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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 …

Running XP and the pc began turning off suddenly, now it turns off all the time. Tried to run a virus scan but it turned off so it couldn't finish it. I also tried restoring it to an earlier time but wouldn't complete it either... can't do much now, what …

Hi, Im new, so hello. It's a really nice forum. I just wanted to say that. My problem is I'm having a blue screen with error 0x0000007b, and I may have the key in solving: I used avast to scan and it reported c:\pagefile.sys as a trojan (bifrose or something …

The moment I thought that Windows update's going to keep my system running smooth, I made my decision to run Windows update. The problem is when I found out that some of windows updates have failed, i let it off, since there was not much space......believe it or not...it ate …

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So I have a Toshiba A215-S7418. My cousin dropped it while the power cord was still attached and broke the jack inside the laptop. So I had to take apart the whole laptop to change the jack and secure it back. Then I had to get a new power adapter …

I have an IBM color flatbed scanner from '98, used with windows 98 on another PC. Now have windows XP and cant install the driver. SW requirements say win98/winNT. XP apparently cant read the disc as it says 'no disc in drive' (E). Does this mean I have to junk …

Good morning from CT. In the belief I could speed up start-up, I tweaked the settings on MSCONFIG as recommended on a post I read. As the caveat explicitly stated, the outcome from this experiement turned out to be quite different from what I had hoped and is the reason …

HP says this is a hardware problem and just send it to them to fix. This will cost $398. Is there anything I can do myself or do I have to send it to them?

I recently installed winxp on my system but don't have any sound.I have tried all I could on the net to get it but to no avail.The CPU is AMAX ..I don't know if anyone can help me to get any sound driver to install..either by Amax or universal sound …

Anyone know if they've released a 64bit version of Group Policy Management Console? I need one bad =(

Hey everyone, I'm tryiing to install gpmc on our server (see specs in profile). When I click the msi file it says I have to install .Net Framework before I can install gpmc. So I went to add/remove windows components and installed 2.0. After trying to install gpmc again, i …

what is the windows script to add shortcuts to all users desktop? thanks

Hi, I really need help please..!... about 4 days ago, I stupidly downloaded a keygen for a program I wanted to unlock and when I double-clicked on the keygen.exe my explorer.exe shutdown, so the desktop dissapeared and so did the bar where the Start button and the time is...I can …

Hello, I'm new in this web, previously I want to apologize my bad english because I am from Spain. I've been many time searching drivers for my computer, because I reseted it. Now I need screen drivers for my PC, because without them I can't play online xD. I've searched …

I had this problem yesterday when my lil sis wanyed to watch a movie and i accodently took out the computers cable when it started it went ro safe mode, start windows normally, and etc. So i tried them all but it reboots back on restarting to the same problem …

I just started reformatting, and reinstalling windows xp home edition, it got to the restart step, when it restarted, it began to boot up, but as soon as a screen popped up, (lucky me) my computer lost power. now when i turn it on, it stays at a black screen, …

Have an HP laptop with XP. but at startup it takes a while to get going and I'm assuming there are programs starting up I really don't want nor need and would like to clear these off. No sense them taking up my space for no reason. There's nothing on …

Im not sure where to throw this topic so i figured this was as good a place as any. My mom got an email from a friend of hers containing a picture in .jpg format and then 2 files both with the same name"Amazing" with .bin and .dat file extensions. …

I would like to know on which day did the 4 th January 1957 fall?

I turn on my PC and XP trys to boot but nothing happens. Screen is black. Over the last year we were getting the odd freeze up on initial start ups but after a power off and on, it would boot. Now we are stuck and uncertain of what to …

i have created a computer and i was just finishing up adding the hardrive, the hardrive is from a windows xp computer and i try to put it in the computer but the computer wont detect the ardrive what can i do?

Hello all. I have a simple, little, homemade, html script homepage that lives on the hardrive. The path\filename is entered into Internet Options so it comes up upon launching IE 6. However, something or someone is resetting the homepage to be (usually) msn.com or sometimes a different site at least …

So i was on this gaming website. Out of nowhere popups came. this radio installer popped up in my icons tray. i click do not install. and this strange music keeps playing. "heal the world" and other crap. I have Norton 360 and Lavasoft Ad-Aware. Norton detected some things, and …

Yesterday I installed a Time Warner RCA cable modem along with a NetGear wireless router. During the install process, one of the CD's given to me with the modem instructed me to restart the computer (Windows XP), which I did. When the computer rebooted, a black box came up on …

Dell computer running XP freezes on start up and this error comes up: Bad Image, MoM.exe. The application or DLL C:\windows|System 32\ rqRIaBRJ.dll is not a valid image. Please check against your installation diskette. We do not have any diskettes. The computer did not come with any from Dell. Help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hi all. Hoping somebody here is a genius and can figure this out for me. I'm using ICS to connect my ps3 to the net from my pc (running xp). My internet connection that I'm sharing is a wireless N card and N router, 8meg cable. For the most part …

Hi everyone nice site. Was wondering could I get some help. I put a fresh install of XP on a friends Dell but I can't seem to get the drivers for it. I tried downloading them from the Dell website but I kept getting this message PLATFORM VERSION INFO Windows …

can anyone here help me out? i've used hjsplit for splitting mpeg files, works great but splitting avi files generates files that no longer can be played? thanks for your help jaybie

Hay Guys, I have some Vista Horror I’m trying to deal with and I wonder if you might be able to help. My friend has just got a new HP a6724c desktop computer with vista installed straight from the factory. He's had it literally for 2 days and then boot …

I have a toshiba 6100 that will not start the message that gives is: Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt: System32\Drivers\Ntfs.sys I tried to use the Windows XP disk to recover but I am unable to access the disk. The disk does boot ( …

Windows Server 2008 host with Vista Ultimate workstation. Both 64 bit. Double-clicking shortcut on workstation shows busy wheel spinning about a second before shutting off. A minute or so later a message appears announcing "<Shortcut Name> has stopped working." No other explanations, dialog boxes, etc. I've seen other threads on …

I recently put a new SATA 500 Gb Western Digital Caviar drive in a Acer AM 5620 desktop system(3 GB Ram, Quad Core Processor). The HD was needed since it blue screened on startup(regular boot and safe mode), It also blue screened on install of XP just before it got …

Hi all! anyone that can help me please do so. PLEASE. i keep getting pop ups that say my computer is infected with the win 32 /nugel.e and bankerfox viruses. I am having one heck of a time getting rid of this thing. Every time i try to download hijackthis …

Everytime I try to open a game , an error pops and it says that the application had an error and the memory adress 0x01747dd2 could not be read . How do I fix this ? Please help me

Hey guys, On my Windows XP Computer, a few days ago I was watching a flash video and my computer froze. When it froze, it started to make a beep noise (no delays, just one uninterrupted beep). Since then I've had a variety of issues. They include: 1. I'd restart …

I am being directed to the wrong page when I click on a result that is shown from a search. I'm using Internet Explorer. I did run Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware (with the latest update) before coming here. Below you'll find my HijackThis log. Any help is greatly appreciated. Logfile of Trend …

Hi every one.... I've problem that I forget my password to login my pc . If there is any way to solve this problem without formatting , I'll be glad to know it . thank any way.

I did not find the perfect forum for this topic. Hence, I have posted this thread here in the windows servers forums. Please move it to the appropriate forums if there is any. Which virtualization technology is better? Hardware level or software level? My friend suggested me to go for …

Hi, I recent had some trouble booting windows XP. It was fine when i turned it off one night then the next day i started getting BSOD when windows reached the splashscreen. I uninstalling windows XP and reinstalling it but i still get the same BSOD. Strange thing is i …

Hi, I was deleting some processes as they were eating up the CPU usage when accidentally I clicked on something and lost the Menu bar to the Task Manager. Can anyone help me to get that back. The screen shot is attached. Thanks.