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| | When I click on "Help and Support", I get an error message saying "Windows cannot open Help and Support because a system service is not running. To fix this problem, start the service named 'Help and Support'." The only problem is when I go to services.msc there is no 'Help …  |
| | After updating the flash bios on an old Sony Vaio, I can no longer boot up (I got the message that the update was successful. I get the Sony screen (with the "Phoenix Technologies" logo in the corner), and it goes no further. I can't get into the bios, and … |
 | I have 5 different Browsers on my machine. Firefox, Neo Planet, Flock, IE and Netscape. The Firefox browser has been bugging me about "An Update Is Available" so I updated the browser to 2.0.0.14 Now the ONLY browser that will load [B][U][I]any[/I][/U][/B] pages is my Netsacpe browser. When I try … |
| | I need to find the ssdi on my router...where do i look, and what does it look like??? |
| | Hello Mac Gurus, Wierd problem on my friend's iMac (sunflower) running Jaguar. Says he pressed some buttons (but cant remember which), and now the built in LCD display is....... monocrome. Tried all combonations of settings in System Prefrerences > Display, and Color - and the best I can do is … |
| | Hope this is the right forum to post this on! One of my clients, a construction company, has set up several webcams on their construction site (in Turkey) for their UK clients to monitor progress. However, apparently the security settings on the browsers of most of the clients are blocking … |
| | Not sure if I'm posting this in the right forum, but here goes... At work we have 3 desktop PCs in a workgroup, all running Windows XP Pro. They are all connected to a netgear router. We also have a Linksys wireless access point connected to the router. Earlier this … |
 | I want to buy an Acer Aspire M5640 at an unbeliveably good price. But it has an AMD 690G chipset and the new one once it comes out will probably be way to expensive. I wanted to see if i could buy a 790x chipset, unsolder the old one and …  |
| | Hello, this is how my experience goes. I turned on the computer one morning before going to work and after startup the CMOS screen came up. I checked no to the question I don't remember and it gave me a follow up message about something not working if I continued. … |
| | Hi I have a stunned problem with my company pc and would really appreciate any other suggestions.The computer I have is networked to exchange server and two other business related servers.Recently the user has started to complain about system freezes.So upon some research in I found a "bugcheck" complain that … |
| | A few days ago I accidentally inadvertently clicked upon a popup ad that I was trying to get rid of and a black screen appeared on my desktop replacing my wallpaper with a message that still reads, 'Warning, your computer is infected! How the hec do I get rid of …  |
| | hey guyz im setting up a new rig just something normal gona play wow mostly, tell me what u guyz think or if i should change anything Intel E8400 ASUS P5E-VM HDMI 4GB Kingston hyperX 6400 < btw can i go higher with this mobo , like pc-8500 ? western … |
| | Okay, so earlier today, I seem to have contracted some kind of virus. I was on MSN messenger and I recieved one of those stupid messages with those links with these kinds of virus attached to them but for some reason I didnt pay attention and I was careless and … |
| | I am not new to the business but I am definitely not advanced in any way, also I am new to daniweb and am not sure if this is the correct forum. I am trying to create a batch file in XP that clears the IE cache, temp internet fils, … |
| | So I go to use my desktop and the thing is shut down, hmm that's not normal. It has power to the LEDs and I tried swapping out the power supply to no avail. It don't matter how many times I mash the switch, or how long I push it, … |
| | I bought 80gb seagate hard disk st380215a, last year. Last month i cant boot t hd and cannot view t hd in bios. Than i installed my friend hd in my cpu, than that hd was view in bios. where my hd have 5yrs warranty i returned to seagate service … |
| | I am trying to troubleshoot a homebuilt computer that won't boot. It has been working for about 2 years without issue but when I went to boot it today all I got was one beep ( Award BIOS and a Asus P5N-e SLI MB ) and a message on the … |
| | i just built my new computer i hooked the monster to the grafix card and the black screen said a bunch of stuff and then verifying dmi pool data.............. could not boot, insert boot disk so i inserted the xp disk and it said verifying dmi pool data.............. then it … |
| | My computer wont start up straight away, when holding down the start button it revvs like an engine and after 3 minutes if I am lucky it will turn on. The computer is an emachines about 2 years old and this has intermittantly happened over the las t6 months now … |
| | Hi All, Im currently running Vista 32bit on an Core 2 Duo PC. The other day, after installing and uninstalling my anti-virus software to update and change i noticed some of my web pages were refusing to load. Sometimes if i closed the browser 3 or 4 times it would … |
| | Lately i have been having trouble booting up my computer, it loads up the acer brand name then goes to a black screen saying the following: Broadcom UNDI, PXE-2.1 (build 082) v2.0.6 Copyright (C) 2000-2004 Broadcom Corporation Copyright (C) 1997-200 Inter Corporation All rights reserved. PXE-E61: Media test failure, check … |
| | :'( Im trying to do my final paper for college...I cant get rid of this mess!! I also have winlog Notify cryptnet dll names anonymous REG_DWORD value data 0x00000000 (0) and Impersonate REG_DWORD value data 0x00000000 (0) 6BB45534C867516E6B1D181C9C18AC30 here's my locate.com compare...* DLLCompare Log version(1.0.0.127)Files Found that Windows does not … |
| | HELP, my PC has always been virtually virus and spyware free because i use avg annti-virus & spybot. but recently ive had some real serious problems with my pc. I get these "Buffer Overrun" errors in "explorer.exe" which causes all programs and the task bar and desktop to close down … |
| | my desktop pc has a error i turn it on everything starts up great gets to windows xp runs any program perfectly until i go into any type of online game that is full screen and its only while im online that it happens the internet connection isnt bad because … |
| | A neighbor's husband died last year. He ran a business from his house. She gave me one of his disktop Gateway computers (which had a dead power supply) that I replaced. [URL="http://support.gateway.com/s//MOTHERBD/INTEL/2517815/2517815nv.shtml"]Here[/URL] is the motherboard. Upon booting, I notice that it is set to run on a domain. It has … |
| | I am having an issue where the the option for network adapter is not being displayed in the device manager. I've alway had a network adapter displayed in the task bar and out of a sudden I can not see this display. could it be that my NIC card may … |
 | I need a freeware program besides bootskin to change my boot screen. a cia screen would also help.  |
| | Hi I have had an unusually high cpu usage for the past 2 days. Especially when using firefox or safari or similar programs. I have over 300GB of hard disk space and almost 3gb of ram. I have never had over 80% cpu usage even even using high-end games but … |
| | Hello everybody, i'm in desperately in need of help. I have recently acquired some kind of virus/bug/nasty. There is a "VIRUS ALERT!" Warning appears in my system tray. I am unable to access most things in my start bar, and I cannot access control panel or my computer. Also, when … |
| | Hello Last Wednesday my computer became very effectively infected. My desktop became a selectable icon, (a version of the SmitfraudFix icon), the C drive had disappeared, was unable to access the display icon (came back with administration privilege required). The system was constantly accessing the internet, the antivirus soft, Avira … |
| | Hello, is it possible to resize partitions under win XP using Disk management tools, or I need special software for that? I know there are couple of software tools such as Partition Magic. However, I'd like to know if this is possible to be done in Win XP itself. Regards |
| | the computer turns on but the monitor stays on standby i have check the monitors working there is an initial beep when u first turn on the computer cpu fan working have checked everything is in properly have no idea what it is |
| | I have a relatively new (couple months) Dell XP Pro laptop (Precision M90), current on patches, up to date AV (AVG Network Edition) that after the user attempted to install some software on, and it went to hell. There was an error on boot up from TCSD_Win32.exe, which apparently a … |
| | Hi there, Here is my problem: I get this message "Windows/System32/Config/System file missing or corrupt". I have tried this so far: -Using my Windows Installation disk to try to repair my registry, using the windows tutorial [URL="http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307545/en-us"](http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307545/en-us)[/URL], but when i try to enter the first line (c:\>md tmp) i get … |
| | Just installed a NVIDIA GEFORCE4 MX 4000 with 128 memory in my PCI slot. Doesnt work as well as the onboard graphics which only has 64 memory. What could be wrong with this setup? I845gv is the chipset for motherboard. Any help would be appreciated.....Should my bit show 64 now … |
| | Up until now, I've been able to login to update a Web Site I have with [url]ftp://www.sitename.ca[/url] as the address, Now, all I get is [B]"Windows cannot access this folder. Make sure you typed the filename correctly or have permission to access this folder"[/B] There were a couple of Automatic …  |
| | I am having problems with games and other aspects of my computer graphics not loading properly and taking more than 10 minutes to load at all. Also games can become very slow and lots of the graphics incomplete on screen. I have a Packard Bell computer with Windows XP service … |
| | hi, got a couple of problems with my desktop which came loveingly installed with windows vista . . . my sister has installed and "apparently deleted" a webcam that needed registering, and it constantly pops up that you need to register it . . . regardless of if you register … |
| | I recently set up a wireless print network for our laptops and a desktop. Since then only my laptop has been doing the following..... when I go to the web for hotmail or to do a search everything is ok and very fast immediately after I start the computer; however … |
| | im actually not a computer guy but i have a problem i was hoping someone could help me with. my computer is stuck in a reboot loop. i have an intel pentium 4 desktop computer. it is windows xp home edition. the problem happened after i installed the windows service … |
| | I have had a lot of trouble with spools.exe . I clean it off and it just keeps comming back. This computer, a Dell Dimension 3000, 1.5 GB RAM, sp2, had a lot of trogans and viruses and I was able to clean most of them with Spybot Search and … |
| | Hi in a system with configuration P III 1 Ghz, 256MB SD RAM, 40 GB Hard disk Due to some problems, i formatted the system and installed windows xp sp2, It all took the drivers automatically. After a clean install, I installed AVG antivirus 8.0, after installing the monitor displays … |
 | Good day. I used Spybot search & destroy along with AVG to remove several nasties. I was then prompted to reboot my machine. Upon restarting computer, A blue screen comes up saying: [code] STOP: c0000135{unable to locate component} This application has failed to start because baservik32 was not found. Re-installing … |
| | Is there a way I can set Windows Media Player as my default music player? When I download a music file it opens in Real Player. I would like to use WMP instead. Thanks. janda5 |
| | hi to all, just a quick one as confused slightly... have a compaq presarion laptop with a wireless card slot . . . seemed to have walked into a mine field when trying to find one thats not rediculusly expensive and still has a range of over a couple of … |
| | hi, irolands here, newbie, need help installing vista, i'm upgrading from xp, in the install it gives me the option of installing without entering product key so i click "no" then it just goes back to wanting me to enter the key. what am i doing wrong? i have also … |
| | I put this computer together, and I have Windows XP on the hard drive. I gto a cd with my motherboard with the drivers, I installed them all but my sound doesn't work. In device manager it says that the drivers are there and working but there is no sound …  |
| | hello. I have a very annoying problem with my OS. My computer freezes within minutes of turning on the computer. It usually happens whenever I attempt to web browse or install something. Within seconds after attempting to do anything, the computer locks up and I am forced to manually turn …  |
| | OK my PC started freezing I scanned viruses and spy-ware. I cleaned out all the temp files, Internet files and so on. It still kept freezing so i said f it and i reformatted and reinstalled windows, updated everything to date. And......IT STILL FREEZES. this has never happened to me … |
| | Every time I try opening the control panel, the following error appears -" This operation has been cancelled due to restrictions in effect on this computer. Contact your system administrator." Please help me out wiyhout having to reinstall windows. |
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