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Hey guys, I got this creepy and freaking anoying freeze lag every minute. I dont have to do anything my computer just freeze once every minute for 1 or maybe 2 seconds each. It's pissing me off and I dont know what to do, help please :( Some system information: …

Hi all I am not only a newbie here but also with computers - I know the basics but that is all. My son has windows xp and the problem i believe (although could be wrong) is a virus. He had Vrt1 tmp all the way through to 10 and …

The Folder Option is missing both in the Control Panel and Tools Menu. What might had caused this problem? Is there any solution to this? Tnx in advanced Gurus!!

I dont know much about operating systems so i wonder if it would be some process that is running in the backround or what, but mostly when i am playing games the whole laptop will just turn off. No messages or anything, just close. And i have allready checked the …

I have XP and when I started the other day, I got the error message: windows could not start because the follwing file is missing or corrupt: \WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM You can attempt to repair this file by starting windows setup using the original setup cd-rom... I found lots of information about …

Navigated to a website in IE8. Reduced the size of a window to view a second window. Days later when I navigate to a website that window remains in a reduced state. Guidance sought on how to control the persistent size of windows. This is a Vista ultimate machine

I'm running the evaluation copy,Build 7100. I have a file:...weekly/(lots of .ppt files). and I have tweaked all the settings for search, indexed everything, copied the file into My Computer,shared, and indexed the source backup drive. The files were saved in XP from Office 2000. Search can not find or …

i have come across a problem every time i turn my computer on it goes to the windows screen with the rolling bar and the rolling bar starts to break up and become distorted then once windows loads the screen is unreadable as if it is in a very low …

My laptop came with an installed windows vista home premium, later i installed vista business, is there a way i can recover the home premium coz i dont have its installation cd.

I have a mini ACER Aspire one laptop. This morning it had a page that said windows did not load properly and start in safe mode, nothing worked. I went and called ACER and the guy told me to go buy an external Hard drive container so that I could …

Help please, At my wits end with my HP laptop and after it didn't work for the second time after having the motherboard replaced twice, (repair shop's advice), due to strange 'tartan' patterns on the screen, I accidentally deleted my recovery drive. Now, I just wanted to re-format the hard …

MAXTOR - USB mass storage device ~ VISTA Ultimate: * Device Cannot Start (CODE 10) * Device Manager has a yellow triangle * Cannot see on "Explore" * Used "fix It" - Microsoft Automated troubleshooting Services to diagnose. Applied recommended automatic repairs. (Hardware devices not detected or not working) * …

I have an Advent 7060 home edition XP laptop that wont start up. When I turn the power on it goes to a screen whereby it gives me 5 options which are [LIST] [*]Safe Mode [*]Safe Mode with networking [*]Safe Mode with command prompt [*]Last known configuration (your most recent …

Hi Guys I hope my query is a simple one to answer. I use Windows PCs, one runs Windows 7 and one runs Windows Vista. Like everyone with a computer the thought of losing any of my data is a horrible one. I am always doing my best to backup …

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Hi friends Today one of my friends messed up my PC while I was away. Now when I switch it on it shows Out Of Range. My friend suggested to log in Safe mode and change the frequency. But I can't log in safe mode also. The same problem persists. …

Hi, I'm not sure if this is the correct forum, so please let me know if there is another one that is more appropriate for this question… I have a home office/business and I'm using MS Outlook 2007 for emails. I'm trying to send an email that has a particular …

When try to play certain videos, with Nero Player it gives Error "Direct Draw Acceleration is not comaptible to play video" Upon going to dxdiag it shows under diplay mode no device is availble. In note it says "The system is using the generic video driver. Please install video driver …

Hello my name is Daniel I just got windows 7 and I want to update my vista laptop but to do this I need to uninstall trend micro but I have forgotten the password and it won't let me do it without it. is there any way to remove trend …

Hi, I am getting Problem in installing Activex control from our installer on Vista machine. I have enabled ActiveX control from Administrator->services .But i am still unable to install activex control from setup package. Normally these control installed properly on all XP machines except Vista. The access right's of this …

Can I use norton anti virus 2005 download cd for Vista.

dear sir, hope u all will be fine there. i have a notebook named lenovo 3000 n200 type 0769. I have no driver for my builtin camera in notebook therefor it is not working.i have vista . plz solve my problem. i have search every where but not available even …

I am trying to enter the following formula but I am coming up blank. Ok, I have excel 2007. I created a purchase order. On the purchase order I am trying to calculate multiple sales tax possibilities depending on which state I place in the State cell. The 3 cells …

Ok so I originally had Windows 7 and I just installed Windows XP Professional on a partition other than my Windows 7 and I still have my Windows 7 partition with all the files still on it but when I boot up my computer I only get the option to …

I configured ftp in windows Xp using IIS 5.1 I created password protected users They can access the ftp with in local network using ftp://<inertnal ip> I want to access it outside the router. How can I do that? When I try to do it says FTP Folder error!! plz …

I think from what I gather are called look ups. When I play songs on media player 11 some parts of the song have a stuttering problem but it happens while streaming too. Not sure where to go.

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Hi i was working on a machine and noticed it was getting very hot ,at the time i was installing sp3 when it fished it shutdown as normal i then looked at the fan and found that it was blocked with a ball of dust. i removed the dust and …

I have a Toshiba Laptop with Windows XP SP2, and I am experiencing some problems with basically every browser I have. By the way, the browsers I have are IE, Firefox, Opera, and Netscape. Problem: The backround music doesn't play on websites for some reason.....I go to it...it shows on …

hi some one help me my flash drive (usb) is formated with most important data i want to recover that data i have also download a software which is recovering those file but not recovering that folders which were hidden plz any one help me how to recover hidden folders.

I currently have updated antivirus on my system and I'm not very satisfied with it. Most of the time my computer freezes. Is there any other utility to solve this problem?

My computer suddenly turned off and cannot turn back on. It gets stuck on the windows xp loading screen. What do i do, i don`t want to format my hdd because i have important info on it

I have a small business server 2003 machine that I am trying to replace a raid 1 drive. I unplugged the drive I wanted to replace and put another empty drive in it's place. When I had done this previously with a new drive it just added it back into …

I need an opensource French to English converter, which is able to translate one pdf to another and vice versa. Many thanks for helping me out.

How to Install Windows XP using USB Hard Disk Drive ? Thanking you

I tried to download a theme for XP. I first had to download a patch. After downloading the theme, I wanted to change it back to my old one. Now I can't change any theme. I get the error message "Run a DLL as an App" . Sometimes it says …

I am searching for the latest developments on an engineering problem. The problem is that the search engines return thousands of pages on the subject, most of which I have read many times. Is there any way to limit a web search to sites that appeared within the last month?

All of a sudden I cant pin anything to my task bar. I am lost. Have tried almost everything. KEN

Hi, I don't know if I am in the right site but... I have just installed Malwarebytes, as per recommendations from posts here and I am getting a message saying that it has blocked access to a malicious site about 5 times a minute. Just about every time I try …

Hi guys, I recently came across a small problem with downloading large files (using flashget or jdownloader). When extracting rar files, i was getting alot of 'CRC Errors - file is corrupt'. After changing nic card, ethernet cables & so on, the simple problem was an update in AVG which …

Due to bad sectors or many other problems i have lost my important data, is there any way to recover this ..... with out losing of some part of the data?

hi all, the new windows live messenger is not working on my vista laptop. please can somone help. i had been throught a lot of forum for help, it just seem a lot of people is having the same problem. Awaiting response.

I created ftp server with IIS in windows xp sp2. Also i forwarded the port of the router. But I can't acess the ftp using ftp://<IP> it says, [B]ftp folder error windiws cannot access this folder. Make sure you typed the file name correctly and that you have perfmission to …

hi all, we having been using facebook and bbc sites in my office but few days ago the IT department had blocked these sites. please is there anyway that i could bypass to these sites. Awaiting your response.

Hi, When I create a new email in outlook this happens. I type in a letter in the TO: area say K, and it will show me a drop down list of all of the people I have emailed with the letter K in the beginning of their name. How …

This problem is intermittent to some degree. After booting to desktop, and clicking the Mozilla icon to log-on to home page it will say not found. Sometimes it will log on with no problem. The hard drive activity lite is flashing and the activity lite on the modem like something …

I do these art videos on YouTube called speed paints. I've recently gotten one of my videos stolen, and told nothing but "I should've had a watermark." Now I want to add a watermark to them, but WMM doesn't have that kind of feature without covering up text. What program …

When I click on red X in small download box in Firefox it just refuses to close no matter how often I press on it. Sometimes web sites refuse to close as well. Does anyone know why this happens? Normally clicking on the X in top right hand corner closes …

Is anyone else using Outlook 2003? The new junk mail feature looks sooooooo nice, but so far, it hasn't worked once. I've went through, and blocked senders and full domains, by adding them to the blocked senders list, but the same junk from the same domains are still showing up …