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Guys, Please tell me which are the best DVD converter and rippers available in the market? Share your views. Thanks,

I have MS Office Pro on a work computer that we just tasked to a new job that requires MS Access. All of the other programs in MS Office open and work fine, but when I try to open Access (either by clicking directly on a file or by just …

It has been more than a year since I went on that account, I just realized that I can't remember the pdf password.

I have a PO form that I have created in Excel. It is set up as a template, and I would like to have a macro assign a sequentional number to the PO's as they are written. Does anyone know how to help me with this? Thank you, Tracy

When I press the start button the green light shows the computer powes on however the HD indicator light won't gon on and the computer would not boot. I have to keep the switch pressed for a few seconds to turn it off. After I repeat the procedure two or …

Hi whene i try to run cmd as administrator (Run as administrator) this message shown : access denide you dont have permision to ... how can i do this ??? thanks

First off hello. Ok I recently decided to downgrade from vista to xp. But the only xp OS resource that I had available was an .iso after countless hours I found a decent ISO image burner and was able to burn the image to cd. But for reason I can't …

Does any body knows that why i am facing problem in my Window 7? I have installed WINDOW 7 few weeks back and since than i have reinstalled it three time.. Does any one know how can i secure my window 7 from viruses? Thanks in advance!

I've been working on my kids computer for months now, off and on, thanks to a classic case of good intions going VERY bad. Their computer WAS working just fine until I decided that since I was upgrading the soundcard on my Dell, that it was only fair I give …

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I have a new Dell Studio 15 laptop with Windows 7 Pro and a 500GB hard drive. I want create new partitions for storing my data. Currently, the size of the C: partition is 461,899 MB, of which 36,250 MB is used. That leaves 425,649 MB free. But when I …

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I have a Win 7 64 bit machine that has Outlook 2007 on it. The Outlook is standalone there is no Exchange Server. When we moved from our old XP computer to the new computer we moved over the 2 Outlook PST files as well as the .NK2 files. I …

Hi, ive recently been asked to wipe a friends computer and have done so with no probs until i noticed that the ethernet controller driver isnt backed up on disk anywhere and now i need to download it from somewhere, the driver i need is for an Intel(R) FW82801EB Ethernet …

as soon as i switch on the ups the cpu gave a continuous sounds any suggestion plz

When I turn my hp pavilion a805n on, it makes a strange, load noise; as if it was on way to long and is overheated. When it turns on, it bumbs me to the screen saying "Safe Mode", "Start Windows Normally", etc. Whitchever one I choose, the computer shuts down. …

Hey guys, me has a little problem with this wonderful new operating system..It basically randomely freezes every few minutes for 30seconds or so. Doesn't matter if i'm browsing net, playing a game or whatever. At first I thought it was the mouse but I think it's explorer freezing. I can't …

I got a laptop today, but it came with the hard drive partitioned in two. Is there a way to "de-partition" them without running Setup? I'm using Win XP Pro SP1, by the way.

I DONT honestly think its the cable..When I plug any device into the front of my tower, the ICON does not display in the system tray...I DO hear the bell type sound when the device is plugged in..This same thing has happened with a MP4 and a USB cord into …

I wasn't sure where to post this but I figured that I would post it here as I'm using windows 7 Anyway, to my problem. Here's the situation: At the moment I am living at a boarding school and have my desktop, running windows 7, connected to the wireless network. …

A couple of signs of a virus on my computer are that at times iexplorer.exe opens without my permission. I get an error from a process called HSG.exe every once in awhile, I can't close the process as it simply restarts itself. I have no idea what it is, but …

Hi, I'm running an old (about six years old) Compaq Preario 2200 laptop with Windows XP intel(R) Celeron(R) M processor 1400MHz 1.40 GHz 480 MB of RAM. Latley my computer has started running slowly. Iv tried in vain to fix the problem but it still persists. I was hoping some …

Hi all, Just wanted your opinion on which security suite to run on my new Windows 7 Dell Studio 8100 (Intel i7 CPU) machine. The machine came with McAffee Security Center as standard and it seems a decent program, but they don't offer anything in the way of browser virtualization, …

I have been getting an error message titled wmdc.exe-bad image "C:\Windows\system32\WSOCK32.dll is either not designed to run on Windows or it contains an error. Trying installing the program again using the original installation media or contact your system administrator or the software vendor for support". I also get all different …

Hi, My IE starts acting wired recently. When I tried to Load a Chinese web site, it starts loading up fine, and after it is fully loaded, the page suddenly refreshed itself and turned to all '?' marks. This only happens on Chinese web pages. Does anybody have any idea …

I have a dell laptop inspiron 1501 laptop with registry probems and its slow. I had stop sign firewall and i guess it got corrupted and stop working properly. I got another program that removed two trojans. I have a registry cleaner and everday it cleans up anywhere from 4-20 …

Hi!! Iam really not sure whether this is the right place for this thread. Anyways, i need AutoCad R10, one of the oldest versions of Autocad. Can any one help me ??

[ATTACH=right]14704[/ATTACH][B]Reviewer's View[/B] I'm the kind of person who has an almost religious fervour when it comes to keeping data backed up, perhaps unsurprisingly as I am an IT professional and my livelihood depends upon it. So when it came to the hands-on testing of System Mechanic 9.5 for this DaniWeb …

Hey I've been getting ICMP flood errors lately, and now today hardly any of the services on my machine work like Windows Audio and I can't enable the audio services, etc... And the services keep getting disabled like security center and stuff. And I can only choose Windows Classic and …

hi I am using comcast as internet provider. I am able to browse all https (secured) sites. But not able to browse http sites. previouse i was able to do so. but i dont know some how the properties or something changed. can any body faced the same problem. can …

My new WD 320Gb works fine on my Win7 laptp and another XP desktop but will not work at all on my Win7 desktop. Tried windows update. Doesn't show up in My Computer or Disk Managament?? Any clues?? Thanks Cygnus2112

I posted this in wrong forum before..sorry. Using ISP Comcast, windows xp sp3, I followed the following steps. Start-run-CMD-txt box-ipconfig-ipconfig/release IP goes to 00.000; then type ipconfig/renew...I get my original IP. Can anyone help? Thank you, Jim

I have a Sony ICD-R100PC recorder that I purchased in 1999. The recorder comes with a data cable (parallel port) and some software (Win95/98) that allows you to download the voice files (*.ics) from the recorder onto the computer. I can get the software to "work" under Windows ME. I …

When I am on websites like my gmail, or even here on this site, I am typeing into one of the boxes things, when I fill it up I get a bar on the right like normal, as what I am writing gets longer the page grows upwards. Thats normal. …

I'm having an annoying problem with my browser. Every time I go to certain sites, my browser pops up a new window that usually goes to google. Some times to other things. But mostly Google. I'd like to stop it from happening and I'm wondering if something called [B]spicetraffic advanced …

I haven't been able to solve my problem, and I was wondering if anyone here could help me further solve my problem. I have run anti viruses, malwarebytes, and I've been to cmd and typed in sfc /scannow but I still have no luck, and I can't even run system …

Hey guys, this is my first post here as I have been struggling with a problem with my internet for about two weeks now. I'll try to describe the problem in as many details as possible. I have a HP laptop with Windows Vista. Recently I moved to a new …

Do I need to keep all these Visual C++ Redistributable installs, which one can be deleted,the most recent ? [B]Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Redistributable Microsoft Corporation 25/10/2009 0.42 MB[/B] [B]Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Redistributable (x64) Microsoft Corporation 25/10/2009[/B] [B]Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable - x64 9.0.30729.17 Microsoft Corporation 30/10/2009[/B] [B]Microsoft …

All the registered IIS MIME types in IIS 7 + Windows Vista are registered in the following config file. [CODE]C:\Windows\System32\inetsrv\config\applicationHost.config[/CODE] I was wondering where I can find the same file in Windows XP when I have IIS 6 installed? Additionally, in Vista if I add a MIME type MANUALLY, it …

I am running XP and have formatted before with no problems. Yesterday I started to format and when it was at the point of installing windows, we heard a large crack of thunder and the power went out for a minute, which in turn shut my computer down. When I …

Hello all, This has been happening a lot. I downloaded something for University (some lectures a friend put in a .rar for me), and it was from SharingMatrix.com (like RapdiShare, HotFile, MegaUpload and so on...) It's roughly 300MB, and I started downloading. surprisingly it finished in about 10-15Mins. I checked …

Hi, I am totally novice to vmware, but I have a desperate situation where in I need to run a program that only runs in windows 98 or ME provided DOS. But I need to switch to XP in as it is more stable. Only for running that program i …

Hi! There is a file on my desktop of size 0 bytes. When I try to delete it, it says "Could not find this item" What is the problem? This is really irritating me. Any help would be highly appreciated

I need some help finding instructions on how to re-eanble Outlook 2007 SP2 Junk Email Options. Mine are greyed out. I suppose it could be a GPEDIT problem, but I don't know what module to load so that I can change it. In any case, I cannot choose the level …

Ok so I installed a new Asus v60 cpu cooler on my system today, and after I installed the cooler my internet and audio aren't working. And also barely any of my services can be started. Is there something I could've done wrong? The cooler seems to be installed fine.

hey so heres whats happening recently i have been receiving the windows message "windows has Recovered from an Unexpected Shutdown" randomly... i dont know what triggered this because it happens occasionally on shutdown and i get the blue screen but a lot of the time i dont see the bluescreen.... …

I can't get Mario Teaches Typing 2 to work it does the the title movie thing and I think freezes befor that it says youu may want to change to 256 color. Can some one please help.

I've been trying to install an add-in for Word 2003 (with all necessary updates I believe) for Serenity's Editor software which has its own add-in installer. The add-in appears to install properly but when I open Word, the error message comes up: Exception from HRESULT: 0x80040200 and there is no …

Hi, I'm dealing with this problem lately. When I'm using firefox (3),my cpu (E7200),is overloaded! It only happens with firefox,not with any other browser. From an ordinary 6-7%,my cpu can reach,just in few seconds,the 100%,remaining stucked there forever!!! I'm using windows 7 (32) ultimate. Any idea? P.S I'm sorry for …

whenever at school i visit websites like youtube, mail services, etc, i keep getting this messgae (see below). It is really annoying, and my school presentation will need a youtube video presented from the school computer(s), and i can't bring it in on cd, etc. thanks to those who can …