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I m continuously getting blue screen error whenever i start my laptop, i go through admin password, the moment i get the main interface, a blue death screen comes and take all away and restart my computer, it does for three or four times and then next time it relax …

Do all older machines work with Vista? How would I connect this since it had 2 PIN Type Connectors that SCREW IN..Tower does not???

Hi I am unable to see my siginal on my toolbar to say I am online . only when I unplug the wireless router but even then when I try to make changes it will not allow me to access any of the programing or software for the d-link so …

Hi, It seems that we need to upgrade our server.. there is no enough space on the o.s. disk (1gb left) same for the data disk (0,5 gb left) I just want to replace the old hdd with a new, faster and bigger hdd. Do i need 3 new hdd …

i have a new hp pavillion laptop intel centrino 2 core two duo 2.26 ghz 64 bit cpu. i have a cisco 32 bit vpn software which i cant run on this machine. how can i get it to run?

Some games have started not loading there is no error messege.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 of …

are the processors in my USB network adapter card useful at all? do they help out the CPU in any way or not really?

I'm running Wins XP with SP 3 on a 64 bit AMD machine. Out of the blue the desktop icons will not stay put (but do not disappear). At the same time I noticed this was occurring, the Quick Launch bar stopped appearing at start up requiring me to open …

This seems to be my problem and It appears to be an easy fix. However, I cannot enter in to safe mode on start up. My keyboard is not on/recognized until XP starts and then it's obviously too late. Any suggestions?

Ok, I'm not that PC savvy, but I need some help! Our PC crashed and I'm afraid we will loose all our data. Not sure if we got a virus or what? Here's what happened: My husband has created and maintained several small websites using FrontPage. He was updating a …

When closing down Windows XP Home I have the message that it is having problems closing down the above file/program ccSvcHst. I belive it is a Symantec program and I do have NIS 2009 installed. I'm just done a complete reinstall of everything so it is annoying to have this …

Hi guys, am running xp pro and having problems with pc going into sleep mode when i open microsoft office outlook, sometimes it will open but as soon as i try and open a folder it shuts down and the only thing i see is a small window saying attention …

Hi, while investigating a problem folder i enable the hidden files to be viewed in all folders a while back. well recently i had noticed these weird files that were exact duplicates of files in most of my folders except that they had a "._" prefix. i have been deleting …

I am using Windows XP SP3. My Norton subscription ran out. So I downloaded the free McAfee software from Comcast. I had to adjust the settings as I wasn't able to receive ANY email to MS Outlook. Annoying, but fine. Since then, I have not been able to perform any …

I need the most complex answer one can come up with for "how to restart the print spooler service". I have someone who thinks they know stuff asking how I cleared her stuck document, and want to make it look very complex. Thanks.

When I enter a sub domain address "http://group.company.com" the address is changed to "http://company.com" and the company site is displayed instead of being directed to the sub domain. Any help will be appreciated.

I am being drive absolutely crazy with Firefox 3.0.11. 99% of the time I click on a link or put a url into the address bar to search I get “Address Not Found – Firefox can’t find the server at………..URL” I the click ‘Try Again’ and the site comes up. …

Hi, I got an old laptop to play with. I noticed that C: shows only 17Gb. There in no other drive. it should be 30 or 40. When trying to enter my computer/manage/disl management, I got the above error. Please help, Izzy

I have Windows Vista I recently upgraded my Windows Internet Explorer. Now everytime I get on the internet this about blank keeps poping up and it says internet stopped working and then I get a dll error. I now have 24 about blank pages with erros in about 2 minutes. …

We run a VPN network, we just purchased new Acer/Aspire towers w/Vista installed. We can see our network server but cannot map a drive to a network address on the server. We have no problem doing this with our XP machines.

I have 1 windows 2003 server. I am looking for software that keeps track of any registry , files, and any other vital changes to my server. I have seen many enterprise products out there but are overkill for what I need. If anybody has any ideas, it will be …

I'm formatting and setting up the partitions in a 500GB harddrive. Its not really going to be partitioned but I believe I need to leave a certain amount for the logical part of the harddrive? what sizes are best to use in this case? i'll be running windows xp pro …

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My PC now has winXP Pro. If I also wanted to have win98 installed for whatever reason, would that work? How would I install win98 separate from XP? Then how do I use one op sys at a time>? Is this an unusual situation? Am I being unreasonable? Thanks

The one at sourceforge I am unable to download it.

I have a HP Presario desktop with Vista. I have replaced the hard drive and get the following message after completion on the software: PXE-E61 Media Tet failure check cables Any suggestions?

Hi All, Is there any Remote Desktop connection that is compatible with Microsoft's remote desktop? I won't Like VNC because it will force me to install in each PC I want to RLogin There is this but I guess it have no port for Windows [url]http://sourceforge.net/projects/rdesktop/[/url]

Have been hunting for a while, but keep coming up trumps. Am getting sick and tired of being limited to a 32-bit browser with the extra load it put on a x64 OS by one lousy plugin that's over-inserted itself into the market, all because the dev (Adobe) can't seem …

Hi, I am an XP user and trying to find out which service or process uses which file. Is there any cmd command or other way to learn this.

Hey i'm new to this site, idk if this is the right place to be posting this but considering I know people here I thought this is where I would start. For some reason recently while i'm using iexplorer to watch netflix movies after a while; meaning about an hour …

I’m trying to recover .jpg and mvi files that were deleted from my hard drive a while ago. They were created from about November 2006 to November 2007. They will be in sub-folders within a specific folder in the root drive. The hard drive is a Samsung SP1644N - capacity …

Has anyone ever heard tell of this. I recently formatted a pc (quad core, 3 GB ram, 500 GB HD) and every since when surfing the internet when you click on links the pages get smaller to the point that after 3 or 4 clicks it is so small you …

have recently installed a cable modem (Motorola from Cox.net). It supplemented my wireless DSL modem. I can now alternate between them. I ran speedtest.net and the new cable modem was from 15-17 times faster than the wireless DSL. My browsers work faster, and files download much faster. I also have …

Hopefully this is the right place seeing as I am running Windows Vista, rather than the Mac forums. Situation is that I have bought an iPhone 3GS and want to populate it with my existing iTunes library, on a Vista computer which syncs with my iPod. The existing iPod will …

Please i just formatted my system- HP pentium 4 and reload windows XP but i can't seem to see another system on the network now-don't have access to the network and can't browse the internet too (i am postin dis from a friend's PC if you wondering:)) but before i …

I need the below software, if anyone have it please send me the link. DRAGON NATURALLYSPEAKING 10 (LEGAL) THANK YOU

Hi all, I just bought a new Dell laptop, which came with vista home premium installed. The problem is that I want to install a second language and the OS refuses to do that. Can I roll back to XP easily? Thanks for your help

Hello All, I'm a newbie to the forum and it is a tremendous site. I have a HP Pavillion M8150N with a quad core 2.4, (2)320 drives, upgraded to 4gbram ... and ... its a great machine. I bought it 18 months ago and it fixed every problem I had …

Dell XPS 410/Vista Home Premium/2 GB RAM/BitDefender Internet Security 2009 I performed a clean boot and installed Service Pack 1. I didn't think there were any problems; then later in the day I got a Windows Security Alert that stated Windows Defender and Spyware Doctor were turned off. That's as …

What is the future for NTFS? Will Windows 7 be 32-bit, NTFS or 64-bit or all three?

I own a gateway lx6810 desktop. and it has crashed how do irestore it to factory default settings. ihave no acess to windows i have no backup disks how do i fix my problem?

Hey everyone, This is my first post on the site, just looking for some help! I have just bought a new Sony VGN-CS26G/R laptop with Windows Vista and SP1. When i start up the laptop, I can connect to my home internet network wirelessly, however, the internet connection (not the …

[ATTACH]10826[/ATTACH] Shouldn't the background of the button be changed to blue when i hover my cursor onto it? [ATTACH]10827[/ATTACH] When i am not hovering onto them, the background color of the button is white. Can this be fixed? What settings should I change?

Okay I'm running windows vista premium, 64bit, with a NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT video card. My monitor is a Generic PnP Monitor, LCD. Two days ago my sister brought it to my attention that my computer monitor was flickering. Not back and forth between black and fine, all the hookups …

ok, i have the vundo virus. when i click a webpage on google i either get redirected, or i get a page that says welcome to miva dll please enjoy your stay. i scanned my pc with trend micro and it found the files infected with vundo then quarantined them. …

What Files are the cookies and Internet history in? I am making a program that cleans your computer and i want to know what files they are in. I know it has it has to be in 'C:\Documents and Settings\Username\.....' in XP and 'C:\Users\Username.....' in Vista. Im really just worried …

Hi, I wonder if anyone can shed a little light on the problem I'm having. Came to start up the laptop this morning and was presented with a very strange display of lines and an attempt at the HP start up logo. The whole screen was a mess of lines …

Alright, I am running the Windows7 RC and i can't seem to get it to recognize my second SATA HDD. I have two WD Caviar Black drives, and the first one has no problem. The BIOS on the motehrboard, whcih is a Gigabyte EX58-UD3R recognizes both drives and the DVDRW, …

Every time I go to a directory, the view (tiles, icons, list etc etc) seems to be arbitrarily assigned. The problem gets even worse with plugin USB drives as it seems to descend into chaos. I keep doing "set all folders" to look like this, but does it remember - …

I recently installed Windows XP Pro (fresh installation). For about thre days my computer ran without any problems but I started receiving an error message like "[B]Generic Host for Win32 has encountered an error and needs to close... Send... Dont Send[/B]" Just after the error appears, when I try to …