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I have a 1920 by 1080 resolution and it worked fine before, but then after I changed the resulution to put a movie on my projector it worked fine... when the movie was over I could not change my resolution back.
Recently re-installed Windows 7 to solve an older issue. After re-installing 90% of all my other apps, I notice that two programs show their icon as "generic". The applications are Mozilla Firefox and Advanced Uninstaller Pro. I contact the folks at Advanced Uninstaller Pro and they told me it was …
Hi, I am trying to recover corrupt word document. I have tried several word recovery tools but failed to recover this document. Reason for Corruption: Reinstallation for Operating System The corrupt word document was acquired with Get Data Back Software. ([url]http://www.runtime.org[/url]) I would appreciate any help in this matter. I …
Hello, I just upgraded my laptop to windows 7, my computer stats are as follows: [CODE]Toshiba Satellite P205 Laptop, Windows 7 Home Premium, Service Pack 1, Intel Core 2 Duo x2, 32 Bit Operating System 3.00 GB RAM, 200 GB Hard Drive[/CODE] I have been a long time user of …
Hi all, I have an XP Pro machine that always prompts to restart (after just starting up). It says it is to install new updates, problem being that it just continues to cycle through this, even if I restart as prompted. Windows updates says the machine is up to date. …
I would think I'm nuts for trying this, But I have a Toshiba U205-S5002 Laptop, 320GB HDDR, 3GB/4GB ready Boost, Intel Centrino Core Duo 1.6GHZ ,256mb video, SSE,SSE2,SSE3, and guess what, I feel like having Windows XP, Win 7, Mac OSX 10.6.2 Snow Leopard. This is the situation, Had win …
[COLOR="Red"]I have a problem with my desk top Icons and some files. Probaly a restore would fix it , but I have Norton Internet Security and it wont let me do a system restore. My Recycle bin Icon is on top of several of my I cons it looks like …
I Can not connect to the internet after installing xp sp3 home edition . I googled the problem one site was really helpful but all i accomplished was that I got rid other LAN error message by repairing the tcip stack. I did the whole bit of running it through …
Just bought Windows Server 2003 on Ebay. The seller now tells me that it is an OEM version and asks if I would want a refund. What would be the difference? My intention is to install it on VM Ware and possibly try to virtualize it in the future. What …
Hey, I'm running Windows Vista Home Premium,but the Media Player is loading slowly,skipping on songs,won't play music that's in my libraray,and also when I ripped music from a cd it played as long as the disc was in.It freezes everything that I'm doing when I try to close it out...I've …
so I"m at my friends house and her old laptop died and she had to get a new one. the old one used to not be able to open internet explorer (I found closing a suspicious process fixed that problem) but now there are two more problems (one possible extra …
My Computer is running on windows xp sp2. Last night when i open Folder on desktop, explorer.exe restarted and can't open also my computer other applications can open and nothing problems. I have a trouble for that can't open My computer & Folders. Please any others knows solution , help …
* Partition Wizard is a Windows based server partition manager software. Our server partition software supports both MBR and GUID partition table (GPT) format running on 32/64 bits Operating System including Windows XP, Vista, Windows Server 2000/2003/2008, and Windows 7. And our magic partition software supports all hard disks recognized …
I have a configuration/tweak issue that I don't know how to resolve. for the last week or so, whenever I use right-click on SOME of my desktop icons the context menu that appears seems to be double the normal width, showing the icon on the far left, then a gap, …
Up until recently Google Earth worked fine. Now I get an error when I try to start the program. "The application failed to initialize properly (oxc0000142). Click on OK to terminate the application." I uninstalled and reinstalled to no avail. Google earth just will not run any more on this …
The system restore tab is missing under Accessories and System Properties on my computer. My OS is Win XP Pro SP3. Any ideas please? Joe
I have a new SL510 Thinkpad (Windows 7) with 4GB RAM 2.2 GHz Dual Core & it refuses to start up the "Images" DVD after I put the DVD into the Multiburner Drive. The DVD Drive installed the first disk of the program: "Printshop ProPublisher". It just refuses to install …
I have been working on this computer for a few days now and have not figured out the problem. I have done research for the answer online and am now here need expert advise. The original problem was that the onboard video suddenly stopped working. So I placed another pci …
I just wanted to get this one out there. Ever since I upgraded to Vista 32 bit my video card will not work. I tried the usual, reloading the software, disabling-enabling, removing and reinstalling the card. It is a ATI Radeon HD 3650 512MB. After days of screwing with this …
when i tried to install isaserver 2006.it says isaserver 2006.Installation Wizard Cannot be launched because the operating System requirements running on this computer does not support the installation .For details about operation system requirements see the installation Guide on the Product CD.Kindly let me know the idea.Any help would be …
hi guys, does any one encounter this problem. Win vista unable to detect a dhcp ip, but if manually configure the IP settings able to connect to internet. any ideas why unable to detect dhcp ip? thank you.
A client with a small server was running out of disk space. It is Dell PowerEdge 830 with 2 GB RAM running under Windows 2003 Standard. The machine came from Dell with three 72GB Seagate (Cheetah 10K.7, 10K RPM, ST373207LW Ultra U320) SCSI drives which Windows saw as a 15GB …
hey there. first off, i hope i posted my question in the right forum. second, i thank you in advance for an answer. i have two short batch files: 1. shutdown - s - c "my message" - t 20 i expect this to shut down my computer in twenty …
A small item! well about 6 gig. I have a compaq, amd 64 used to run xp reformatted to win 7 32 then to 64. All works well. On seeing the main hard disk it still appears to have a partition of about 6 g (drive d:) with old files …
I sure hope you can help me.I recived a message on my screen that i should run the online crash analysis.I down loaded the users guide and followed it the best i know how i am very computer stupit.I down loaded the program and loaded to disk like i was …
Mark Shuttleworth, founder and financial backer of [URL="http://www.ubuntu.com"]Ubuntu[/URL], urges the Linux Community to "build a better desktop than Apple." Shuttleworth made this statement this week at OSCON (O'Reilly's Open Source Convention). He added that interoperability with Windows is of very high importance. Sounds easy enough. Let me get right on …
Hello, New Friends! I'm new here. What a marvelous world you all have here! Thank you for this fantastic resource! I am honored to be part of your community! /me tips my halo to all. 0:-) I need help getting my desktop shortcuts to work again. I've got the latest …
Hi ALL, my NEC vl260 came with win xp sp2, preinstalled after reformatting due to system crashes, I have installed a copy of win xp sp2, now the two are in conflict i.e. sound card is not recognised, can anyone tell me how to access the preinstalled version ?
Hi all, I have a small Active Directory domain with a single Domain Controller running Server 2003 Standard. It does not host any websites on the internet through IIS, does not host email (by Exchange or anything else), and our VPN is setup through our router. I did not install …
Hi guys, im currently using a dell studio 15, and i just recently upgraded myself to windows 7. All was fine till a few weeks ago where i started to get problems with my graphics card. My screen will flash black once, come back up with 'ati radeon stopped working …
I have been trying to reformat my drive on my computer, not a "windows XP reinstallation" but just straight out format the disk. after it gives me the warning of erasing everything on the disk, a window pops up after I click format saying, "windows cannot format this drive. quit …
I getting no sound, had this computer for 3yrs with no sound. Code 10 is the message in my Device Manger. This code cannot start. Click , check for solutions . The data was send to microsoft for solution, the check for solution dose not work,with out as much as …
MY Windows 98SE w/FireFox w/ AMD 32BIt cpu w/ Linksys Router and other stuff was completely falling apart. Everything was going wrong and every site I turned to on the WWW promised instant help and cures. I lost track of them! Not one of these sites to which I went …
Good morning all. So, I got the dreaded Vista Antivirus 2010, not once, but twice while trying to download a torrent (yeah I know-bad idea), anyway, I was able to remove it both times using spybot first followed by malwarebytes. However, now it appears I have a very heavy paperweight …
I installed a software program called My World ( a GIS program from PASCO Scientific). Somehow I have ended up w/ two versions - 4.17 and 5.0 on my computer and I can not open either version. I get a Java startup error. I can not delete either program from …
I have a MX300 mouse on a Boxx Computer running WinXP32 that keeps freezing:confused:, if I just unplug and replug it in it will work again for a few minuter to a few hours! I have reinstalled the driver several times to no avail with the latest driver which used …
I desperately need to install Windows Live Writer. I previously Installed Writer in my xp system. But now, after formatting my XP, I can not Download the Windows Live Installer in my computer. The strange thing is that I can’t not even access any Microsoft.com pages. However, I downloaded Windows …
MY internet explored will not display any web site firefox will. I need explorer to connect to remotely connect to my office LAN. any suggestions?
I have a computer with win xp 32 bit that I have in a network with a computer with a Canon ip4200 printer that is on the windows 7 home 64 bit computer. I can see the shared files on both of the computers, but I can not get the …
I have windows Vista on my HP laptop. The user administrator and standard accounts have always acted wierd. Here is what it does the admin account acts like a standard and the standard acts like a admin. If I click on a function on the admin side say change firewall …
Hi There From time to time my hard disc light will come on for no reason (no programs running ) and computer locks. Can also happen if am using Firefox or Word or similar, even when I have good free memory (say 200mb out of 500mb) (sony Laptop running XP) …
I whitched my sons account to acount administrator so we could load some software. But access was denied and when I tried to change his account back to limited and mine back to administrator I was denied both times.
Google has today launched a new Beta version of the [URL="http://www.itpro.co.uk/blogs/daveyw/2009/03/22/google-chrome-stands-alone-at-pwn2own/"]Chrome browser[/URL], adding brand new privacy controls into the mix. You have to admit it's great timing, what with Microsoft this week making the 'browser ballot' screen available in European version of Windows giving users the option to [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/news/story253418.html"]switch from …
MS Office word Version problem Hi, I'm facing the following problem when trying to open the word document from deployment server. Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word, Version=12.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified. I will explain in detail my problem. …
i have tried all i know how to do! i have a wireless router for my desk top and i have a connection on my laptop but can not get it to browse the internet. what should i do?
I wish to change home page (to CNN) but the page only occupies the left half of the screen! How can I expand it to a full screen (as was my previous home page ((Netscape)?
Make: HP Model: dv6500 OS: Windows Vista Hello everyone. I have a Vista computer in my hands with a funky dvd drive. It's not showing up in Vista(My computer/Device Mgr) and when I try to boot off of it from the BIOS it skips it. I'm guessing the BIOS doesn't …
I have hosed up my IE Favorites. In attempting to correct the problem I erased them all. I then copied them back. When I open Favorites they show that they are there, but the sites will not open when clicked. Also, when I try to save a website to Favorites …
Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit: search results window continously keeps popping for no reason, i have wiped the hdd clean and reinstalled win7 and ran trend micro house call installed symantec antivirus corp ed and did a mbr ix and i am still having the same problem. At first i …
I know this doesn't come under programming but i need some help with this. You may be knowing that the windows hosts file is interpreted before the OS accesses the DNS servers for i.p. resolving. This can be used for redirection without the user's notice. [CODE] 209.85.231.104 www.yahoo.com[/CODE] The above …
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