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Please can someone help me to stop a programe from running at startup. Farstone instant burning (part of Virtual Drive pro 11) loads on start up and clicking on the instant burning window causes an error message to appear that says DCTryShl_Rc.dll has caused an error and needs to be …

I was able to get to my task manager and deleted av.exe several times and it finally went away. My friend helped me delete some stuff in the registry but i don't know if it is gone or not. I had Kaspersky Lab AntiVirus 2009 installed and i updated again …

My computer has been infected by many viruses and spyware to the point of no return and has been partitioned many times. So now I have taken my computer back from my very irresponsible roommate and want to rewrite to zeros and start over. Can someone tell me how to …

Hi, I'm hoping someone on Daniweb may be able to help me out with this problem I'm having:- Since Thursday, people have not been able to access their work computers from home over a VPN connection. Users can authenticate through the firewall and register on the network (the server gives …

Hello, I have three Hard disk drives on my laptop. The details: Hard disk C has a total 15 of GB space, Partition D has 268 GB space and E has 181 GB. All the work I do goes only to Hard disc C and space in Hard disc D …

NB: This Tip only works on Computers running Microsoft Windows XP (all versions) Also you'll have to enable viewing of hidden folders on the PC. (You can disable it when you're done.) STEP 1 Preparing the picture Of course, you must have a flash disk to do this. Once you …

How do I save a PDF Professional file so that others I send it to can edit it? Thanks

Hi guys, am dual booting Windows XP and Linux Suse, but now i want uninstall linux coz am having space crisis. The only problem is that Linux is managing my Boot, i tried to uninstall it once but my computer couldn't boot, it was serious until i re-installed the linux. …

I have [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/news/story220053.html"]written before[/URL] about child geeks, such as M. Lavinashree from Pakistan who passed her Microsoft Certified Professional exam at the age nine. At the time of writing she was busy studying for the Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer exams. However, I think I may have stumbled on an even …

Hi I am using Vista Home Premium 32bit, last night I had to reformat my hard drive, I got a bad virus, that would not let me download any programs to erase it. I have two drives, 1 is a dvd rw, the other is a cdrom, the dvd says …

i can use my usb moden in vista but when i plug in my usb modem to my windows7 it can't find any driver, how can i find the driver?...

it has been just 20 days since i bought my dell inspiron 14.... n when i use the touch pad.. the mouse cursor gets stuck at times... and today... when i switched on the laptop.. i had a problem with logging in... the display got stuck and the music i …

When a shortcut was added to the Desktop on XP it was placed at the end of list on the screen. Now, on Windows7, when a new shortcut is added it gets put immediately below the Computer icon at top left. Is this a Vista/W7 thing? I've tried changing the …

I like to watch a lot of movies online. Well used to anyways. For some reason when I go online to StageVu or another site, even Youtube, my computer freezes during the movie/video no matter how long it is and becomes unresponsive. If I can get through a whole movie/video …

In Windows XP, in addition to an administrative account, I have a limited account for the internet (to help safeguard against malware). Should I log off of my administrative account before accessing the net via my limited account? And is there any way for a website to infect you other …

I'm trying to format my hard drive. I've created a boot disk and changed my bios to boot from a: (yes it's an old pc) when I type format c: /s I get an error "Cannot Format a Network Drive" how do I fix this? RJ

I have an issue that's been beating me up for a week or so. I have an XP PC that will just drop off the network. What happens is that everything will be fine and then all of a sudden, I cannot browse the internet or use the network at …

I have a simple online credit application where customers put in their credit related data, i.e. Name, Address, SS #, Birthday, etc. I have to use another program to pull credit that requires me to input all that info. So currently I get my online app screen up and have …

In the link provided, you will find an extensive list of COM Error Codes and brief description of each. The list contains: 1. COM Error Codes 2. Miscellaneous Error Codes 3. OLE (Object Linking and Embedding) Errors 4. Windows Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) error codes 5. The Win32 Error Codes …

A couple of weeks ago i bought a 2 gig ram card to upgrade my netbook from 1 to 2 gigs of ram. It cost $76 which i thought was fine. at the same store i bought a 3 pack of SD Cards, each 2 gigs 3 cards $20. a …

I Have Copied both the disk in my flash drive.but after finish one setup file.it is saying Please insert another disk.but there is no any browse option is there .so that i select from my flash drive. Kindly let me know the idea.How should i install using flash drive. Kindly …

ok this happen yesterday when i put in the win xp installation cd and it booted and the it starts to load driver and check system and the stuff it does before showing me my hard disk. After that loads it shows the screen where it is suppose to show …

Can anybody tell me .Why i am getting Access is denied error .when i tried to open flash Drive .Kindly let me know the idea.Any help would be highly appreciated.Kindly find the attachemt also.

I know, I know, DOS. heres what i want to do, adjunct the contents of report.txt to fullreport.txt. i was hoping it would be as simple a report.txt >> fullreport.txt, but it isn't. any special commands? Thanks! -nosreteP

Hi All: Is anyone else having trouble with the new Hotmail format? On two different computers (one with WIndows XP, the other Windows 98), both my husband and I cannot reply to, compose or forward messages. The new message page comes up on the screen (without the toolbar), but the …

Yesterday was Microsoft's big day. Windows 7 was released. Did you go buy your copy already? Are you waiting? Whether you have or haven't doesn't really matter but I'm going to give you my five reasons why you [B]should[/B] switch to Windows 7 and five more why you [B]shouldn't[/B]. Both …

Hello, I have received many flash drives on an order that have message USB Device not Recognized.....malfunction. Can anyone tell me how to fix this ? I am testing these drives on Windows XP. Thx

well im working on this for a customer and im kinda stumped. atfirst i just thought it was a loose cable so i removed the display. checked the cables and tightened everything down so it wasn't wobbling all over the place.. unfortunatly it still have lines across the bottom, the …

This is a WXP computer that starts from the "off" state in about a minute, however, a warm restart takes 15 minutes. I have defragged, emptied recycle, purged temporary files, deleted the prefetch folder, disabled unneeded startups. How do I fix this?

I'm trying to fix an ASUS M2N-MX SE Plus AMD2 Socket Board with a AMD Athlon 5200+ CPU. I have reloaded Windows XP Pro Service pack3 which runs all fine until I put a disk in the DVD Burner. (LG Super Multi) on a IDE cable. Orginally I set the …

my wife's just tried to log onto her computer (windows vista)... and it said: "the user profile service failed the logon, user profile cannot be loaded." any ideas?? yes, the password is correct. there's alot of important documents on there... i know i can probably retrieve the documents from the …

Dear, I have lost all the installed printers in Win2K Server. When I tried to add new printer it say alert "Printer operation cannot continue due to lack of resources. The print subsystem is unavailable". I have tried to restart the spooler service. It successfully started but when I opened …

I run Windows XP Pro SP3 and have an Intel Pentium 3 computer with 27 gb hard drive, 384mb system RAM, video card ATI RADEON 7200 with 64MB RAM, Sound Blaster audio, DVD-ROM, CD burner, 10/100 network card, and US Robotics v90 56k modem. Yesterday I noticed that none of …

I have a compaq 3200 computer. It takes so long to load. Then it freezes at times. Does anyone have any insight into this problem. Also, what is a tag? Thank you. Roxie148

Hi guys, am managing a small office network and i would like to know if there's a way to install a software from my computer to all other computers in the networ, and if i can manage each individually and remotely. Any suggestion is welcome!

Hi, Is there a way to partition a disk formated to GUID? I've just installed an XP on a Dell PC a friend received by way of the local post office collectibles. It's a nice Pepi PC but after installing the OS I've found out that the 80 GB HD …

Hi, I have never used aero theme, so I like it on my W7 :) The best thing that I like on W7 is computer speed. On XP my computer was slow(Don't knw why).

I have Dell and have Windows XP installed. This month (February 2010) I have had my Xp crash this being the 2nd time. I can only go into safe mode. I have done the repair before but it always takes forever. What could be the problem?? I have Norton internet …

I notice there was a query about this some time back, but couldn't see a soloution. This has happened on two computers of mine, both less than 3 months old. I suspect a virus, but I can't see anything. Any bright ideas, anyone, please. I'm stumped.

Just wanted to have an idea what people prefer for their systems. Whether they leave their systems running all the time or they want to turn it off using several ways. Please select whatever you prefer to do most of the time.

Hi! I've posted this on another forum but didn't solve the problem, so I thought I would try here :) I have an Acer Aspire X1200 with 4 gb ram, Athlon 64 dual core 5000+ 2.6 gh, and am running Vista Home Premium with SP2. I've had it about a …

I'm running WinXP with a 250GB HD. I have the HD split into 2 partitions, (C: and L:). Well recently I realized that I have about 70GB of unallocated space, so I decided I was gonna add redistribute it. I start up partition magic and tell it what I need …

maybe its a dum question but i cant encrypt anything on my win7 home premium my ENCRYPT button is grey meaning i cant press it i don know why i tried everything and my security tab does show up

Hello, I just purchased Microsoft Vista at Circuit City. When I went to install there was NO DVD and only one half of the product key. Circuit City will not reimburse me, or exchange for something else. Need the software/key legally. I’d like to find a full download and figure …

Hey guys, My sister in law has an old computer(Gateway),and she accepted some kind of virus,because she clicked ok when that fake virus cleaner popped up on her system. So,I tried going into safe mode but it only kept rebooting back to the OES startup.Someone suggested that I change the …

hello all, does anyone know how to shut off the auto complete (when typing in address bar or google search bar , etc...)in windows XP? any help would be appreciated. thanks!

Imagine a computer repair shop with about 20 computers that need repair. Most of the computers need the operating system installed to fix the problem. These computers all have Product Key stickers attached to the housing. Some are XP Home, XP Pro, Vista Home Vista Ultimate, Window 7 Home and …

Hello CRC's - I've read what they are - but how do you work around them? This is the first time I have seen this error. Here is what happened: I was trying to burn a CD and in the process - the burner or software (ASHAMPOO BURNING STUDIO) got …

i recently installed a vista software on my HP laptop,and was browsing.only for me to restart and my system was insisting on product key.please help me.

Hi, Just setting up another computer with XP. Just spent the last few days downloading SP2 (via dial up, so very slow!). Everything to do with internet explorer was working fine yesterday Just installed SP2 this morning and now we're hitting problems! Can conect to the internet fine and browse …