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I open my computer, access to a drive then it shows many folders viewed as tile, then I change to list and I click on a folder and click back. It still show view as tile. My question is: how to control the view as list when I move forward …

My laptop's Nvedia Graphics Card had crashed.....i had given it for rearing without my harddsik..... The laptop was repaired and the nvedia graphic chip was replaced, it was checked and verified with another hard disk that belonged to my repairer.....it was working then after i put my original hard disk …

Hi: I am new to this. I have windows XP. I download a file and it will not open. When I double click on it, nothing happens. I use Mozilla Firefox as my browser.

I have an .exe that I want people to be able to download and run on Vista. It needs to run as admin. I have a web page with a 'Download' button. Assume I am logged in as an admin. I click the 'Download' button and IE8 asks whether to …

Hello all, my computer has been freezing badly for a few weeks already. The freeze is random from bootup to windows inside. However, my computer has gotten worse but im fixing it now(long story ill skip ) , now problem is it is very annoying it frequentsly freeze up at …

I have a zune and an iriver clix mp3 players. When I plug the zune in, it is detected by windows which attempts to install device driver software (and always fails) but it is not detected by the actual zune software itself. Also, it does not show up in "Computer" …

I would like to format or fdisk windows7 is there any way i could do it as i like to get back to window vista 64 bit Thank you

I use outlook for emailing and have just purchased a new computer, with windows 7 and Office 2010 beta version. How do I transfer my email address book details from my old computer please. I am new to the forum world, how do I access answers to others questions? I …

First allow me to explain, I was simply in the process of cleaning out my old PC. I was using a can of compressed air to blow out the accumulation of dust from within. Once done, I made sure all plugs were snuggly in place, and closed up my PC. …

getiin bugged by this new disease thats hit my browsers.....some pages like wiki.com and dailymail.co.uk open in a low resolution, sub-standard, low quality format....most of the others open the way they normally do....to give you a clear picture below are these apalling images.....pls help!!!!! Here's how the daily mail and …

EU's computer boots to XP, gets to the desktop, and keyboard and mouse stop functioning. Same story Safe Mode, and Last Known Good. Tried different Keyboard/Mouse. No PS/2 connectors. Found a XP Pro disk - it wouldn't repair (couldn't see) the XP Home install, but I loaded a new windows …

Hi Folks: I'm new to this site, and am having a problem with some software backup program called Retrospect. Evidently, I did something wrong when I first tried a backup, and it seems that I can't get rid of that backup and try again. Anyone have a suggestion for me? …

hey i am having the same problem with my p.c. non of my internet browsers are loading the pages (they just load forever) but if i click on hot mail sign in like it loads that but nothing else, and msn just tells me that there is something wrong with …

I have a question, couple of years ago, I had a system failure and windows tech support help me fix it but had me do a lot of registry entries in windows recovery console. What ended up for the fix was he had me actually put the boot files on …

I have an MP3 PLAYER, when I plug it in the port, the computer does not recognize it...IT does recognize my printer.. I do not have a CD or disk for the device.. THE same thing happens with my phone for pictures... Any idea on how to resolve?

First off hello to everyone! I can't wait to get some friendly help as I have been racking my brain to figure this one out. Out of the blue, one day I tried to copy and paste something with ctrl+c and ctrl+v and nothing happened. I have since then figured …

I get the box send as is, send as unicode, ect when I SEND..It appears when I copy and past into the body of an e mail...I dont know if this may have to do with encoding ect.. Is there any way anyone can give me exact outlook settings..At one …

Windows Defender says "succeeded" but "program has potentially unwanted behavior." HKCU@S-1-5-21-2211979958-1575165067-2261642059-1HKCU@S-1-5-21-2211979958-1575165067-2261642059-1000000 some kind of H key current user registry setting, I guess, but I don't know if it was part of the Microsoft update or where it might have come from. anyone know? (I'm very limited in my knowledge -- …

i had a problem with my compaq 515. have formatted my PC and after some windows updates installation, i needed to repair my vista using the CD installation and it was blank after. i had to turn my PC off and on many times in order to reach the startup …

Hey guys, am using a Dell Inspiron 2650 laptop but today i was using Google talk when my keyboard stopped working, i tried to reboot but still not. and the lights are not lighting during POST. What could be the problem??? Pliz help!!

Windows Update in Windows 7 Ultimate Not Working. It just keeps showing "Checking for updates" msg! Please help! I need to update/install mxml and .Net files in order install new software programs. THANK YOU!

I have a Windows XP Pro, laptop. It is a IBM Thinkpad T42, one gig of RAM. The hard drive took a dump so I got another one. I took the XP Pro cd, inserted it and installed it. It worked fine and then as I was setting up everything …

A friend has an XP desktop with a single NTFS partition at his home that wouldn't boot. He tried what he knew, but sadly ended up reinstalling XP. He'd like to recover his data, and so gave me a call. I told him to A) stop using the computer, B) …

I am trying to install a new program that requires the .net framework 3.5. I currently have .net framework 1.1 installed on my computer and cannot install any other version (2.0, 3.0 or 3.5). I've tried several times to install one of the other .net framework versions, but have had …

Hi, I been able to get my computer better since the last post. I found out to run "Shutdown -a" to stop the Network/NT or something like that which cause the force shutdown in a minute. I am starting to remove "XP Antispyware 2010", but when I get to the …

Hey recently my explorer.exe messed up and wouldn't open, and now whenever I try to reinstall Windows 7, it says that all the sources for installation aren't available. I've tried formatting my hard drive but that didn't do anything. Any1 got any ideas as to how I can fix this …

My Computer kept freezing, I just have a hard drive failure 1 week ago, so I changed to a new Hard drive Seagate barracuda 1 TB 7200 32 MB. But then problem still persist, So I thought Power Supply is wrong, because I also added 2 GB DDR2 Memory RAM …

i have a home computer, so why do i have 2 local area connections? ive never had 2 until a few hours ago, when i reformated. ive always only had 1. i have already tried to disable the second on but it wont let me, and if i disable the …

When I go to close an IE window. An error occurs and it sends the information to Microsoft. I kno sending it won't fix it. so i was just wondering what has happened! I don't know if its connected to the other problem but when I search something on google, …

High CPU Usage despite nothing showing on Task Manager or Process Explorer. Greetings all, I hope this is the correct area to post this to, If not I apologise and could it be redirected to the correct area. Anyway, I do hope someone can help with this infuriating problem, and …

I am having problems getting Tiger Woods reinstalled on my machine. I have a downloaded zip version of it. When it is being unpacked it gets to a certain point and I get blue screen and restart. I have narrowed it down to the unpacking of the data folder in …

Can I set the value that MS word will use in the 'Save' dialog ? Usually when a word document is saved, Word will select the first few words of the document in an attempt to auto-create a document name. But I have a textbox near the top of the …

Now this may be the wrong place to look but im unsure. I have looked for the answer in many places with no luck, and I've had luck with this community in the past to help my with my technical problems. So the deal is, Im running my pc on …

I am unable to load the windows 7 pro operating system on my computer after enabling the raid 5 w parity I want to run??? 4 WD 750gb sata hdd intel dg45id mother board intel q9400 8 gig ram ????????

I have a bunch of CD-R's that were created on a MAC. All my Windows XP computers can read them with no problem. They just ahve data files, pictures, and programms. No music or movies. When I put them into my new Vista laptop, they just show up as blank …

Hello guys. Does anyone know how to create an expandable hyperlink in MS Word?

I have been using a program (EPX 5.5) for year which allows uploading of photos to a website (eventpix.com) and I have not been able to access the site lately. I get "no reply from server" notices. Eventpix.com support suggests some setting on my firewall or in Avast is preventing …

My W7 32 bit installation was misbehaving very badly, so I decided to reinstall. I chose to use the 64 bit install instead. That went easily enough. However, my favourite screensaver stopped working (black mark). Then I installed XP Mode for 64 bit, and installed my 16 bit application (that …

I've been trying to install this USB HP 2 Mega-Pixel Webcam and when I do... Let's start with how I do it. I install all the software from the Installation CD including the Driver. I then restart my computer. After that, I plug it in - - A "Found New …

Recently I notice that accessing to remote computer always fail. Before this it’s not a problem to access to remote computer. Once trying to access remote computer error message prompt “No more connections can be made to this remote computer at this time because there are already as many connections …

I have both Office 2003 and Office 2007 on my computer. I want Excel and Word 2003 to be the default programs to open files when I double click on them from e-mails etc. Somehow, and I don't know what I did to accomplish it, I got Word 2003 as …

I can't access my own website even though other people on other computers have no problems. This has happened to me several times in the past and I have never figured out what causes it or fixes it. I have cleared my cache and turned off my McAfee firewall, but …

Can I install Windows 98 on an XP machine either on a partition or preferably a USB harddrive? A old friend has some old games he loves and wants the portability of his laptop but still able to play the old games, most of which I suppose are DOS.

Hi there, I am part of a domain, and hate having to take my PC in to the IT all the time when I have a problem. The problem is when they image my PC, it deletes every thing of the C drive (system), but keeps everything on the Z …

Hi there... i have two XPs copied on same partition... one (i.e. the older one) is running well but the other (newer one) is not detecting the monitor and LAN... no connections shown in my n/w connections... kindly explain the reason as well as the solution.... Thanks...

Hi, There seems to be a problem in my display setting ,where in I cannot find the Windows XP theme present there by default.Also my Internet explorer opens a new page in same Window even after selecting new tab option.Any help is appreciated.Thanks in Advance.

Hi there, I am working on a Emachines EL1200 desktop system with a Realtek HD Audio sound card. The computer had some trojans and other malware on it I was able to remove with the assistance of AVG and MalwareBytes Antimalware. Now the machine will only play sound if you …

Help!!! My windows is not starting up. A few lines of text appeared, then the screen just went black. I tried F5 after i see the text. I chose safe mode. i get lines of things... then, it just stop/jammed. the last line says multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\windowstem32\drivers\isapnp.sys what does that mean?

Can you tell me ? .Why i am getting error the call Failed due to Sound Devices Problem .i am Using Windows 7.Kindly let me know the Idea.any help would be highly appreciated.Kindly find the attachment also.

I got an error/BSOD late last nite around say 1215am 2/10. MSoft wanted my pc to restart to install some updates. After restarting it went to the blue screen of death with the following codes: following "technical information: ***STOP 0x0000007E (0xC0000005, 0x8050D532, 0xF78BE3B8, 0F78BE0B4) No file names were given. No …