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Hello all, I have a problem with a laptop that I have not seen before. The original problem was the original heat sink assembly was not working so I ordered a new assembly straight from HP (It's an HP Pavilion dv9728ca running vista home premium). I installed it and the …

My laptop was working fine this morning. Went to use it this afternoon and had a blue screen saying a problem was detected and it needed to shut down to prevent further damage, then it did a memory dump. I tried booting it up in safe mode and it just …

Hi, several applications use as much as CPU as they can while starting up. This takes one and sometimes several minutes. I'm using WinXpPro SP3. I suspect it is the registry or a service that is not started but should or maybe a replaced driver/DLL. It happens with and without …

hello can you help me please, how to install 2 operating system, my board is M3N78-VM ASUS and it is dual booth. i already installed Windows XP and now it is running properly...i want to install Linux operating system can you help me how to install this in dual booth...thank …

i keep on getting this Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage

Hi, Recently my computer got a virus which kept bringing up a window saying that a program had stopped responding and so I scanned my laptop with Malwerebytes and it managed to find the infected files and get rid of them. Now, before this, my laptop experienced a crash, which …

When I right click and or double click to load a song for instance, it takes forever? I counted...right click takes 6 seconds! and when I open a song it takes 10! I understand this is a small problem but i find it very anoying. I have a home built …

I have a problem with IE 8 on another computer. When I try to connect I get the cannot display page. But when I check the work offline option my homepage will come up but nothing else. Any ideas?

I recently installed Norton Internet Security. Did a full system scan. Was able to delete all but five files. All five are located in C:\RECYCLER (that's what Norton tells me). The following is what I get from Norton. The file C:\RECYCLER\S-1-5-21-2508614513-4166783643-2927389754-1003\Dc8.exe is a Adware threat.

I use Ad-aware to remove spy ware. I quarantined my computer yesterday and now I'm getting a RUNDLL Loading Error every time I log on to MS XP. The error reads: "Loading Error C:\WINDOWS\Downloaded Program Files\Bridge.dll The specified module could not be found." What must I do to stop this …

Need help, I want my PC to XP Home, to ask me if I want my PC to remember passwords. Is thete a function that I need to enable. Please let me know. Wallace.

or will only load very rarely. i'm fairly certain there is some sort of dns settings affecting virus embeded in flash player. i've tried uninstalling flash completely, and running an antivirus to find the sucker, but upon deletion the situation has not improved. this same problem is also keeping me …

Hi, My name is Harriet and this is my 2nd post. Please let this serve as my introduction to you as I really don't know my way around this community. Before I used Windows Live OneCare (which was discontinued) I backed up to my external hard drive using Acronis. After …

hello can you help me how can i put My Documents and My Pictures in windows explorer...like those Drive D: Drive C: hoping for your positive responds thank you in advance...

First time trying dban formt. Hopeing that I acn reinstall windows after all is said and done. This is a little scarry!! I think that I ended up getting a worm from downloading a torrent file off piratebay.org. My other computer started consumeing it's own virtual memory. (It seemed like …

Hi everyone, excuse me if I am posting in the wrong place but I am new to this.I have got hold of a Compaq p4 with no hard drive.I would like to use it with windows XP or a later o/s on it.I put a new hard drive in it …

Dell Inspiron Laptop Windows 7 (64bit) Wireless card - Dell 1510 mini (but I think made by Broadcomm) Been getting BSODs (always whilst on wireless) - so updated wireless driver to the latest one on the Dell site. Now the wirelss adapter won't enable. I've tried old and new drivers …

Has anyone ever seen this it's a dell inspiron laptop (sorry don't have the model) my customer upgraded to win 7 and he gets screens that look like this, We've uninstalled and re-installed the video driver 2 or 3 times. The only way to clear it up is to change …

For some time now I find that Windows XP Professional will not drill down through more than one folder unless I return and then try again. Very tedious. I suspect that this might be as a result of one of the updates from MS. What might be the problem/solution? SNIP

I have an Acer Aspire 5100 running Windows XP. I recently installed a LightWave USB TV/AV Combo TV aerial unit to enable me to watch TV on my laptop. I live in Uganda so don't have many options apart from this in my place. Everything was fine for a day …

When I turn on my V3000 the power and indicator LED's light up but nothing appears on the LCD. I Thought it may have been the integrated Video Card so i bought a new motherboard and installed it, but the issue still remains, even when i hook up an external …

Hi, I have a weird problem. So, i turn on my laptop and am connected to the wireless internet. However, after some time (very random - ranging from a few minutes to hours), the internet suddenly switches off and I am unable to browse anything on the net. The windows …

Hello! I was wondering how I can access another computer from my desktop. My parents often have computer trouble, and instead of telling them what to do and where to go over the phone, I'd much rather just show them. I'd prefer if there was no software to download. Any …

hello, can you help me or advise me if i am doing the right thing...i edited the boot.ini in msconfig,in order to boot faster that's what i know.. i change the timeout=30 to timeout=0 am i doing safe?please help me hoping for your positive responds...thank you in advance

All of a sudden three or four days ago I got ready to watch a DVD on my PC and I had no sound. I have checked everything even reinstalled both DVD drives and nothing. I saw a little while ago that some other have had the same problem and …

I just reinstalled windows XP Home on my old laptop, and for some reason I can't access the internet-through LAN or wireless. Before I reinstalled the OS I could access the internet just fine, so is there maybe some driver I'm missing?

I have a SD card with Files that got changed somehow from MP4 to JPEG...I have tried altering the suffix and it seems like they wont play. Does anyone know of any FREE program or way to correct this so I dont lose my movies?

my app needs to be run as admin, but a link to my app is in startup. when Windows 7 starts my app doesn't work! what should I do?

Hi I am new to the forum...I just installed Windows Vista and it show the volume icon and says: " No audio output device is installed"....I have a dell dimension 8400 computer....is there is someway to fix this please help me, it would be very sad to have to change …

I have had this computer for a few years. Problem started about 2 years ago. While playing games such as Dawn of War:Dark Crusade the computer randomly stalls for a few seconds every few seconds. The sound stops and stutters while stalling. I am inexperienced with computers and have read …

Hello Well... i have here a complicated case. I bought myself at the beginning of the schoolyear a new laptop. Then i upgraded it to windows 7. at some point, my father wanted to make some setting in the computer. He made himself an admin account, made my account into …

Hi i was shutting down my windows vista on my hp laptop . Vista wouldn't shut down till a program would end so i plugged the power supply . Now when i turn on my laptop all that will appear is a blank black screen any suggestions how to over …

my machine keeps shutting down just after i turn on it is not even booting windows and it also looks like there may be a fault with graphics card i cannot get it to stay on long enough to do any diagnostics

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 …

I am currently having a problem with my inernet explorer. My computer says I have an internet connection yet whenever i use internet explorer or firefox the pages just keep loading and loading or more common than not, I get a "Page cannot be displayed" dialogue. I am currently running …

Hi, I have installed Windows XP SP3 and the latest Ubuntu 10.04 on a 320 GB HD as a dual boot system. I have made a 125 GB partition for windows and left the rest for linux. When I boot the OSes, linux works fine, but windows takes a very …

Ok... so I am running a Hp Pavillion 512c. I plan to get better ram for it so I can run what I want/need. The thing of the matter is it is all hand me downs. I will be getting a 40G HD and a 60G, one is nearly full …

I have a final almost finished database for one of my school courses yet when I went to open it this morning it wouldn't work! Is there a free tool that anyone knows to recover a "corrupt" .mdb access file? Any help would be appreciated! -Bryansworld

Memory Usage Goes Up Gradually (Memory Leak) When I starting the Windows (in the first few hours) everything is normal But after 1 day or 2 (sooner or later) the amount of available memory gradually goes down and the physical memory usage increasing. This increasing, continues until the memory usage …

I had both Mp4 and Jpeg files on a Scan disk. This was mixed with both type of files. Today I went to burn the MP4 to DVD and the disk is ALL JPEG..? How could this happen, I dont think I clicked on anything to do this , is …

purchased latest flash player, it downloads fine but when I try to install it, I get a "this site is blocked by the administrator". I bought and am sole owner of this computer and never knowingly blocked this or any other program from loading. How do I remove this block …

Hi in my win xp when i open a window there is no menu bar and button bar !!! there is no any place to right click on it to add thats to windows !!! how can do this ??? thanks

I happened to find this way on google. And hope to share with you. Please reply me if you have any other ways. The software I'm using is called flv downloader. It is a freeware. Install and start the downloader. You needn't get the url when downloading the vid. Press …

Hi, I'm having a little problem with IE7. I'm entering data for my work on a netbook but I get an error message saying that "Class doesn't support automation". I've tried reinstalling IE7 but that doesn't fix the problem. It works on other computers, but not the netbook I'm using. …

I am using windows7(authentic version) but facing problem in booting the system!my system is going slow day by day! The reason may be avg anti virus or probably some other problem which I am not able to trace out! I work on multiple applications at a time so a speedy …

I have unplugged everything from my computer except for my monitor, mouse, and keyboard. I still get the blue screen saying bad pool caller. I tried to reinstall windows xp, but when I get to the screen asking me to install or recover windows xp my keyboard stops working (I …

Not sure where to post so I guess I will post here. I have Yahoo! IM, and for some reason I Can not voice chat at all. This even happens when I try and go into the website and chat there. It suggests that I get out from behind my …

Since downloading Windows SP2 I decided to delete it to see if it would help and it didn't. I have also downloaded Norton Internet Security 2006 and it is still up and running. Before doing this I had quite alot of free space left on my hard drive, now I …

Hello everyone, I have reformatted numerous computers in my life but have ran into an error that my experience (or lack there of) cannot fix. I have an Acer 5100 which had Vista on it. I have reformatted the HD (actually have tried two HD's) and have attempted to install …

hello can you please help me what should be the first boot device or the primary because i am going to reformat my P.C..hoping for your positive responds..thank you in advance...