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For about the past month my Vista 32 bit student addition has been trying to format ever device I plug in weather it be a USB drive or an SD chip from a Camera or even my ipod. I know that this is not correct because I have tried all …

I have safari, explorer, and firefox and none of these browsers can connect to these sites. I use Noton as an anti virus and zonealarm as a firewall. All of these problems started when my Norton subscription ran out. I went to the norton site to renew it and i …

I had a failure in my Office 2003. I cannot go into repair it and I cannot remove it. I went through the office removal tool and it didn't work. I still have all my icons and I can still get into the programs but I get errors. I want …

[COLOR="Red"][B][U]i have a problem with msn i think i have a virus but it cud be enythin soo the problem is when i put in my password and try to sign in it says theres a update ive tryed lots of things to do the update but it just dosnt …

On the heels of my idea from yesterday, "[URL="http://www.daniweb.com/news/story274873.html"]A New Social Media? Instantaneous Messaging[/URL]" (Yes, I realize that it should be "Medium" not Media--so sue me), I've decided to grace you with another idea that I've had for some time: Drag and Drop Messaging. This idea, that you'd think would …

Whenever I visit any website on my computer, I get an error loading message in the upper left corner of my computer. Yellow triangle with an exclamation point inside it, something in regards to error loading page. How can I correct this problem?

[COLOR="Red"]Hi Friends, Need your Help !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Last month, i took assembled pc .....which contain processor "pentium D", 2.8 GHZ processor speed, 1 gb ram, 160 GB SATA HDD... First of all, i want to clear, in my pc there is no heavy application like visual studio ,oracle kind of software …

Hi all I am trying to install my copy of Office Enterprize 2007 on another pc of mine, operating with XP Servicepack2. During the installation process, I get the message that the installation cannot find a file, something like ww\Enterprize\owowo(somenumber).CAB (Cannot remember the exact name now) and that I must …

I have a laptop that has wireless internet connection. It says Wireless Internet Connection Not Connected. Does anyone know how to fix this problem?

Hey Gang; I'm new at this college thing, it's been a while. Need help trying to figure out why I am getting <identifier> errors. Here's my script. would sure appreciate any help you can give. Thanks ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// import javax.swing.*; import java.awt.*; import java.awt.event.*; public class TicTacToe extends Frame { // …

i created a bootable cd using Nero 7. but i cant get the applications on the cd to run after booting up. is there somethin im missing out?

I have an excel sheet which i have not open for almost 6 months and I have forgotten the password. Is there a way i can retrieve password. I have searches on internet but not getting a perfect cracker.

I try or tried various programs to burn MP4 to DVD...Basically I get to the stage of Burn DVD. I have NEW Memorex DCD-R... The programs indicate the fact that it cant be burned and the trays on the drive open up.. Might you know what I am missing or …

i need an open source group policy editor. p.s. give me some links where i can download it.

Several years ago I installed Windows XP and since then I have faithfully used Auto Update to install all the updates recommended by Microsoft, including SP2 and SP3. My PC has now developed problems, one of which is the inability to run some programs, including Internet Explorer. This in itself …

anyone know the utility to send messages to another Windows machine thru a pop up. If possible, please give an example. :-|

IE6 remains active in the taskmanager even after I turn the program off on the desktop. If I restart IE, it starts a second process in the taskmanager. This causes a problem starting Flash pages and obviously use up resourses. Can anyone help?

Hi. I've been having this problem for 1 or 2 weeks now. Everytime I start my computer, 1 minute after it reaches the desktop, it hangs. First and second time this happened, I used that 1 minute to quickly go to system restore. I though it solved the problem but …

if calculate any thing like: 5/2 then the result show 2.5. here I want the result show is 3. I mean if it is over .5 then it show the ground figure not show decimal. if is 2.4 then it show 2. please any body help me. i did it …

Hey everyone I am posting this question for a friend of mine. Yesterday after he left school he has not been able to use wifi connections what so ever. The problem is odd because it happened once in a sudden. He has an Acer laptop running Vista 32bit. Now, the …

I tried to install a program and after I get the message the installation program could not create the folder "C:\program file\VSO\ConvertX\3" and Error5:Access denied, I tried to restore my sistem to an earlier date to undo all the changes that I had made, and to my surprise I found …

When I click on START and ALL PROGRAMS, I have two software programs downloaded yesterday not showing up on the list. Can someone tell me why and what to do please?

My computer keeps turning off when I get to the screen where it says windows xp is loading (where is says windows xp and theres a little green bar loading) after its done w/ that, the screen turns black and then there's a little sound from my comp and then …

Hello all, after endless hardware troubles and then a non-rebooting pc because of software hickups and hours spending on fora, I ran into yet another problem now that I finally have the thing running properly again. No internet. It seems I don't get an assigned gateway/ip or such (forgive my …

Hey guys, I was doing a fresh install on a Gateway M500B1 laptop and the last thing I was updating was the BIOS and the screen froze. I left it, but eventually I turned it off and now it won't boot. The OS was XP Home. I'm not hearing any …

i was playing music when my pc went stuck with the blue screen message. i then want to reinstall the operating system and came across this problem. i have been familiar with reinstalling and upgrading. starting was smooth until to the stage where requires create a partition. i press C …

I have a Windows 2008 domain in which Windows 2008 acts as an active directory, dns and dhcp server. I want to install Exchange in this environment. I don't have 64 bit Windows Server in my network so I can't install Exchange 2007. Just wondering if I can install Windows …

I have problem with my OS (XP) keep rebooting but will not start. Therefore, I decided to repair or re-install the OS, But it won't boot from the DVD drive - never gives option during POST for "press any key to boot from CD" It will NOT boot with an …

[B]I have been troubled by shitty billy's error windows explorer error for the past 5 months, i use lots of video editing software's, so initially i need lots of codec's. I have installed K-Lite megacodec pack and due to antivirus pro i had to remove my anti virus n number …

Hi, I got a compaq desktop computer from Best Buy and when we got it and turned it on it will not show the icons, start menu, or anything, but you can hear the computer running. Does anyone know how to fix this? Thank You in advance. :(

My fan tends to run more than I think it should, yet its not excessively hot in the room, any ideas on this ?

I setup my Outlook Express to download Gmail messages. It downloaded some of the Inbox messages, but now when I try to download the rest of them, I get the following error message: An unknown error has occurred. Account: 'pop.gmail.com', Server: 'pop.gmail.com', Protocol: POP3, Port: 995, Secure(SSL): Yes, Error Number: …

[B]Hello, for some reason recently, in Windows 7, I was not able to surf the website. While trying to fix the issue, I deleted some major files (due to some one saying delete x x x registry files) I forgot to take backup, now I am back to Windows Vista …

I have Windows XP Home, and yesterday after turning my computer on, automatic update prompted me to install SP2. I clicked through until it began installing, then left. Upon returning, I found that my computer had frozen, so I did a hard reboot. After chdsk ran, my computer simply stopped …

Hi, I have a problem, I have been searching for more than a week online and testing. I rarely post in forums. but I have gave up. I'm sorry that the post is little long. I have an old pc, 2.4/265 celeron CPU, 160GB WD harddisk and 2x 512 RAM. …

My sister has a windows vista machine and I have a windows 7. I want to connect remotely to her machine because she has a viruses, and I helped her track it to 'ave.exe' which is some trojan that edits registry values, starts itself when you start another process, won't …

I have been having this problem with windows defender for a very long time. Whenever I click the update definitions on Windows Defender I get an error code and it is unable to update. My AVG antivirus and Comodo firewall have no problems updating. Even my windows update works properly. …

Hope some of you experts can solve this annoying problem i've had for the last 6 months. All the sites visited EVER! Still appear in the drop-down list on the address bar. I'm using windows vista home premium & the firefox browser. I've delete them manually from the list but …

Hello all, I'm really sorry if this is a double post but I am new to these forums and have encountered a problem that is quite frustrating. I have an HP Pavilion desktop that I am upgrading. It is the a1328x model. Since purchase I have upgraded RAM (no problems), …

my msn messenger is not working but get this, it says... "signing into .NET Service failed because the service is temporarily unavailable. Please try again later"..............of course this seems to be total bs because it says on a msn site that messenger is running smoothly, o ya, one more thing, …

i recently encountered a strange error with my computer, everytime i turn it on it it comes up with a black screen that has the option of entering the bios menu and booting from the network, ive tried going to both of those and they dont work and it comes …

I'm at wit's end. I have a Sony VAIO rx-860, and have XP as the O/S. Here's the issue. I tried to start up my computer this morning with no luck. It goes straight to a black screen that says that a software or hardware glitch may be the problem …

Vista doesn't support full screen mode while operating Turbo C++,and its also doesn't support graphics(bgi) while operating it. Is here any idea to run Turbo C++ with graphics in vista?

Hello there, I'm using the word processor for the first time and just learning as I go. Can anyone tell me how to remove or delete a blank page that I am not using?? Thank You :)

Hey guys. I don't know how to password protect a file in the desktop. If you could give me some suggestions (anything would help). Thanks guys, nikkisboricua

I thought I got the problem fixed. I download swissarmyknife software and other various partition format software. But I'm back to square one. My mp3 player won't work because at all because can't be formatted, or opened. So I tried formatting it through the swissarmy knife partition software but then …

i ripped some audio cd's to media player 11,when i tried to burn the same audio files to blank cd-rw's i get error no disc when in fact their is a blank in the burner but cannot read the blank disc,i punch windows+E made sure the cd-dvd rom was enabled …

With the BIG red squares which are blocking some advertising on CERTAIN web pages?

Hi i was wondering if there was any way for me to remotely access another computer on my LAN connection, and view the screen graphically instead of in a terminal? I am running Vista Home Basic, and i would be trying to access a Mac. Is there a way to …

Hi, i am running windows vista on my HP desktop computer, and i am trying to back up all my files onto an external hard drive so i can deal with a hard drive problem. The bigger problem is that i think that my hard drive problem is preventing me …