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I have a IBM 2153 en2 that I have updated the harddrive to 80 gb and 512 of memory and Windows XP. But the computer is still slow and it will not play videos. The processor is 100htz. I was wondering, could the processor be my problem and should I …

I will be upgrading my processor in a while and I'm wondering if the change of CPU will force me to activate XP again just like when you upgrade mobo. Last time that happened was horrible. I ended up having to move all my stuff to a temp HDD then …

I had a virus in my laptop. Had the drive wiped and tried to use the boot disk to restart the HP laptop. Gave it to a computer guy and he loaded a basic MS XP Media Center Service Pack 3. AMD Turion 64 Mobile. This is fine but when …

Hello guys, I've just finished installing Black XP on my DELL Inspiron 2650 Laptop but ht e welcome screen doesn't show up at startup. I've tried to put password, thinking maybe it would prompt for password at startup, but nothing. Can anybody help me?

I had to replace motherboard on a Acer and am unable to repair with the traditional prompts. Do not have Vista CD. Is their a copy created at install time and can I run from command entry?

guys could you please help me...this is how my computer display looks. I dont know what happened. when I opened it this morning this is how it looked like already. I've tried everything, i've adjusted the horizontal display in my monitor settings, i've changed the resolution and also tried system …

Vista has provision for this but can it be done somehow in XP?

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hi people... i got a laptop which using vista ultimate... this vista ultimate anyway is not the original onewhich i installed it by myself using the cd that i bought.. I just wanna ask do i need to make the cd recovery?? because i actually not really understand about what …

I have a bunch of my old hard drives with Windows and Linux installations on them. They are from a variety of machines, some still in existence, some not. I want to go through them, copy the files I want, to another drive, then reformat the old drives. I've been …

my Windows Server2003 shows problem in installing Active Directory, on third time next it show "CONFIGURE YOUR TCP/IP" pls help me how can i do??????????

I am trying to sort out an issue with a 4 year old Toshiba satellite pro laptop with XP. I have the latest BT broadband and I have my other Sony laptop with vista connected with lightning fast page load speeds and download speeds. I open IE on the Toshiba …

Hi, I'm running Win XP Pro SP3 (fully patched) and noticed earlier today that when I opened Windows Defrag and clicked the Analyze button for my C: drive, I got the message: You should defragment this volume I've used XP for many years and this is the first time I've …

Hi, Is there a free "command line" utility to convert wav files to MP3 (MID will also do)? I need to put some of my wav files on my server, but these are huge... Command line is needed because the conversion will be done by another software, which will also …

I'm stumped. After 18 months of rock solid stability. My display started flickering and buzzing a couple months ago. More specifically, I am seeing horizontal light colored lines flickering like an old TV. If I left the computer on, as I normally do, I would eventually lose the signal to …

When I used my computer i cannot see anything except the my desktop wallpaper. I cannot see the desktop shortcuts, start icon, quick lunch and the likes. I run application using ctrl + alt +del and new task. How can I fix this one?

Hi, Ok, i have a compaq presario wunning windows 98 first edition. well, it used to run second edition but something went really rong and i had to re-install windows, only i didnt realise that the disk was first edition. anyway, once i re-installed it, my graphics wouldnt work properly. …

Hello, I have my dads computer and it is running not even slow it is slower than slow so i said I woul try and get it running fater for him and put in a more memory for him and make it faster well I did and now I can't …

Hi, I have an XP sp2 laptop I use for work. I was installing some broadband software. The machine locked up, I restarted it and received the following error. lsass.exe Bad image c:/windows/system32/dnsapi.dll. I've tried booting to last good config, starting it in safe mode but I can't get past …

is windows internet explorer 8 suitable for windows vista?

Hi, just a quick question.. say a user enters a number in a cell how would i be able to get all cells that contained that number to be highlighted? Thanks

I'm trying to install XP Home on a machine that sold bundled with Vista (A Toshiba Satellite A200-16V). When I attempt to boot from CD and it inspects my hardware configuration, I consistently get the same error: *** STOP: 0x0000007E (0xC0000005, 0xF748E0BF, 0xF78DA208, 0xF78D9F08) *** pci.sys - Address F748E0BF base …

new user profile is not opening in window xp .

I attempted to save files from a friends malfunctioning IDE hdd (primary drive not found msg) by connecting it to my XP desktop (both are dell's). The damaged hdd was recognized by windows and in the process of being scanned when at about 40% complete it made the clicking sound …

hi i have a problem with my window media player everytime i try and play a movie on my media player the sounds appear to working fine but their is no video or image i dont know why

Is there a way to uninstall SP3 using knoppix? My brother had some issues with one of his mmo games so he thought he would just update his OS he didn't tell me what he was doing so i couldn't get the fix for sp3 on his PC b4 he …

I have a HP pavillion 512 @ my work I installed new ram yesterday now it wont do anything. I even took out the new and put the old back in, but it will not start. I can hear the fan running it beeps once then the amber light comes …

how do i get my computer to boot up without having to click the owner icon. i used to just turn on my computer and it booted up totally straight to the desktop but since i had to reinstall windows due to a nasty virus i cannot get rid of …

I have windows xp installed on my computer.When i try to pres shut down button with my mouse it doesnt work or it just shows blue screen with message "windows is shutting down" butt i wait and system is not shutting down. Please answer to me how to resolve my …

I just dont know why all of my icons are highlighted dark blue? Does anyone know anything about this. Thanks

hi I´m all new here and I don´t know any better than just to start with my problems. I´m having browser problems. I use Firefox (but the prob is the same IE) and it won´t show ex. youtube proberly. The movies are the worst problem. One moment everything seames to …

I have a monitor (ViewSonic VA1912wb) that has a resolution of 1440 x 900 pixels and everything looks great at that resolution. After installing a wireless keyboard and a KVM switch, I am no longer offered that resolution as an option in the Control Panel. Since I know everything looks …

Hi all, I am currently having a small problem with my Windows XP computer: when I am for example playing Call of Duty 4 or Age of Mythology, the computer minimalizes the window by itself every half hour (or something like that). It doesn't happen with browsers or other applications. …

This is with regard to a new installation of Vista (Black Edition) I just noticed a folder on the desktop that I did not put there. It has my username on it. But... I noticed THAT after a security popup (admin permission requested) for an instance of vistalizator.exe to run …

My friend has a laptop that boots strait to the safemode selection screen then crashes. He says he might have a virus. His battery is fine...could a virus have corrupted his boot sector that bad? and what steps should we take to fix this?

Double clicking folders to view the contents always results in a new window opening. This is very frustrating when trying to view a deep pathfile. I've already gone to Folder Options and made sure open each folder in same window is selected. I use to have ACD See installed, and …

I copied some photo's onto a media drive from my pc, now i have to give the media drive back i can not put the photo's back onto my pc. I have tried copy and paste, cut and paste and send to new folder nothing seems to work any ideas …

hey guys, im currently getting a huge problem with my computer booting up. at first it was just the occaisional weird hanging noise? i guess once in awhile which just required a reboot. Then gradually i started experiencing problems with actually turning it on. i had to play with the …

HI all I rebuilt my computer with some new parts [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread238968.html"]http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread238968.html[/URL] and installed xp, it did updates then came SP3. Install went fine then restarted and it came up with "Auto check not found - skipping autocheck" or something to that effect cant quite remember, then it would blue screen …

I have a friend that can't get her computer out of safe mode. It keeps asking for a command prompt. Do you know what command it is talking about? And can you help?

Hi everyone, Is there anyway in Window XP to open a lot of file explorer tabs in a single window just like we could do in Ubuntu ? For instance, C: D: and C:\Program Files are opening in the same window without requiring to open 3 new windows? I need …

HI I am new here so hope i am in the right place. I am running win xp sp 2 ie 7. on my laptop i can no longer access the internet wireless but i can access the internet thru a wired connection. when i am wirless and i enter …

...Even in safe mode. It starts to open and then I get a white screen and it is not responsive Running Outlook 10 on XP machine. I saved the PST to an external hard drive and am thinking of uninstalling Office XP pro and reinstalling. Advice?

Hi there all. I need some help with my PC... what happend is i started up my PC arter work 1 day it started up fin every thing kicked in like it shode do then it got to the next bit of loading where it has Verifying DMI Pool Data................ …

Been a little while since i formatted my pc figure i'd get it clean and polish it off during turkey weekend, no problem with the install but when i updated either sp2 or 2.5/3 it bugged out on me. Then i remembered this happened last time I'm using serial ATI …

please answer my assignment for tomorrow: get the product of three numbers. get the 2^nth value of a numbers n. get the largest among three numbers. get the factorial of a number n. get the cube root of a number. how to pseudocode and flow chart that one.'.

A friend was asking me if I thought upgrading to windows 7 was a good idea. Since I don't have windows 7 I told him I would get back to him after I asked around. So, what is your [U][B]personal[/B][/U] opinion of Windows 7? No links to reviews or anything …

I just recently got a semi-newish computer fixed (had a power source problem) to use at college that had previously been a family computer. My brother had downloaded a lot of spyware and adware, so I used a program to remove it. Then I decided to fix a message I …

I guess this occured when my computer was in for repair months and months ago. I want to take control of a folder (to change its attributes), and to do this I need to boot the computer in safe mode. When I hit "F8" after the POST, I go into …

My computer freezes after we update to service pack 2 or after we update the graphics card. The screen we flash multiple times until it completely freezes when viewing a video or running a large program. System: Microsoft Windows Xp Home Edition Version 2002 Service Pack 1 Hewlett-Packard Pavilion AMD …