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| | I have several computers and one needs to be reformatted. The problem is that I have lost the recovery media for it. What I am asking is if it is possible to use the recovery media from a Dell desktop to an HP laptop. Both have the same operating system …  |
| | I am thinking of buying an Apple work station, but have a couple of compatability questions. 1) Can I video-chat to someone who has a regular PC with Microspoft XP? 2) Do I still use the unique e-mail software provided by my ISP? 3) Can I load my Creative MP3 … |
| | Hello all. I've got a Vista laptop and an XP desktop connected to a wireless ADSL router (Comtrend). Previously, I was able to view both computers over the network, share files and play LAN games. As of this afternoon, it appears the LAN network has crapped the bed. Both computers …  |
| | Hello everyone, assistance please..... I'm having this internet explorer problem.. lots of IE browser pops out upon start-up accompanied by lots of rundll32.exe error on task manager/processes. Already tried looking at msconfig/startup tab, but no Internet explorer present there to disable. help me out on this one please :'( here's …  |
| | First off I would like to thank you for your willingness to help people with problems on this site. I have never had a virus or computer problem before and was really amazed that this type of website existed! I read and saw that you need to run HJT first … |
| | While shipping my laptop, the laptop seems to have got a shock. The top 40 % of the screen is showing the correct display whereas the remaining portion shows vertical lines. What could be wrong ? any help would be appreciated. I am attaching the picture of the laptop |
| | Hay, recently i have just bought a new headset, for gaming, ventrilo and music. its the Steelseries 3H, it's a nice compatible thing, im pleased with MIC quality, but when i am not listening to anything and it is quiet when im on a game, i hear a annoying noise, …  |
| | I recently bought a play and charge kit for my xbox 360 control pad and was led to believe that now i could use the USB connection to connect the pad and use it to play games on my PC? however I cant figure out how to do this? im …  |
| | I have an IBM T22 to which I am upgrading the RAM memory. It will go to 512 MB, but I can only get it to go to 384 MB. If I install two 256 MB sticks, I get a windows 32 driver error and I can't boot up at … |
| | Pentium 4 2.5 gh ABIT VT7 radeon Video card This system had been stable for 4 years. Now nothing starts. The PSU appears to be dead. The fan on the PSU does not even come on. The only thing that comes on when I turn on the power using the … |
| | my command prompt sometimes doesnot work.... |
| | I am writing a batch file to automate and carry out a list of tasks. One part of my work is to add certain repetitive lines to a text file. However each time the line must be accompanied by a number running from 0001 to 7000. (I need 0001 as … |
| | Hi every1 ........ i am new to socket programming and TCP/IP V have to do a package in it........ Suggest me some topics and some reference books which would b helpfull for socket programming............ :-/ some1 plz help |
| | How do you make a loggout sceen say PLEASE INSERT CARD OR PRES CNTL+ALT+DELETE TO LOGIN. On my computer its just the regular loged out screen for Windows Vista. |
| | [B]Im RajNOX, this is ma first thread as well. im doing ma final year BSc in computer systems and networking. Im in need of doing a final year project. Please can anyone help me in this issue as giving me your ideas about what you thing that would be feasible.. …  |
| | turn the back of the device, there is an indented little reset button, click it with its stylus. |
| | Hey guys I'm using Linux and I'm having trouble with Open Office. This is the first time it has happened. I try to open a file saved with open office and its coming up with translation stuff like western europe (Applemac) and stuff. What has happened and how can I … |
| | I tried the 'add/remove' pgm in windows XP Limewire was deleted from the list, went to desktop and clicked on the icon on the desktop and the pgm still ran. I rebooted and the Limewire still can be run from the desktop icon. The only diff is it does not … |
| | Hi i recently got a new case and it has blue lights on it . My mum wants to know if thats going to cost her money in power and electricity . i think they are led lights and they dont cost much right. Anyone know??? |
| | I installed a new Western Digital 120GB SATA hard drive on an Intel motherboard. All is well. Then I installed another WD 80GB SATA hard drive. BIOS recognizes both hard drives. All is still well, except Windows does not recognize the second hard drive. Ideas?  |
| | Whenever I try to install a USB mouse I get a new device wizard and from that point 1 of 2 scenarios plays out. Either A) It recognizes the device by name and then tries to install the driver and then kicks back cannot install the hardware with the reason … |
| | hello I on my keyboard the @ and " keys are opposite, could you please help me with this? thanks Steve |
| | Hey guys weather its windows 7 or vista i found these grate steps online to start,run and shutdown your vista operating system and make all those 3 main things happen much faster and smoothley. 1. Restrict the no. of start-ups. Why have programs starting up when you dont really use … |
| | I have an hp pavilion ze5500 that was upgraded to a ze5580. It has a built in wifi card. I purchased this computer from a neighbor who bought it but rarely used it. I bought it for is wifi capabilites. It has an internal wifi card. I bought it, toddled … |
| | hi, I know u all would say that it is a problem well talked about in other threads, but my problem is different. I have also been using XP SP2 and since i was facing this problem I formatted my computer as last resort not knowing what to do..to fix … |
 | HELP!! i can't install programs that need activex control and java. my information bar doesn't display. :sad: |
| | Does anyone out there know how to stop user accounts from loading offensive material onto the desktop background? I have looked ing the registry and found some HKEY listings for user account and desktop but I have got no idea what I'm looking at really,or the values that may need … |
| | I am attemtping to remove AVG in order to install Kapersky. I have removed through the control panel add/remove. Searched and removed all straglers using search on "My Computor" in public, hidden and private folders. But when I go to install it says AVG is still on my PC. Also … |
 | I have installed a modem but it keeps on being undetected after every reboot. I always have to search for plug and play devices after every reboot to return it into the Device Manager hardware list. Why does this happen? |
 | Does anyone know how to set the time and date from the registry. My computer sits on a domain and the time and dateis synchronised from the network. I changed the time and date but forgot to change back and now I cannot log onto the PC. I log on … |
| | Hello everyone I have just taken a commputer from a friend with some problems given below. I don't know how getting away these. I have hijack report in safe mode under the message. Please give me some hands. 1)Harddisks cannot open with clicking in the computer folder. It asks that … |
| | Hi guys, Have helped a friend set up bigpond wireless gateway and found her pc is not wireless enabled so we used the netgear wireless adapter supplied but this would not work either, finally we had to use the ethernet cable to get connection. Is anyone able to tell me … |
| | Hello: I have been on the phone with Linksys for hours and spent many more trying to fix situation. Would greatly appreciate any help from community. I have a Linksys WRTG2 v1 router that has been fine for just about anything I've thrown at it. Including a T60 laptop up … |
| | I have a question about Bluetooth technology from Microsoft. I have purchased the mouse/keyboard combo and to much of my excitement, I am not impressed. I understand that the technology is based on saving battery power, but I am trying to stop that. My mouse or keyboard after a couple … |
| | I recently reinstalled windows as it crashed on me,but since then i have been unable to use my bluetooth dongle with my mobile phone.(samsung d500) The problem is not the phone, but either my dongle not been recognised or the bluesoleil software/drivers not working right i guess?? The dongle is … |
| | I just got a new USB Bluetooth dongle and paired it with my Sony Ericsson k700i.the dongle works just fine but i have a problem.how can i install mobile softwares onto my phone from my pc using the bluetooth dongle.the software that i use (blue soleil) does not detect the … |
| | hi over the past week all my browsers have been actin strange. all the usual sites i visited gets redirected to random google searches and some xxx sites. plus ive been getting random pop ups. ive done numerous virus scans and i didnt get anything heres my HJT log Logfile … |
 | Hello, first of all I'm not a Unix expert at all (otherwise I wasn't asking this question), but I'm having some trouble starting my X-Server ... When I type the following:[iCODE]startx[/iCODE] or [iCODE]X[/iCODE] I get the following error message(s): [CODE] ... No core pointer Fatal server error: Failed to initialize … |
| | hello daniweb community this is my first time actually ever using a forum so i apologise in advance if i dont make any sense or i posted the thread in the wrong place. OK so the problem i am having at the moment is that i encountered this virus when … |
| | When i turn my computer on it will go all the way up to the windows XP logo with the little green loading bar but than 2 secs later it will flash blue really quick and then just restart over and over idk what to do the computer just keeps …  |
| | when i open my folder then inside it the .exe file exist which has same name as the host folder... when i del it .. it comes again n again... can anyone plz tell me the solution |
| | Hey there everyone, I got myself into abit of a dilemma, well i normally double click on the C: drive harddrive pict to get into it but last night for some reason my antivirus picked it up as a virus or something i was not expecting it to be my … |
 | My file reads this, "multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(2)partition(1)\WINDOWS="My Bad Ass Machine" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptOut" should it not say optin instead of optout? |
| | Hello everyone, I just joined this forum, but would like to thank all that peruse its sections to help others - hopefully others like me! I read other user's posts and solutions that have a similar problem as me, which is that when I go to shut down windows, I …  |
| | When I turn my computer on the fan starts and instead of booting on, the computer beeps continually. Nothing on the monitor. The only way I can turn the machine off, is by unplugging it. Anyone out there to advise me what is going on, please??????????????? |
| | In ubuntu if i click the left and mouse buttons at once it middle clicks. Im prone to doing this by accident so i dont want it to happen how to disable?  |
| | This problem seemed to surface when my ip address changed. I am able to use firefox, but when I try to access the internet via internet explorer all I get is a blank screen with the loading icon constantly going.. I have run norton, avg, spybot, adaware, trend micro. all … |
| | I have a 40 gig drive on my Toshiba Satellite with XP SP3 installed. It comes up as only 37 gigs so 3 gigs are in the void there but I'm not worried about that because I realize that when they say 40 they mean "almost 40". What I am …  |
| | I checked over the net for other threads before posting this here. To make sure that I couldn't resolve the problem with a little research myself. My current problem is that I am locked out of my desktop and unable to change it in anyway. Recently had a virus that … |
| | Windows XP Pro. SP3. IE7. Have always been able to update this rather new computer. I get to express or custome. As always I hit express. A window comes up that says something about control panel but it goes quick but I believe it states to check the time and … |
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