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I am running Windows 7 Ultimate 32-bit. I am now getting a window coming up saying: 'The application was unable to start correctly (0xC0000142)' when I run almost any program. A second click brings that program up normally. My searches on this error number imply that there might be something …

I am running Visual C++ 2010 Express on Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 32-bit. I have written a small program aimed at reading the contents of a given directory. However, while the program compiles correctly, it will not run as it says that opendir, readdir and closedir are unsatisfied externals. What …

I am using Windows 7 Ultimate 32-bit. After a reinstall, I have installed XP Mode. However, with Windows Explorer (and other utilities that access files), I can see all the files in any folder, but as soon as I try to do anything with any file, the system crashes and …

I am running Windows 7 Ultimate 32-bit. I have a 16 bit application that I developed with Borland Turbo C++ on XP. I have installed XP mode and reloaded Borland and my application, but when I try to run it, nothing appears to happen. When I run it under the …

I am running windows 7 Ultimate 32-bit.I am finding that some of the programs in my Startup list are not running at startup. One (for example) seems to be in my personal Startup folder (so it runs for me only) and another is defined so it runs for all users …

I have been using Visual Studio C++ 2010 Express to do some work, which has now succeeded after a lot of trouble. I wanted to go one step further but it seemed that I would need the full 2010 .NET software to achieve this. I downloaded Microsoft Visual Studio 2010, …

When I installed Chrome, it asked if I wanted to import my bookmarks from other browsers. Despite saying I wanted the Firefox ones, the new item in the menu says 'Imported from IE'. Which means if I want to access one of those I've got to go: Other Bookmarks / …

Having got the old program to work (more or less) as a Console application I have now turned my attention to making it work as a 'proper' program. My first attempt was to generate the 'Hello World' string as a message box. I found I had to cast the second …

I am trying to drag a program originally written in Borland C version 3 into the light of the present using Visual C++ 2010. I have a curious, apparently simple, problem. The program read data from a file. I can create a noddy program that opens and reads the contents …

I am running Windows 7 Ultimate 32-bit. Some time ago, I had a problem with Chrome. It would come up 'Google Chrome is not working' and subsequently die. I had the suggeation to install an older version. That worked until it decided to update itself to the latest version without …

I've just upgraded to Windows 7 (Ultimate 32 bit) from XP Home SP3, and I've found that my nice clock screen saver doesn't work at all. I've tried a variety of other clock screen savers and none of them do either. I've downloaded other screen savers and they behave correctly. …

I am running W7 Ultimate 32 bit. I have been using Chrome as my browser of choice until an update resulted in it coming up with the message 'Google Chrome has stopped working'. According to Google they are working on a solution to this, as the error message alone isn't …

When a shortcut was added to the Desktop on XP it was placed at the end of list on the screen. Now, on Windows7, when a new shortcut is added it gets put immediately below the Computer icon at top left. Is this a Vista/W7 thing? I've tried changing the …

Very simple question - can a Ubuntu 9.10 distro format a hard drive in ntfs format?

My W7 32 bit installation was misbehaving very badly, so I decided to reinstall. I chose to use the 64 bit install instead. That went easily enough. However, my favourite screensaver stopped working (black mark). Then I installed XP Mode for 64 bit, and installed my 16 bit application (that …

Hello all, I bought a Samsung NP-NC10 Notebook. It had XP installed. I replace it with Vista Ultimate, only to crash it as the Notebook won’t accept Vista (presumably because the version I installed is 64-bit?). So, I reinstalled XP and system drivers from the Reload discs. NoteBook now functioning …

After a clean install of Windows XP (SP3), I reinstalled my copy of Office 2002, and despite everything I could think of it could read my email but it wouldn't send anything. It complained about the email address, which seems spurious. This is from Sky ISP (a Google derivative) pop …

I am running XP Home SP3 fully patched. I was having trouble with IE8 in that at times it was unable to follow a link and came up with a connection error. I tried the same action in both Firefox and Chrome and they had no problems at all. So …

Hi i was wondering if anyone knows of a free program that checks your computer for errors and viruses and fix them for free. i have searched online but every time i find one that says its free i can only scan for free but not fix all error.

This may sound like the install from hell, but I'm still trying. I wanted to try out Linux after a *very* long association with windows, but to say I'm having problems would be an understatment. Let me go through the whole sorry tale, and my question is at the end. …

As soon as I start my laptop, the system tries to send 10s of 100s of e-mail messages with various subjects. Symantec seems to detect this and stops sending them. But it opens up a lot of pop-ups non-stop which prevents me from opening any application. (Including Norton protection center). …

My computer takes around 8 minutes to start, and I want to turn off some of the 75+ processes that start when my computer boots. How can I do this? I have the program Autoruns from Sysinternals on my computer, but unfortunately whenever I open it, the window appears in …

I have a 750Gb Maxtor USB HDD mounted as G:. I just received a message saying "G:\$Secure is corrupt. Run chkdsk". So I did (in a cmd window). What I got is this: C:\Documents and Settings\Norman>chkdsk g: /f The type of the file system is NTFS. Volume label is OneTouch4. …

I have downloaded Spybot S&D version 1.6 (which seems to be the latest). It installed correctly, updates OK, and runs just fine. But when I ask it to fix the "errors" it just hangs. I have tried uninstalling, reinstalling to a different directory, downloading a new version but they all …

Last software update was to apply some Microsoft patches around 8-12-08. Getting WE message ‘target can not handle this type of document’ when try to send data to E: drive to write a CD after already writing one CD on this drive. Have to reboot to be able to successfully …

I am trying to run Spinrite (6) to check one of my disks. This worked happily from a bootable floppy on my last machine, but despite everything I try - boot menu / bios setup I cannot get my new machine to boot from a floppy disk. So I am …

For many years I have been using Borland Turbo C++ (version 3) to run a vital (to me) application. It has worked quite happily on 98SE and all my variants of XP Home (SP1, SP2 and SP3). The last time it worked was 18 September, and now I find that …

I am running XP Home SP3 fully patched. I have some old software originally written for Window 3.1 that has continued to work quite happliy until now. I know it worked on 18 September as that is when the last usage of it was. Since then I have applied all …

This is very much after the event. I no longer have the problem - see later on, but would like some feedback as to just what might have happened. One day, everything is working just fine (XP Home, SP3, fully patched, ZoneAlarm firewall, Norton AV). Next day, system starts up, …

The night before last I had a very bad experience, and only managed to avoid a complete wipe and reload by the skin of my teeth. I was downloading a file from a site I had used before, and my AV software trapped something called "Downloader". I stopped the download …