, Opera was the client most likely to shake up Microsoft and for a while seemed to be doing pretty well in that regard. Then Firefox came along and …

Hello. Can you tell me how to disable Teams from starting up while windows starts up? Thank you

Hello I have moved Windows 10 default created folders like "Documents", "Music", "Pictures" etc. to my E partition, and would like to know whether I can safely format the C partition and reinstall Windows without losing data in these folders, or do I need to backup all these folders again …

Hello all, So last night I decided to add an older HDD into my new desktop to... well add more storage since games now-a-days are HUGE, and I was running out on my current 2 drives (main SSD with Windows 10, and an HDD). I didn't realize that the older …

WIndows 11 is soon getting out. Are you planning to move to Windows 11? I like its features especially Snap Layouts. But I know it can be used on Windows 10. Which other Windows 11 can be used in Windows 10?

Hello. I'm tring to burn an ISO to a DVD (Windows 10 installation disc). But all the burning programs tell me that somethingis wrong, for example "Mediadetectie mislukt" which means "Media detection failed" and other programs keep the "burn" button gray. Is there something I can do?

So I have a PC running windows 2000 that I need to take pictures off of, but the keyboard and mouse won’t work pass the bios. I’m pretty sure it wants me to install the drivers for them but I can’t exactly do that without a keyboard and mouse. Can …

hi, I put a button to run the batch file and everything is fine But when the file works it asks for other files that are complete to run it and I did not know how to merge it together to work properly and these pictures   

VB6 app developed on Win XP with DAO 3.6. Compiles and runs in XP with the db updating correctly. When app.exe file is copied to and run in Windows server 2012, the app runs and sees the incoming data but will not write to the mdb database. Any ideas?? Thanks.

I am using Win 10 pro 19043.1110. For some reason earlier this year, the right click /Eject option has gone missing for all my portable usb flash thumb drives showing on My Computer / This PC. It doesn't matter which front or rear ports the usb is connected to (usb2 …

Hard to find this driver of dpskdops :( Anyone Have this driver please help me for my Capstone Project

I am trying to convert an 11 page Pdf document to excel and have the formatting work correctly. If anyone knows of an easy way to do this I would appreciate it. Thank you,

How to make more than one change in windows registry with this code? How to add more DWORD keys and values? #include <Windows.h> #include <iostream> using namespace std; int main() LONG IReg; HKEY hKey; DWORD dwData = 6; IReg = RegCreateKeyEx ( HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, L"SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows NT\\CurrentVersion\\Multimedia\\SystemProfile\\Tasks\\Games", 0, NULL, REG_OPTION_NON_VOLATILE, KEY_ALL_ACCESS | …

So today i went on a long trip to san diego, so i stopped at a hotel and i decided to turn on my toshiba to play some games, the toshiba was dead so i got out my charger and plugged it in but it still didnt turn on. I …

I've been trying to find a way to filter the Event Viewer in Windows by the description instead of the event type/source etc. I figure that i need to use the XML tab to customise it as there is no option in the basic filtering for what I want. One …

Hi, I'm going to start an ABAP consultancy internship in a few weeks. Before that day, I am trying to learn something by myself. I installed SAP NetWeaver AS ABAP 7.52 in a virtual machine and started writing a little ABAP on this virtual machine with the SAP GUI on …

I’m dealing with a small SSD, and a 1 terabyte HDD. My issue is half the programs you install these days don’t even bother asking you where you’d like to install. About 90% of them I’m fine having on the HDD. What on earth - if anything - can I …

I think it's windows 7.