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Can someone help me out? I am setting up 4 pc's in a daycare for kids to play with. (no internet). I have the pcs with no OS installed on them but I would like to install XP. My problem is that the pc's did not come with any OS …

can anyone help with this message?? "WinDVD MFC Application has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience."

I have Windows XP and Windows7 networked fine. My problem is when I ping the WindowsXP machine from Windows7 I get "[B]request time out[/B]", yet they can share files back and forth. It doesn't make sense.

I configured FTP through IIS 5.1 in windows xp proffesional. (in local machine) Then I tried to upload a file to it from a remote host. While uploading it i could see the file (from the local machine where the ftp is set up [in the ftp root folder]) But …

Hai Guys ! I'm new to this community. I had purchased a Acer Extensa 5620 Notebook, and Vista Home edition. The notebook is good and i'm happy about it, except, one problem. When i try to load a movie or music CD, and play in the Windows Media player 11, …

a couple days ago my computer blue screened i restarted and now its really slow and takes forever to startup can someone please help me acer aspire 5100 3583 1 gb ram amd turion 64 2.0ghz windows xp media center edition also my sounds are slow and distorted

Hi, I am using Windows Vista and the Auto Run won't work. Also when I click on Start...Computer...I don't see the Sony CD Rom icon. Please email me at [email]mmouse53a@msn.com[/email] if you can help. Thanks.

hi, everything was still ok, last night. all i did was scan the computer if there were any virus and it turned out that there werent' any and i shut it down. anyway, i restarted the computer several times this morning. before i can enter into my windows xp, 1sass.exe- …

I'v done some reading on this site already about similar problems to my own but decided it was best to make my own thread considering i have some different problems from the other users. - My computer shut down by itself the other day and I was thrown into the …

When I boot up, the screen gets stuck on: We apologize for the inconvience, but Windows did not start sucessfully. A recent hardware or software change might have caused this. If your computer stopped responding, restarted unexpectally or was shut down choose last known configuration: choices are: safe mode safe …

[B]How do I make a batch file play automatically just BEFORE the PC (WinXPPro SP3) goes into Standby?[/B] Why do I ask? I'm having trouble with Wake on Ring. I want my Conexant modem card ALWAYS to answer my fax line and receive faxes, but it is NOT reliable about …

Hi All, I hope someone can help me . I run win xp . I have an external hard drive that contains all my I tunes. Recently I recived a code access is denied on that external drive . The drive is working no problmes but I cant acess the …

I want to have Firefox use a proxy server for web browsing, and instead of using a regular server, I would like to use another computer. How would I do this? I know that I need to input the computer's IP address, but what else would I have to do …

Hi, A few weeks ago I bought a sata HDD to replace my former IDE one, so I transferred the OS (thks Acronis) to the new one, removed the old one and everything was OK... until I tried to repair some XP problems with my Win XP install CD, when …

hi guys, in windows 2008 how to check the particular user account is connected to what? thanks...

Since installing Windows 7 Home Premium, there are a number of unknown items which have appeared in my Windows Media player. When I try to delete them I get a message saying that I need permission from TrustedInstaller to do this. How do I access this programme to get rid …

Hi there, i was wondering if anybody can help me get rid of this so called rootkit my laptop has, my avg tells me it is there and that it is hidden. It also tells me that rebooting will delete it, but ahhh, after rebooting 10 times now, i kinda …

[i]I found this in a few different places around the 'net - hopefully it's helpful:[/i] [font=Arial][size=5][color=#0000ff]Access the Administrator Account from the Welcome Screen[/color][/size][/font] [font=Arial][size=2]If you are at the Welcome screen and want to log on with the Administrator account, but it's not listed:[/size] [list] [*][size=2]Press Ctrl+Alt+Del twice to bring up …

Hi everyone. So I have your average Windows XP emachines PC. Just a few days ago, I booted and installed Ubuntu 9.10 32-bit on my pc, to make it dual booted. I just wanted to see what ubuntu was like. Pretty nifty, nice graphics, etc. So I go to uninstall …

Cannot reboot my other computer do to this message, what can I download, what can I down load to over come this condition in my other computer. i NEED STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTION.

I can not send out email and I can not send files through msn messaging I have windows xp Please help

Hello friends, As all we know that disk less client does not have any OS,i have done booting clients with single server in network,now i want to boot a client in a network in presence of 2 server for eg:-Windows server 2003 & Linux server,in this i am just booting …

in the BIOS setup, given this: i have 8gb ram, asus p5qe, 500gb hd, 3.0 pentium dual core, do i leave the memory hole enabled and the remapping on? or are there advantages to changing any of that?

ok i have no idea what the problem is. my internet is slower than it should be. -- i have a linksys WRT54G router. i am directly connected to it -- i have two other computers in my house connected to the router. their internet connection is fast and normal …

Can anyone help me to remove lsass.exe virus... im usin windows xp home edition...

Dell Inspiron 2500 I deleted 'Harddrive' from the boot order screen in my BIOS. I did this by hitting Shift+1, now I am not able to bring it back using any of the commands it recommends. Such as: Ctrl+Enter - Expands All Shift+1: Enables or disables a device. etc... How …

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 …