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My father wanted to move from 2000 to XP, but insisted on using an upgrade instead of a clean install. Apparently, during setup he received the following msg: SXS.DLL: syntax error in manifest or policy file "c:\I386\asms\1000\msft\windows\gdiplus\gdiplus.man" on line 4 Then "Installation Failed d:\i386asms Cannot Find File Specified" He tried …

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Several times a day, and with greater fequency now, my computer freezes on me. The mouse clicker stops in the middle of the screen and does not move. Nothing moves. I press the number lock key to see if the keyboard is responsive. Nothing. I do the old control alt …

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hi, i have recently purchased and assemblied a diy computer. The problem is that it won't boot. the hard disk i am using is the same one i am using now, so i know it works, problem with hard drive controllers? the problem is i know next to nothing about …

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I reinstalled windows onto my C drive which is fine. However when THAT screen popped up for me to select which drive and to where and if I want to delete etc.....well previously I had the C drive partitioned so (in my eyes I had a C/D drive) then I …

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Hey guys, I'm new here. A few weeks ago I purchased a video card from ebay...nVidia Geforce FX5500 AGP/8x. Installing the card into my system was tough but I got through to making it work. I got to install the driver with the cd it came with, and I even …

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I get this error when i start up my computer(its in voice) and a lil thingy pops up saying CPU over temp press F1 to contuine. Any thoughts

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Hi, i went out and bought CoD4 and Diablo2 for PC. I put my Diablo2 CD in and installed it and tryed the game out worked fine. A few hours later i went to insert my CoD4 CD into my computer and it doesn't read that any disk is in …

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Hi all, new user, Im wodering if anyone has yet come up with the definitive answer to the issue "Power saving enable yet? I have seen a couple of threads regarding it, but nothing works? anyone assist? regards Keith

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My husband and I have been using file sharing on Windows XP Home for some time now with no problems. Today I decided I wanted to share my Microsoft Money 99 folder with him. Got it set up and checked it on my computer. No problem. Went to his computer …

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Blue Screen Of Death - Stop: 0x0000008E (0xc0000092, 0x1000195c, 0xaa661108, 0x00000000) my pc started rebooting and rebooting...when i remove/uninstalled the kaspersky AV... Sony Vaios VGC-RB30 Proccessor: 2x Intel Pentium 4 CPU 3.00GHz Video Card: Intel 82915G Express Chipset Family Operating System: MS Windows XP Professional Memory: 504MB RAM

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Still cant resolve this problem-- tecra 8100 with sony crx700e cdrw drive. IDE1 error message upon bootup- reinstall the drive and it will work fine... only NOT on orig bootup. Common sense tells me if the drive works after reinsertion there has to be a fix. OS is WINXP professional. …

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Does anyone know how to connect using RD when the remote PC is logged out (showing the Task Manager)? I've no problems when the PC is 'active' and my servers work remotely whatever their state of login/out. Many thanks in advance.

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I ran a program that replaced important system files (of course I was not planning for that to happen) so when I boot up my computer I get the following error message. When the welcome screen should come up: stop: c000021a {fatal system errors} The Windows Logon Process system process …

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Weird. I saw this 6-8 months ago at a clients. I couldn't find an answer, he needed an upgrade anyway, so I took the easy route and wiped the hard drive and rebuilt everything. Now it's happening to one of my computers. If you try to run any program by …

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Hi. Im new to daniweb. i came to know while surfing thro google. I found it too helpful and became a member. I dont know where to post this thread so if i were wrong plz forward this thread to the related forum. Thanks. I read so many post related …

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I just put a differernt HDD in my computer and the hard drive is not found. Everything I read said to make sure the BIOS is set to autodetect but that is where I get stuck. I looked a bunch of screen shots to make sure i was in BIOS …

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Well Service Pack 1 Beta has come out for Windows XP People with Downloaded copies have to pay the price of tweaking the registry and have to reboot as well lol. SP1 full is coming. Also Windows XP .NET should be coming out around early Fall so they say. Also …

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I have found on a File Server, that "Previous Versions" /VSS is being used. Strangely though, some items have previous versions available, but others do not. Any idea why? Shouldn't VSS be getting copies of all the files on the volume?

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I am currently running Win98 and want to use Win2000. Questions about this...... 1. Can I just run the install? Like when I put the rom in... just go with it. 2. If I go with (1), will it uninstall win98 and just install Win2000? Or will Win2000 lay on …

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Hi, I would appreciate your help. I have been following advice I found of people with similar problems but it does not seem to be working. After downloaded an .exe file I appear to be infected with the above trojan, if not more. I have the security pop ups from …

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Now... i hate to say this.. but I only have 128megs of RAM in this computer. Not to mension its PC66. If I have a few programs open, I have 20% free (I have a program running in the tray telling me). Then, if I close a program, I have …

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:'( Whenever I try to play a windows media player file off the internet it says it could not find it, even though I KNOW the link is working. any suggestions? anyone know how to uninstall media player?!?! ??? thanks. email me at <<edited out (due to remorse, becuase he …

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Hi Out of nowhere, I am suddenly getting a blue screen. The code is 0x0000007E (0x0000005, 0x804EB951, 0xF78CEBB4, 0xF78CE8B0) The only things that had changed were updating my 8600GT driver and a new mouse which is usb. I have 2gb windows xp and I have checked and I have plenty …

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Hi guys I am using win xp hom edition [B]sometimes an error message comes up which looks like: [COLOR="red"]The instruction at "0x00143ba" referenced memory at "0x0013f747". The memory couldn't be "read".[/COLOR][/B] What is the problem? thanx

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Hi All, Going nuts! Have been trying to open Outlook and all I get out of it is 'Failed to register a VB script dll . Have tried reinstalling and repairing to self-register, but it isn't having any of that. Someone suggested removing the Google desk top which I have …

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I have a Dell laptop, that someone removed the HDD and dropped it. The laptop doesn't boot. So I rigged it up to my PC and unsuprisingly found that it had passed on. I replaced and upgraded the new HDD installed Windows on it with my regular PC, but although …

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When ever I use the search function in windows xp professional with the advanced search options I get a lock up of the search function and I usally get the search folder that does not close. Also I get a data execution prevention error. I have Comodo firewall installed and …

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Hey everyone... could someone tell me why this isn't working? I get "The specified path could not be found." when I run it. [code]@echo off REM########################################################################### REM Author: Caleb REM Date: 11-14-2007 REM Contact: - REM Description: This .bat file is to copy necessary .cui, .mnl, and .mnr files from …

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EEK! I was the last one to use my cousins computer and its now messed up and I don't want to be blamed :( Please help! The laptop boots up and then says "Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt: <Windows root>\system32\hal.dll. Please re-install a …

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