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Hi Everyone.... I am new here...and i have a problem with my laptop computer. Its a compaq presario 1247....I recently had Win 98 on it, but i thought if i upgraded to WIn2000 it would improve its performance. After Installing WIn 2000, everytime I boot up, I either get to …

hi, my homepage alaways change to [url]http:///[/url] even after i change it to default few times. an error msg always pop up during start up. suspect its the noenoejetma virus. could you guys kindly help me on this. many thanks in advance. enclosed the error msg pic. harry

Hi there, I currently have to reinstall my old Toshiba Laptop (WinME) and like to put XP on. It turned out that the DVD-ROM drive has problems reading CDs, so the installation left me with a blank C: drive and is unable to read beyond a certain point on the …

Hi I have a pc with windows server 2008 (standard) installed. My broadband provider also provides me with a dedicated ip address. Can anyone help with how I configure the server to enable me to host a website using IIS7. I'll apologise in advance as I am very new to …

I have installed Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007 on windows 7, and it is installed good, but when i try to open Word or Excel it gives me a message saying "Microsoft Office word (excel) has not been installed for the current user. Please run setup to install the …

aLL my mp3 files has been converted to jpeg image quite aften even after recoding. Please give me solution.

Hi All, Not sure I am in the correct forum, When i start my dell inspirion 9300, It come up with a message saying AC Adapter not recognized, press F1 to continue. This I do, and all works fine, except it does not charge my battery, It shows the power …

Internet explorer will not close om my pc,ive got winxp sp2 with norton av 2005, ive run adaware but i am still getting the same problem,i can only close a open web page by pressing ctrl-alt-del and then ending task,can anybody please help-is this another sp2 problem?. Thanks in advance. …

With the annual Pwn2Own hacking event due to kick off tomorrow, Mozilla has confirmed that Firefox 3.6 has an unpatched critical vulnerability. The fact that Pwn2Own competitors will not be able to exploit this vulnerability to claim the Firefox hacking prize will be of no interest to the millions of …

I have a foxpro DOS application, which runs in Windows XP, and also on certain computers with Windows 7, but it does not run on certain computers with Windows 7, even when i changed the capatibility to Win XP, it still flashes a message saying, its not a 64 bit …

HELP i installed 2 updates and my pc went CRAZY:icon_exclaim:WHAT THE HECK IS WRONG HELP MEEE!!i got a TOSHIBA satellite built in mic windows vista home premium!

I have Windows Vista and my Dell desktop can't get out of the blank screen. For a few weeks it would take a while to come out of hibernation but now it won't at all. No mouse either. All I get are occasional vertical lines that flash every few seconds. …

i look at the task maneger and i got 100% Physical Memory 100% disk usege 100% Processer usege 100% connect to the internet and it shuts down can anyone help!?!and i got 3.0 GB ram 2.0 Ghz processer speed so help!

Hello, I have a laptop that has Vista It has wireless internet . I can surf the web then at random the connection will drop I have to restart the laptop in order to get back on the net. I found this error in event viewer. Error - Unable to …

Please help -- I have tried every solution I could find on the Internet and nothing has worked. I get no audio from YouTube or any Flash video, but regular audio (videos, games, anything outside the browser) works fine. The proper audio devices are selected in the Control Panel and …

So, I got my iPod touch the other day to find out my iTunes will not see it. Windows vista will, but iTunes won't. I tried this on a other computer running XP and my other OS on my comp, and they work fine, so I'm thinking I'm missing a …

I am just an average person, not a tech so everything I have read on this error I can't understand how to do . . . Simply put, my Windows Update checks for updates but never stops or finds anything, it has not worked properly in so long I can …

does anybody know how to delete all temporary internet files and history files? i know how to do this through tools>internet options> but there are always still files remaining in the registry and other places, i want to know how to do this stuff manually, not with a paid program, …

Hi, I just got a refurbished netbook with windows 7. I tried to install a trial version of MS Office 2007 but after I enter my product key I keep getting a message saying the trial period is over, and the features of Outlook, Word, etc. are still disabled. How …

I have Windows XP Pro. Defragmenting is aborted due to inconsistencies in files. Running scandisk and chkdsk is ineffective. Help! Harry.

Ok clever people .... im sure im being really stupid but .... I have a 4 PC workgroup network and I want one of the PC's not to be able to access some of the folders in the main 'server' pc. So I have turned on the guest user on …

If I upgrade to Windows 7, on my home desktop running Vista, will I lose all of my information that is currently on my hard drive?

I'm running Windows XP in a VMWare Fusion image on a Mac. Last night something mysterious happened and this morning the machine was unexpectedly powered off. When I brought it up the Mac OS booted fine, but when I launch Windows, I get errors - winlogon.exe - bad image shell32.dll …

I have Windows XP instaled on my laptop. Recently, the moment I log on, I get the blue screen and my computer restarts. The only way I can start my computer is if I start windows in safe mode- even safe mode with networking does not work. I have also …

I've had great luck with Windows7 thus far, but on one machine (running Home Premium) I can't get Windows Media Center to retain the default speaker setting. On the same machine, the Windows Media Player component does save this. I'm stumped how to make the same speaker set the default …

I've just "fixed" a longstanding Rundll32.exe problem by simply copying the program from another machine onto mine. Now I get a new error message when I try to access the control panel: "The Rundll32.exe file is linked to missing export Kernel32.dll:ActivateActCtx." So I tried to do the same thing -- …

I have an xp computer and i want to set it back to its default setting how can I do it without the cd

Sir, Can anyone tell me .How should i download all the emails from gmail into outlook express.so that if i want to see the latest email of gmail. i simply connect with internet with the help of Nokia handset.and download the email in outlook express.and disconnect from internet after downloading …

Using Sonic..My system is Windows XP....It seems to take forever, I am wondering if there is anything I can do to improve the preformance of this? Also at times my fan on the machine runs and the weather is not hot yet.. I am just looking for input on this... …

Tried to scan to e-mail after installing Windows 7 with windows live mail, but the scanner does not recognize windows live mail. It only recognizes windows mail and outlook, how can I add windows live mail to the list of e-mail programs for the scanner to use. Please help!!!!! Raya

hey guys. so, suddenly, my Network Controller is unknown. When I go to devices manager and double click it, it comes up as an unknown manufacturer etc. Unknown Device and Vender, PNPID: VEN_168C&DEV_002B&SUBSYS_E8111113&REV_01 That's what the unknown driver's PNPID is. It's a Toshiba Netbook - NB205-N311/W Thanks

Dear friends, I recently bought a new computer, worked with it for a couple of weeks and had a failure of the primary hard disk. I decided to install one of my IDE hard disks which I have left over from other times and installed a copy of Vista Home …

I have a HP Pavilion Desktop a1210n and use Windows XP. In the last two months I have been unable to get Windows to recognize my CD/DVD drive. Previously I could do a system restore and it would work for a day or 2 but now my system restores are …

Can get my hotmail from my outlook program with no problems but if I try to log into hotmail by [url]www.hotmail.com[/url] if constatly clicks from one log on to another every half second.whats wrong

After the latest Microsoft Windows XP hotfix (the browser checker), I am unable to check my email in Microsoft Outlook (request times out). The Internet is very slow in IE8, and fails to load pages in Firefox at all. I have reinstalled IE8, Firefox, and Outlook to no avail. Have …

I have been experiancing slow/intermittent browsing in IE and firefox since the recent KB976002-v5 (browserchoice.exe) hotfix. My pop3 email accounts also time-out when sending/recieving. I have reinstalled both IE and firefox. Specified DNS Servers on the router and problem PC. Fixed all registy errors, and performed a deep clean including …

So this is a new spin on the missing CD-Rom/DVD-rom from My Computer issue others have had in the past. The problem: DVD-Rom and CD-Rom have seemingly gone missing from both Device Manager and My Computer on XP. Here's where its strange though: 1. I know they are connected just …

I downloaded a self-extracting exe "py2exe-0.6.9.win32-py2.6.exe" from sourceforge. When I attempt to open this file, I get the following message "This application has failed to start because the application configuration is incorrect". I have successfully opened the file on another win-xp box but I need to have this on the …

i am running windows xp media centre sp3 on a p4 machine, this had been working fine up until malware infected it. Took the decision to format the hard drive and install from fresh. I am unable to do the 30 day registration a network connections not allowing a LAN. …

I am using a Dell computer (model information can't get specific with for now, my mom would flip on me) running Windows 7. There appears to be an issue with the keyboard as if the left arrow key and the up arrow key are pressed down, making it impossible to …

Newbie problem. For some reason, I can't get this to work: [CODE] FOR /L %%A IN (1 1 23) DO ( if %%A==1 set drive=C: if %%A==2 set drive=D: if %%A==3 set drive=E: if %%A==4 set drive=F: if %%A==5 set drive=G: if %%A==6 set drive=H: if %%A==7 set drive=I: if …

I recently wiped out my hard drive so I could reinstall everything to start fresh. I was having problems with the RAM running at 100% only when I was online doing simple games. I replaced the video card, I've added memory and even set up page file to try to …

Pls what is the potential Risks of installing or upgrading Software

I am currently searching through Google results but I was hoping someone would be able to assist me here too. I am looking for a VB script that will stop more than one service on a Windows 2003 server then set it Disabled. We are using System Center Configuration Manager …

While iam lasing my boot infront of windows its not wrking. tried 7 times since last two hours ..my boot purchased from Reebok and it have 7 month garantee also. what will i do ......

Hello, I'm a newbye in here and I would like to know how to run a command, when in a cmd.exe window in vista, without to go first in the directory where that command is located. In other words, when I run cmd.exe it opens up in a default directory …

Hello all, I have an office network of 6 computers or so running Windows XP. Sporatically 3 of them now will not perform search. They will start up the search program, but they will run and run and never find anything, even if I search the exact file name in …

I cannot print unless a print link button is on the material i wish to print...the task bar with the print button and the history removal tool, etc is missing from the top of the home page...How do I replace it? ( i have windows 7......64 bit)

Hey guys, I have Windows XP Pro installed on a SATA drive and have now added a IDE drive containing Windows Server 2003 . Now the problem is, depending on the boot order of the disk drives, I can only load either XP or 2003. I do not get a …