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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 …

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 …