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Sound ok after boot but after PC runs for a while, the audio vanishes and sound control panel says No Audio Device. I disabled the on-board audio chip and installed an audio card. Same behavior. Tom Dowling

Heloo sir/mam... Well my name is kiran... i need ur help... I need to block the running of a text file ( .txt) from cmd.. any method to achieve dat?? ie, through cmd whn someone tries to run a text file or an .exe file cmd shud not allow dat.. …

Hey Well I never really had any problems with windows update before. I have Windows Vista Home Premium running on my computer. It started to stop working when I did a System Restore. Well it will say it is downloading updates, and it will always remain at 0%. There's no …

I have been experiencing some blue screens over the past few weeks. This is the most recent one i got. STOP:0x000000F7 Ntfs.sys-Address 880421322 based at 88005000 Datestamp 47918a98 Any help regarding the matter will be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

hi everyone my gateway laptop crashes whenever i copy a file. it has issues and only opens in safe mode - it stops in the middle of booting in normal mode. i have about 20gb worth of unbacked files there, most of that pictures, and want to get them off …

I am using a Belkin 7230 wireless router and I have Vista on my laptop. I can only connect with local only access. I have tried uninstalling, re-installing, even got a replacement router on the chance it was a problem with the router. I have excellent signal, I just can't …

So I know a ridiculously large amount of people complain about their old computers being sluggish and slow, but my computer is only 3 weeks out of the box (a back-to-school sort of deal) and I'm confused. I've been running PowerDefragmenter (about 5 times faster than Windows Defragmenter) and I …

Hello. My sister is having a problem with her laptop. When she turns her computer on, there's a noise at the left side of the laptop. She thinks its the fan. It makes a noise for like 10 seconds and stops then makes noise again. Even if she hibernates her …

If you have a PC shared with your friends, your brother or your cousin; your private files, videos and images are always at risk of getting seen by them. An easy way to protect your file from others is to make them “super hidden”.Super hidden files/ folders become system files …

Hello All, I am working thru an issue that a very large number of fellow computer users are working now (according to all the blogs). That being, when you upgrade your hard drive on a XP machine you get the “disk read Error” message. In my case I have completed …

I have a Averatec 2370 Windows XP laptop and I want to restore it to factory settings so I can give it to my cousin who doesn't havea computer. I backed up all my important files and tried to find how to do it but so far no luck. Any …

Hi everyone. I'm new here and so desperate for help! I found some advice on this forum that seemed to work for people so thought this would be the best place to go! :) I've just discovered the "This device cannot start. (Code 10)" on my cd/dvd drive and have …

Is there something intrinsically wrong with OE 8? Ever since installing it I have had trouble. Half the time it wont load the Home page although I can get it via Favourites. Frequently I get the Send Message to Microsoft It usually then reloads the page by itself. I would …

The inf file type was associated with notepad so I deleted it and when I edit the file type and click OK and try to edit it again it comes up blank. When I close folder options and reopen it INF is gone. Ideas?

I was working on a laptop and shut it down, later I powered it up and the lights came on but the screen remains blank. Doesn't even boot POST. I've narrowed it down to either the Hdd or the memory that's causing this, but no way to know for sure …

First of all let me give you some info on what trying to do, I have a toshiba laptop with vista and I just got another computer that has xp on it, I would like to turn the xp into a slave. (storage) | (Although that looks less and less …

I have an emachines desktop. I am getting this blue screen and I cannot boot up windows at all. The blue screen says to disable or uninstall any anti-virus, disk defragmentation or backup utilities. Check your hard drive configuration and check for any updated drivers. Run CHKDSK /F to check …

hi helper, my XP PC has 1 GB ram, but slowed down. i removed startup programs, i'm opening ram.vbs file on desktop often, there is no virus in pc, antivirus is updated, emptied temp and recycle bin, removed some useless services ......did everything i can do but its still slow.....no …

[COLOR="Red"]Can any one help me debug this?vista system crashing and hear is the mini dump txt.... dell inspiron 531..warranty finished :(:'( [/COLOR] Opened log file 'c:/debuglog.txt' 1: kd> .sympath srv*c:/symbols*[url]http://msdl.microsoft.com/download/symbols[/url] Symbol search path is: srv*c:/symbols*[url]http://msdl.microsoft.com/download/symbols[/url] 1: kd> .reload;!analyze -v;r;kv;lmnt;logclose;q Loading Kernel Symbols ............................................................... ................................................................ ................. Loading User Symbols Loading unloaded …

So I've read many articles on how Vista's new desktop manager can put unnecessary stress on your graphics card, and decided to ask: is there a lightweight (read: better than Aero but easier on the graphics card) visual style for Vista? The ones I use seem to degrade performance by …

My G/F laptop starts up to a black screen with the letter j followed by a blinking underscore, it was working ok ,she did a restart a couple of days ago and that's all it does now. operating system is windows xp. any advice would be appreciated Cheers Lance

Hi, My PC crashed today. A blue screen appeared and said something about a serious error. I copied down the code at the bottom it was: STOP: 0x0000008E (0xC0000005, 0xBF951EE9, 0xF3500C00, 0x00000000) win32k.sys address BF951EE9 base at BF800000 Datestamp: 45f013f6 When I rebooted the computer said it had just recovered …

What happened to my control panel? When i opened it up, the icons will display but when I click ,for example user accounts, this message will appear [Windows cannot find 'C:WINDOWS\system32\rundll32.exe'. Make sure you type the name correctly, and then try again. To search for a file, click the Start …

[font=Times New Roman][size=3]I am having difficulty accessing some websites on the INTERNET. I can reach some websites and receive e-mail in Outlook. I occasionally receive the

Hey, my friend is having issues with her laptop. She can't use skype and listen to music or watch videos online at the same time. When she's on skype and opens itunes, it simply doesn't let her click play. If she's watching a video online and tries to use a …

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I used the boot hiren disk to partition the hark disk. At that time I reduce the capacity of system disk (C) and raise the others. But in fact, all the programs or softwares that will be installed will be installed in disk C so now I want to resize …

Dell Inspiron 600m (Pentium 1.6 Ghz, 512 MB RAM, 60GB Hard Disk (50% free), Windows XP) Once I start using internet (dial up), CPU usage reaches 100%. According to Windows task manager, primary users of memory and cpu are opera.exe (firefox and IE as well if I use them), Mcshield.exe, …

I need a software that will completely clean my computer, as in all. Thank you for those who will reply. I will really appreciate it.

I downloaded fireffox 3 it will not work it says ff works best with ie 7 i have 7 but ff will not let me on line. I have installed and uninstalled fire fox many times to no avail.

I routinely work with large numbers of open documents (such as web pages, word docs etc) and it can be very difficult to remember exactly what is open and to move efficiently between them. The only way I know to see what is open is the Windows Taskbar (which doesn't …

Before 2 days i formated my PC and i saved my important files in CD , (the names of files where with green color) , now when i try to copy them to hard disk or to open them there is an error : " You need permissions to perform …

Years ago [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_medium_is_the_message"]Marshall McLuhan[/URL] uttered the famous phrase, "The medium is the message." He said this long before the World Wide Web. If he were alive today, he might have said something else: "He who controls the distribution method, controls the money." When you look at the Web's influence on …

If you've used Facebook for more than, oh, five minutes, you've seen a Facebook quiz. "What Greek dance are you?" "Which NFL coach are you?" "Which Diplomacy country should you play?" and so on. (I forget every quiz I see, and I'm up to more than 250 by now.) But …

It's always fun to stand and watch as two big names slug it out, and they don't come much bigger than Microsoft. Sophos, it has to be said, is no small fry either when it comes to the world of IT Security. So when a Sophos [URL="http://www.sophos.com/blogs/gc/g/2009/07/17/guest-blog-xp-mode-demonstrating-security-microsofts-priority/"]blog posting[/URL] from it's …

I'm having a rather traumatic experience with certain [URL="http://www.microsoft.com"]Microsoft[/URL] products lately. My problem is that I'm trying to "get to know" Microsoft's Hyper-V for my virtualization column over at [URL="http://www.linux-mag.com"]Linux Magazine[/URL]. The problem is, that to manage a true Hyper-V system remotely, you must have a Windows Vista or Windows …

[URL="http://www.google.com"]Google[/URL] has confirmed that it is working on an operating system called [URL="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/introducing-google-chrome-os.html"]Chrome[/URL]. It will be a rival to [URL="http://www.microsoft.com"]Microsoft[/URL] Windows, a zillion flavours of [URL="http://www.distrowatch.com"]Linux[/URL], the [URL="http://www.apple.com/macosx/"]Apple[/URL] operating system and any other minority systems of which you might be aware. A lot has been said across the web about …

I am probably showing my age here, but I can recall when relationships started as a result of face to face meetings. If those relationships came to an end, they ended the same way as a rule. OK, a few cowardly types might have resorted to a 'Dear John' letter …

Ah, Microsoft, that crazy company from Redmond, WA is at again. This time they want to rename the Netbook unilaterally to the...drum roll please..."low cost small notebook PC." As first reported in the [URL="http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20090602PD221.html"]Digitimes[/URL] last week, Microsoft decided on their own that the name was not appropriate and they were …

Isn't it amazing just how attached so many people are to Windows XP given that it is relatively old and [URL="http://www.itwire.com/content/view/25484/53/"]relatively insecure[/URL]? I will even admit to having a netbook which runs very nicely on XP thank you very much, and have no plans to 'upgrade' this to Vista or …

"Opera Retakes Leadership from iPhone in Mobile Browser Market" reads the press release that arrived in my email this week. "Opera is the world's number one mobile browser, overtaking iPhone in May according to data from StatCounter Global Stats" it continues, which certainly peaked my interest. Not least because, according …

With the Windows 7 release code out there and [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry4283.html"]available for download[/URL] right now, and [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry4317.html"]free to use until 2010[/URL] for good measure, the last thing Microsoft will want to hear is bad news about potential security risks for users of the new flagship OS. But that's exactly what researchers …

Last week we heard about the first Android-powered Netbook (which I wrote about in [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry4290.html"]First Android Netbook Nothing to Write Home About[/URL]). Then on Friday, analyst [URL="http://gartenblog.net/"]Michael Gartenberg[/URL], who is VP of Strategy at Interpret, and who writes frequently about consumer technology sent the following Tweet: [I]Is Android's future in …

[URL="http://www.apple.com"]Apple[/URL] users are the most dedicated and fervent operating system fans with undying loyalty to their operating system, hardware and peripherals. And they're just as loyal now to the new Unix-based OS X as they were to the old proprietary Mac OS. However, when given the option of a Linux-based …

May 5th should prove to be an interesting day for tech fans, as it would appear that both the much hyped Windows 7 operating system and the HTC Magic Android mobile phone will be launched to the waiting public. Neowin [URL="http://www.neowin.net/news/main/09/04/18/windows-7-rc-coming-to-msdntechnet-soon-public-may-5"]spotted[/URL] that a Microsoft Partners [URL="https://partner.microsoft.com/US/40084742"]web page[/URL] (now replaced with …

Microsoft today released the first public beta of MS Exchange Server 2010 which forms part of the Microsoft unified communications family. As the first of many products (Microsoft Office 2010, Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010, Microsoft Visio 2010 and Microsoft Project 2010 all to follow) which will form part of the …

Google's [URL="http://www.androidlinux.com"]Android[/URL] operating system for cell phones, GPS devices and a host of other gadgets yet to be is the topic of much controversy and discussion. Why? [URL="http://www.microsoft.com/windowsembedded/en-us/products/windowsce/default.mspx"]Windows CE[/URL], Embedded Linux, Android...who cares? When you shop for a phone, or any modern gadget, do you ask which operating system it's …

I saw a netbook at a discount chain store the other day that I want. It's an [URL="http://us.acer.com/acer/product.do?link=oln24g.redirect&changedAlts=&kcond5e.c2att92=843&CRC=2745306029"]Acer Aspire One[/URL]. It has 1GB RAM and a 160GB Hard Drive for $296. Awesome deal. The problem, at least for me, is that it comes standard with some whittled down version of …

It's with more than idle curiosity that I've watched the recent [URL="http://news.cnet.com/microsofts-lauren-ad-follow-up-disses-mac-power/?tag=rtcol;pop"]Microsoft ads[/URL] that attack Apple, subtly suggesting that it's too expensive and that it's all glitz with no real computing power. There is so much wrong with these assertions that it's hard to know where to begin. There is …

Remember the [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry3821.html"]teenagers[/URL] getting charged with child pornography for taking revealing pictures of themselves with cell phones? They're fighting back. According to an [URL="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/26/us/26sextext.html?_r=1"]article[/URL] in the New York [I]Times[/I] by Sean Hamill, 17 students -- 13 girls and 4 boys -- accepted a plea bargain requiring them to attend 10-hour …