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Hey all! I got a little problem, well actually not so little when I try to go play something the graphic card crashes I get a notice on bottom right that it crashed and restored and sometimes I might get a bsod. It has worked well before, but it suddenly …

So, I'm silly. I plugged my hair dryer into the same power strip as my computer. The end result was my computer totally going out. So, I tried to reboot my computer and once I got past the boot screen, some blue screen flashes up really fast. It was white …

In attempting to organize/delete my favorites I get the following: Cannot read from the source file or disk?

Hello, Been lurking around these forums for a little while and I have reallly appreciated all the help. I am dualbooting my system, Windows XP and Ubuntu 10.4. All was working quite well, when one day, I rebooted from within windows, and when I tried to come back in, Windows …

I've never seen this before so I have no idea what to do to disable it. [url]http://img245.imageshack.us/img245/6640/56831523.png[/url] I want to disable that sidebar. It's annoying. I hope it's not some kind of spy/mal/adware. Can someone help me please?

My compaq presario S3500CL desktop won't start. When press the power button, It just attempt to start then nothing happened. Its not even booting or try to start up. Is there anybody who has an idea how to solve this problem?

Is it possible to reinstall windows without re-installing everything else?

Hello everyone, earlier tonight my son handed me his ACER Aspire One netbook and said' Dad it wont start' I was confronted with the following:- "We apologize for the inconvenience, but Windows did not start successfully. A recent hardware or software change might have caused this." The options are: Start …

I have an OWC Mercury on-the-go 160GB hard drive that was used on a Mac and I have plugged it into my PC (running Windows 7). It does not appear under "My Computer" though I can find it in Disk Management labeled as Disk 1 and also under Devices and …

Hi Everyone, I have a problem regarding dual booting. Here's my situation... On one harddrive i have windows xp installed. (Installed First) I recently installed windows 7 on another harddrive (Installed After). Im finally happy with Windows 7 and would like to remove windows xp and use that HDD for …

Recently when I reply to a text e-mail in Outlook 2003 (Windows XP) the format of the reply is in very tiny italics. Since it is plain text format, all the font choices are grayed out--I can't simply click on the italic button to change it. Although the toolbar says …

Hello all members i forget the password of my excel file which have very imp data. i must have to recover the file. kindly help me out to do so. PLEASE NOTE THAT! The password i usually use is up to 12 characters which includes * and capitalization of characters. …

I am facing rather a piquant situation recently. Whenever I click a program icon on the desktop, instead of the program get executed, I get a small pop up window with the caption 'file download' security warning and asks whether to save the file or to cancel it? The program …

I'm interested in setting up a home server. However, I am not very knowledgeable in the home server software that is available. I have heard a few things about MSFT home server and ubuntu home server, but not enough to make a definite decision yet. I like hearing feedback from …

We have a very small environment, 20 or less servers across 4 geographically spread locations. All connected via a MPLS WAN with T1 speeds. I want to monitor/alert on the following items: [LIST] [*]Up/Down status on servers(including individual services would be a huge bonus) [*]Windows Event log errors [*]Disk space …

Hello all, I have a dual boot with XP and Win7 and I am trying to rid myself of XP but it seems that the XP partition is the system partition. Is there any way I can change the system partition to my Win7 partition? Thanks.

Hello, When I try to reformat my computer with the windows 7 installation disk, it cannot detect the harddrive in the custom install section. In the upgrade section, it says there isn't enough room even though there is more than 90 gigs free. Please advise!! Thanks

Hi everyone, as you read I recently got a "STOP: c000021 Unknown Hard Error\SystemRoot\System32\ntdll.dll" error. I read other posts about this error being caused by installing a new OS or some other format change, but my situation is a tad more... primitive. The basic situation that caused this error was …

the other day i think i got this virus, it starts with the window security center popping up telling me i have virus infecting my computer and wont let me open any file on desktop. did some research and and it is just like what describe on this site [url]http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/virus-removal/remove-pc-antispyware-2010[/url] …

Hi, I'm hoping someone can help me. The other night my husband vacuumed out the dust inside my computer and after hooking everything back up and turning on the CPU, the screen remained blank on the monitor. The orange power light was on, but never turned green like it does …

People who are unhappy with the progress of the military actions in Iran and Afghanistan finally have something to blame: PowerPoint. “PowerPoint makes us stupid,” Gen. James N. Mattis of the Marine Corps, the Joint Forces commander, said in an [URL="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/27/world/27powerpoint.html?emc=eta1"]article [/URL]in the [I]New York Times[/I] this week. The article …

Hi, my pc keep on looping in user login. Logon/User options always come back. pressing f8 and try all options the same issue arise even administrator and user keep on looping and looping.

I was told once that you can program your computer to stay "at the black screen" so that Windows won't even start -- that you can require a password before Windows will boot up. We are going to buy a new computer in the next couple of weeks, and I …

"This version of Windows requires a video card that supports DirectX 9.0 or newer." Seeing as how I don't want to go thru the hassle of replacing the video card at this time, could someone please help me here. I would like to revert back to the older version of …

I recently got a Lenovo x200 Tablet PC with vista business preinstalled. It was working fine for a while but then some problems started appearing. First of all I can't download any torrents on it, it says "No conenction could be made because the target machine actively refused it". I …

Good Day Can someone please tell me if it is possible to disable the "Help and Support Center" starting up when booting Windows Millennium is Safe Mode. It is really annoying as I never use it? Thanx a stack Francois

Hi everyone i have window XP. and i have goggle crome, mozila firefox and internet explorer browsers... but in all browser i m not able to access websites properly... whenever i try to open google or any oter it demands for certificate ... everytime it happens......... if any website open …

may i please ask for help ... when i start computer, it begins to start for few seconds then my screen switches to a black screen - with a white box in the center saying Power-on Password almost like skelton key under it and date on bottom of the screen …

I'm using Windows 7 (64-bit) on a Dell Inspiron 1750 Spec: Pentium (R) Dual-Core T4300 2.10GHz 4GB RAM I used firefox 3.6, IE8 and Google Chrome. Recently my computer has completely frozen. Screen locks, can't do anything. CTRL-ALT-DEL does nothing. All I can do is hold power button down to …

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In quick succession, HP and Microsoft reportedly killed off two iPad wannabes this week. With HP's purchase of Palm and its WebOS, it meant that [URL="http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/29/hewlett-packard-to-kill-windows-7-tablet-project/"]the Windows 7 tablet[/URL] that Steve Ballmer showed off at CES in January (and which you can see here in [URL="http://byronmiller.typepad.com/byronmiller/2010/04/hp-video-shows-ipad-wannabe-teaser.html"]this video[/URL]) is suddenly shelfware. …

Hi all. I have a sony vaio. I also have the disk from sony with all the software on it. What happens is while loading, it stops and gives an error message " Error occured while creating recovery partition". I sent a message to Sony, and they want me to …

Hello, Not familiar with PC connected in network with a domain name. Had to hold CTRL-ALT-DEL to enter my credential, worked fine. Brought the PC at my office, tried to connect to internet, but no connection (figured it was caused by the domain/network ID). Successfully created a new network connection …

[COLOR="Red"][COLOR="Green"][I]Hi FRIENDS, I had a question ....i hope you guys ll solve my query.. Suppose i have a company with 100 client machine...I want to install OS on that 100 machine...I purchased 1 licensed xp cd with 5 client capability....but i want to install same cd key to my other …

The laptop i'm using is an Acer Ferrari F0200 running on windows 7. It does not have wireless wifi link built into it. So i bought a wireless adapter: Aztech Wireless-N USB 2.0 adaptor(wireless-N WL552USB). I can't install it since the laptop doesn't have a DVD driver but just from …

hi everybody, first of all let me jus say thanx for reading this post, even if u dnt reply. I am running 64 bit OEM Vista Ultimate, and have been since jan 28th. I have had a range of problems, bbut most have been fixed/worked around, but i cant seem …

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It so happens, when I choose to view a site the pictures are not able to be viewed. When I try to search on yahoo, it says "the browser has sent a request that the server cannot understand." I have tried and tried, but nothing works. Is it my browser, …

Hey there, I'm Joolz. I'm new to DaniWeb. I have what's probably a silly question... But I was just wondering if there is somewhere to get skins for the vista taskbar. I know how to change the colors on the computer, but to be honest, simply changing the color isn't …

Hey guys i have a problem with installing some programs, Like avira security, Pro tools LE, I get and error that reads = 'This installation Package could not be opened . Verify that the package exist and that you have access to it,or contact application vendor tp verify that this …

When scanning with Ad-Aware, this message comes up. "The wrong volume is in the drive. Please insert volume ECD2010 into drive D:" No idea what this means. Can anyone help please? Ian.

Developers Brad Lassey, Alex Pakhotin, Vladimir Vukićević and Michael Wu this week unveiled what they're calling a pre-alpha version of the Fennec browser, better known as Firefox for Google's Android mobile operating system. You can [url=http://bit.ly/fennec-android]download the code[/url], which as of last week had been tested only on Motorola Droid …

Hi guys, I am currently in possession of a friends ASUS Eee PC 900 which needs XP re-installed because upon startup there is an error to do with the system32\hal.dll file. I own a GENUINE Xp disc (which came with my computer) however, the notebook/lappy does not have a Cd …

Hi, Just recently my friend's brother helped me upgrade my PC and I have found it a big mess! I need help desperately! I have a SONY VIO laptop and I still have all the recovery CDs with me. I couldn't find any posting regarding reformatting computer with Window 2000. …

OS: Windows 7 (64bit) Adapter: Marvell Yukon 88E8040 PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller AV: Norton 360 ISP: PLDT myDSL ph Problem: I regularly get disconnected to the network. I got errors in my ping. Like "Destination Unreachable" sort of... i cant remember and "Request timeout" when there is a yellow alert …

Hi I have a new Dell Dimension 3100 PC running windows XP Home. I'm having difficulty with the microphone recording level in that it is so quiet you can hardly hear it. The sound drivers are from SigmaTel and are the latest version. I've checked all the sound levels through …

My client is running SBS 2003. When it was setup, their IT guy ran CEICW and RWW and OWA worked fine. A few days later (after their old IT guy left) they called me and said they couldn't connect thru RWW or OWA. I tried and got the Welcome screen …

I am having problems with the Windows XP Home Ed. system restore. It only opens up a blank white window. I just got rid of some bad spyware and when I tried to recover it wouldnt do so. Microsoft tech couldnt even help me.. All they told me to do …

I run a small computer lab of 10 laptops using Windows 7 x64 Enterprise edition. In order to prevent users from changing the settings, I have created a Group Policy Object that restricts access to the Control Panels, among other things. When I built the GPO just the way I …

Hi, I have a very much legit copy of xp home. Now I bought it assuming I could install it on my work computer and my kids computer. A friend of mine said it's not possible and I just wanted to check if I could use the same key on …