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Irrespective of what application I am in, the "help" windows keep opening automatically. Am not sure what triggers this. It seems to be some hesitation in moving the mouse. Very annoying. Thought it was a windows feature which could be turned off but it does not seem so. Others I …

My PC is a Celeron 1.70 GHz with 112 MB RAM, and I run Windows XP SP1. My antivirus protection is Symantec´s Norton Antivirus 2004 version 10.1.0.13. I use the built-in Firewall from Windows XP, and run Spybot S&D as well as Adaware SE. But I have a bad habit …

Hi All, Does anybody know a nice easy way to remove XP Outlook from my comp, I dont want it, i hate it, theres no need for it.........it just takes up space on my comp. Thankfully i have managed to remove the XP messenger from my system and the Msn …

I'm purchasing a laptop at the end of next month, and I want to be able to install 32-bit Vista on it. Currently, I'm looking at a Toshiba Satellite M60 laptop with the following specs: CPU: Intel Pentium M Processor 760 (2.00GHz, 2MB L2 cache, 533MHz FSB) Ram: 1024MB (512MBx2) …

I've never quite understood this. How does this get them a profit?

My Problem: Several of my games (typically, but not always, graphically intensive ones), have a duration when moving the mouse that varies from making it very difficult to aim, to having to wait about a second after my mouse moves left to see my character move left on the screen. …

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 …

Is it possible to connect two monitors to a computer, both displaying the same image?

I'm not sure what forum to put this in, so I put this in the Linux forum because people here would be more knowledgable about duel-booting. I recently discovered I still have IBM DOS 5.0 install diskettes, and I would like to install DOS on my computer. Currently, I have …

Home Basic: Home Basic is intended for budget users not requiring advanced media support for home use. The Windows Aero theme with translucent effects will not be included with this edition. Home Basic will support up to 8 GB of physical memory. Price: 200$, upgrade: 100$ Home Premium: Containing all …

After an incredible amount of odd behavior from my computer, I had no choice but to reformat the thing yet again. Every time I do so, it only starts bugging up after another 6 months, presumably because of all the garbage sony loads with the recovery disk I can never …

I've got a system set up that I'm going to use to test spyware removal on. My only problem is that since I've done such a job keeping spyware off of my box, I have no idea as to how I can get it on the machine. I'm doing some …

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I currently have two 80gb hard disks. The second hard drive is for Linux, which will remain the same for this, but the first hard drive is what I want to change. On the first hard drive, I currently have 3 partitions: A 2gb FAT16 partition with IBM DOS 5.0 …

I have Linux on my computer as well, but this concerns both versions of Windows I have. They both share the first of my two hard disks, with the first partition being a 10gb FAT32 (with Microsoft Windows 98 Second Edition). The second parition is roughly 70gb NTFS, and contains …

Hey. :) I've been wanting to play some of my old games for a long time, but haven't been able to because they aren't compatible with XP. Currently, I have Windows XP Home Edition Service Pack 2 and SuSE Linux 9.1 Professional, each on their own 80gig hard drive. The …

I used this a long time ago because I found it helpful. I've decided to use it again, but it won't start up. Could this be the fault of service pack 2? Is there anything I can do to get it to work. Edit: What it does is show the …

I recently purchased a used Dell Latitude LS laptop with 128 megs of ram. The operating system is Windows98 SE. It did not come with a floppy drive or a cdrom drive. I seem to be caught in a "Catch 22" situation. In order to install some external devices, such …

I am a kid still living with my parents. Several years ago, my parents decided that they no longer wanted to buy antivirus and firewall software for the family because our ISP started giving away a protection suite. I didn't want to switch away from Norton, but seeing as I …

I recently noticed in my packages I did not install KDE or Gnome. Does it matter? Which is best. Is there any optimization for Linux like in Windows? Thanks:lol:

I don't have a Windows 2000 computer, but allow me to explain why I would want information on upgrading one. Vista has been the source of a great deal of worry for me over the past few months. I have a laptop that currently has Windows XP Home Edition. It's …

I'm wondering because right now, my website is very, very badly broken in 4, and I'm going to have to make a separate version of the web site to fix it. At this point in time, is it still necessary to support Netscape 4?

I'm going on a very boring, 3 hour trip. My laptop battery will last me long enough that I can have a computer during that time, but I thought I'd ask first, is this a bad idea? Could bumpiness during driving crash the harddrive, or cause other damage to the …

I have a folder stored on my main computer. The computer main computer is a Linux computer, but it's using Samba to connect to the network. I have a new laptop that I want to accessthis folder with write permission regularly to work on various projects on both computers at …

I have one account on my new computer, which is currently labeled "Best Buy". I want to rename this to "Kamex", including the folder in Documents and Settings. I thought I'd ask how to do this to be sure because I can't afford to reformat it. Can anyone provide instructions …

I'm familiar with HTML and CSS, and have now started to learn PHP without running into any trouble, but I want to add Javascript to my knowledge. I tried a long time ago, and failed, for the same reason I'm failing now. Code that looks logical to me is not …

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i'v got a very annoying problem. each time i put my Sims cd in my disk drive this message always comes up: [i]Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime library[/i] [i]Runtime error![/i] [i]program c:\Program Files\Maxis\The Sims\Sims.exe[/i] [i]Abnormal program termination[/i] someone please help, iv tried evrything, i havent got a clue what visual C++ …

My brother is attempting to install XP on his new hard drive setup. He is unable to get the XP setup to detect the hard drive array. Both the BIOS and Partition Magic 7.0 (rescue disks) are able to read the hard drive array without problems. The hard drives are …

(Note: Please be patient with me as I still know next to nothing about Linux) I prefer KDE, but I also like Firefox. Firefox is what got me interested in open-source in the first place. The problem is that Firefox is a GNOME application, and is designed to run in …