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Hi guys I'm trying to load office 2003 and get passed the inputting serial code and then when I get to install it comes up with I don't have administrator rights. Funny thing is I am the administrator. I am running Vista Home premium. Any help would be appreciated. Many …

One of the employees at my company recently acquired a new laptop. Since he received his new laptop, he is receiving the error " !Task 'mailaccountname' reported error (0x8004010F): The operation failed. An object could not be found" when he sends or receives e-mail in Outlook 2003 on XP. He …

Hi you all!! please can someone help me... i'm without dvd drive and no $$$ to replace it at the time and i need to format my disk... and the solution that i see is a pen drive setup... but the main problem is that i don't know how to …

I have a Dell Optiplex GX 520 PC. After downloading an antivirus my computer went to the blue screen, when I tried to reinstall Windows XP, my hard drive could not be found. For some reason I no longer have a hard drive, any idea why?

MY MSN SAYS SIGNING INTO WINDOWS LIVE MESSENGER FAILED BECAUSE THE SERVICE IS TEMPORARILY UNAVAILABLE :!: :!: :!: :?: :?: :?: :rolleyes: :sad: :confused: PLEASE HELP ME

Hello everyone, i recently made another post which i asked for help since i had no idea what i was going to do basically. I have decided to go with Microsoft Server 2003 OS instead of ubuntu server. I have no idea how to work with a server os and …

I had created a Notepad kind of text editor using Visual C# 2008 Express Edition. When I save a text file through it, and when I click the icon of the text file I saved, it opens in Windows Default Notepad. Is it possible that I can make my text …

Hey Guy's. I recently upgraded from XP Home to Pro, but there's one problem it won't recognise my DVD Drives, XP Home recognised them, BIOS recognises them, but as soon as I open My Computer - NOTHING. The copy of Pro is full legit and it's driving me mad, any …

For some reason when I recently restarted my computer or whatever I don't know, I couldn't find my internet explorer program icon anywhere on my computer. I even went to Local Disk (C:)/ Program Files/Internet Explorer and couldn't find the program file/exe anywhere in the folder. But good thing I …

Hi, I have a problem "can't locate instal.log" file for magic iso. The file isnt in the program folder. I don't know what to do as i think this file is the cause of the trojan i have on my laptop. Cheers

Hi, I boot my computer this morning and after I logged on, there was simply nothing except an Windows Explorer with My documents open. Nothing else was there, no start buttons, no background(black), no icons, nothing. So i tried to open the regedit with all the way I knew, but …

What can happen to windows if your computer switches off without shutting down. I am having a problem with the power supply and it has switched off the computer a few times without shutting it down. Now I am not using the computer until the power supply is replaced.

Hi, I cannot connect to internet using internet explorer. I can browse web pages with any other browser. When I type a web page and click enter in internet explorer, explorer just waits and indicates that it is connecting to some ip on the left below corner. I think it …

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Crome is the latest browser according to user, but i can not use it, after installation there arise a problem. i don't know if it need to any cofigure. please help me if you have any idea about this.

Hi I have the games Battlefield 2 and Call of Duty 5 and I played both of them often with a friend. We connected to my internet router with a lan cable. Then we started the games and I opened a lan server. A few days ago we wanted to …

Hi everyone, I have a computer here that is giving me a few problems. 1. Before window loads, it always goes to the blue screen that checks disk. 2. Computer does not recognize the internet. (I am using a router, but it works well with all other computers) 3. Computer …

hey , when starting winxp i recieve a missing file message <windows root>\system32\hal.dll. can anyone pls help me with this problem . thankyou

When one tries to restore & you look at the calender, should the restore points be highlighted? The reason I ask is that I click different dates and cannot seem to get this to find a restore point or to restore, can anyone help?

Hi I am going to make a virtual tour for my IST project at school. I am thinking perhaps an interactive cutscene of a guy skydiving, with ambient sounds. Does anyone know any good virtual tour software to use, which is very detailed and easy to use, as well as …

Hello, I recently reinstalled windows on my computer due to a series of crashed and the win32 virus, i used my factiry CD. I use the Windows XP Media Center Edition, my machine is an eMachines W3507 At the begginning, i had the all famous NTLDR is compressed message, so …

My main desktop computer is set to dual-boot Linux and Windows XP Professional. I have the Linux OS set up to sync time with an internet time service. When I boot the WinXP OS, the time consistently shows four hours late -- as though it's interpreting the system clock to …

I need some help choosing backup software for the server at my work. Until now we've had a third party operate our backup, but they've been causing so many problems for us, we're going to start doing it ourselves. We have a desktop that we've been using 80gig magnetic tapes …

My computer always gets shutdown after a minute of booting. An error message comes saying that the "shutdown is initiated by NT Authority/system. Windows must restart because DCOM server process launcher terminated unexpectedly. The intruction at 0 x 00000000 referred memmory at 0 x 00000000. The memory could not be …

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I need my list fron Hotmail to go to Outlook Express......It wont synchronise....and hotmail does not export a csv file ......so what now please clever geeks !!!

Hi, I recently upgraded my CPU from Athlon 64 X2 to Phenom II X4. Everything runs fine, except that Windows Vista only recognized 2 cpus instead of 4 cpus. I run dual boot with Windows XP, and there's no problem in XP. All 4 cores detected, with CPU-Z v1.50. Any …

Hi Daniweb family !!! I have an Acer Aspire 4520 with Vista Home Premium and 2GB of RAM. The Internet Explorer just quit working. When I click on the icon to start it, nothing at all happends. I went into Program Files, Internet Explorer folder and clicked on the icon …

Hello , Please any one can tell me the reference or the details of the retrieving the forgotten passwords in windows xp, i have lost my password, its very urgent. Please tell me about any program or software which can generate the password of the windows xp. its very urgent, …

Hey guys, I used to keep getting a screen of death error in XP and I got a new PSU (advice of novatech) and it seemed to have done the trick. However I was installing SP2 for Vista and on the restart to do Step 3 I got a blue …

Hi all, this must be the most absurd inquiry in the history of inquiries. i cannot, for the life of me, locate the plug for the internet networking cable on my tower of my PC computer. it runs ME, and veiwing the help files I came accross a vague suggestion …

1) On wiping the hard drive clean, is XP any different than Windows 98 ? Someone told me one cannot wipe out the info just by putting in the disk & doing it the same as 98? Could someone explain? 2) On System restore, why is it that if I …

I had a spring clean with a happy click finger the other day and used Windows install cleanup / smithfraudfix / ccleaner and a defrag....now I cannot browse to change frontpage,No MS Office enterprise,cant uninstall or install office enterprise as blue screen murders one or the other after 10 minutes …

Windows Vista Home Premium, 2GB RAM, BitDefender Internet Security 2009. I have had my computer on all day doing various things and no problems. Suddenly when I went to my RoboForm and selected the Logins I got the blue screen. I shut down, restarted and everything was fine. I was …

First off I should say that I have installed a new drive on my hp computer, and have tried to format both the old and new drive(after i used the new drive for a few weeks), but i was unable to. I had to fall to formatting my hard drives …

Start the problem, when I plug my Gateway M520s Laptop to AC car adapter. When I press the power button second after power indicator LED Blinking (manual says LED Blinking-notebook is in standby mode).Unplug the AC cord and remove the battery for 2-5hrs and press the power and F2 for …

I have a Intel Core 2 Duo CPU E8400 3.00 GHz Mother Board NVIDIA nForce 630i Graphics NVIDIA GeForce 7150 256mb Power Supply Cooler Master Real Power Pro 750w Nvidia SLI ready Memory PC2-6400 (400 MHz) DDR2 Kingston 3 gigs Computer freezes after a certain amount of time or if …

hey guys i m looking to update my window xp to longhorn..want to confirm that if windows drivers and softwares((games))) will work with longhorn..

I have all of sudden started having problems with my internet connection after the computer has been in stand by mode for a while. If I'm not going to be using the computer for a while I will put it in stand by mode. (It won't go there on its …

I have done something stupid (again) and can no longer open any links that are in any of the emails I receive. I have MS Outlook 2003The message is: "This operation was cancelled due to restrictions on this computer. Please contact the system administrator" We have a small office with …

Hello, for some reason I can't view every site, on some sites I get this error and it's same on any browser I use, tried IE, Firefox and Google Chrome and it's all the same. I can't view few sites, but my main problem is that I can't get to …

My Dell Inspiron 1505 previously ran Vista Ultimate SP1 with all the aero services operating correctly. Following the automatic updates to Vista Ultimate SP 2 and Explorer 8, I can no longer get my aero servcies, no tranparency etc etc. My laptop has a 'rating' of 3.7, a grpahics card …

I just finished putting together a video using Windows Movie Maker. It was saved to my hard drive as a WMV file and is 11.5 MB. It's basically a slide show with music underneath. When I play it back on my computer, it looks great. The transitions are smooth, and …

Hi, Can I make a repair windows with any windows xp cd? in my case i want to repair a machine that is running windows xp media center but i have a windows xp professional is there any issue with that?

I have a new machine with XP and a message continues to pop up requesting a disk to install “runSq1.msi” files

have asked in the virus forum, no reply. maybe cause im new, and learning. i think my kids have deleted sys32 stuff, i get on start up, error loading C:\PROGRA~1\MYWEBSz1\bar\1.bin\M3PLUGIN.DLL if anyone can help i would much appreiciate, as well as an explaintion so i learn thank you.

I've been trying to remove dumprep.exe from XP/SP3 start up, thinking that doing so might help speed booting a bit. It's a nonessential application and runs on in processes after everything else is settled for a good 30 seconds or so at 30+% CPU. The problem is that all the …

Hi I've got a mysterious problem with my pc. Every now and again I notice that the mouse pointer jumps. If I make a smooth line with the mouse the pointer freezes then jumps to catch up at regular intervals. At the same time the sound cuts in and out. …

Does anybody know were I can get a download of Microsoft Windows 1.0 ISO download? Thank you.

Hello We're trying to find a solution to centrally control internet access for our MacOS X and Windows 2000/XP users. We'd like to easily allow and disallow internet access for specific users and at any given moment view which users are allowed access. We can do this using our firewall, …