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hi can anyone please help me i have just formated my pc and reinstalled xp without any form of backup (i know not clever!) now my pc cannot install my Ethernet Controler. i have little knollage about this sort of problem and have know idea how to overcome this. my …

When I try to open control panel, it does a search for the control panel then I receive the following error message. Windows XP Home edition is OS. explorer.exe-Application error Yhe instruction at "0x05959e56" referenced memory at"0x00000000". The memory could not be "written". Click on Ok to terminate the program …

Hello folks, I have a Toshiba Equium M50-244 laptop that did work but now doesn't. I press the start button and get the Toshiba press F2 for set up or F12 for boot. Then i get a blank screen! nothing boots up from there on. I can start it in …

I suppose it had to happen. [URL="http://www.apple.com"]Apple[/URL] was rumoured to be launching a 'slate' computer so others including [URL="http://www.hp.com"]HP[/URL] have done so too. All of which leaves me a bit bemused. You see, I don't really know what these slate computers are for. Let's be straightforward. The first touch-sensitive laptops …

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My cd rom would not read any cds so I was trying to find a solution to fix it, one I read said to go to start run cmd enter and I did and the screen system32 came up and I typed in WinMSD and retarted the computer now the …

I'm installing this wireless access point (router Linksys WRT54GS) and everything seems to be working fine, and it connects to the router via wireless network adapter. On the network connections page, it shows that the Computer connection to the router is excellent, But the router connection to the internet is …

Hi. I'm running on Win XP SP3 and have been using IE8 as default browser. In the last 4 months my system has intermittently blue screened (memory dump) with no discernible error code when starting IE8. I upgraded my memory about this time. This was a minor inconvenience, I had …

Good morning all, So I am having a major issue and am really at a loss on this one. I have an Acer 5050 laptop running Vista. It came with 1gig of ram which I upgraded to 2.5 a couple weeks ago. I also downloaded IE8 shortly before upgrading RAM. …

Hi, I have a Sony Vaio VGN-NS110E laptop, my friend was playing a game on it, then all the sudden he said it froze so i turned it off and turned it back on, then i get the message saying "A disk read error occurred." I grab the recovery disks …

Hi all. Every now and again I get these Java update messages, which (if I choose to) in stall the latest JRE. In the C:\Program Files\Java folder, I have: One folder named: 'jre6' Several named: 'jre1.60_' and then a number (01, 02, etc.) I presume that the folders 'jre1.60_...' are …

I have just purchased a brand new Laptop with Windows 7. My older PC will be decommissioned. I have all my disks for reloading my programs however although I have the disks for MS Office 7, I downloaded the BETA version of Office 10 and it seems to have overwritten …

Hmm why does my computer say that i have 415 GB of memory but if i look on the HDD then there is 500 GB there is the 85 GB gone?

I was thinking about all the amazing things that people go thru to get their pc and laptops fixed so they can run smooth. So I came up with the Idea of something like, maybe it'll be nice if people could post their favorite software that did wonders for them. …

I have an old icon program with icon in .dll format. The program installs ok in windows 7 home premium, but I get a message saying winodws cannot open files, not associated with anything. Is there any hope in getting this old Titan Seal Icon program to work? It has …

When I start my computer, it keeps coming to a screen that says "a disk read error occured. press ctr+alt_del to restart". I've tried this but it comes back to the same screen. My HP laptop did not come with windows cd. I have to reinstall OS. How can I …

Can I install a 64 bit Windows 7 on a computer that currently has a 32 bit version of Vista? I think that my hardware can handle a 64 bit Operating System. I tried to install a 64 bit version of Windows 7 but the installation program checked my current …

Hi i am doing C programming in netbeans and when i compile and run my program i get a message in the dos console that says i need to use the nodosfilewarning to disable the cygwin warning i am getting. I have attached a screenshot as it is a rather …

Hello USB problem solvers, I would like to let you know that I have solved my problem regarding my Flash drive, when I plugged it in to the USB port it was recognised by the system but I could not see what folders it had, so I looked everywhere to …

Title says it. Old Dell died, I had Office 2003 Professional from Dell, but on MS disks that appear to be retail type. New computer is running Windows 7 (64 bit). Install appeared normal with activation codes, program operations are OK with one or two unexplained shutdowns. Ive been running …

Hope someone may be able to help... I have always had a problem with the modem connection, if I pull out the lead to the broadband voyager modem, without cancelling the internet connection, the computer tends to freeze. My wife decided she wanted to use her computer and so pulled …

I am formatting my ibm desk top pentium 4 and when the first phace completes and it restarts the machine starts from the hard disk and tells me to press any to start from disc and when i press it starts the formatting again what can i do

Hello Friends, I used to use a registry cleaner called RegistrySmart, it seemed to do a good job in cleaning the registry and that was all it did, it was automatic you just pressed scan and that was it until I got an update from them which had a virus …

Hi, I have a problem with my sound on all programs for video (Youtube, DVD's, etc) Whatever program I use (WMP, real player, Win amp, quick time, etc) I can not get good volume levels. I have updated the drivers (Realtek) I have turned all controlls to max, ensured that …

Comp: HP Laptop OS: Windows xp Media Center I have the recovery on disk's (So can bring back to factory setting whenever.) There is a 12 Gig partition for recovery on HD, I have 32 gig left of HD space. Should I get rid of the partition and just hope …

I got a warning alert from my AVG anti virus software the other day. It listed some cookies that were in a directory that doesn't exist on my hard drive. None of the AVG option took care of the warnings and every time I boot my computer I get the …

Trying to share a folder on a Windows 7 machine with a Windows XP machine. Error message: folder is not accessible. Access is denied

Okay, I am running Windows XP, on a Dell Mini Laptop. Thing sucks for hardware, but that's beside the point. Okay, for the past week, I've been having issues with the laptop's memory. If I have a few windows open of any program, then close out, it seems to not …

I recently left my laptop on all day without touching it at a friends house, and when I came back to it, I could not click on any windows. So doing ctrl-shft-esc, I brough up the task manager, and the only way I could navigate through it was by keyboard, …

Hello Friends, I wonder if anybody has had a bad experience with SFS, I received a file in sfs but cannot open it because I need the SFS program to open it, first of all I downloaded a program from CNET but when I went to install it said there …

I have a computer downstairs with vista and MS office outlook. The computer upstairs has XP and outlook express. Don't know if that makes a difference, but here is the problem..... After I set up the outlook on the vista computer, I started to receive emails... but they are different. …

why is it the "edit, help and more" ms dos command wont work??? only the dir,cd,cd/,and changing the drive works........please help guys...tanx,

Every since I got a FF update yesterday (to 3.5.7) it seems to be crashing a lot. Anyone else experience this? [edit]64-bit Windows 7[/edit]

I've got a problem, I have a machine that is running [B]Win7-x32bit[/B] and it can see the machine running [B]Win7-x64bit[/B], [U]but[/U] the [B]Win7-x64[/B] machine [U]can't[/U] see the [B]Win7-x32[/B]. I've tried the trouble shooting within Windows7 etc, nothing fixes it, [I]any idea what is going on[/I] ?

Hi everyone, I've read a couple of posts and most seem to be similar to my problem but I still can't figure out how to do this... I have a new computer, Dell, and I quickly installed windows 7 ultimate on it. Shortly after I added my old HDD on …

I am having a problem opening folders with a double left click. When I do this now it opens my VLC media player and the folder doesn't show. If I right click on the folder, the first 6 items on the drop down menu are: Add to VLC media player's …

Last Night (12-30-09) My PC got a Blue Screen of Death and restarted. I got the First Blue Screen of death while watching Adultswim Video. When the Computer Restarted It got to the Windows Vista log-in screen and then Blue Screened a second time, but froze before it restarted. I …

This is a problem with some back-story so let me start there. I recently bought a Dell mini, which has functioned perfectly for what I needed it to do. Problem: I slipped on a patch of ice and dropped aforementioned mini, bouncing on its corners, down a nice long set …

My Recycle bin keeps on popping up while im using the internet and then becomes a nusence by keep flashing i think it might be a virus or something. Any Help????

yesterday i was surfing the web when a pop up came up and said downloading something, it had disabled the x in the corner and the task manager. I turned the computer off and it will now not get past the windows xp loading page, it just restarts the computer. …

I did a clean install of Windows 7 on my computer reinstalled my programs, etc. Now I have the problem of the OS locking up the computer. I feel like I am using Windows 9x with its blue screen of death. It happens randomly with no rhyme or reason, I …

1. My adult daughter’s Toshiba Satellite computer started acting strangely lately. At first only rarely, but finally almost every time it was used, it kept popping up a dialog box purporting to show “search results” even though none had been asked for. Closing the box merely brought up another one, …

Hello everyone. I am posting here as my last resort before throwing my laptop out that window I have been wanting to replace. I can not download ANYTHING. Thus far, I have no problem opening current files, but every time I try to download something I get the error message …

I installed firefox days ago, and sometimes web pages can't open via it, the network is ok, anyone knows how to fix it? Thanks!

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Ok so I bought a new computer the other day, old one was working fine just time for a new one. Anyways, unplugged old puter and put up new one. Wanted to get KVM switch to use both and be set since all the files are on the old computer. …

First of all unhide all the programs. if u have a broad band or dial up connection jst get off the Ethernet connection.then restart the computer and press F7.you got in safe mode and run the computer with network there you search where the unauthorized folder are there or not …

Hi, I was browsing the internet today (I was trying to download iTunes, I do not know if it had started to download) on my Dell Inspirion E1505 today and a blue screen came up saying "A problem has been detected and windows has been shutdown to prevent damage to …

I think we can safely say that Windows Vista was a flop. The only one that doesn't seem to know it is Microsoft. Or does it? This week at [url=http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/winhec/default.mspx]WinHEC[/url], the company introduced a series of capabilities in [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_7]Windows 7[/url] that it says will "make it easier for hardware partners …

If I go to: view -> arrange by -> current view -> customize current view -> other settings I can change the "row font" size for the current folder. If I have 100 folders and I want to change the font size for the messages in all of them, you …