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I have windows messenger 4.7 with XP. I want to upgrade it. I have downloaded 7.5, and higher from sites, but not working. It says this version not compatable need higher ones. I need to video chat can't do that with 4.7. No microsoft official website is opening in my …

I had a virus and had to reinstall xp. Now I tried to install my dell 720 printer.....can see the message that says new hardware installed, but also seeing a message that says unable to recognize printer. Can someone direct me.....the printer icon in the printer/fax location is not showing …

Hello, I have been having problems on Outlook, it is a strange problem. Everytime i get a new message, outlook crashes, it stops responding and then it closes. I have tried to run the fixmapi.exe but it is unsuccessful. I also tried Uninstalling Microsoft Office 2007 and reinstalling it, but …

Morning, I have 2 IDE HD's and 1 SATA HD. The SATA is my primary XP install and I had one of my IDE HD's as a Secondary XP Install and is used for work purpose. Everything was working fine until one day I was unable to boot to my …

JAVA does NOT post any way to fix this error 1101 for VISTA on the JAVA website. When I try to install the Java 6.0 update 7 on my Hewlett Packard computer with Windows Vista Home Premium and I repeatedly get the same error 1101. Java only posts the fix …

When I copy information from excel and do a paste special picture (enhanced metafile) all of the gridlines from excel are being pasted as well. This problem just started in July and is creating terrible headaches for us. Does anyone know how to fix this?

One of my clients went out and bought a cheap HP at Costco last spring which unfortunately has Vista Home Premium on it. It originally connect to the office network which is actually a domain without a problem. That is it couldn't log on the domain, but it was able …

Ok, so I had a dual boot going for a while, Vista Home Premium and the RC for Win7. Without thinkin bout it I just whiped off the Win7 partition with EASEAUS partition manager. Well now every time I turn on my laptop it still displays Win7 as an option, …

m getting this automatic refresh in xp pro while scrolling down a folder,it automatically goes to top of the page after 50-60 seconds.which is really annoying and other research on goggle dont help much.,can any1 give me sum solution to this problem

I have a pricing program which is written in Basic. It has worked on several computers with SP Pro. I purchased two new computers with SP Pro but these computers will not run my pricing program written in Basic. Any Ideas??

Hello guys! My Sony PCG-K45 laptop needs to have a full restoring as in the time it was new from the factory. I just dont know how to do it! Please help me! Another Issue is the Windows Validation! I bought this Laptop about a year ago on ebay and …

Hi everyone, I did a clean install of windows xp pro and now no sound. I have an Asus p5p800-vm motherboard and American Megatrenda bios 0502 5/26/2006. I have the video and audio drivers installed but it says no audio device installed. Also I can't load some video games. I …

I am having a proble m similer to [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread109379.html"]this one[/URL] I am running XP SP3 with Trend Micro Internet Security Pro 2008 My Hijack This log: Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 7:26:40 PM, on 8/22/2009 Platform: Windows XP SP3 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v8.00 (8.00.6001.18702) …

Ok. my problem is that for a few month i had no monitor i just bought one connected it plugged in. i turn on my computer and the regular boot up starts up until the point where the log in screen and all i see is a blank screen(when i …

My mom's computer running Windows XP randomly and sporadically "ALT-TABS" (goes to another window) without any reason. For example, she will be typing an email in Google Chrome and it will switch as she is typing (even if she is not typing) to MS Word or Excel (whatever she has …

I've been working around computers for what seems like ages now..and I've never seen this kind'a problem before: the other night I shut off my computer and called it a night, the next morning I turned it on, only to find out that '[B]almost[/B]' everything had been restored to factory …

We recently upgraded to Windows Server 2003 and IIS 6. And we have one web application that works fine except for a certain feature within it. It gives "Disk or network error" when you click on a button that opens a popup form window and "Network path not found" when …

Hi everyone! This is my first post so I'm sorry if I have placed it in the wrong place. I hope I will get a better response than I have recieved from HP customer support. Well heres the problem: I have a Hp Laptop DV9000 that I purchased abut 2 …

i have a dell Latitude D600 laptop i cant go on the internet or use the internal NIC card and its really bugging me Even Dell Quick set Application cant turn ON and OFF the NIC i go to power management and it says that the card is off, but …

When trying to save either an Excel or Word file in Vista to a networked drive, get the error message: 'word.docx cannot be found. Check your spelling or try a different path.' Can save this to the desktop and then use 'My Computer' to copy it to the networked drive …

after i turn on my computer, and it starts up and then freezes. it has given me a stop error code ox0000000A. i have also ran a memory diagnostic tool and hard drive diagnostic tool, both passed.

Ok, I need help please....here's the rundown. I have a laptop running vista. I became infected with "windows security suite" that I have found out is a spyware/virus. It bogged my computer down really bad, internet explorer and all the other functions would try and run, then just lock up …

My laptop, Acer Aspire 5100-3949 cannot start, when I tried again, it suggest me to Launch start recovery, then I followed the instruction and tried to load the drive from the website to do system recovery,it still not work. I tried to start in the safe mode, did not work. …

I just installed Windows 7 Ultimate RTM on my system and had a peculiar experience. I was running Windows 7 Ultimate RC and decided to blow it for the RTM. My first hard drive is 250 Gigs with one primary partition (40 Gigs) and the remainder in the second partition. …

Hi, I have two questions (Win XP): 1) I accidentally set a file's extension to open with the option "Always open with this app", or whatever the text is. Anyway, you can change it in the file's property dialog, but you cannot remove it. I want to remove it so …

Does anyone know of a software to make slide shows simpler than Powerpoint and Memories on TV? With the first one I can't insert music because it's too complicated and it only accepts MP3s and Wave files (too big). The latter has also become too complex. I'm following all the …

Has anyone ever heard of a virus or spyware that would cause identical problems on 2 different machines at the same time? I have recieved a call about a XP based machine not being able to connect to the internet. At the same time I was told their laptop (Vista) …

Hi, Problem: black monitor. No visibility. MSI manufactured motherboard for Medion pc, onboard video. 1) swapped in a known working monitor. No result. 2) put known working video card in a pci slot hoping compute would bypass the onboard vid. No result. 3) tested power supply voltages at the mainboard …

Hey guys whats up? I myself am pretty good with all this and actually know what i am doing here but... Having an issue that is bugging the crap out of me. I can not figure it out for the life of me. (either im to frustrated, or missing something …

when my computer turn on a pop up comes up and says.. C:\windows\system32\config\systemprofile\desktop is not accessible access is denied i tried system restore but i dont have a restore date.. so somebody help me

I am having a problem on my Dell XPS 400 desktop with getting my wireless to work for me. I have downloaded and installed the network driver from [url]http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/driverslist.aspx?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs&ServiceTag=&SystemID=XPS/DIMENSION%20400/9150&os=WLH&osl=EN[/url] but I still can't get it to work and I'm not able to have my router in the same room as …

I restored my boot.ini file by opening windows pss folder and copying boot.ini to drive C. I renamed file and rebooted and everything went well except the boot.ini file disappeared. I retraced my steps and tried again. I rebooted with no problems except the boot.ini file disappears, vanishes. Temporarily I …

I have a 250 gb hdd which had two partitions, a primary partition containing 50 gb of space where my OS (win Xp-sp2) installed and an extended partitions containing two three logical drives. When the hdd was partitioned, the name of the drives were C, E, F, G respectively. And …

I've just bought a new laptop for my wife and the wireless connection is not good and keeps failing even the same room as the router, so she spends her time connected to the router by the LAN cable which is unsatisfactory. I'm in the next room through a thick …

Please if I have 2 Opering Systems running on a laptop (i.e Windows XP and Windows 2003) and I intend to remove/uninstall Windows 2003 from the system. Could you help me with the procedure. I remember doing it one time but forget how now Remember that it will not appear …

can someone help, how do i make the McAfee On-Access Scanner running/Enabled becoz it the play button is on default gray/disabled.

Is there anyplace to get fdisk and format that is on cd,and will work? i want to redo a dell laptop that has no floppy!.No place to hook 1 up. can the programs be used on cd?. Thanks. CableRat.

Hi. I had spyware and viruses but I got rid of them. Right now I'm using safe mode with networking in order to access the internet. The reason being is, no matter what I do, my computer freezes up when I load it normally. I don't understand what's happening and …

I went to start up my computer today, and then suddenly LSASS.exe came up with a error "Insufficient resources exist to complete api" It then froze my mouse, and forced me to reboot. I tried Safe Mode, came up with a bluescreen and a fatal error, I tried last known …

My friend has a Computer which has WinServer 2003 R2 installed in it. When he try to install Win2000 on this machine, he is not able to. When he boots the computer in WinServer 2003 ,he inserts the Win2000 Bootable CD into the CD-ROM and and tries to run the …

Hey ya'll sorry if this is a noobish question but I just downloaded a game which requires 1.8Ghz and 512MB RAM. I only have 1.3GHz and 384MB RAM. My question is, what happens if I install and play this game? How will it affect my computer? Does this destroy my …

Hello. I'm joining the forum to seek help for my Gateway laptop. My problem is all I'm getting is a black screen -after bootup and logging on. Safe mode works fine and I've tried a system restore with no luck. Anyway, I hope this forum will help me with a …

Hi, I was wondering if it was possible to change an exe settings through dos? For example, instead of right clicking and going to settings to change the settings I would like to right a bat file to do that.

well, blue screen sucks.. i just dont know why sometimes when im starting to open my laptop, blue screen appears..for no reason... may be there is but i really dont know why or what is it. i've searched a lot of possible reasons for this and these are hardware drivers …

Hey I currently have Ubuntu installed on one of my PC's, and it's the only operating system on the PC, and was wondering how do I take off Ubuntu and install Windows XP to it? Whenever I try to install Windows XP it gives me some error that it can't …

Hello people :-) I'm having a problem here. And I'm hoping someone can help me. I have downloaded Windows 7 on my PC and it works fine but I need a driver so that my internet can work. I have downloaded Driver Detective to find out what driver I need …

Hi, We currently use lame.exe command line to do .wav to .mp3 conversion. Lame is called by another program and most often, the conversion just works. Except for .wav files recorded in ADPCM format. Does anyone know if there is a command line converter that will throw up an error …

Sorry if i am asking a question that might be already treated on this forum. Here is the situation: I have an workgroup about 5-6 computers (Win XP Pro) and one printer. All the computers are conected to a network that has internet access. The printer is an HP MFC …

Can anyone tell me why appointments in outlook exchange 2003 would have the right time when I send them, but the receiver's time is one hour behind. We are both in the same building.

Ok I have had a Dell monitor for about 2 or 3 years now, and when it's turned on, I guess about anywhere from 5-30 minutes after it's turned on it will start like flickering and looks like the light in it is about to burn out or turn off …