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I have found that on computers running vista the iTunes Cover Flow has a very slow FPS. My friend's computer is running windows vista home premium and specs follows: 2.4GHz Intel Core2 Duo 2GB DDR2 Ram 256MB NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS And the Cover Flow is embarrassingly slow. My case …

I just wanted to share some knowledge with you all as it took me a bit of time to uncover on the web and is quite astounding. I was getting invalid boot.ini messages on my PC and after restoring and rebooting several times, it kept disappearing. Suspected Virus, Trojan or …

Hi Guys, My windows XP Pro system has 2 IDE (400gb OS Loaded & 80gb) and 2 Sata drives (2x500gb). Up until yesterday evening the system functioned properly, however when I tried to shut down, the system stalled doing nothing so I closed down using the power switch. I tried …

All I have a Windows 2003 Enterprise Server which is also my Terminal Server that will not allow me to install any apps. I had a issue with one of my apps and had to remove and now after rebooting it will not let me install this application back . …

Hi guys. I have set up a vpn server (PPTP), but i need to make it available the users who are connecting to it can access the internet. I am not much in vpn technologies, after setting up the simple vpn server under windows several users tried to connect to …

Hi, I am trying to recover the data from my address book (Microsoft Outlook). The data is on a hard drive from an old computer (Dell Inspiron 4000 with Windows 2000 Pro) that would not boot up because of an explorer.exe problem. However I can access these files using the …

When I start a You Tube or any Video clip I get Video and NO AUDIO. The Volume is up to the top and no sound. But. ITunes works perfectly, so there is sound.

Hi- Please excuse some of my lacking expertise here. My daughter got a new laptop roughly 2 months ago, an HP. It has Vista as its OS. It has had absolutely no problems. We went on vacation a week ago, and she shut the computer down while we were away. …

Hi There, I've been trying to trouble shoot a problem on my mom's computer. Her start menu is missing. However, when I logged onto my account on her computer, I could just barely see the menu on the bottom of my screen and was able to fix it by making …

I lost my icon in the system tray and have the box checked. It does nothing. Is there a section in the registry to fix this?

Is there a program you can get that even after emptying the recycling bin it makes sure that the files are gone for sure? Leaving no bytes of data taking up HDD space ?

hie all need quick help.Running on both Frefox and Ie need to disable Firefox how do i do it dnt have administrator priviliges

I stopped using IE a long while ago. I love FireFox and all of the hidden Easter Eggs it offers me to improve my speed and other things that I could never do in IE. Vista has always been an issue for me, either crashing, slowing up freezing etc. lately …

OS - XP SP 2 I had this Soundmix.exe showing up in my Task Manager for about 2 days since the time I used a Pen drive. I downloaded and used Regrun Reanimator which apparently removed it and I manually deleted the zipexr.dll file from the cache. Now I dont …

One of the small but annoying things in Windows Vista is the fact that the System Beep is enabled by default. Every time you encounter an error or you click through the menus of applications such as the AVG antivirus, you will hear a beep. In the beginning you might …

I love my taskbar but it's been frustrating having my icons all right next to eachother and some of them looking similar. I know i can change the icon file but what i'd prefer to do is create little seperator either black icons or more preferabally just spaces in between …

According to System Information: Total Physical Memory = 8,189.35 MB Available Physical Memory = 6.22 GB Total Virtual Memory = 16.02 GB Available Virtual Memory = 14.26 GB Page File Space = 8.29 GB Two questions rolled into one ... what is the difference between Virtual Memory and a Page …

Hi, I'm just wondering what a typical resource load of windows 7 is on memory. Mine's running at around 550 Mb (ram) and it seems to be quite a lot! is this normal? Thanks

hi..friends i m using HP pavilion notebook..RAM is 2gb,AMD processor. i m getting Blue screen when i shutdown my laptop properly , i m manualy shuting it down nowadays.. is there any solution with our taking a recovery..if i suppose to recovery i m afraid i m i would loose …

I am running an evaluation copy of Windows 7, an upgrade from Vista Home Premium. I really like the Windows Movie Maker in Vista, you can create movies in different file formats ie compressed for mobile devices without any hassle. Can anyone tell me if I'm missing the Windows Movie …

This weekend I noticed that trying to delete a file from a jump drive caused Explorer to hang. When I got to work, I also had problems adding a subdirectory on my server. After using Task Manager to cancel out a few times, I noticed that about half the files …

I'm no techie. I am trying to get my daughter onto msn messenger and am struggling. We are running Windows XP albeit 2003 version. We have Windows Live, but everytime we try and log into messenger it says " signing into .Net messenger service failed because the service is not …

I'll keep this post simple, I want to set up a dual desktop that does not "mirror" but will still have the taskbar and icons on it, I want to be able to move between the two and have multiple DIFFERENT tasks open on each, is this possible?

i was using my computer earlier today and then it froze..so i turned it off and turned it back on and now i get and error message when i am trying to boot it up...it says disc error occurred press ctrl alt delete to restart...i have done that many times …

Hi all, This is my first post, so I thought I should let you all know - I am somewhat of a newbie when it comes to this type of thing so keeping the technical jargon to a minimal would be appreciated! =) Okay, now to the problem. Recently, I …

Hello Everybody in I.T. Land.. Is there a way to stop a company from accessing your computer remotelyb thats foolproof..I heard the F.B.I. can hack anybodies computer.Is that true or can that be prevented..Is their powerfiul software out their that will give a computer 100% surfing security??

Hi, I accidentally disabled my Administrator account in XP using control userpasswords2...Now I cannot enable it back because the other user accounts in my PC is assigned as guest only.. So, whenever i run control userpasswords2 (im using a guest account), it prompts me to enter my Administrator passwords but …

Hi Guys, im looking for some software that will run on server 2003, which will allow users to log in from home, to a virtual machine/desktop where they each have their own environment linked to our AD forest. I used Citrix XenServer before, but that only runs on a linux …

Help ! I need to reload my DVD drive; I cannot access or play CDs; I have an error code 19; I've already remove the upper and lower filters, but it is still not working. Thanks for your help.

I just reformatted my harddrive and reinstalled windows and have noticed a increase in speed, but yet windows seems to still be starting and shutting down slower. I have some pc experience but not much dealing with the whole hijack this stuff. I recognize some of the programs but i'm …

i have winxp sp2. after i upgrade it. it can not go on because it sayes can not load a347bus.sys file!

I have a dell inspiron 600m laptop and I have recently formatted it and come across a strange problem and I am hoping someone can help me. I recently formatted this pc to remove linux and install Win XP pro. After installation I went to Dell website to dl the …

hi every one i have a strange problem, i have XP SP3 and i can logon to my ISP account but i can't browse the internet, and the tow computers icon in the system tray still balck for a short time then i lost the connection, i scanned my system …

Hi, Does anyone know if it's possible to find ALL duplicate files on any hard drive without installing specific software for this task? Terry.

I have IE -8 under vista business and my IE started going into a web site search after I go to main site. 1st site comes up and as soon as you hit some button to go to another place on this site, IE goes into some kind of search …

I have Vista 32 Ultimate with Outlook 2007 w/Outlook connector. I have 2 Windows Live email accounts. I was able to synchronize both accounts with no problems up till a few days ago. Now Outlook will not download any of my Windows Live email. I have repared the Office Install, …

Hi First post so be gentle with me cos when it comes to IT I am about as sharp as a sausage!! Someone has hijacked my contact list in Hotmail on my XP machine and is sending out weekly recommendations of sites to visit to buy goods, nothing harmful but …

This follows on from my closed thread Dual Boot 3. The Windows XP Installation I didn't want was on my D Drive. The one I kept is on my C Drive. Having fixed boot.ini to stop dual boot - thanks mainly to sknake and also to Fest3er, I searched D …

Hello, long time reader first time poster. I ran into a problem today with my XP system. While browsing the web, the graphics on my screen seemed to go crazy. There were all different colors of what appeared to be little tilde's (the character) on my screen. They generally were …

I am using windows xp SP-2. The problem is, when I start my computer it boots and perform chkdsk but after this it restarts again and again but don't show the desktop. What may be the fault? Either I have to reinstall my windows or any hardware problem occured. Please …

My friend installed Vista over Windows XP. The system gives the option to boot either from Vista or XP on a SATA HDD. I tried doing the reverse. I have an HP Pavilion with Vista pre-installed. I changed the HDD Controller from BIOS to IDE from SATA. After installing XP, …

hi, i would like to ask u that how can we save our work by failure of power. actually i am a web designer and failure of power is beg problem for me. so is there any software which can help me. thx...

I am trying to install FSX on my computer. I tried 10 times already, but still I get the same error for the same file. I get "File does not exist or is not accessible" or something like that. It does it always at file "D:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Microsoft Flight Simulator …

New build. Win XP 64-bit on MSI-K9A2VM-FD with AND 5600+ and 4Gb ram, two 80Gb sata drives. Clean install, pc runs great. Install chipset drivers, display drivers, alls well. Install printer driver and now spoolsv runs amuck, hogging 98% cpu cycles. I can end process in task manager and things …

Hi! My problem is periodically I'll be browsing using either IE or Mozilla Fire Fox and it will suddenly give me an error page. I still have access to Ventrilo and other online games i.e. World of Warcraft. Once I reboot my computer though all is okay. My husband is …

Hi, I am running Windows Vista. Sometimes my browsers will abruptly stop displaying webpages. The error on Mozilla says- Unable to Connect, on Safari - Winsock Error 10013 I am able to ping, my DNS servers are working (so its not a connectivity problem- other computers on the same network …

I'm hoping for help from gemini4 as he was so good with Benyam Dessu and dougiedickson. But help is welcome from anyone. I have a similar problem to dougiedickson but in my case there are two installations of Windows XP Professional. I tried gemini4's solution for dougiedickson - to look …

A friend has a Compaq notebook with Vista Home Premium. Each time she boots up the On-screen Keyboard opens. It is not in the start-up menu nor is the program checked to begin at start-up. I have run malwarebytes, spybot, pccillin and adaware and none show it to be a …

Hello, I'm not quite sure what to expect from this problem but here goes: I have an XP laptop and a Vista 32 bit home premium desktop. I can connect to my network with both, wirelessly. However, my vista computer will only give me local access no matter what I …

I have an old SATA HDD out of a Dell laptop that wont boot up windows anymore because of a missing file (hal.dll) or something like that. I have it hooked into my new tower and i have done every fix i could find online about it but none seem …