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Hey guys and gals, I've recently formatted to Windows 7 and everything has been going fine except for my audio card. I am using a Xonar DS PCI card on a conroe kentsfield fsb 1066 motherboard. Basically, under the Device Manager, the drivers for the card always show the Code …

Hi, I used to use ie as my main web browser. Then 2 days ago, it just stop working. When i click on the ie icon, no window, nothing start anymore. So i jhave to d/l netscape and use it. [U]IE works fine under guest login accnt though. [/U] I …

Does anyone here know what file controls the action when you press CTRL-ALT-DEL and get that "Close Program" box?? The reason I ask is,i have a program called TASK MANAGER (It looks like XPs task manager) in 'My Breifcase' and I would really like to have "Task Manager" open when …

Hi all, I created network with windows xp My comp has two network cards i give one external ip and to the second nic card (which i share among other users) i give 192.168.0.1 other users ip address begin from 192.168.0.2 and so on can you help me to know …

friends! I have acer aspire one, and using XP home edition OS. RAM is 1 GB dd R3 . now my problem is that I have very slow speed, Is there any body can tell me howz this happening with me. Or is there any way to increase my speed.

We have a situation where we need to save/backup a large group of e-mails to a folder on our server. We have 4-5 employees that have hundreds of emails concerning the same project and they would like to have them saved to one folder on the server and all of …

I have a customer who's dell dimension computer's hardrive failed. Obvious constant clicking. I replaced the hardrive and reinstalled the OS Windows XP Pro. Customer had the computer back only a week with the same issue a second time. I then rebuilt another newer Dell Dimension for the customer and …

Hi everyone, I am trying to fix a pc for a friend. He has a HP Pavillion with a SATA HD (1) and SATA Lightscribe DVD Writer (2). System is set to Boot from DVD first then HD. The HD is the Primary Master and the DVD is the Primary …

Sometimes when you want to watch a DVD video but not on DVD player, all you need is a DVD converter to help you to rip it to another portable video players like ipod, iphone touch, etc. Also if your friend borrowed your DVD and you may like to watch …

Long story as short as possible. The Network connections Icons are gone... there are NONE. Our client bought the pc in so we can rebuild it into a new box mobo and cpu. We made backups before starting anything. Everything was sucessful. We then discovered that there were no network …

I just change my computer power supply recently. Since than it keep restarting everytime I switch on. I know I can reformat the whole hard disk and start all over again. But I hate doing that since it take quite sometime to install all the software again. So can I …

Hi, I have a COMPAQ Presario v6700 laptop with Core2Due processor 1.8GHz, 2GB RAM, and Windows Vista Ultimate SP1. My problem is all the time I see the processor cycles gage is full for nothing, I tried to look for any frenzy process that eats all processor clock cycles like …

Hi What are these terms? What is the difference? I am kind of new to servers but I understand what is a server, client, and transfer protocols like ftp, sftp, vpn etc. I have also created server using filezilla and transferred files using it, and I unsuccessfully tried creating sftp …

I'm new to the group and i gotta say that this is a very kewl concept. Anyway on to my problem. Sorry if this has been posted i wasnt able to find it anywhere. I have a laptop with a wireless connection. Connects through a linksys wrt54gs with a modified …

i have corrupted my computer, and unfortunately i had to reinstall windows from a disc given to me by HP. afterwards, i tried to reinstall the programs, a bit fast, and then I noticed after boot the logon screen breaks up for a few seconds. And for some reason, i …

hey guys, im new here and this is my first question. my pc runs a bit slow and im sick of trying all those system care products that people claim to work. ive tried so many but it just seems worthless. i know my best bet is to reinstall windows …

Hi, I have a batch that has 1 input parameter. Parameter value can be like this: Test.xls I want to change the text inside this parameter, so that it changes from Test.xls to Test.ppt or whatever file extension. Does anyone know how to change the last 3 chars in a …

I am running a Dell Inspiron 9400 with 2.5GB RAM. The machine use to boot very fast until recently. Now when it boots it gets to the point of loading the desktop image and then stops for about 25 seconds, then you hear the short burst of "Windows" music and …

When I first start up my computer, it goes to the safe-mode screen automatically. After this, my cursor will not move within the screen to get to the safe-mode to select it. Therefore, since the cursor sticks - windows counts down and then it recycles and does the same thing …

Hi All, I just run a clean install on three of my dx2300 MT and the problem am facing is i can log on as administrator without any problem but cant log on using user or guest account. The computers are running on XP Pro SP3 and joined to a …

hi guys, i need ur help..my computer is experiencing a dll error everytime i boot my computer and appear as "BHO.dll" it says like i deleted something and need to reinstall a particular file..can anybody suggest and help me??? thank u very much!!

I am working on a Wincor ATM model [B]2150xe[/B]. The OS of the Wincor is NT 4.0 and Procash NDC is installed on it. Its connection to host was X.25, and Eicon C91 Card was installed on it. I made necessary modifications on it to change it to TCP/IP, but …

Hello everyone, hope I am posting in the right place. Yesterday evening my son was playing flash games on the pc. Logged off normally and today Window Vista automatically goes to temporary profile instead of going to our profiles. None of our files are present but can be locate on …

Need help!!! can somebody tell me where to get nec Lavie C Laptop driver for windows xp. thx in advance

I was wondering if anybody would know? I have an old computer with a bad hard drive and nothing else wrong. I also have an xbox with a cd drive problem but a good hard drive. Is it possible to format the drive and use it?

Hello everybody. I wanted to ask what does exactly Win7 do with their so called xp mode. As i have seen from various clips, this "mode" is actually just a virtual machine that runs win XP. Am i right? If the answer is yes then how come not all processor …

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ive got hung up problem, my mother board is sata 300, also hard drive, i can run some of the program like surfing, its just hung up, when i open some application/network...., i tried cleaning up the processor, vedio card but same result.....,,, what could be the problem?

Now that I have Win7 set up the way I want it, is it possible to create an image on a bootable DVD so that if (and when) my computer crashes I can just reinstall everything from that image? I seem to recall something like that was done on my …

I haven't wanted to ask anyone this for fear of sounding stupid. I have a PC running an AMD processor and a geforce video card. It's hard to find mobos with that combination. Most mobos that I like have an AM3 socket but an ATI Radeon video chipset. I don't …

I'm having some trouble installing RH 9.0 using Vmware 4.0 on my laptop. I currently have my hdd partitioned into C and D drive (factory settings). I've decided to install RH 9.0 using vmaware 4.0 and RH's installation wizard is prompting me to partition. It's telling me that everything will …

have read some on other users experiencing a crash when Right-clicking on items, which I am experiencing. I have done some work to try to narrow down the problem but no luck thus far. What I have discovered symptom-wise, when the crash occurs, dr.watson has an error and needs to …

With the hope of sorting things out, I've reinstall the Windows XP Professional in which I'd formatted the hard-drive as well, but am still getting the following error messsages, in the blue background, as follows: 1. UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME Part of the entire message saying: Disable BIOS memory options such as cashing/shadowing....... …

hI I'm getting a persistent Blue Screen of Death which seems to kick in after the computer has been left idle for a while and the CPU starts racing and I get a blue screen. It first happened after I was watching a film off a friend's USB stick. This …

Help! I recently installed win xp spack 2 on my Toshiba L10. The problem is after completion I realized I've lost my audio output.

"windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt: <windows root>/system32/hal.dll. Please re-install a copy of the above file." i have pentium 4 processor os-windows xp professional i hav tried with d xp cd......wen i kept it n den rebooted d above same message came.

I performed a repair operation to my( XP professional SP2) system, two things occured ; !\ I lost internet explorer 8, failed to reinstal it ! ? 2\I failed completely to instal any antivirus . I used Google Chrome , opera to connect to the web .Can any body help …

I need some advantages and disadvantages of windows operating system. Please do no compare to Mac. Just basic facts. Any information will be extremely helpful. Thank You!

HELP PLEASE!! I got 2 partitions C and D. C: is my main drive. Both have OS installed. A week ago, C: is not starting up. Since then, I'm using D:. When I was trying to retrieve a file stored in C:, a message appeared saying C is not formatted …

pls help me to reformat my comp. after entering the set up by pressing Del i dont know to do next? pls help

I have a Sony Vaio Laptop that I purchased about 1year ago. It worked great for about 6 months or so. I purchased a new laptop around that time and haven't touched it since. I would like to sell it now and when I went in to test it and …

I switched on my computer and then it said windows loading after that a blue screen came up with the following stop error STOP ERROR OX00000024 (OX001902FE,OXF79FF958,OXF79FF654,OXF76EEOA7) ZSRHFUJHAPPK7.SYS ADDRESS F77AEQA7 BASE AT F77A4OOO DATE STAMP 4ADEAFE6 I think it refers to hardware that was installed but i cant remember doing …

i 'm sure here is n't the right place for asking this question,but i couldn't guess where to write this question. please forgive me. i have recently update my Firefox. i was clicking any option of it and unwanted browsing some sites in "private Browsing" mode in new firefox.after a …

Hi guys out there, Today when i came home, i found out the pc is not starting. the power goes on, all fans work, cd drive works, but monitor keeps blinking and no display, I've changed monitor, but no help my machine is an acer 2.4 gh inter core 2, …

I can browse the net but when I will download a software there is an error. "The Internet Explorer cannot display web paged...What you can try: Diagnose System problem...more information" I tried to diagnose it and the system do not see any problem. SSL and TLS protocols are enabled. What …

How can you get Hardware that only has drivers in 32-bit to run in a x64 bit Windows environment ? I'd prefer not to dual boot as well as I'm not keen on running a virtual Windows x32. Anyone have any suggestions ?

Microsoft on Tuesday is set to release six security updates, three of which it has deemed critical and apply only to versions of Windows other than Windows 7. Microsoft released advance notice of its [url=http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS09-nov.mspx]Security Bulletin for November[/url], on Nov. 5. The bulletin itself will be released on Tuesday along …

Hello friends I am very thankfull to jbennet & MrV for there help & guidence....finally i got my work done.... now i have one question....now in my network there are Win server 2003 & linux server ok......3 to 4 diskles PC when client start...assume that both the servers are on....and …

i am using windows 7 with xp mode , i am having a problem with accessing to the internet using Windows 7 that is why i downloaded xp mode for windows7, i can access to the internet without any problem using xp mode and my hardware huawei wireless can work …

just so i could use all the RAM i bought i upgraded to win xp 64bit about six months ago and i haven't used IE 64 bit or tried to until about two weeks ago? whats the difference between the two and is it worth them writing code for it? …