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[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 …

I have a PDC Server running Windows Server 2003 that was on SP1. The server was low on disk space, but I was able to clear enough were SP2 indicated that it could be installed. Unfortunately half way through, it ran out of space and quit. When I tried to …

Hi all, Last week I did a system restore on my machine and, for some reason, I booted into safe mode a few minutes later. It was not related to any problem, just out of curiosity, I don't remember over what exactly. it went through all the long list of …

I get an error of Service Control Manager says "At least one service or driver failed during system startup. Use Event View to examine the event log for details." I'm using Windows 2000 server. How do I stop this error on startup? Thank you.

The message from Windows Logs\Application for Error 8193 is: Volume Shadow Copy Service error: Unexpected error calling routine CoCreateInstance. hr = 0x80040154, Class not registered The message from Windows Logs\Application for Error 22 is: Volume Shadow Copy Service error: A critical component required by the Volume Shadow Copy service is …

Hi all, I hope you will be able to help me. My computer is acting up, or rather, my internet Explorer is. I still have the 6.0 version. I keep getting either "page cannot be displayed" or "invalid syntax" errors. I ran Hijack This and I am pasting the log …

Hello everybody, I am currently having a problem with my Packard Bell computer that has XP Home Edition (SP2). I was starting live messenger when it could not connect and gave a windows error screen. Then I decided to restart the computer, but now I can't start it due to …

SOME have BIG RED SQUARES, and in other places just the small square with an X in it.. I know I have to download something to correct this but I dont know what..

My pc came with windows 7, is there any way in which i could switch it to windos vista?

HI, running SB server 2003 here. Have a small LAN behind the server, server is acting as gateway to static DSL, DNS is configured, running a webserver on the server for our website. Here is the deal, I am sure it is something small I am overlooking, but maybe you …

Hello, let me start by saying thank you for any help you can provide. My level of tech knowledge is pretty high, and yet I am stumped by this issue. I know this community is a source of high quality reliable knowledge, which is why I turned here both in …

Hello world of DaniWeb, I'm experiencing an annoying "error". Here's the case: a while go, I had my PC running both Vista and XP until Windows 7 came out. So, I decided it's time to upgrade. The problem was that my graphics card (GeForce 9600 GT) suddenly stopped working properly …

Hi, I have a LG netbook, which I was running a dual boot system of Ubuntu and Win7 on. I was in the process of removing ubuntu and had rewritten the MBR so the GRUB loader no longer had control. I was uninstalling ubuntu in the control panel when my …

I'm not sure how all the upgrades to Windows 7 work. I have Vista Home Basic but would like to upgrade to 7 Home Premium. Is this possible or is a clean install necessary in which case I will probably have problems with drivers? The pre-release price is good, very …

i use windows 7 on my laptop and also have ubuntu 9.10 on my pendrive which i also use on that laptop. This is a very weird problem that i am having . ill tell you what happened. i was using linux but need some work done in my win7 …

My safe mode keeps going to the bsod every single time I try to boot it up. I'm sure there is no virus in my computer. Its a Dell Dimension 2400 with windows XP. My hijackthis log is this: Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 10:48:54 PM, …

Hello! The Time has arrived!! After years of long waiting and painful laptops the time has come for me to finally build my own desktop. I have around 1200 price range that I would like to stay in but, I was wondering for one, suggestions of what type of hardware …

On my wife's XP laptop, going to My Computer and double-clicking any drive icon does not open the drive to show a window of folders and files. Instead, the "Open With" dialog, appears, asking us to "Choose the program you want to use to open this file." So we don't …

Hey everybody. I am having problems with my run.dll registry. I have been in my registry editor, and have gotten advice to reinstall my run.dll registry. I know there may be spyware and/or malware involved, but I need the advice of someone way more experienced and I just have no …

Hello guys, I have a query my brother uses hotmail (email primarily). Unfortunately in recent weeks he hasn’t been able to send any email via his hotmail. When he clicks to send new messages below appears: [COLOR="Red"][B]Festive Offers May the light of the holiday season shine brightly in your heart …

One of our PCs is not printing footers with field codes; it is printing the field codes rather than the field results. For instance, one of the items in the footer is using the "Page X of Y" deal. It shows up correctly in the document itself as "Page 1 …

Hi Guys, Please help me out to resolve this. I have NOKIA 3110c mobile and frequently I connect internet thru nokia mobile thru a data cable. So now you come to know that I have use a usbport (I dont have much idea about ports). Before connecting to the internet, …

Hi, I'm having an issue with my Granddad's Dell Dimension 5000 machine with XP Home. He gets a Blue screen of death whenever he tries to read certain cd's that he's written to. It does not happen with all his disks only a dozen but it's irritating as he has …

yesterday my computer got affected by win32/huer viruses. I tried to heal most of the files with AVG but AVG was unable to heal some of the system files . So i have decided to go for clean installations . after installations I can access to all of the drives …

I have a small wireless LAN running a box with XP Pro as the primary computer. It has an HP P3005d printer connected via USB and shared to a Vista Business box. The XP machine prints fine. However, the Vista machine takes forever to print even 1 page docs. Doesn't …

I reinstalled windows due to it not being able to start all the sudden. Anyways. There is varois things in my old desktop and Aplication data folder from my old account, that is VERy important and I NEED ( Mainly my E-mail's) Here's the thing, when i try to acess …

Hi, We moved our computer from one room to another in our house. It was working fine before the move, now when we reconnected it up, with all the ports securely fastened and in the right holes, it just comes up with "NO SIGNAL". We tried a second monitor with …

Hi all, I am facing a problem regarding running the task manager. Few days back, I had installed another task manager in my xp professional. Now, i've already uninstalled that software & by pressing ctrl+alt+del the window task manager is not coming. I am not finding out the solution, how …

G'day, im just wondering if anyone can help me with this... i have all these important data under ms-dos in my old windows 98 computer... and i was wondering if its possible to send all the data into a more modern computer without losing/corrupting any files? if so, can anyone …