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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 …

Hi, I have a sony vaio laptop sz120p with windows xp. I've been having a lot of problems with it but have been resistant to reset my computer, delete everything and start fresh (since I have so much stuff in it). My current issue is the windows explorer won't start. …

My Dell Netbook is not recognizing the wireless adapter. I want to reinstall XP to verify if this is a hardware or software issue but I don't know how. I have the Reinstallation CD I got with it, but there is no CD drive! How am I supposed to use …

helloooooooooooo ............. Compaq Presario v 4.90.3000 5wv280 MS W ME 128 mb of ram 32 bit Amd Athlon (tm) 900 mhz processor 30 gb harddrive ie 6 sp1 and internet tools i recently got this pc. i went to play games at pogo and i got everything to work but …

Some games have started not loading there is no error message. It effects games that i have freshly installed as well as games that have been left on my system unused for some time. it does not do this to all games and there is no problems in the install …

hi, i have bought from ebay a pc,xp pro, it works fine but no OME disc, any help would be greatfuly recieved, george

Hello everybody..!! I want to connect Local Area Network(or Internet:I have Cable internet) manually after starting( or re-starting) my computer rather than windows automatically connects. Is it possible to do this..?

Hi all, I have a computer that went down and i cannot load windows but i can browse the files in the hd using an enclosure, i would like to reinstall windows but i need to safe the quickbook data so i can upload that back. i do not have …

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Hi, my computer works fine in all safe modes of xp sp3 but whenever i try to run it normally it will crash, the time it takes normally varies from a few seconds to 5 minutes, what is wrong and how can i fix it?

Hey I was wondering since my computer can only have 2GB at the max and I have 2 slots for RAM. Would I be able to have 1GB in slot and 512MB in the other slot? Or would I have to have 1GB in each slot for my computer to …

I am getting a message that states that "phoquxa.dll" is not a valid windows image and application. How do I get rid of this error? Thanks.

Hi, We have a client who is looking to upgrade to a new Windows Server 2008 server. They currently run a Windows Server 2003 machine. We're trying to setup a virtual environment in order to do a practice migration from Windows Server 2003 OEM to Windows Server 2008. When we …

hi frnds, I connect to the internet through a shared connection in my hostel lan.The problem i am facing is dat when others try to copy the data i have shared in the lan my whole system starts hanging. Can anybody suggest someway to reduce others using my resources i …

Afternoon to you all. I've got an annoying glitch which i can't get rid of. I'm running Vista home premium on an Acer laptop, with an ATI Radeon HD 3470 graphics card, but the computer says that i'm using the wrong driver, and i'm getting a white screen flicker which …

Recently, I noticed in the Windows Task Manager that a spurious svchost.exe appears and always uses about 50% of the CPU resources. I 'End the process', but it will appear later. If I don't initiate a new activity the greedy svchost does not appear. One thing for sure that will …

Hello all, I recently had someone send me an excel file that was made with Excel 2007. I have 2003 Excel and so I could not open. I went to Microsoft support and downloaded the file that did eventually open the file. However, all my other documents I created will …

I want to know that which OS in the world have the most beautiful cursors, even I don't the name of all OS's but if you know any please let me know and if also have the cursors pack send me or paste the link here. Right now I am …

Hi after my computer boots it gets stuck on a black screen with a mouse cursor in the middle. I have been researching and reading for a solution but have not found one that works for me. I can't boot into safe mode or even safe mode with command prompt …

Dear forum, About two weeks ago Microsoft released a KB update for developers, updating the runtime assemblies (from 8.0.50727.762 to 8.0.50727.4053). That caused everything we built in the last few days to require the new libraries, failing run if they did not exist. This caused a mess and confusion, since …

Hi, If you know about the any good open source download manager for windows xp, so please let me know. Thanks

Using Norton utilities norton detected a file missing in windows\system32, how do you recover lost files in windows XP? what command do you execute to reinstall system files?

I am currently on a Gateway laptop because I cannot boot my other computer. The problematic system is running WIN XP w/SP3. I somehow picked up a virus called Win32.virut.ce. As I was trying to extract it by running Norton Internet Security's Anti-Virus, Spy-bot Search & Destroy, MalwareBytes and Panda …

Dell Inspiron 6400 starts to load Windows XP for a few seconds then goes to blue screen unmountable_boot_volume. Cannot even enter Safe Mode. Any Suggestions?

Hi everyone! Well, I found out that there is a way to remotely shutdown a computer on a workgroup using the command prompt. I've been putting in the following sequence: "shutdown.exe -s -m \\[I]computername[/I]" like it says to remotely shutdown a computer. Well, when i hit enter, it seems like …

My Toshiba Satellite laptop has a broken screen, but is being used hooked to a monitor. It opens only in safe mode, however. Sound issues from the laptop itself when logging on to Windows Vista, but no sound is available when on internet. Also, the dvd player seems to be …

Can not open any windows pragram, also ie 8 display blank page :( plz help.

Basically while I was away some malware infected my computer. My girlfriend was unable to enter gmail.com and there were various popups advertising 'Windows Security Suite'. Using Malwarebytes I was able to get rid of the Malware and am 100% sure that my computer is not infected anymore - pop …

Hi, I reinstalled windows xp on my computer but video controller(VGA compatible) and audio device on high definition audio bus have big yellow question marks next to them. The computer is an ei system e205a. pls does anybody know where i can find both drivers. Thank you in advance for …

Hello Guys, I badly need assistance with a problem am facing with my HP laptop. I jst acquired a new laptop but the problem is that its Vista is in polish which requires me to re-install the OS. I want to downgrade to XP but it crashes whenever i try …

Hey all, I bought a fairly decent laptop recently (2 months~) and because i recently finished school i started using it for recreation like playing games and watching movies etc. The problem is that whenever i do any of these the laptop will freeze completely after 5 or so minutes …

This is my first laptop, came with Vista preinstalled. There is no recovery disc. I tried shutting down normally earlier, and it got stuck. I was in a hurry to leave the house, so I took the battery out, so that it would shut off. I replaced the battery (same …

HI Can anyone tell me please How to Repair My Windows Xp Files. Thanks.

I am using FF to logon. I have to try multiple times to get on DSL. I need to find out the proper settings, DNS, etc. From reading some of the posts here I have learned to use the CMD prompt to display the settings I have so I can …

I have been experiencing an error known as "VER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL" and according to the reboot error report, the following is involved: C:\DOCUME~1\MICHAE~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\WER633e.dir00\Mini081409-01.dmp and C:\DOCUME~1\MICHAE~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\WER633e.dir00\sysdata.xml. Under my Event Viewer, I noticed an error stating that the boot-start or system-start driver known as Beep failed to load. I uninstalled Beep, but I couldn't …

Hi and I have been searching for a ssh program with a graphical interface purely to upload and download files from the root of the server without ftp. Does anybody suggest any programs for this job? Windows XP Pro is my Operating System and Ubuntu versions are also welcome.

After a recent Senior Moment, I re-installed XP and have since encountered countless problems. The latest being that I have to press F11 on start-up and arrow down to HDD. How can I prevent this please. Also, when I go on to "Stand-by" mode everything shuts down but on restart …

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A lightning strike fried my mother boad and I moved the hard drive to another machine about the same vintage. Yea it's kind of old. I was running 98se but now it won't boot to windows but I can access the hard drive. Problem is I am trying to backup …

I inherited a Gateway 825GM Media Center Edition. It had Windows XP Pro installed from Gateway before that had become hopelessly corrupted. After reformatting and installing a new copy of the XP Pro, any further installations of software restarted numerous problems of such varying degrees it was incredible. Sent it …

i want to create a restore point in vista and also tell how to enable it through group policy where i will get the group policy option

Hi Can anyone tell me please From where I can get Updates Of Windows 2000. Thanks.

When I go to remove a program I receive this message, could not open INSTALL LOG program. Need help in how to proceed. Thanks in advance

i am planning to upgrade my windows sp2 to sp3 . But i already have fedora installed (dual OS ). will my upgrade from sp2 to sp3 crash my fedora ?