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Hello, "Which user account do you want to use to run this program?" I'm getting this pop-up whenever I try to use anything on my computer now. I've scanned for virues/trojans/etc and nothing. Did some research on this and none of the "helps" helped or I couldn't follow what they …

I would REALLY appreciate your help with this because it's driving me nuts! The problem is my computer seems slow to respond. When I type it takes a while for the text on screen to catch up with my typing, and when I play a movie using windows media player …

My friend has an HP Pavillion and recently the computer stopped booting to windows. When you turn it on it just shows a screen with a flashing command prompt-style cursor. I was able to get into the system set-up and re-arranged the boot order and therefore could boot a Windows …

Hi there. I have had my secondary harddrive go bad on me. all my files have gone currupt. I have had this problem before when I was a windows 98 user, and I managed to fix the problem with an FDISK, followed by FORMAT. So here is my problem. I …

I created a new partition on my HD running XP. I formatted it in FAT32. I want to reformat it back to FAT or FAT16. When I use the disk manager to format, it goes through the motions and I end up back with FAT32. I think I saw someone …

I am a state of distress, My computer is shutting down unexpectedly. I have spoken to many experts that have told that is could be a virus, heating, hardware. But everytime I try to run the Norton the cumputer shuts down, so I figured it might be a Norton problem. …

I thought I posted this earlier today and now can't find it so here goes again. I have a hijack problem but don't want to go through the regular route to get rid of it because I also have a hard drive that is incredibly cluttered with programs I don't …

Hey can any one tell me how can i format the drive containing the win xp , bcasue u cannot go in pure DOS mode , and in the safe mode cmd promt it says 'some files r used, cannnot format.... 'what 2 do ?? -sandeep

BEST affordable DVD writer available...!!! Hi everyone, I am currently having SAMSUNG combo drive (dont know what combo means) which is i believe cd rom + cd writer + dvd reader (NOT dvd writer) SO I am planning to purchase DVD writer....??? Q. Which is the best DVD writer cum …

For about a week now, my computer has been taking longer and longer to start. When I turn it on, it goes to the loading screen and completely freezes without the loading bar moving. After about a 2 minutes, the loading bar will finally appear and start moving, then freeze …

I've been looking through some old posts on this topic, which I do need help on. Most all of them say I ought to run some spyware programs, then HJT, and post a log. So, this is my log after running Ad-Aware personal SE, and SpySubtract. CWShredder catches nothing in …

Here's my problem: When I try to boot up, it goes through the normal screens, and then it shows a few lines of text beginning with "PPL-" then varying in what it says after that. Each line preceeds a number. The last one says "PPL-ROM-FFC" and then starts with a …

I've just been given a computer with windows ME installed all is ok except on the control panel or c: drive no icons appear. The amount of items is shown in bottom left corner (indicating that there are some) but I can't click on anything (or even see them) and …

Dear friends , this is my first post here and i come with a problem hoping you can solve it for me, the problem is : I have win 2000 prof installed on drive D:\ and after sometimes i wanted to install win XP so i did on drive C:\ …

Hello, I am using Windows XP Home edition and my mouse does not work in safe mode, otherwise, it works without any problems. The keyboard works in safe mode. Will you please tell me how I can get my mouse to work in safe mode? I've searched the internet and …

Hell is this a virus, my mouse pointer binds up and everything else sometimes. I cannot even ctrl,alt,delete........nothing

I am trying to do a fdisk and format on IBM thinkpad 600. I think the hard drive is going (computer has crashed 3 times in less than a month) but thought possibly we could reformat one more time...I have performed this procedure twice without any problems but now this …

[FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=4][COLOR=DarkSlateBlue]Hi yall. Im new to the forums and really need some help. I have fdisked and formatted this lap top before with no problems at all. It was running great for about 6 months. Then yesterday I turned it on and it ran a scan disk and at …

I can only seem to open in Safe mode. (any and all safe modes), however once every ten tries, it opens normally. There doesn't seem to be a pattern. At first I though it was the DVD drive, because when I disabled it (Physically unplugegd IT), the machine loaded fine. …

Hi- I am running Windows xp pro on a 2.0gig processor and recently bought a computer from a 'friend'. The computer he sold me has some serious issues with the video. Is not the cable or the video card-is somewhere in the motherboard. I am trying to put the hard …

as the description says im having problems installing windows 95, im trying to install the OS on a compaq LTE 5100 with a swapable floppy and cd-rom drive, heres where it gets sticky the hard drive is already formatted so i dont have the cd rom drivers any more and …

alright heres the scoop my comp is down sadly and it wont load up windows or even safe mode so i want to format my disk or reinstall xp see if that works but the disk wont showl up since i have a os installed and i cant bring it …

I installed XP on a new drive and used the wrong serial number. I then went to reinstall but didn't reformat. Now I have all these weird directories that I can't get rid of. Any ideas? Thanks, Derek

Where can I find drivers for an Intel I430VX? I have already tried the intel website, they don't have it/support it any more. I haved in numerous places, but all I can find is a BIOS flash. Anyone help me out?

Okay. First of all. Im new to the forum so i'd like to say hiya! Alrighty, Down to business now :D I am yet another person with system.ini problems. The whole thing started when i tried to format my computer. An error came up, and there was nothing i can …

When my computer starts up I get a message that say.... common name tool bar /cnbabe did not start properly then I click OK.. now when I try to use my msconfig it only pops up on the screen for about 1 sec and dissapears,I think it is because off …

When I go to msconfig and then startup,I was just wondering if there is a website or something that tells you what all the stuff means at startup....example Dumprep 0 -k %systemroot\system..... I have no idea what this is,just wondering if there is anywere I could go to find what …

my sister's computer runs very slow. it's very new and she only uses it to check her email....it uses a 56K modem so it's not high speed. Dimension 8200 Series, Pentium 4 Processor 1.7GHz "it's still running slow. It seems like there's a gazillion applications running, even right after I …

it seems to be the activation issue. winXP loads up and after a minute it starts a cont down to shut down.

Hi, first time here, great site, hopefully you can help me with my problem and in the future I may be able to help as well..... I have Windows 98, for some reason I cant explain all of a sudden the setting in the Settings/Display box went to 640 x …